Our chosen themes for 2024

Demonstrating the value and impact of OT

Including:

• Navigating under-resourced processes: sharing how to drive innovation through occupation-centred practice in difficult times.
• Putting occupations at the forefront of our practice so we’re empowering people to do the occupations they value, manage their health and care needs
• Defining and capturing our unique OT contribution: owning our superpower.

The future of the OT workforce

Discussing:

• Transforming the profession to meet future population and service needs.
• AI and OT: Preparing for the new future and what it means for OT practice. Looking at how artificial intelligence (AI) and digital care technology can support OT. How OT shapes AI development and our role in co-designing and testing products.
• Effective workforce planning – using workforce data and intelligence to make informed decisions about occupational therapy positioning within the health and care system.

OT's role in addressing health inequity

Sharing how you and the profession:

• can be confident and skilled in championing inclusion and advocating for occupational justice
• work towards preventing ill health and minimising the need for crisis interventions and dependency on care
• help people to live well in their communities despite having health conditions
• ensure fair and equitable access to OT based on need
• address the social determinants of health.
   

Growing your OT career

• Exploring how to support all OT practitioners to be where they want to be at each stage of their career.
• Sharing how to build out the profession's competence and capacity to support leadership, learning, research and innovation into practice.
• Understanding how to see ourselves as leaders and make the most of our influence?