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📅 Tuesday, 1 September 2026
🕐 11:20am - 2:00pm AEST
📍 Brisbane Conventionand Exhibition Centre

Overview

Join the conversation at the Shaping the Future of Aged Care QLD to explore how providers can navigate reform implementation, rising compliance demands, workforce and financial pressures, while improving care access, quality and experience.

As aged care providers move from reform to implementation, embedding a rights-based framework, expanding access to services, and rolling out the Support at Home program, delivery pressures are intensifying. Financial sustainability, workforce constraints, compliance demands, and digital readiness are converging at a time when stronger integration with health and community services is critical. Providers are being challenged not only to keep pace with change, but to lead it, redefining operating models while continuing to deliver high-quality care.  

Join the conversation at the Shaping the Future of Aged Care QLD to explore how the sector can navigate these complexities and deliver the next era of aged care.
 

Keynote: The Hon Amanda Camm, QLD Minister for Families, Seniors and Disability Services; Child Safety and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence 

Keynote: Mel Metz, Deputy Commissioner, Sector Capability and Regulatory Strategy, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
 

Sector panel:   

• Improving client value and strengthening care quality, access and experience in a reformed aged care system 
• How the government’s recent increased funding in aged care will improve supply, lift tangible performance and accelerate implementation of reforms 
• Operationalising reforms and realigning operating models in line with the Aged Care Act 2024 
• Meeting updated compliance requirements, including quality standards and prudential regulation 
• Managing the scale of change while maintaining business as usual across workforce, digital readiness and service integration 
• Improving connectedness and integration with health and community services 
• Enhancing financial performance and business models while sustaining competitiveness amid sector consolidation, mergers and acquisition 

Kim Attenborough, Chief Executive Officer, Suncare Community Services
Sean Bilton, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Estia Health
Cathy Thomas, Group Executive, BlueCare
Patricia Sparrow, Chief Executive Officer, COTA
Roald Vergsteeg, Chief Policy and Advocacy Officer, Ageing Australia

What’s Covered

Explore how Queensland's aged care sector is implementing the Aged Care Act 2024 reforms while addressing workforce, compliance, funding and financial sustainability challenges, with a focus on improving quality, access and client outcomes. Hear from government leaders and sector executives on practical strategies for navigating reform and shaping the future of aged care.

Who should attend

Service Providers

Cost

CEDA Member: $255

CEDA Meber, Table of 10: $2,295

Non-memberm Single: $410

Non-member, Tabel of 10: $4,100

Presented by

CEDA

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