MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Hon. Danny Pearson MP
Minister for Economic Growth and Jobs, Minister for Finance

Grant McArthur AO
Chief Executive Officer, VCCC Alliance

Rod Bristow
Chief Executive Officer, Breakthrough Victoria

Ingrid Marsh
Group Executive – Commercial, Cicada innovations

Damien Augustinus
Group Head of Infrastructure, Plenary

Professor Sharath Sriram
Chief Scientist of Western Australia, Professor, RMIT University, Co-Founder, lubdub.ai and Fragment BioTech

Prof Alastair Sloan
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Collaborations), University of Melbourne

Dr Alastair Hick
Chief Commercialisation Officer, Monash University

A/Prof Shona Blair
Director, St Vincent’s Sydney Health Innovation Precinct

Hediyeh Vahdat
CEO and Co-Founder, Linéaire Projects

Prof Trent Munro
General Manager, Boggo Road Innovation Precinct & Industry Professor University of Queensland

Councillor Andrew Rowse
Portfolio head for Innovation and Education and Portfolio Deputy for City Economy and Business,
City of Melbourne

Peta Magee
Executive Director Development (Health & Medical Sciences),
The University of Sydney

Tom Bentley
Vice President, Strategy and Community Impact, RMIT University

Professor Kevin Pfleger
Director, Biomedical and Health Innovation, The University of Western Australia and WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub, Chair, Biodesign Australia and Perth Biodesign

Dean Breckenridge
Chief Policy Officer, Ramsay

Craig Rowsell
Director, Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct

Bronwyn Le Grice
CEO & Managing Director, ANDHealth

Alex Belcastro
Senior Vice President, Development and Precincts, NorthWest

Chris Smith
General Manager – Healthcare Property, Australian Unity

Clare Shiell
Executive Director, Portfolio Delivery, Plenary

Eleni Naude
Lead Heath Advisory and Infrastructure, Lineaire Projects

Vanessa Campbell
Director Innovation Precincts, The University of Melbourne

Melanie Schmidke
Director, Northern Adelaide Health & Wellbeing Partnership

Professor Shonali Krishnaswamy
Associate Dean (Innovation) and Director, Monash AI Institute, Monash University

Michelle Irving
Principal Policy Officer – Precincts, Office for Health and Medical Research, NSW Health

Tim O’Meara
Director Government and Research Strategy, 4DMedical

David Kneen
CEO & Head of Commercial, Celleo