The Future of Wellbeing & Health

Reimagining healthcare to build resilient minds, bodies and communities

Conversations about AI, tech, tools and new service models for people shaping the future of health and wellbeing.

You’re invited to take part in a UNE SRI Futures Series on health tech, new service models and whole-person wellbeing.

In this whole-day event, hear from clinicians, researchers and founders who are building and testing ideas in the real world, and take part in conversations that connect mental and physical health, tools and practice, regional needs and what comes next.

Join us to listen, to add your voice, and leave more informed and more connected to the people who can help you make progress - as a student, researcher, founder, carer, clinician or community member.

What to expect

• A keynote that meets real life. Annabel Rolley will open the lid on Interpretr AI as both a clinician and a founder. You will see how a thoughtful digital companion can hold space between sessions, when a practitioner still needs to lead, what safe use looks like, and her thoughts on the future of AI in integrated care. 

• Health as the whole person. Dr Gal Winter will bring the brain and the gut into the same conversation as mood, food and daily routines. Think clear explanations, everyday examples and simple ways families, schools and services can pull in the same direction. 

• Kids, families and the reality of distance. Casey Jones will share what she sees in clinic and at kitchen tables across Australia. Where families get stuck, what helps them move again, and how integrated care for children can work when time is short and services are spread out. 

• Culture, connection and care that feels safe. Allira Cutmore will speak from deep experience about what makes support feel respectful and effective. You will hear where technology belongs as a practical helper and where relationships must come first. 

• A founder panel that stays practical. Service builders and product makers will discuss how they noticed the gap and what they did first. They will share the realities of building something new, how they earned trust with clinicians and patients, and what helped people try a different way. You will hear the why behind their work, the choices they would repeat, the ones they would not, and a simple invitation at the heart of it all: if you can, you must, because your idea and experience matter. 

• Young innovators with clear asks. Two Youth Summit teams will share the problem they see, the approach they are testing, the next step on their roadmap and one simple way the room can help.

Speakers and contributors

Annabel Rolley

Registered Psychologist. Cofounder of Interpretr AI. UNE alum. 
Annabel supports clients across mental health and performance and draws on CBT, ACT, mindfulness and solution-focused practice. Her background includes occupational psychology and rehabilitation after psychological injury, professional sport and media. Annabel is a graduate of the University of New England with a Bachelor of Psychological Science and a Master of Professional Psychology. She also holds a Bachelor of Business in Sport Management and a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Psychology. 

In her keynote, Annabel will open the hood on Interpretr AI and share what a trauma-informed, evidence-grounded digital companion can do between sessions. She will map where tools can extend access, where clinical skill remains essential, and how consent and data care must be handled in regional communities.

Dr Gal Winter

Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, University of New England. Registered nutritionist.

Gal translates microbial ecology into everyday practice. Her work connects gut microbiome science with mental health and physical wellbeing and turns complexity into clear actions for families, clinics and schools. She is known for hands-on outreach through Gal’s Kitchen Culture and for programs that make evidence accessible. Gal holds a BSc and MSc in Biochemistry and Food Science and a PhD in molecular biology.

Casey Jones

Paediatric Clinical Nutritionist. Founder of Carter Nutrition. 

Casey works with families across Australia on eczema, gut issues, anxiety, behaviour and low immunity. She pairs clinical testing with food as medicine and plans that fit family life. No judgement. No off-the-shelf advice. Just careful investigation and practical help that sticks. Casey will speak to the gaps regional families face and what integrated care for kids can look like when services are thin on the ground.

Allira Cutmore

Founder of Yinnar Yarnz. Gamilaroi Yinarr from Moree. Social worker with more than twenty years across Aboriginal Health, Mental Health, Disability, Housing, Child Protection and Education. 

Allira leads culturally safe counselling, yarning, mentoring and supervision for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and for workers who support them. She brings lived experience, clinical skill and community wisdom. Her message is simple. Relationships first. Any technology must earn its place.

Founder Panel. Deb Martin of ObservaCare, Peter Price OAM of My Tazi and Allira Cutmore of Yinnar Yarnz.

Deb Martin — Co-founder, Observa Care 
Deb co-created Observa Care’s remote patient monitoring model during the pandemic to reduce preventable transfers and give clinicians real-time vitals from a wearable sensor feeding a cloud dashboard. Observa Care won the national Innovate with nbn Health category and overall champion in 2023, and Deb continues to validate the model with regional partners.

Peter Price OAM/AM — CEO, Crime Stoppers NSW; founder, MyTazi 
Peter is the long-serving CEO of Crime Stoppers NSW and a director of Crime Stoppers Australia, recognised with the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2009 and later as a Member of the Order of Australia. Alongside his public-safety leadership, he’s also building MyTazi, a reusable tampon applicator brand, drawing on a career spanning law, advertising, and advocacy, and having also built two additional manufacturing-based businesses.

Young Innovators Spotlight. Two Youth Summit teams. Path Academy on parent education for pre-teens and teens. Kotara Health on women’s health. Twelve minutes each, including brief Q and A. Problem. Approach. Next steps. A clear ask to the room for pilots, partnerships, introductions or mentorship.

Event details

Date Thursday 20 February 2026 
Time 9.00 am to 4.00 pm 
Venue University of Newcastle, Department of Rural Health Building, Tamworth Hospital, Lecture Theatre 
Tickets All inclusive, morning tea, lunch and all talks & workshops - $80 
Audience clinicians, health professionals, educators, community services, councils, founders, parents, carers and students aged sixteen and over