As founder of Collabforge, Dr. Mark Elliott has successfully designed and managed hundreds of high profile projects, working closely with clients in a highly versatile and collaborative capacity. Mark holds a PhD investigating the underlying dynamics of collaboration at all scales and in all sectors and has led the delivery of over 500 public sector collaboration projects. This provides him with deep insight into the needs and interests of senior stakeholders, government, industry, and citizens and how they can best work together to realise their shared interests.

Trish is a collaboration and design consultant who brings deep expertise in user centred and participatory design, with strategic insight into how technologies can be used to support innovation and collaboration. Having a background in a post-production and interactive design, Trish brings a human centred approach to projects, enjoying working with teams on complex problems with multi-stakeholder across a myriad of sectors. As a systems thinker, with a project managers’ collaborative toolkit, she works to explore innovative opportunities and translate them into tangible solutions.

Peter Bragge specialises in translating research evidence into practice and policy to address challenges faced in health and sustainable development. As Director of Monash Sustainable Development Institute’s Evidence Review Service (ERS), he delivers research and practice reviews to a diverse range of government and industry organisations.

Hannah Keage completed her PhD at Flinders University. Between 2007 and 2011, she undertook post-doctoral positions at the University of Cambridge, working on longitudinal cohort studies of ageing and dementia with brain donation programs, with Professor Carol Brayne. Over this time, Hannah held an EC Marie Curie Fellowship.

In 2011 she returned to Australia, taking up an academic position in psychology at the University of South Australia. Hannah held NHMRC Early Career and Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellowships.

She is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology, President of the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society, and member of the Australian Academy of Sciences Committee for the Brain and Mind. Hannah co-leads the Cognitive Ageing and Impairment Neurosciences (CAIN) Lab (www.cain.science). Her work focuses on cognitive ageing and cognitive impairments, such as dementia and delirium, using neuropsychological and psychophysiological approaches.

Kathy Williams is Manager, Ageing Policy and Projects, leading the Ageing Policy team and the development and implementation of South Australian state government ageing policy. This work includes the development of South Australia’s new Plan for Ageing Well 2020-2025 released in July 2020. A particular focus of this work over the next five years will be tackling ageism and discrimination in all its forms. Prior to this position she provided high level strategic, legislative and policy advice to the Minister for Health in the areas of advance care directives, end-of-life decision-making, consent to medical treatment and bioethics.

Collaboration and partnerships underpin her approach to policy development work and implementation. Kathy has three adult children and two grandchildren.