Step into a day designed to stretch your thinking and reimagine what’s possible in aged care.
This is not a traditional summit, it’s an immersive experience where innovation becomes tangible through interactive sessions and insights from visionary leaders.
You’ll explore fresh ideas, challenge assumptions and gain new perspectives on leadership, technology, and the future of care. The summit brings together your peers and industry pioneers to spark curiosity, inspire bold action and equip you to lead meaningful change. Don’t just hear about the future of aged care, experience it, shape it and leave energised to drive it forward.
The program immerses you in global and outside‑sector thinking, with sessions exploring how healthy ageing is being advanced worldwide, how collective intelligence can drive sector‑wide innovation and how next‑generation workforce models are emerging across industries leading digital transformation.
NASA4D: Mission‑Driven Innovation for Aged Care Leaders
This immersive session adapts NASA’s 4D innovation approach to help leaders explore their own leadership assumptions, biases and default patterns. Through hands‑on activities, reflective prompts and experiential exercises, participants embark on an “inner space” mission—using the Define, Discover, Design and Deliver stages to examine how they lead, how they respond to uncertainty and how their assumptions shape innovation within their teams and organisations.
The Leading for Innovation Summit brings together senior leaders for an experience centred on interaction, innovation and leadership.
Longevity Unlocked: Closing the Health Span Gap – A Global Conversation
This dynamic, audience‑driven session brings together international leaders in ageing, innovation and health system reform to explore one of the biggest challenges of our time: closing the gap between life span and health span. Through an engaging mix of Q&A, fishbowl dialogue and light debate, speakers will examine what it takes for people not just to live longer, but to live well—drawing on global best practice, researchinsights and bold system‑level innovations.
Expect engaging conversations, practical insights and collaborative sessions that challenge perspectives and inspire new ways of working.
Neurotechnology and Human Rights: Ethics at the Edge of Innovation
As neurotechnology advances at a rapid pace, new possibilities are emerging to better understand, monitor and support the human brain. From devices that can detect neurological changes to technologies that may enhance cognitive function, these innovations hold significant promise for health, wellbeing and care. Yet they also raise profound ethical and human rights questions.
This session explores the complex intersection of neurotechnology, ethics and human rights at a time when the boundaries between mind, machine and data are becoming increasingly blurred. It will examine key considerations around privacy, autonomy, consent and the protection of cognitive liberty, while reflecting on how emerging technologies may reshape our understanding of personal agency and dignity.
Reimagine what it means to lead with innovation through immersive, interactive experiences designed to spark ideas, encourage collaboration and push boundaries.
Unlocking Collective Intelligence: A Sector‑Wide Innovation Think Tank
Join an energising, hands‑on session where we use AI and collective intelligence to rapidly define real organisational or sector challenges—and then work in small groups to generate bold, practical solutions using strategic innovation tools. Ideas are shared across the room to create a powerful collective problem‑solving experience, with insights captured live as a visual infographic and later distilled in an electronic playbook you can take back to your organisation. Come ready to collaborate, create, and shape the future of aged care innovation—together.
World Café Co‑Creating the Future Workforce: Global Ideas, Local Solutions
Step into a World Café–style session shining a spotlight on one of aged care’s biggest opportunities: strengthening our workforce supply. Participants, providers and international experts will rotate through themed tables exploring how we can attract more people into the sector, open new pathways, build skills, and reimagine roles to make the most of the talent we have. Along the way, conversations will spark fresh thinking about how capability and training can evolve—even amid ongoing workforce shortages—to help grow a confident, resilient and future‑ready workforce.
Courage to Change: Leadership Lessons From the Edge of Human Possibility
This session explores what it truly takes to lead when the path forward is uncertain and the stakes are high. Drawing on powerful insights from environments where human limits are tested, offering a compelling reflection on resilience, adaptability, and the mindset required to lead through complexity and change.
Through stories and practical leadership lessons, the session will examine the qualities that enable leaders to move beyond established thinking, embracing risk, inspiring confidence in others, and maintaining clarity of purpose in moments of pressure. It will challenge participants to reflect on their own leadership approach and consider how bold thinking and courageous decision-making can unlock new possibilities for their organisations and the sector.
Secure your place now. A dynamic, immersive experience designed to stretch your thinking and inspire action.
limited spaces available
Leading for Innovation Summit registration
$399 (for those attending the summit only)
Discounted conference rate
$325 (for those attending the conference and
summit)
*All prices are inclusive of GST
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Cancellation policy
Please note payment is required at the time of registration via credit card (we are unable to accept AMEX cards).
Cancellations must be notified in writing to [email protected].
We understand that unforeseen circumstances may prevent you from attending. However, please note that any cancellations made from April 5 onwards (30 days prior to the conference) will be non-refundable.
At this point, full payment for your attendance has been made, and we are unable to recover these costs.
Delegates who, after registering, find themselves unable to attend the event are welcome to nominate a substitute and must inform Ageing Australia events in writing as soon as possible.