Program
| Tuesday 21 October 2025 | ||||
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| Time TBC | Reception/Admin Day | |||
| 13:00 – 19:00 | Registration Desk Opens | Registration Desk, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre | ||
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Official Welcome Drinks | Exhibition Hall | ||
| Wednesday 22 October 2025 | ||||
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| DAY 1 | Session Title | Venue | ||
| 07:00 – 17:00 | Registration Desk Opens | Registration Desk, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre | ||
| 08:30 | Plenary Doors Open | |||
| 08:45 – 9:15 | Official Conference Opening | Plenary 3 | ||
| Welcome officials and dignitaries | ||||
| 9:15 – 10:15 | PLENARY SESSION | Plenary 3 | ||
| Session Title | Department of Health, Ageing and Disabilty Updates | |||
| Overview | MyMedicare, Bulk Billing Incentive, Chronic Condition Management and further updates. | |||
| Presenter | Department of Health, Ageing and Disability | |||
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | |||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Tea + Networking | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 11:00 – 11:45 | PLENARY SESSION | Plenary 3 | ||
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | |||
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | |||
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon. | |||
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| 11:45 – 11:50 | Room change | |||
| 11:50 – 12:35 | Concurrent Session 1 | |||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | Concurrent NZ | |
| Session Title | 6th Edition Standards | Session details coming soon. | Compliance Updates for Specialists | Equity/Cultural Competency |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon. | Presenter details coming soon. | Loryn Einstein, Medical Billing Experts | Michelle Te Kira, 3Rivers Medical Centre |
| Audience | This session is targeted for general practices. | This session is targeted for specialist practices | This session is targeted for New Zealand practices | |
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 | Meeting Room 218 |
| 12:35 – 13:15 | Lunch and Networking | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Concurrent Session 2 | |||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | Concurrent NZ | |
| Session Title | Session details to be confirmed. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Model of Care |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon. | Presenter details coming soon. | Presenter details coming soon. | Jess Morgan-French, Collaborative Aotearoa |
| Audience | This session is targeted for New Zealand practices | |||
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 | Meeting Room 218 |
| 14:00 – 14:05 | Room change | |||
| 14:05 – 14:50 | Concurrent Session 3 | |||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | Concurrent NZ | |
| Session Title | Compliance Updates for GPs | Payroll Tax | AI | Environmentally Friendly Practice – A how to guide |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Loryn Einstein, Medical Billing Experts | Stuart Chan, Cutcher & Neale | Miroslav Doncevic, DMS | Presenter details coming soon |
| Audience | This session is targeted at general practice types | This session is targeted for all practice types. | This session is targeted for all practice types. | This session is targeted for New Zealand practices |
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 | Meeting Room 218 |
| 14:50 – 15:15 | Afternoon tea | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 15:15 – 16:00 | PLENARY SESSION | Plenary 3 | ||
| Session Title | Panel Discussion – Australia and New Zealand Practice Managers | |||
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | |||
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon. | |||
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types | |||
| 16:00 – 17:00 | PLENARY SESSION | Plenary 3 | ||
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | |||
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | |||
| Presenter | Chris Smeed, Cubiko | |||
| Audience | ||||
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Cubiko Cocktails | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 19:00 – 21:30 | Sip and Socialise supported by Best Practice Software (optional event, registration required) | Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium | ||
| Thursday 23 October 2025 | ||||
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| DAY 2 | Session | Venue | ||
| 07:00 – 17:00 | Registration Desk Opens | Registration Desk, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre | ||
| 07:00 – 08:30 | Networking Breakfast | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | ||
| 08:30 | Plenary Doors Open | |||
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Conference Welcome and Opening Day 2 | |||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | PLENARY SESSION | Plenary 3 | ||
| Session Title | Building Resilience | |||
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | |||
| Presenter | Lovey Ratima-Rapson, Pegasus Health | |||
| 09:45 – 09:50 | Room change | |||
| 09:50 – 10:35 | Concurrent Session 4 | |||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | Concurrent NZ | |
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | Marketing | Flow of Communication | Office365/Co-pilot |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Communication between GPs, specialists, allied health, and multi-disciplinary | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon | HeartBeat Digital | Presenter details coming soon | Presenter details coming soon |
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | This session is targeted for all practice types. | This session is targeted for New Zealand practices | |
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 | Meeting Room 218 |
| 10:35 – 11:00 | Morning Tea and Networking | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Concurrent Session 5 | |||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | Concurrent NZ | |
| Session Title | Community Experiences | Session details coming soon. | Non-Clinical Practice Owners | Cyber Security |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | NACCHO | Presenter details coming soon. | Legal, Finance and a Non-clinical Practice Owner (Panel Discussion) | Presenter details coming soon. |
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | This session is targeted for all practice types. | This session is targeted for New Zealand practices | |
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 | Meeting Room 218 |
| 11:45 – 11:55 | Room change | |||
| 11:55 – 12:55pm | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | Plenary 3 | ||
| Session Title | She is Not Your Rehab | |||
| Overview | Taimalealgi Mataio Faafetai (Matt) Brown, is a New Zealand born Samoan author and renowned communicator who works to eradicate domestic violence by supporting those who perpetrate violence, to heal. A survivor of family violence and childhood sexual abuse himself, he originally started his domestic violence advocacy work by sharing his story with the men who frequented his busy barbershops as a way to foster vulnerability, healing, and connection.Matt and Sarah Brown MNZM, together founded She Is Not Your Rehab and launched the concept in Matt’s 2019 TEDx talk; The Barbershop where men go to heal. She Is Not Your Rehab was founded from a barbershop as an invitation for men to acknowledge their own childhood trauma and to take responsibility for their healing so that they can transform their pain instead of transmitting it on those around them. | |||
| Presenter | Matt Brown | |||
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | |||
| 12:55 – 13:45 | Lunch and Networking | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 13:45 – 14:30 | Concurrent Session 6 | |||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | Concurrent NZ | |
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Ask Me Anything… | Financial Reporting/ HR/ Practice Manager Ownership |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon. | Presenter details coming soon. | Services Australia | Panel discussion |
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | This session is targeted for New Zealand practices | ||
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 | Meeting Room 218 |
| 14:30 – 14:35 | Room change | |||
| 14:35 – 15:20 | Concurrent Session 7 | |||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | Concurrent NZ | |
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Managers Q&A with a panel answering |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon | Presenter details coming soon | Presenter details coming soon | Presenter details coming soon |
| Audience | This session is targeted for New Zealand practices | |||
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 | Meeting Room 218 |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | Afternoon Tea and Networking | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Plenary Session | Plenary 3 | ||
| Session Title | HR | |||
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | |||
| Presenter | George Sotiris, HR in Health | |||
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | |||
| 17:00 | Conference Summary and Close Day 2 | |||
| 17:00 – 19:00 | AAPM and PMAANZ Award Presentations | Exhibition Hall | ||
| 19:00 – 22:00 | AAPM CPM Drinks (optional event, registration required) | |||
| 19:30 – 22:30 | Fellows Dinner (invitation only event) | |||
| Friday 24 October 2025 | |||
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| DAY 3 | Session | Venue | |
| 07:00 – 15:00 | Registration Desk Opens | Registration Desk, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre | |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Plenary Doors Open | Plenary 3 | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Conference Welcome and Opening Day 3 | ||
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Plenary Session | Plenary 3 | |
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | ||
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | ||
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon | ||
| 10:00 – 10:05 | Room change | ||
| 10:05 – 10:50 | Concurrent Session 8 | ||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | |
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon | Presenter details coming soon | Presenter details coming soon |
| Audience | |||
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 |
| 10:50 – 11:25 | Morning Tea and Networking | Exhibition Hall | |
| 11:25 – 12:25 | Concurrent Session 9 | ||
| Concurrent Session A | Concurrent Session B | Concurrent Session C | |
| Session Title | Session details coming soon. | Weather Responses and Business Disruptions | Session details coming soon. |
| Overview | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. | Session details coming soon. |
| Presenter | Presenter details coming soon. | Panel Discussion | Presenter details coming soon |
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | ||
| Venue | Plenary 3 | Meeting Room 219 and 220 | Meeting Room 212 and 213 |
| 12:25 – 13:30 | Lunch and Networking | Exhibition Hall | |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | Plenary 3 | |
| Session Title | Keynote Presenter – Dave Hughes | ||
| Dave Hughes, known for his sharp wit and quintessentially Australian charm, has seamlessly transitioned his comedic talent from stage to the airwaves and screen. He has co-hosted numerous radio shows, entertained audiences every night on television, appeared on countless podcasts and written books beloved by Australian children. Dave’s current TV presence extends to guest appearances on shows like The Hundred, The Weekly and The Project. Passionate about comedy, Dave continues to perform regularly at clubs nationwide, showcasing his enduring dedication to the craft and his natural ability to leave audiences in stitches. | |||
| Presenter | Dave Hughes | ||
| Audience | This session is targeted for all practice types. | ||
| 14:30 – 14:40 | Conference Summary and Close | Auditorium | |
| 15:00 – 18:30 | Free Time | ||
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Pre Dinner Drinks | Melbourne Room Foyer, Level 2, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Centre | |
| 19:00 – 00:00 | Gala Dinner | Spring Carnival | Melbourne Room, Level 2, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Centre | |
