Speakers
40+ CEOs, commissioners, researchers and lived experience advisors gathered to shift power, not just policy, with 90% of speakers with lived experience, representing the diversity of lived experience needed to have this important conversation.
Giancarlo de Vera
Chief Executive Officer
BEING – Mental Health Consumer
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The Honourable David Hurley AC CVO DSC
Former Governor-General of Australia
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Vrinda Edan
Chief Executive Officer
VMIAC
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Rosemary Kayess
Disability Discrimination Commissioner
Australian Human Rights Commission
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Prudence Walker
Disability Rights Commissioner
NZ Te Kahui Tangata Human Rights Commission
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Caoimhe Hanrahan-Lawrence
Policy & Reform Officer
Indigenous Australian Lived Experience Centre
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Leilani Darwin
Founder
First Nations Co
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Leo Patterson Ross
Chief Executive Officer
Tenants Union of NSW
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Peter Bacon
Chief Executive Officer
Disability Employment Australia
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Priscilla Brice
Chief Executive Officer
National Mental Health Consumer Alliance
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Rachel Laidler
Non-Executive Director
Mental Health Commission of NSW & BEING – Mental Health Consumer
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Taimi Allan
Mental Health Commissioner
Mental Health Commission of South Australia
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Tamara Northey
Senior Consumer Peer Worker
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) – NSW
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Danni Bament
General Manager
Australian Association of Peer Workers
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Cassandra Goldie
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Council of Social Service
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Scientia Professor Julian Trollor AM FAHMS
NHMRC Leadership Fellow, Director
National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health
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Samantha Edmonds
Director, Policy, Education and Systemic Advocacy
OPAN
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Mark Orr
Chief Executive Officer
Flourish Australia
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Ellie Hodges
Chief Executive Officer
SA Lived Experience Leadership and Advocacy Network
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Sophia Petrov
National Manager, Policy and Engagement
COTA
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Tom Dalton
Chief Executive Officer
Neami National
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Simon Katterl
Chief Executive Officer
Mental Health Lived Experience Peak QLD
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Tim Heffernan
Chair
BEING – Mental Health Consumer
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Megan Spindler-Smith
A/Chief Executive Officer
People with Disability Australia
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Spencer Barberis
Senior Alcohol & Other Drugs Peer Support Worker
Community Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol Services, Murrumbidgee Local Health District – NSW Government
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Dr Mary Ellen Harrod
Chief Executive
NUA
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Kerry Hawkins
Chief Executive Officer
Community Mental Health Australia
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Manisha Amin
Chief Executive Officer of
Co-curious and Inclusive Design Collective
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Catherine McAlpine
Executive Director - Sector & Development
Inclusion Australia
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Stephen Simpson
Chief Executive Officer
Homelessness Queensland
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Akii Ngo
DEIB Practitioner, Co-Designer & Lived Experience Expert
Independent
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Dr Jaelea Skehan OAM
Director
EveryMind
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Ruby Riethmuller
Deputy Commissioner (Lived Experience)
NSW Mental Health Commission
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Jessica Stewart
Executive Director of Insights, Analysis and Research
NSW Department of Communities and Justice
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Eric Harper
Executive General Manager – Service Delivery
SSI-Settlement Services International
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Kenny Duke
Head of Clients and Community Connections
SSI-Settlement Services International
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Jain Moralee
Chief Executive Officer
Twenty10
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Liv De Pomeroy
Project Lead
Everymind
Read more →This event is designed for senior leaders, programme managers, people in service delivery and anyone working at an organisation that delivers critical social services. The registration rates reflect that many attendees will be supported by their employer in attending.
For others with lived experience, including independent peer workers, consumers, advocates, and representatives from small, underfunded organisations, applications are invited for bursary scholarships.
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