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overview
Welcome to the Health Insurance Summit 2025, Australia’s must-attend event for health insurance leaders, hospital leaders, policymakers, medical specialists and clinicians, and innovators in the health insurance industry. This dynamic gathering is designed to tackle the biggest challenges and explore the most exciting opportunities shaping the future of healthcare in Australia.
As the health insurance sector evolves, staying ahead means understanding and embracing change. At this year’s summit, we’ll focus on the latest health insurance policy updates and how the industry is responding, critical trends such as the growing emphasis on preventative care, the rise of digital health technologies, and the shift toward consumer centric models.
Who attends?
- Private health funds
- Private healthcare providers & hospitals
- Public health providers & hospitals
- Federal government
- State government agencies and departments
- Medical specialists and clinicians
- Health services companies
- Medical device companies
- Consulting and advisory
- Actuaries
- Health insurance agents and intermediaries
To stay informed of speaker announcements, early bird discounts and the official agenda release register your interest below.
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
Speakers
Kate Williams
Health Insurance Managing Director, Bupa
Milosh Milisavljevic
Chief Customer Officer, Medibank
Damien Mu
CEO, AIA Australia
Paul McBride
Assistant Secretary for the Private Health Strategy Branch within the Health Systems Strategy Division, Department of Health and Aged Care
Daniel Pole
Head of Public Affairs Melbourne, Ipsos
Dean Breckenridge
Chief Policy Officer, Ramsay
Dr Sidney Chandrasiri
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Health Executives
Christopher Zinn
CEO, PHIIA
Adam Yasa
Head of Claims and Data Integrity, Phoenix Health
Prof Luis Prado
Chief Academic Officer, Australian Institute of Health Executives (AIHE)
Dr Rachel David
CEO, Private Healthcare Australia
Misael Valdes Triana
Chief Health Services Officer, Honeysuckle Health
Amy Villalobos
Chief Operations Officer, CBHS
A/Prof Daevyd Rodda
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sunshine Coast Orthopaedic Group
Wes Self
Chief Operating Officer – Private Health Insurance, GMHBA
Andrew Matthews
Principal, Finity Actuaries
Nicole Pritchard
Head of Health Programs, Digital Wellness
Greg Hall
CEO, Nexus Hospitals
Adj. A/Prof Leanne Boase
CEO, Australian College of Nurse Practitioners and Executive Director of Clinical Services, Luminar Health and Fullarton Clinic
Brett Long
CEO, Kieser Australia
Jane Cameron
General Manager Service Design and Business Development, St Vincent’s Health Australia
Professor Stephen Nicholls
Program Director of MonashHeart, Intensive Care and Victorian Health Hospital, Monash Health
David Simpson
Chief Strategy Officer, Southern Cross Healthcare (NZ)
Phil Hayes-St Clair
Founder & Coach, PHILHSC
Dr Victoria Carson
RANZCOG Councillor and Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, The Royal Women’s Hospital & Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Linda Jorgensen
Chief Executive Officer, St Andrew’s Toowoomba Hospital
Paris Petranis
Partner, K&L Gates
Vanessa Baic
Special Counsel, K&L Gates
Joanna Green
Principal, Hive Legal
Warrick Gard
Partner, EY Australia
David Nowell
National Manager, Provider Relationships and Strategy, Australian Health Service Alliance (AHSA)
Daniel Erasmus
CEO & Consulting Actuary, Insight Actuaries
Dan Clair
Head of Benefits Management, GMHBA
Dr Angela Jackson
Commissioner, Productivity Commission
Judith Day
Director Healthcare Management & Partnerships – Health Insurance, Bupa
Rhod McKensey
Chief Executive Officer, Honeysuckle Health
Workshop
Post-Conference Workshop | Beyond Coverage: Building Strategic Partnerships That Transform Member Health and Business Performance
9am-12pm, Wednesday 25th June 2025, Crown Melbourne
Workshop leader: Phil Hayes-St Clair, Founder & Coach, PHILHSC
The future of health insurance lies beyond claims and compliance, it’s in the power of partnerships. This interactive workshop equips health insurance leaders with a modern framework to identify, evaluate, and scale strategic partnerships that improve member health outcomes, enhance brand loyalty, and unlock commercial growth. Drawing from real-world case studies and a practical toolkit, delegates will walk away with the clarity, confidence, and capability to turn innovative partnership ideas into results.
Workshop Purpose
This half-day workshop covers how private health insurers can shift from transactional relationships to value-based partnerships. Whether with tech companies, healthcare providers, government, or startups, the opportunities to create impact are growing, but only if approached with a clear strategy. Through interactive exercises, group challenges, and expert insights, delegates will learn how to assess opportunities, structure win-win agreements, and accelerate execution.
By the end of this workshop, delegates can expect to learn and take away:
- Understand the 6-part IDEAL+ framework to guide every partnership decision
- Learn how to evaluate potential partners for alignment and impact
- Know how to communicate partnership value to internal stakeholders
- Have a draft of a live partnership opportunity mapped against the framework
- Gain tools they can implement immediately within their organisations
Who will benefit from the workshop
- Strategy, Innovation & Growth Leads
- Partnership Managers & Executives
- Chief Commercial, Customer, and Health Officers
- Product & Program Directors responsible for value-based care or ecosystem development
- Any leader tasked with improving outcomes while managing rising costs
About the workshop leader:
Phil Hayes-St Clair is a business partnerships expert and executive coach with over 20 years of experience building and investing in companies across healthcare, biotechnology, aerospace, and e-commerce. Phil has a strong track record of working with Fortune 500 CEOs and entrepreneurs to design and reset strategic partnerships that accelerate growth, secure supply chains, and unlock long-term value.
