Agenda

NATIONAL HEALTH & INNOVATION PRECINCTS SUMMIT
2024 AGENDA TOPICS & THEMES

The overall theme for the Summit this year will dive into precinct longevity and ensuring their economic and commercial sustainability. How do we put the right structures, funding models, partners and strategies in place to ensure ongoing precinct success?

How to build the networks, programs and partnerships which underpin the success of precincts and support sustainable innovation
How do we align national industry policy with state and metro strategy and innovation district strategies?
Financing healthcare projects – capital raising, private capital involvement and private investor perspectives
Investment attraction and private partners – drivers for them and strategies for success
Hospital operator perspectives, expectations, experiences and roles
Attracting talent and a highly skilled workforce – how precincts can better support job creation and facilitate pathways
What will the Australian Universities Accord mean for precincts?
Network planning – exploring government funded projects in each state
Startups and bringing entrepreneurship into precincts
Driving translation and commercialising medical research
Clinical trials – improving capabilities, growing capacity and improving equity and diversity
Bringing in new tenants, new ways of thinking and new structures to facilitate new development opportunities
First nations and community engagement on precincts
Digital transformation and the impact on hospitals and health precincts
Convergent technologies – leveraging the opportunity in health precincts
The role of government in innovation districts
Bringing urban design principals to hospitals and health precincts
Data driven decision making to inform a holistic informed vision and plan for the precinct
Structured withdrawals and projects on hold – responding, recalibrating and pivoting
The non-clinical layer of hospitals in precincts to catalyse a range of land uses and economic activity to improve worker, patient, community wellbeing
Bringing in new tenants, new ways of thinking and new structures to facilitate new development opportunities
The night-time economy of a precinct
The constellation of precincts – creating networks, differentiating and easing navigation for partners

SUBMIT YOUR INTEREST TO SPEAK

We encourage you to register your interest to speak, and/or nominate topic ideas that you would like to see featured in the agenda this year.

For speaker submissions, please email Frankie Brewer:
Francesca.Brewer@informa.com

DAY ONE | 6 December 2023

3:00 Afternoon Networking Break

GOVERNANCE ROUNDTABLES 3:30PM-5:30PM

Join the interactive Brainstorming Roundtables for more intimate, interactive discussion and knowledge sharing.

At the end of the hour, each table will briefly present a summary of key findings and discussions points to the room at large.

Governance Roundtables Host: Andrew Hoyne, Founder & Principal, Hoyne

AGENDA SESSION A: 3:30-4:30pm

Industry RT1 | Effectively engaging with government

What does government look for to invest in precincts? How do they make these decisions?
How can industry present their opportunities in a way that meets government criteria and speaks to their need?
What sort of data and detail is government looking for?

Anne O’Neill, Acting Executive Director, Office for Health and Medical Research, NSW Medical Research
Professor Kevin Pfleger, Director Biomedical and Health Innovation, The University of Western Australia and the Western Australian Life Sciences Innovation Hub
The Hon Gabrielle Upton FAICD, Former NSW Government Minister, Advisory Board, ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology

Industry RT2 | Industry partnerships and securing private investment

At what stage should industry be invited to the table and why?
How do we effectively balance public/private investments, interests and relationships?
What de-risks the proposition for a corporate client?
What sort of businesses should smaller precincts be looking for?
Identifying roles and responsibilities
What can be put in place to enable trusting relationships between businesses, researchers, educators and the community?

Lance Chia, Director, Investment & Innovation, Liverpool Innovation Precinct
Leisl Harris, Executive Director, Urban Development, Economic Development Queensland

Industry RT3 | Direction setting, vision alignment and finding a focus

How of you get multiple partners to fund the same things
Ambition and setting expectations
Who gets invited to the table, when and why? Should more stakeholders be involved at an earlier stage?

Mark Ames, General Manager, Connect Macquarie Park Innovation District
Melanie Schmidtke, Director, Northern Adelaide Health and Wellbeing Partnership
Peter Livanes, General Manager – Health South Australia, Downer

AGENDA SESSION B: 4:30-5:30pm

5:30 Networking Drinks

7:00 PRECINCTS NETWORKING DINNER