Assoc. Prof Sue Westerway | Womens Imaging Group Sue celebrated 50 years as a sonographer in May 2025. Improving outcomes for patients undergoing medical ultrasound examinations has been a core mantra of her career, helping create & implement scanning practice protocols & standards across all disciplines of ultrasound for ultrasound practitioners. Sue has received many awards for her contribution to ultrasound including the 2011 ASA Prue Pratten award, life memberships of ASUM & ASA, Humanitarian & Researcher of the year, a Churchill Fellowship and is a Life Governor of Sydney Hospital. Sue was president of ASUM, board member of ASA, ASAR & WFUMB, is the co-director of the WFUMB Centre of Education in the Pacific & is a traveling educator for international aid projects. She has authored over 70 peer reviewed journal articles and is considered a world luminary for infection control in the clinical ultrasound environment.

Ms Carolynne Cormack FASA | Monash University Carolynne is a sonographer with over 30 years experience. She is a passionate educator and is currently undertaking a PhD at Monash University. She is actively engaged in the ASA and wider ultrasound community. Carolynne was awarded ASA Victorian Sonographer of the Year 2022, ASA Fellowship 2018 and ASA Educator of the Year 2016. She is a peer reviewer for several journals and a regularly invited presenter. Her interests include ultrasound in critical care, education development, interdisciplinary collaboration and research.

Associate Professor Christopher Edwards FASA | Queensland University of Technology Christopher Edwards is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Ultrasound within the School of Clinical Sciences and coordinates the Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound. He is an experienced Medical Sonographer and a registered Medical Radiation Practitioner and holds a concurrent position with QLD Health as an advanced clinical Radiographer/Sonographer. His research focuses on understanding how new advances in ultrasound technology can improve patient clinical outcomes. He is also keenly interested in improving equitable training for student Sonographers and developing pathways for professionals to access research opportunities. Christopher is a fellow of the Australasian Sonographers Association (ASA), a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a former Chair and Board Director of the Australasian Sonographer Accreditation Registry.

Professor Tom Gedeon | Curtin University Honorary Professor of Computer Science and recently Head of the Human Centred Computing (Hcc) Research Area of the School of Computing in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National university in Canberra. He is the Human-Centric Advancements Chair in AI at Curtin University in Perth. Tom is also a Research Professor of Informatics at the University of ÓBuda in Budapest Hungary. Tom’s research is focused on the development of automated systems for information extraction, from textual as well as eye gaze and physiological human data, and for the synthesis of the extracted information into humanly useful information resources, primarily using neural network, deep learning and fuzzy logic methods. This is responsive AI or human centred computing.