Her Heart Conference 2026
We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Her Heart Conference, taking place this year on Monday, 12 October 2026, at the iconic Swissotel Sydney.
This year’s theme, Improving Women’s Heart Health – A Fairer, Inclusive, and Accessible System, brings together leading experts, advocates, policymakers and women with lived experience to explore the changes needed to improve cardiovascular outcomes for all women.
Through keynote presentations, panel discussions and interactive sessions, the conference will examine the challenges facing women across the health system and highlight innovative solutions that support equity, prevention, access and better care.
From research and clinical practice to policy and lived experience, the program will focus on practical actions that can help create a more inclusive and responsive cardiovascular health system for women.
Conference Themes
The 2026 Her Heart Conference will bring together clinicians, researchers, policymakers, community leaders and consumers to explore how Australia can create a fairer, more inclusive and accessible health system for women.
❤️ Equity and Inclusion ❤️ Prevention Across the Life Course ❤️ Closing the Gender Gap ❤️ Research, Data and Innovation ❤️
Workforce and Future Models of Care ❤️ Policy, Advocacy and Consumer Leadership
Registration
· Cardiologists and Specialists – $399.00 + $10.48 booking fee per person
· General Practitioners – $399.00 + $10.48 booking fee per person
· Nurse Practitioners and Nurses – $249.00 + $6.73 booking fee per person
· Allied Health Professionals (Physiotherapists, Dietitians and others) – $249.00 + $6.73 booking fee per person
· Official Partners and Sponsors of Her Heart – $249.00 + $6.73 booking fee per person
· General Public – $199.00 + $5.48 booking fee per person
· Students, Trainees and Early Career Researchers – $89.00 + $2.73 booking fee per person
· Industry and Pharmaceutical Representatives – $399.00 + $10.48 booking fee per person
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All registrations include full conference attendance, catering and networking opportunities.
Who we are
Her Heart exists to improve the heart health of Australian women.
With almost one woman dying every hour, heart disease remains the leading cause of illness and death among Australian women.
And with heart disease costing the Australian health system around $14.3 billion a year, it’s time to take a stand and save more lives.
What we do
Awareness: Raising awareness of heart disease in women of all ages.
Education: Educating and supporting health professionals, while also educating women, about the prevalence, risk factors and symptoms of heart disease in women.
Research: Completing further research around attitudes, behaviours and uptake on prevention.
Advocacy: National action on women and heart disease, advocacy and policy.
Meet our confirmed speakers.
We’re delighted to introduce our confirmed speakers joining the Her Heart Conference. Additional keynote speakers and presenters will be announced over the coming weeks. Stay tuned as we continue to build an inspiring program focused on advancing women’s heart health.
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Feedback from last year's conference
“It was a fantastic experience to network and learn about other research in the area and listen to the lived experience of women with heart disease.”
“I’m still on a high from been in the room, feeling the passion and love, the knowledge and new insights that were shared was so powerful and inspiring. To be there and hear you telling your story, as a representative of all of our story’s, with these conditions, to a room full of amazing professionals and hear the story’s of the other patients, was an honour.”
“As a non-medical professional I thought it might be over my head, but it was so interesting, entertaining and relatable with lots of information that I had never come across before.”
“There was a deep sense of camaraderie — a room filled with mutual respect and genuine support for the work being done in this space. From recognising sex-specific differences in CVD risk factors and presentation, to bridging the gender gap in post-ACS care, and addressing disparities in cardiovascular research including leveraging digital technology to improve women’s access to care — it’s clear we’re stronger when we work together.”
“A fantastic and engaging conference – I feel reenergised in providing support and education to hopefully make an impact in women’s heart health.”
“I came away with more hope than I have felt in a very long time.”