Phil is the Host of the Partnership Playbook Podcast and creator of the IDEAL Partnership Framework, which is used globally by organisations to evaluate, structure, and optimise strategic alliances. He has coached leaders across a broad range of industries to turn strategy into momentum using partnership-driven growth.
A trained scientist and MBA graduate, Phil is also a TEDx speaker on women’s health and a long-standing advocate for advancing women’s health outcomes. He is a Member of the International Menopause Society and the Australian Women’s Health Alliance, and serves as a Special Advisor at The Parenthood.
Phil is a former Australian Army veteran and a Lifeblood Ambassador.
Breakfast Briefings
Event Feature – Breakfast Briefings | INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLES
Monday 23rd June 2025
This session will include a series of short briefings followed by a breakout to more intimate roundtables hosted by a range of different organisations. These roundtables offer the opportunity for a deeper dive discussion with who can talk you through the various considerations, solutions and strategies that will be critical in delivering quality out-of-hospital care.
Some of the areas we may cover in these briefings include:
- Hospital in the Home
- Effective out of hospital care – models of care for success
- Driving better member experiences
- Data security and privacy
- Tech transformations
Register your interest to join the discussion;
For more information, contact:
Danielle Newman
Senior Business Development Manager
E: [email protected]
T: +61 (2) 9080 4318
Networking Dinner
Monday 23rd June – BangPop, Melbourne
6:30pm-9:30pm
Don’t miss out on one of the event highlights which is a sell out each year!
Book early to avoid disappointment.
* Please note, only paying delegates, sponsors and speakers are eligible to attend the networking dinner.
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
Reconnect and re-engage with your industry peers at the 22nd Annual Health Insurance Summit.
There are many opportunities for networking including social events such as the PHI Networking Dinner, networking drinks, refreshment breaks and lunches, making this not just a conference… but an all encompassing industry “experience”.
Event sponsorship or exhibiting will allow your organisation to:
- Build relationships with potential and existing clients
- Generate leads from a high-level, targeted audience
- Close sales in a more personal manner than via phone
- Demonstrate your product in person
- Network with the industry
- Build brand awareness
To see what is on offer please contact:
Danielle Newman
Senior Business Development Manager
E: [email protected]
T: +61 (2) 9080 4318
Testimonials
“The summit more than lives up to its name in terms of attendance by numbers and their seniority; in terms of the presentations that set and don’t just follow the broader agenda and in terms of the organisation, which leaves nothing to chance. It all adds up to a must-attend event”
– 2024 Delegate
“Congratulations on a summit that brought glimmers of what the industry can do. Thought provoking sessions and the chance to meet with participants across the industry. Very well organized and run”
– 2024 Delegate
“Breakfast briefing sessions were a great way to hear about a specific idea and connect with new people before the Summit formally commenced”
– 2024 Delegate
Insights
Insights from the Chairs of Health Insurance Summit
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Working Symbiotically
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Investing in choices – Psychedelics in Australia
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How Buy Now Pay Later is fuelling appetite for private healthcare
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Care in the home – the future of healthcare?
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Private Health Insurance – Paying for Value for Health Fund Members
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Debunking the myths around private health insurance
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Australia’s private health insurance industry – a refreshed view from the sidelines
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Event Code Of Conduct
We want everyone who comes to our events to have a great experience. This code explains our expectations and rules, which includes general good practice behaviour, and how to report anything witnessed or experienced that goes against them. Read our Event Code of Conduct here.
ConnectMe + Streamly
ConnectMe • Networking enhanced
All of our events utilise a bespoke dynamic smartphone app, ConnectMe – which guarantees attendees a premium event experience. Logins are sent prior to the conference commencement allowing you to check who’s attending, schedule in meetings and catch ups, participate in live Q+A and interactive polls, and much more. ConnectMe ensures you never miss a beat prior, during and post event.
Streamly • On-Demand video vault
Streamly is a new video platform from Informa Connect – hosting hours of session recordings from our events and more. Select the Streamly add-on at the checkout to receive year round access to exclusive On-Demand session recordings from all of our related healthcare events*. Login information will be sent post event. For more information visit our Streamly page.
* Note: In a minority of cases, speakers may request their sessions to be excluded from Streamly access.
Sustainability
Our Commitment to Sustainability
In Australia, we are committed to running our events in an environmentally and socially responsible way. Across Informa Connect we are focusing on the short and long-term sustainability impacts we have on customers and colleagues alongside the communities we work in.
We recognise that it’s not just about the way we produce our events and products but recognising that we have a role to play in providing a space to work in partnership together with our markets to inspire the sustainable development of the industries we serve.
To read more on our latest sustainability reports and Faster Forward initiatives – click here.
when & where
23 - 24 Jun 2025
Crown Promenade Melbourne
8 Whiteman Street
SOUTHBANK VIC 3006
(Queensbridge St end of Crown Complex)
(03) 9292 8888
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION RATE
We have secured a special accommodation rate from $240* per room per night, room only, for conference attendees at the Crown Promenade for the nights of the 22-24 June 2025 inclusive.
To book this rate, click here.
* Room availability and rates are subject to availability and valid until 7 days prior to the event, unless sold out prior.
Book early to avoid disappointment.
contact
Still have a question?
General Information & Registration
Customer Service
+61 2 9080 4307
[email protected]
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
Danielle Newman
+61 2 9080 4318
[email protected]
Speaking Enquiries
Frankie Brewer
+61 439 780 927
[email protected]
Marketing & Media Enquiries
Paul O’Connor
[email protected]