Are you a leader, advocate, or innovator passionate about advancing equity in Australia? The Equity CoLab Summit is seeking dynamic speakers to help shape this year’s transformative annual event. This is your opportunity to engage with an influential audience and contribute to meaningful change.
Why Speak at the Equity CoLab Summit?
- Influence and impact: share your insights, research, and real-world solutions with leaders from government, healthcare, education, justice, housing, employment, academia, and community organisations.
- Engage with decision-makers: join a diverse mix of professionals committed to equity, including policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.
- Build connections: strengthen collaborations with experts working across different sectors to drive systemic change.
- Showcase success stories: provide practical tools and strategies to advance equity in Australia and beyond.
2024 Summit Snapshot
days of keynotes, panels, and interactive workshops
guests speakers sharing bold ideas and insights
participants from diverse sectors and backgrounds
Absolutely brilliant Summit! Loved everything about it.
The Equity CoLab Summit 2025
Brought to you by The Equity CoLab and hosted by Country to Coast QLD
Noosa, Queensland 15 – 16 October 2025
Who attends?
Last year’s summit welcomed leaders and professionals from:
- Government
- Primary Health Networks
- Primary healthcare & community organisations
- Universities & research institutes
- Peak bodies & philanthropy
- Consultancies & corporate leaders
What we’re looking for
We’re inviting speakers to share insights, research, and real-world applications that challenge inequity and drive progress. Topics may include:
- Systemic and structural solutions
- Power dynamics, governance, and accountability in advancing equity
- The role of data, measurement, and evaluation in embedding equity
- from community-led initiatives
- Addressing historical and ongoing racial inequities
returning in 2025
Dr Norman Swan AM
Physician and Journalist
Summit MC
Dr Michael McAfee (USA)
President and CEO PolicyLink
international speaker
interested?
If you are ready to be part of a high-impact event and share your work with a dedicated audience, we want to hear from you! Let’s shape the future of equity together!
If you’d like to learn more, please fill out this form with your contact details—this isn’t a commitment, just an expression of interest so we can have a chat and share more information. Looking forward to connecting!
Country to Coast Queensland and the Equity CoLab acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
We are committed to embracing diversity and eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of health and other services. We welcomes all people irrespective of ethnicity, lifestyle choice, faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.