Speakers

Dr Stephen Duckett AM is a health economist with a background in health policy and management. He has held top health sector leadership positions in Australia and Canada and literally wrote the book on the Australian health care system (Oxford University Press, 6e, 2022).

A former Deputy Chancellor at RMIT, he was appointed a Commissioner of the Australian Tertiary Education Commission on 1 July 2026. He is an Emeritus Professor with LaTrobe University and has honorary professorial appointments at a number of other Australian Universities.

Dr Duckett is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Jim Hogan is an internationally experienced public speaker, autistic technology leader, and powerful advocate for neuroinclusion as a strategy for business innovation.

Across a technology career spanning more than four decades, Jim has worked with organisations around the world to solve complex problems, challenge conventional thinking, and turn human difference into organisational advantage. During five years at Google, he served as Chief Innovation Evangelist for Google Cloud and Vice President of Accessibility in Technology for Google’s Disability Alliance.

Jim is also a doctoral researcher at Griffith University. His research examines how neuroinclusive practices can strengthen innovation, improve the way teams work, and produce measurable economic value.

Tiriki Onus is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung artist, academic and filmmaker and is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous), as well as being the Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts in Cultural Development, and Co-Director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Arts and Cultures, in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. In his role as PVC, Tiriki Onus supports the delivery of Murmuk Djerring with a particular focus on students. The role champions cultural safety, reducing historical fear and improving engagement and dissemination of Indigenous knowledges among students, both First Nations and non-indigenous, within the university community and beyond.  As an artist and educator Tiriki’s work fosters innovation in research, development, advocacy, representation and inclusion of Indigenous arts and cultural practices and practitioners in the academy.