The Premier Event for Retirement Living and Aged care Executives

HYATT REGENCY SYDNEY 18 & 19 MARCH 2025

Leaders Summit 2025Optimism Mk II

15TH ANNUAL STRATEGY SUMMIT SENIORS LIVING & AGED CARE

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Welcome to Leaders Summit 2025

Please join us and 500 of your colleagues Tuesday and Wednesday March 18 & 19 at Barangaroo overlooking Darling Harbour, for the premier business strategy and C Suite networking event of the year.

40+ CEOs, 500 Delegates

Each year we present over 40 leading CEOs delivering presentations and discussion on their business models, the challenges and the opportunities they identify, and their strategies for the next three and five years.

Optimism is now and it’s unprecedented in its scale and disruptive potential. New opportunities, new technology, new customers, new competitors. Built on financial and regulatory certainty, plus accelerating technology.
Now is the time to design your next decade, strategically.

Business strategy focus

The core focus of the LEADERS SUMMIT is to deliver business intelligence that cannot be otherwise sourced.

The LEADERS SUMMIT is unique, with over 25 podium presentations plus nine breakout sessions across three streams (Retirement Living, Home Care, Residential Care), in just two days.

Looking ahead, 2025: THE STRATEGY SUMMIT will focus on designing your next decade. This is the time to think strategically about the opportunities and challenges that will define the next phase of your organisation’s growth.

Topics to Explore Include:

Mergers & Acquisitions
Artificial Intelligence
Limited Liability Companies
Retirement Villages
Capital Expenditures
Primary Aged Care
Residential Aged Care
Sub-Acute Health
Hospital in the Home

National/international attendance

Each year the sector leaders from every state, New Zealand and APAC attend the Leaders Summit, to both expand their vision and build networks of colleagues, thanks to the premium networking structure and program.

Premium Networking

Only the LEADERS SUMMIT delivers extended 45 minute barista coffee breaks and full sit down restaurant lunches on both SUMMIT days, ensuring quality conversations are generated and new friendships created.

Hatted restaurant dinner

Exclusive for retirement living and aged care operator executives, delegates will attend dinner in groups of 20 to 30 at one of 18 of Sydney’s finest hatted restaurants on Tuesday night.

Sector breakout sessions

Three dedicated breakout sessions for each of retirement living, home care and residential care, where CEOs will drill deep into the major issues and opportunities, with Q&A.

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What is this Summit about

Premium Networking

Staged at the five-star Hyatt Regency Sydney, the LEADERS SUMMIT provides a premium catering and networking experience.

Extended 45 minute barista coffee breaks and full sit down restaurant lunches on both SUMMIT days ensures quality conversations are generated and new friendships created.

Hatted restaurant operator dinner

To deliver the premium networking experience, only the LEADERS SUMMIT hosts groups of up to 30 operator delegates* to Sydney’s finest hatted restaurants, inclusive of the delegate fee.

(*Note: only available for operator delegates and sponsors).

Leaders Summit 2025 Speakers

Hugo Dudley-Smith

Managing Director at Gresham Partners

Mergers & Acquisitions: Analysis of M&A today in retirement living and aged care. What buyers want, what makes transactions successful, the metrics you need to understand.

Emma Cornwell

Executive General Manager – Health Services at Australian Unity

Home Health: A vision of the future for home support and how delivery of clinical staff will become a logistics challenge and competitive advantage.

Hans Erik Henriksen

CEO at Epital Health

Denmark: World Leading Strategies: Learn why Denmark is a world leader in seniors housing and support, driven by innovative technology and proactive intervention, and discover how these strategies are shaping the future of aged care.

Dale Fisher

CEO at Silverchain

High Level Home Care: Scale through acquisition is required to build a best-of-breed in-home higher acuity care support service on a national front, enabling the delivery of consistent, high-quality care across diverse regions.

Carly Irving-Dolan

Executive Director & Consulting at Prospecta Utilities

Energy Security Non-Negotiable: In-home care service and AI tech can only be delivered efficiently with reliable energy infrastructure and a solid tech strategy to support growing demand.

Cam Ansell

Managing Director at Ansell Strategic

Retirement & Care Strategies: Traditional business models are being squeezed by a changing customer, changing workforce, technology and operating costs. New strategies are required.

Anne McCormack

CEO at Mecwacare

Not For Profit Tech Strategist: Committing to a $20 million IT spend to support rapid expansion across retirement living, home care, and residential care, while ensuring scalable solutions that enhance operational efficiency and improve service delivery.

Aaron Lavell

CEO at Odyssey

After the successful launch of the 135-apartment Odyssey Robina, five more projects are in development, providing up to full care under the Retirement Village Act and promoting independent and assisted living.

Beverly Smith

CCO at Amplar Health

Hospital In The Home: The Medibank subsidiary is already in the field delivering high level acuity support and is emerging as the must have partner for retirement and al care providers.

Brian Wong

Executive Manager at Commbank

Build and Acquisition Funding: Regulation and funding certainty has reignited expansive strategic plans; the country’s largest bank has developed guidance for successful bank support.

Deanne McMaster, partner at MinterEllison, speaker at Leaders Summit

Deanna McMaster

Partner, MinterEllison

Workforce Opportunities/Risks: Understanding the evolving requirements to protect the customer, the staff, the management, the Board and the corporate brand, while also being agile

Cameron Holland

Director Primary Care & Investments at Amplar Health

Village Primary Care: Primary health and GP services in villages and aged care are being redesigned to ensure adequate supply. Scale and partnerships required.

James Wiltshire

Executive Director, DCM Institute

Executive Director at the DCM Institute, a leading organisation specialising in the professional development of Village and Retirement Managers.

Penelope Eden

Partner, MinterEllison

Aged Care Law: The new Aged Care Act, opportunities to strategise new business models, counterbalanced by new regulatory speed bumps.

Grant Corderoy

Senior Partner, StewartBrown Advisory

Data Led Strategies: Reviewing the results from the first StewartBrown Retirement Living Performance Report, the first independent, comprehensive profiling of the village and land lease sectors.

Tammy Berghofer

Partner, MinterEllison

Retirement Living Law: Expanding care in villages makes business sense; how and what legislation is to be engaged and avoided.

Chris Baynes

Founder & CEO, DCM Group

Chris Baynes is the founder and CEO of the DCM Group, Australia’s leading retirement living and aged care media group. Chris will be presenting the Leaders Summit 2025

Adrian Puljich

CEO, GemLife

Land Lease Leader: The innovator in the land lease sector, GemLife and now Aliria have set the standard in large scale land lease developments, with Adrian’s portfolio now numbering 16 locations.

Buy Tickets

Tickets limited to 500 delegates

$2,400 + GST

Operator

Individual Registration

Full two-day conference participation
Extended Coffee Breaks both days
Sit-down networking lunches Tuesday and Wednesday
Tuesday night Dinner at Hatted Restaurant in the surrounding precinct
Wednesday networking breakfast

$2,200 + GST

Operator Group Booking (6 or more individual registrations)

$2,400 + GST

Supplier/Non Operator

Individual Registration

Full two-day conference participation
Extended Coffee Breaks both days
Sit-down networking lunches Tuesday and Wednesday
Thursday networking breakfast

NOTE: Tuesday night dinners are exclusive to sector Operators and Event Sponsors only.

Leaders Summit Sponsor Platinum

Thank you to our Leaders Summit 2025 platinum sponsor!