meet our speakers

Victoria Brazil

Victoria Brazil is an emergency physician, educator, simulation specialist and healthcare team coach.

She is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Director of the Simulation Service at Gold Coast Health, and leads the Bond University Translational Simulation Collaborative. Victoria’s main interests are in connecting education with patient care - through translational simulation in healthcare, and in developing high performing healthcare teams.

She has authored over 80 peer reviewed publications in health professions education, simulation and teamwork in healthcare. Victoria also writes for the International Clinician Educators Network blog and is Senior Editor at Advances in Simulation. Victoria is co-producer of Simulcast, a podcast about healthcare simulation.

Follow Victoria at @SocraticEM or look her up at drvictoriabrazil.com

Robyn Clay-Williams

Prof Robyn Clay-Williams leads a research program at Macquarie University, Australia, in human factors and resilient health care. Her expertise is in creating health systems that can function effectively in the presence of complexity and uncertainty. Currently she is developing new models of care to improve Emergency Department performance, and patient experience and outcomes for five vulnerable patient cohorts.

Eric Saindon

There are few Visual Effects Supervisors who have delivered bigger films than Eric Saindon. The original Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Alita: Battle Angel, and all three Hobbit films are just the tip of the iceberg.

Eric joined Wētā FX in 1999 as a Creatures / Character Supervisor, where he was pivotal in the creation of Gollum for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Eric first moved into a VFX Supervisor role in 2006 for X-Men: The Last Stand. Since then, he has served in this capacity for most of his projects, while also managing pre-production and on-set duties.

Between blockbusters, Eric has shown a deft hand guiding smaller projects like Pete’s Dragon and David Lowery’s The Green Knight.

Eric has won an Academy Award® and a BAFTA for Avatar: The Way of Water. He has also won five Visual Effects Society Awards.

He is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.