Dr Denis Bauer is a government research scientist, adjunct professor at Sydney and Macquarie University, and an AWS Hero. Her unique approach of joining Artificial Intelligence (AI) with deep biological domain knowledge translates research into impactful outcomes in disease gene detection in Motor Neuron Disease and the COVID-19 vaccine development. She chairs the Westmead Research Hub Bioinformatics committee, is the senior author on a Nature Biotechnology publication, as well as keynotes international IT and Medical conferences. She was recognized in the Women in AI awards 2022 and is affiliated with the Australian Institute for Machine Learning. She has attracted more than $50M in funding to further life-science research and digital health.

Professor Eric Chow is a sexual health epidemiologist at Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. His research program aims to improve the treatment, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections (STI), with a particular focus on gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus.