2023 Program

Tuesday 1 August 2023

From 1900 Welcome Reception | Southbank Beer Garden
30ba Stanley St Plaza, South Brisbane (6 minute walk from the BCEC, click here for Google Map)
The Welcome Reception is proudly sponsored by ORH
1900 – 2100


Welcome from CAA
Event Sponsor Welcome
Drinks and canapes

Wednesday 2 August 2023

0800 – 0900 Registration Open & Networking Breakfast | Great Hall 3 & 4

The Delegate Networking Breakfast is proudly sponsored by GoodSam

OPENING PLENARY | Great Hall 2
0900 – 0905 MC Introduction

Casey Beros

0905 – 0910 Welcome to Country
0910 – 0915 Welcome to the 2023 Council of Ambulance Authorities Congress

David Waters, Chief Executive, CAA 

0915 – 0920 Host Service Welcome

Craig Emery, Commissioner, Queensland Ambulance Service

0920 – 0930 Minister for Health & Minister for Ambulance Services Welcome

Represented by Aaron Harper MP, Member for Thuringowa, Chair QLD Parliamentary Health and Environment Committee

PLENARY TOPIC: ROLE OF AMBULANCE SERVICES | Great Hall 2
0930 – 1015 Integrating, Innovating and inclusion of UK Ambulance Services into the health care system

Daren Mochrie QAM, Chief Executive, North West Ambulance Service, Chair of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives

1015 – 1045 Personalising Healthcare

Dr Yih Yng Ng, Director, Digital and Smart Health Office and Deputy Clinical Director, Ng Teng Fong Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Singapore

1045 – 1130

MORNING TEA | Exhibition | Demonstrations | Poster Viewing | Great Hall 3 & 4
Demonstrations | at Booths – Great Hall 3 & 4

10.50am – Priority Dispatch Corp | Booth 18

11.00am – Stryker | Booth 37
Stryker Emergency Care products in action

11.20am – Mercedes-Benz Vans | Booth 38
Current and future support for the Ambulance Sector and introduction of electric vans

1130 – 1200 Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration (RRAD) project: Introduction of early warning scores and clinical escalation pathways for St John WA patients

Jason Belcher, St John WA

1200 – 1230 Evaluation of the Mental Health Co-Responder (MHCORE) Program: Phase 1 (Consumer profile, patterns of presentation and service utilisation)

Professor Kerrianne Watt, Principal Research Manager, Queensland Ambulance Service
Verena Pritchard, Queensland Ambulance Service

1230 – 1300 Finger licking what? CAD Integrated Drones, more important than KFC

Han-Wei Lee, Industry Consultant, Corvanta

1300 – 1400
 
LUNCH | Exhibition | Mini Masterclass | Demonstrations | Poster Viewing | Great Hall 3 & 4
Mini Masterclass | on Stage – Great Hall 3 & 4

1.00pm – RAPP
Rapp Bag Valve Mask versus Mechanical Ventilation in Prehospital Setting

1.20pm – Mercedes-Benz Vans
Current and future support for the Ambulance sector and introduction of electric vans

1.40pm – Stryker
Stryker all-new Xpedition powered stair chair

Demonstrations | at Booths – Great Hall 3 & 4

1.05pm – Laerdal | Booth 34
Add more realism to your BLS and ALS training

1.20pm – GoodSAM | Booth 10
Instant On Scene Video, Stroke Pathways and Altering – an overview and demonstration

1.35pm – Care Company | Lounge Area Two
Emergency Response Shelter

1.45pm – ZOLL | Booth 35
Discover your CPR Metrics with a CPR challenge

1.55pm – Dedalus | Booth 23
amPHI Mass Casualty Events – Bringing Order to Chaos

PLENARY TOPIC: DEMAND MANAGEMENT | Great Hall 2
1400 – 1445 Principles to Guide the Future of Paramedicine, Eh

Kevin Smith, President, Paramedic Chiefs of Canada

1445 – 1515 Demand, Delays, Data, Dilemmas – are we pushing the right buttons?

Steve Irving, Executive Officer, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE)

1515 – 1520 Sponsor Address

Dougal Whalley, Business Manager, Device Technologies

1520 – 1600
 
AFTERNOON TEA | Exhibition | Mini Masterclass | Demonstrations | Poster Viewing | Great Hall 3 & 4
Mini Masterclass | on Stage – Great Hall 3 & 4

3.20pm – Corvanta
Critical Comms Hub Mobile Data Terminals – The Connected Ambulance

3.40pm – Community First Responders Australia
Building Community and Saving Lives Through Response

Demonstrations | at Booths – Great Hall 3 & 4

3.20pm – Tigertail | Booth 16
SimX VR – Holodeck Style VR Training Simulator

3.30pm – Device Technologies | Booth 39
“Hands Off CPR” corpuls3T & corpulsCPR synchronisation

3.40pm – Verathon Medical | Booth 6
Glidescope Go

1600 – 1630 Reimagining the ambulance services of the future: An evidence based redesign

Dr Timothy Makrides, Executive Director, Clinical Services, Ambulance Tasmania

1630 – 1700 Caring for the complex and frequent presenter: Developing a response platform for patients whose health care needs can be better serviced by community programs QAS

Dr Denise Bunting, Clinical Research Coordinator, Queensland Ambulance Service

1700 Thank you and Close Day 1
1830 – 12am Awards for Excellence Gala Dinner

The Rivershed, Howard Smith Wharves
5 Boundary Street Brisbane, under the iconic Story Bridge (11 minute drive from the BCEC, click here for Google Map)

Buses will be departing at 6:00pm from the Rydges Southbank Hotel, next door to the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, to any delegate with a dinner ticket.

Return buses to the Rydges Southbank hotel will depart Howard Smith Wharves at 11:20pm, 11:30pm & 11:45pm.

Thursday 3 August 2023

0830 – 0900 Registration Open | Great Hall 3 & 4
OPENING, DAY 2 | Great Hall 2
0900 – 0905 MC Welcome

Casey Beros

0905 – 0910 Welcome

Howard Wren, CAA Chair/CO ACT Ambulance Service

PLENARY TOPIC: WORKFORCE | Great Hall 2
0910 – 0950 Keynote Address: Creating a Gender & Diversity Balanced Workforce for the Future

Sarah Moran, CEO & Co-Founder, Girl Geek Academy

0950 – 1015 Breathing life into a health equity journey

Dan Spearing, National Equity Manager – Ambulance Operations, Hato Hone St John

1015 – 1020 Sponsor Address

John Bruning, CEO, Australasian College of Paramedicine

1020 – 1100
 
MORNING TEA | Exhibition | Mini Masterclass | Demonstrations | Poster Viewing | Great Hall 3 & 4
Mini Masterclass | on Stage – Great Hall 3 & 4

10.20am – Belgravia eHealth

10.40am – Stryker | At Booth 37
new LIFENET Care APP with LIFENET Care platform

Demonstrations | at Booths – Great Hall 3 & 4

10.20am – STEMLogic | Booth 15

10.30am – Care Company | Lounge Area Two
Emergency Response Shelter

10.40am – Corvanta | Booth 32
Integrated Patient Care Records – The next generation of collaborative, configurable, and scalable technology is here

1100 – 1130 Addressing Paramedicine Workforce Challenges in the National Health Service (NHS): The Australasian Paramedic Ethical Migratory Pathway Project

Dr Ross Goldstone & Ian Buczynski, Global Health Partnerships, NHS England

1130 – 1200 Residential EMT Programme

Jo Gallagher, Clinical Support Manager – South, Hato Hone St John

1200 – 1230 How generative AI can help leaders in Paramedicine

Marty Nichols, Associate Director Clinical Practice, NSW Ambulance

1230 – 1235 Sponsor Address

Ben Ffrench, Director, Sales and Marketing – Emergency Care APAC, Stryker

1235 – 1330
 
LUNCH | Exhibition | Mini Masterclass | Demonstrations | Poster Viewing | Great Hall 3 & 4
Mini Masterclass | on Stage – Great Hall 3 & 4

12:35pm – Dedalus
amPHI – Delivering a clinically driven, complete digital prehospital solution; from dispatch to hospital handover

12.55pm – Device Technologies
Hamilton Medical’s Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) mode.

1.15pm – Mindray
Save time, save lives

Demonstrations | at Booths – Great Hall 3 & 4

12.35pm – Belgravia eHealth | Booth 33
Optimizing Ambulance Secondary Triage: Belgravia’s Integrated Clinical and Patient Management Solution and the Road Ahead

12.45pm – RAPP | Booth 36
Rapp Bag Valve Mask versus Mechanical Ventilation in Prehospital Setting

12.55pm – Mercedes-Benz Vans | Booth 38
Current and future support for the Ambulance sector and introduction of electric vans

1.05pm – ZOLL | Booth 35
Take the Real BVM Challenge

1.15pm – Device Technologies | Booth 39
CPR & Ventilation Synchronisation

PLENARY: SUSTAINABILITY | Great Hall 2
1330 – 1415 Keynote Address: Greening the Bottom Line: Unleashing Sustainable Strategies for Organisational Success

Naureen Alam, Group Manager, Future Low Carbon Portfolio at AGL Energy

1415 – 1515 Sustainability Panel

Colin Tan, Head of Service Improvement, Hato Hone St John

Katrina Summersett, Director Sustainability, Ambulance Victoria

Andrew Tombs, CEO, St John Ambulance NT

David Waters, Chief Executive, CAA 

1515 – 1545 Keynote Address: Sustainability Innovation

Jon Dee, Founder & Managing Director, Do Something

1545 – 1600 Thank you and Congress Close

David Waters, Chief Executive, CAA 

Welcome to the 2024 CAA Congress

Jane Miller, Chief Executive, Ambulance Victoria

1600 – 1645 ICU LATER | Great Hall 3 & 4

ICU Later is proudly sponsored by Medical Developments International

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