Comcare Conference

Future Crunch - Tané Hunter, Dr Angus Hervey

Cancer researcher
Political Economist

Tané Hunter is a cancer researcher and science communicator.
Dr Angus Hervey is a political economist specialising in the impact of disruptive technologies on society.

Shane Fitzsimmons AFSM

Commissioner of Resilience NSW

Shane Fitzsimmons was appointed as the inaugural Commissioner for Resilience NSW and Deputy Secretary, Emergency Management with the Department of Premier and Cabinet from 1 May 2020.

Dion Devow

2018 ACT Australian of the Year, Managing Director of Yerra

Dion Devow is the Managing Director of Yerra, Owner of Darkies Designs and 2018 ACT Australian of the Year. Dion has worked in Indigenous affairs for over 20 years and has been honoured for his outstanding service to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander business community. Dion has a passion for celebrating diversity in Australia and will share his personal experience of working as a conduit between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to bring people of all nationalities together.

Christine Morgan

CEO, National Mental Health Commission

Ms Christine Morgan is the CEO of the National Mental Health Commission and National Suicide Prevention Adviser to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Ms Morgan is a passionate leader in mental health care reform, committed to listening and responding to the voice and needs of those with lived experience.

Kurt Fearnley OAM

Australian wheelchair racer Kurt Fearnley OAM is one of Australia's most well-known and respected athletes.

Belinda Neil

Belinda Neil had more extraordinary experiences before she was thirty-five than most people have in a lifetime – working as an undercover operative, saving lives as a hostage negotiator, heading up an elite counter-terrorist team during the Sydney Olympics, and catching some of the worst criminals in NSW.

Professor Sidney Dekker

Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University

Sidney Dekker is Professor and Director of the Safety Science Innovation Lab at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University in the Netherlands.

Dr Fiona Kerr

NeuroTech Institute

Dr Fiona Kerr is the Founder of The NeuroTech Institute (NTI), a multi-disciplinary body working at the intersection of neuroscience, emerging technology and ethical practice. NTI researches and consults internationally on a range of topics regarding the neuroscience of both human-human and human-technology interaction, neurogenesis and complex systems dynamics.

Ellen Fanning

Conference MC

In her 20 years as an award-winning public affairs journalist, Ellen Fanning has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from Sir John Grey Gorton to Malcolm Turnbull.