Keynote Speech

Dr Louise Schaper
CEO of the Australasian Digital Health Institute

Our keynote speaker is Dr Louise Schaper, whose topic is "Building digital health workforce capability nationally and globally".


Dr Louise Schaper is on a mission to fix healthcare.

She is a passionate advocate for the transformation of healthcare, enabled by technology and has dedicated her career to building community and opportunities for the sector to advance.

With over 20 years' experience in digital health, Louise has deep domain knowledge and extensive networks across Australia and internationally in the field.

As a senior member of Australia's digital health community, Louise has spent 10+ years leading Australia’s peak body for digital health, the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, and is a founding partner of Healthcare Ventures, Australia's digital health venture capital fund.

Louise brings together world-class clinicians, researchers, innovators and organisations from across the biomedical, health and technology spectrum who are committed to the improvement of health outcomes enabled through innovative uses of technology and information. She is a facilitator, an innovator and a change agent who explores and leverages the convergence of people, systems and technologies in the transformation and future of health and medicine.