Professor Christopher Bain is an Australian health informatician and digital health leader with over two decades of experience across healthcare, research and technology. He is the founder of OurHeF (Our Health E Future), a community dedicated to advancing the safe, effective and value driven use of digital technologies in healthcare. Christopher’s work spans digital health strategy, health technology assessment, and value based digital health, with a strong focus on real world impact for patients, clinicians and health systems.

Dave Scerri is the Chief Executive Officer of Biarri, an Australian optimisation software company that applies advanced mathematics and AI to complex planning, scheduling and rostering challenges across healthcare, supply chain, energy and retail. With a background in computer science and AI research, Dave has been with Biarri for over a decade, progressing from optimisation consultant to CEO. He works closely with industry and research partners to translate mathematical optimisation into practical, scalable solutions that deliver measurable operational impact.

Professor Andreas Ernst has worked in real-world applications of optimisation for over 25 years, including in supply chains, logistics, mining, services (rostering) and energy. He was previously the Director of MAXIMA, the Monash Academy for Cross and Interdisciplinary Mathematical Applications. In addition to his teaching & research role as a professor in the School of Mathematics at Monash University, he is a Chief Investigator in OPTIMA, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Australia Indonesia Centre where he leads research on Transport and Logistics in the PAIR program. His research is focused on methods for solving large-scale integer programming problems, including decomposition methods and matheuristics that combine mathematical programming approaches with metaheuristic search. Andreas’ recent work includes rail planning and scheduling for Pacific National through a Linkage grant, and methods using machine learning to improve the performance of optimisation algorithms as part of a ARC Discovery Project with RMIT.

Michel Hulzebos, Director of Healthcare at GS1 Australia, brings extensive expertise in supply chain management across various industries and multiple countries. Over the past decade, he has spearheaded numerous strategic initiatives within the public and private healthcare sectors, emphasizing digitalization and optimizing patient care through the implementation of robust supply chain standards. His dedication to efficiency and safety has been evident in his successful delivery of impactful projects, marking him as a leader in the intersection of supply chain management and healthcare innovation.

Dr Amir Abdollahi is the Manager of the Advanced Analytics team at the Victorian Department of Health. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and has over a decade of experience across computational engineering, machine learning, and data science. Amir has led high‑impact initiatives with organisations including Rolls‑Royce, the University of Oxford, and the Victorian Department of Health, where he developed influential digital twin models for the statewide health system to support data‑driven decision making and resource planning. His expertise spans the full AI/ML lifecycle, advanced optimisation, cloud platforms, and, more recently, large language models and AI agents, alongside a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring.