Chris Blowes is living proof that with the right mindset anything is possible.

On Anzac Day 2015 Chris was surfing when he was attacked by a great white shark.

Chris had lost a leg, his heart had stopped and he was bleeding out at the bottom of a cliff 35 kilometres from the nearest country hospital on the Eyre Peninsula and a further 600 kilometres to the nearest trauma centre in Adelaide. The odds were definitely stacked in the shark’s favour.

Learning to walk again was just the first step. Chris had other goals including getting back to work as a builder, but more importantly surfing and to do this he had to step outside of his comfort zone and view his failures as learning opportunities.

Australian Para Surf Champion, Co-author of the book Caught Inside and keynote speaker Chris will have you on the edge of your seat as he shares how he overcame adversity to find purpose in his trauma. His story will show you how through struggle and hardship there can be growth and learning and how with the right mindset there can be so much to gain if you can make it through moments of adversity and discomfort.

Chris Blowes is now a popular keynote speaker where he presents to conferences, workshops, community events, expos, intimate gatherings, Q and A’s and schools.

Let’s face it, life is getting faster and faster and shows no signs of slowing down. Business is more competitive now than any other time in history.
Companies and individuals now more than ever need to out create, out innovate and out market their competition. The result of this is a workforce that is having serious issues around sustaining high performance.
Dr Adam Fraser is a human performance researcher and consultant who studies how organisations adopt a high performance culture to thrive in this challenging and evolving business landscape. Adam has a true passion for the research behind his work and has long held partnerships with various
Universities throughout Asia Pacific. In fact, he is thought to be the only keynote speaker in the world to have had the impact of his keynote presentation measured in a University study (It improved the behaviour of attendees by 41%).
He has worked with elite level athletes, the armed forces and business professionals of all levels. In the
last 10 years he has delivered more than 1500 presentations to over half a million people in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide. He has worked in many industries with clients including CBA, Westpac, Optus, Telstra, IBM, PwC, Ernst & Young, Asteron, AON, Local Government Managers Association,
Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Queensland Law Society and the Department of Education. In addition to this Dr Adam is the author of four best-selling books, including his latest book released in 2020 ‘Strive’ and the acclaimed ‘The Third Space’.
His topics include the psychology of performance, improvement of productivity, transformational
leadership, engagement of teams, work life balance and development of high performing cultures.
He is regularly featured in the media, having appeared in the AFR, SMH, The Age, CEO magazine, BRW, Fast Thinking, Readers Digest, Human Capitol Magazine and Management Today. He has held regular radio spots on ABC Radio Nationally and his own slot on Sky Business. He is also regularly on Channel 7's Sunrise & The Morning Show, Channel 9's Today and Today Extra and Close Up in Auckland.
He is married to a woman who is far brighter than he is, two daughters who have him completely wrapped around their finger and a dog Tilly who routinely outwits him. 

As Chief Digital Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, Peter is responsible for stewarding the national digital health ecosystem, products and standards. Peter represents Australia as the Australian Delegate to the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP) and as the Australian Delegate to the SNOMED International General Assembly. Peter is also the Co-Chair of the GDHP Evidence and Evaluation Work Stream.

Peter has been a Chief Information/Digital Officer in the healthcare portfolio in the public service since 2009 and has held senior roles with the National Health & Medical Research Council, the National Blood Authority and ACT Health. Peter was named as Technology Leader of the Year 2024 by itnews.

A Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders, a Senior Member & Certified Professional of the Australian Computer Society and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Peter is never bored and is always up to something.

Sallyanne Wissmann is the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) and is a Health Information and Information Management Executive Consultant. Sallyanne has over 30 years’ experience as a leader in health information management in the public and private not-for-profit healthcare environments in Australia and New Zealand. Sallyanne is a fellow and life member of HIMAA, a Certified Health Information Manager (CHIM), a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA), and an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (AFCHSM).

Andrew is a Clinical Haematologist working as a Medical Education Consultant at the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Adelaide.

He is a passionate educator who first became interested in medical documentation’s relationship with clinical coding in 2019 and has since gone on to produce an educational video series called Coding Matters on YouTube. Whilst working at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Coding Matters improved documentation allowing a lift in complexity level by 8% over only 6 months within the Division of Medicine. The educational resources have since been adopted by several of South Australia’s hospital networks and gained interest across multiple states. He has also produced a new format for medical discharge summaries called Handover to GP. Andrew was SA Health’s Young Professional of the Year for 2021 for his work on improving clinical documentation. You can find Coding Matters and other educational videos by searching “Med Ed with Andrew”