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Conference

Provisional Academic Programme

Friday, 6 November 2026
Registration Opens
Chairs
Andrew Argent, Mignon McCulloch
Plenary Session: Opening of the meeting
- Andrew Argent / Mignon McCulloch / Peter Laussen / Allan Goldman
Session
Making sure things don't go wrong
Preparing for the risk of doing a trans-Atlantic Ocean race crossing
- Sibusiso Sizatu
Clever Machines, Careful Doctors Safe, Ethical, and Defensible AI in South African Practice
- Johann Badenhorst
Identifying patients who are deteriorating – before it happens
- Peter Laussen (USA)
The 10 Commandments...."
- Timm Irvine-Smith
Ethics: The Ethics of the Hidden Checklist: A Fair and Just Culture as the Foundation of Patient Safety
- Neil Clarke
Preparing for and managing the risk of abandoning a sinking yacht in deep ocean and the subsequent rescue
- Sibusiso Sizatu
Refreshment Break
Session
Dealing with risk at the institutional level
Ethics: Building at the Edge: Strategic Risk and Opportunity in a New Medical School
- Reno Morar
EMS Red Zones on the Cape Flats – how to stop ambulance crews being attacked
- Craig Wylie
Ethics: Being the Dean at a time of risk
- Marian Jacobs
Q & A
Cocktail reception & networking
Saturday, 7 November 2026
Registration and arrival refreshments
Session
LOOKING AFTER MULTIPLE RISKS
Chairs
Andrew Argent, Mignon McCulloch
Ethics: In a world gone awry – The power of purpose and meaningful lives
- Mark Orpen-Lyall
Rationalising Risk for Reward
- Rik De Decker
What will we do with the next pandemic?
- Lucille Blumberg
Ethics: Risk in Research – management for change
- Ntobeko Ntusi
Ethics: Planning exercise programmes for children with disabilities
- Vicki Lambert
Keeping the right note – on time all the time
- Natalie Lawrenson
Discussion
Refreshment Break
Session
DEALING WITH DAY-TO-DAY PRACTICE
Chairs
Mignon McCulloch. Andrew Argent
Putting a new hospital on the ground, and getting it going or (recording)
- Allan Goldman (UK)
All that sparkles are not of value
- Janine Binneman
Protecting what counts: Helicopter firefighting and external lifts in South Africa
- Peter Jackson
Ethics: The Hantam Community Education Trust – creating education for a rural community
- Lesley Osler
Discovery’s case for sleep in a world built to stay awake.
- Cassi Rubin
Ethics: The IMPALA 3 project in Malawi
- Job Calis
Lunch
Session
Yet More Interventions
Chairs
Mignon McCulloch. Andrew Argent
NSRI - Bringing an end to drowning
- Cleeve Robertson
Going Viral for Good: Harnessing the 4IR to Build Public Health Movements
- Jonty Wright
'Saving Young Lives' across the World
- Mignon McCulloch
Keeping the theatre as a safe space for everyone
- John Roos
Refreshment Break
Creating safety for staff in a large hospital
- Matodzi Mukosi
Really listening to what is being said …
Richard Mullender (UK)
Ethics: Managing Risk Without Seeing the Patient: 32 Years of Building Safer Systems for Children
- Chantel Cooper
Kindness in Healthcare – making a difference
- Camilla Kingdon (UK)
CLOSE & THANKS