Dr Annie Sparrow is an Australian paediatric intensivist and global health specialist whose work focuses on conflict settings, emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Since 2012 she has worked extensively in Syria and eastern Congo, training local clinicians, supporting outbreak responses, and documenting systematic attacks on healthcare. Her articulation of the weaponization of healthcare is now widely used to describe war strategies that inflict mass casualties while obstructing access to medical care. She has advised WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for several years on health challenges in conflict zones and emergency settings.
Her fieldwork spans more than two decades across Afghanistan, Haiti, Timor-Leste, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Lebanon, Syria and eastern Congo in the DRC, with an annual programme on remote Idjwi Island providing large-scale screening and treatment for malaria, anaemia, parasitic infections, poxes and kwashiorkor. Dr Sparrow collaborates widely with human rights organisations, sporting associations, trade unions, the private and education sectors, and has testified on war crimes before the U.S. Congress, the Irish Dáil and the International Criminal Court.
She has guided responses to major outbreaks including polio, cholera, Ebola, Covid-19 and mpox, and elevated the global threat of anti-microbial resistance through her work on drivers of resistant pathogens in modern conflicts and potential solutions. Dr Sparrow publishes in The Lancet and NEJM and writes regularly for leading international policy journals on topics including the politicization of aid under the United Nations, AMR and other global threats, chemical weapons and the new biological warfare.
Chelsea is a strategic thinker, who advises organisations about how to implement AI and other emerging technologies to achieve legally sound, commercial and strategic outcomes.As a Legal Lead in MinterEllison’s AI Advisory practice, Chelsea guides boards and executive teams on AI governance frameworks, Responsible AI implementation and regulatory compliance. She supports clients in developing privacy and contract settings that protect personal information and intellectual property and align with AI risk management and ESG obligations. Chelsea advises ASX-listed companies and government across regulated sectors, including healthcare, education and financial services. Chelsea also serves as the Australian Ambassador for the Global Council of Responsible AI, reflecting her leadership in shaping AI ethics, policy and best-practice governance.Career highlights:
Developed AI governance programs for various large international and national healthcare providers, addressing fragmented AI adoption, regulatory uncertainty, and operational risk across multiple jurisdictions via board, executive, and stakeholder engagement and the design and delivery of key responsible AI policies and processes.
Negotiated agreements and advised in relation to legal risks arising from research and clinical trial arrangements.
Dr Jordan Nguyen 
is a leading Australian engineer, inventor and innovator, committed to improving as many lives as possible, and becoming a driving force behind both human and technological evolution as we move into the future.
An internationally renowned engineer for humanity, Jordan designs life-changing technologies to transform the lives of people with disabilities and the elderly through his role as founder of Psykinetic, a social business committed to bringing positive, sustainable and life-altering change. He also shares his adventures through documentaries across the world. Inspired by human endeavour, Jordan has big ambitions to see our world step consciously and creatively into a better future.
Jordan is Founder and CEO of Psykinetic, a social business creating futuristic, inclusive and empowering technologies to improve independence and quality of life for disability, aged care and beyond. Dr Jordan and his team have successfully created a mind-controlled wheelchair, numerous Virtual and Augmented reality applications, inclusive gaming, an instrument that enabled a friend with cerebral palsy to perform live music with her eye movements and blinks, and devices that make it possible to control household appliances or even drive cars using only the tiny electrical signals created from eye movements.
Author of the book ‘A Human’s Guide to the Future’, Jordan is also an award-winning documentary maker and presenter. In 2016 he collaborated with the Australian-based production company, The Feds, and the ABC Catalyst to create and present his first TV documentary Becoming Superhuman, which went on to win many prestigious awards both locally and internationally. His work is regularly featured in the media. He has since gone on to present a second ABC Catalyst documentary Meet The Avatars exploring the impacts of Virtual Reality, including creating virtual interactive avatars to preserve memories of loved ones. He has also presented numerous documentaries with Discovery Channel and National Geographic including Frontiers of Science, Smart China Start-up Revolutions, Vietnam: Connecting East Africa, and Tibet: Living On The Roof Of The World. He recently founded his own media company and aims to continue creating world-changing content on the intersection between technology and humanity.
Jordan is a passionate ambassador for STEAM education, adaptable mindsets and big-picture thinking, and holds a degree in Electrical Engineering, First-Class Honours, Diploma in Engineering Practice, and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (Chancellors List) from the University of Technology Sydney. He has taught university engineering masters students and overseen PhDs in Artificial Intelligence design and Biomedical instrumentation and has supervised many more research students. He believes our young generations are the change-makers of tomorrow and has the potential to create solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.
In November 2022, the Dr Jordan Nguyen Innovation Centre at Baulkham Hills North Public School was officially opened – named by the school’s students. Jordan was a finalist for NSW in Australian of the Year in 2017, and a finalist in the AmCham (American Chamber of Commerce) awards for Artificial Intelligence. He was named in the six Harper’s BAZAAR Visionary Men of 2019, has made the list of Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers by Create Magazine, was named twice in Onalyticas Top 100 Global Influencers on Virtual Reality, travelled on a Think Inc tour with Steve Wozniak, won the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) ˜ICT Professional of the Year Digital Disruptors Award, and has had the honour of being MC for An Evening With President Barack Obama on his last visit to Sydney.
Chelsea is a strategic thinker, who advises organisations about how to implement AI and other emerging technologies to achieve legally sound, commercial and strategic outcomes.As a Legal Lead in MinterEllison’s AI Advisory practice, Chelsea guides boards and executive teams on AI governance frameworks, Responsible AI implementation and regulatory compliance. She supports clients in developing privacy and contract settings that protect personal information and intellectual property and align with AI risk management and ESG obligations. Chelsea advises ASX-listed companies and government across regulated sectors, including healthcare, education and financial services. Chelsea also serves as the Australian Ambassador for the Global Council of Responsible AI, reflecting her leadership in shaping AI ethics, policy and best-practice governance.Career highlights:
Developed AI governance programs for various large international and national healthcare providers, addressing fragmented AI adoption, regulatory uncertainty, and operational risk across multiple jurisdictions via board, executive, and stakeholder engagement and the design and delivery of key responsible AI policies and processes.
Negotiated agreements and advised in relation to legal risks arising from research and clinical trial arrangements.
