Trisha Cashmere is a physiotherapist, director, and award-winning business owner with a passion for developing people and improving the standard of care within private practice. As the founder of The Healthy Body Company—recognised with the Australian Small Business Champion Award for Physiotherapy in 2024—she has built a team culture grounded in continuous learning, collaboration, and professional growth.

Trisha has developed a strong understanding of how leadership, systems, and structure influence both team performance and patient outcomes. This perspective has shaped her approach to designing and implementing models of care that prioritise clinician development, accountability, and excellence.

Trisha believes that high-performing teams are built through intentional systems, not chance. This philosophy underpins the way her team is supported—from structured graduate programs through to ongoing mentoring, education, and leadership development.

She brings a practical, real-world perspective to her work, sharing insights that are both strategic and actionable.

Trisha aims to challenge traditional approaches and inspire healthcare leaders to rethink how they structure, support, and grow their teams to deliver consistently high-quality care.

Dr Janice Tan is a practising General Practitioner and digital health leader passionate about transforming healthcare delivery. As General Manager of Clinical Innovation at Bupa Australia, she leads initiatives that leverage emerging technologies and innovative models of care to democratise access to quality healthcare for both clinicians and consumers. She continues to practice as a GP across NSW with clinical expertise spanning women’s health, paediatrics, and mental health, maintaining frontline insight while driving digital health strategy. This dual perspective allows her to advocate for solutions that genuinely improve workflows, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance patient outcomes. Beyond Bupa, she contributes to shaping Australia’s digital health and primary care landscape with the RACGP and Central Eastern Sydney PHN, ensuring digital health solutions are safe, equitable, and designed with the needs of both patients and clinicians at the centre.

Emanuela is a healthcare operations professional with over a decade of experience leading medical practice management, clinical administration, and team development across both private and not-for-profit healthcare settings. She has held senior roles overseeing day-to-day operations, regulatory compliance, staff coordination, and patient service delivery in multidisciplinary and specialist environments.

Known for her ability to improve workflow efficiency, foster collaborative team cultures, and maintain high standards of care, she believes in a practical and people-centred approach to healthcare leadership.

The gap between clinical evidence and everyday practice has defined George Marshall’s career: as a GP and practice owner at Rozelle Total Health, and now as the founder of papersGP.  Supported by the National Asthma Council Australia and funded by CESPHN Innovation Grants, papersGP digitises the asthma action plan, turning fragmented paper processes into intelligent, connected care. George believes the AI revolution means new opportunities for subject matter experts who understand how care is delivered, and that General Practice, with its depth of clinical knowledge and community relationships is uniquely positioned to deliver innovation with impact.

Toby Mathieson has over 25 years’ experience leading state and national Digital Health initiatives. He has extensive experience in the areas of electronic medical record systems, electronic medical management, electronic prescriptions and electronic referrals. Since joining the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care he led the development of pragmatic Artificial Intelligence guidance for clinicians. Toby’s early career was in Nursing.

Saby Saxena is the Product Lead at Astra health – A leading multilingual AI scribe platform designed for clinicians. Astra helps doctors and healthcare professionals automate their clinical documentation, saving them one to two hours every day with a strong focus on multilingual support services across a wide range of medical disciplines.

Saby has extensive hands-on experience in building and advising on generative AI products in the Australian public sector and major Australian banks. Saby has worked extensively in highly regulated sectors where risk compliance and security requirements are paramount. He brings this discipline and innovative mindset to healthcare, assisting Astra health AI in delivering reliable and transformative tools to clinicians.

Dr Ashish brings over a decade of medical experience, having worked across multiple specialties and regions in New South Wales and Queensland.

His diverse career has included roles in orthopaedics, emergency medicine, paediatrics, and radiology. After years of travelling and working around the country, he has now established himself as a GP in Sydney.

Passionate about delivering progressive, holistic, and individualised care, Dr Ashish is committed to improving community health. He is particularly fascinated by innovation as a way to optimise healthcare delivery for the greater good.

With a strong interest in technology, he has explored the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to help doctors work more efficiently and streamline patient care. As an Orthopaedic Registrar at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH), he led a multidisciplinary team in collaboration with researchers from RBWH, CSIRO, and QUT to develop an AI deep-learning tool that predicts the complexity of fractures. His work earned a significant grant from the RBWH Foundation and was presented at multiple conferences across Australia.

Today, his passion for health innovation continues through his collaboration with AstraHealth, where he is focused on integrating AI into medical practice to create meaningful, lasting improvements in patient care.