Leading Reform Summit 2026 Program

Time	Item	Topic	Speaker/s
From 8am (coffee cart begins at 7.30)	Registration opens
OPENING
8.45am	Housekeeping	Welcome and housekeeping	MC: Irene Clelland, Arafmi
8.55am	Welcome to delegates	Welcome to country	Turrbal Dippil
9.10am	Address	Lived experience address	TBA
SESSION 1 - STATE OF THE STATE
9.25am	Keynote Address	Ministerial opening address	Hon. Tim Nicholls, Minister for Health and Ambulance Services
9.35am	Address	Commissioner's opening address	Ivan Frkovic, QMHC Commissioner
9.50am	Address	Presentation: QAO audit + Q&A	Darren Brown, Queensland Auditor-General
MORNING TEA AT 10.15AM
10.40am	Panel	The 2026 reform landscape: positioning Queensland for the future	Selwyn Button, Productivity Commission TBA Convenor: Ivan Frkovic, QMHC Commissioner
SESSION 2 - SYSTEM DESIGN
11.30am	Panel	System design that starts with people, place and partnerships	Fiona Caniglia, Q Shelter Genevieve Sinclair, Yeti Sue Andrews, Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service
LUNCH AT 12.20PM
SESSION 3 - WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO?
1.30pm	Lightning Presentations	What if we started from wellbeing?	JR Baker, Australian Social Prescribing Institute of Research and Education Dr Katherine Trebeck, The Next Economy & University of Edinburgh and Australian National University Dr Jeop van Agteren, Be Well Co
2.30pm	Lifetime Achievement Awards
AFTERNOON TEA AT 3PM
3.20pm	Panel exercise	Simulation
4.05pm	Closing Remarks	Commissioner's Day 1 closing reflections

Time	Item	Topic	Speaker/s
7.30am	Keynote discussion & networking breakfast	Keynote breakfast	Georgie Harman AO, CEO Beyond Blue Ivan Frkovic, QMHC Commissioner
SESSION 4 - PUTTING INTO ACTION - FUTURE REFORM
8.55am	Opening remarks	Welcome back and introduction for the day	MC: Irene Clelland, Arafmi
9.05am	Keynote address	Looking back and looking forward: The role of funding in driving reform	Dr Stephen Duckett, University of Melbourne
9.30am	Keynote address	Implementing evidence-based mental health care at scale	Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation – Macquarie University
9.55am	Panel	Young people’s voices: what a future Queensland system must deliver	Miles Britton Abi Cooper
MORNING TEA AT 10.40AM
SESSION 5 - REFORM LABS
11.00am	Workshop	Reform Lab 1: governance and stewardship across the systems
11.30am	Workshop	Reform Lab 2: workforce and community capability
12.00pm	Workshop	Reform Lab 3: data, outcomes and accountability
12.30pm	Summarising address	MC Wrap up	MC: Irene Clelland, Arafmi
CLOSING
12.40pm	Closing address	Closing remarks: lived-living experience	TBA
12.55pm	Closing address	Commissioner's closing address	Ivan Frkovic, QMHC Commissioner
LUNCH AND NETWORKING AT 1.20PM
END OF SUMMIT AT 3PM

Leading Reform Summit 2026
25–26 May | InterContinental Brisbane