iCLEAN CONFERENCE 2026

Transformation & Engagement
Shaping the Future of Healthcare Cleaning

For healthcare leaders responsible for reducing risk, standardising cleaning, and protecting the environment of care. “Investing in science-based cleaning saves lives and money"

AGED CARE - TUES 17TH
PRIVATE HOSPITALS & FM - WED 18TH
PUBLIC HOSPITALS & HEALTH NETWORKS - THURS 19TH

17 - 19 MARCH 2026

Middle Head, Sydney

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Welcome to iClean 2026

Where leaders in Healthcare Cleaning come together to solve the real challenges.

Australia’s leading healthcare cleaning and infection control conference has a new format designed to focus on your specific sector needs.

iClean Conference unites science, leadership and real-world practice to address the frontline patient safety risks in hospitals and aged care. This conference exists to help you lead with systems, standards and visibility that give you confidence and reduce the burden on your teams.

This is not your typical conference. It is a niche leadership summit for EVS and IPC Managers who are passionate about reducing Healthcare Acquired Infections and saving lives through science based cleaning.

Seats will fill up quickly, so don’t miss this opportunity to grow as a leader in your field.

Join us this March as we Learn, Lead and Transform together.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

TOPICS THAT WILL BE COVERED OVER 3 CONFERENCE DAYS

Designed for Infection Control, Hospitality Management and Cleaning Supervisors

Aged Care
Tues, 17th March
Protecting the Most Vulnerable from Invisible risk
A full day conference focused on Australian Aged Care cleaning challenges:

- Engage your IPC and EVS people with leading world experts.
- Hear from other hospitality leaders about their journey of standardisation and digitisation in Aged Care Cleaning.
- Learn how to build your cleaning around infection prevention
- Connect with other leading pioneering managers and play your part in our Aged Care Cleaning transformation workshops.

Register For Day 1

Designed for IPC, Environmental Services and Corporate Services Management

Private Hospitals & FM
Wed, 18th March
Removing Commercial and Clinical Risk at Once
A full day conference focused on Australian Hospital cleaning challenges:

- Learn how to build repeatable, science-based workflows that remove variation, reduce delays and improve patient experience.
- Discover operational efficiencies that reduce labour without reducing quality
- See what other hospitals are achieving and how to build efficient, resilient teams.
- Connect with other leading pioneering managers and play your part in our Hospital Cleaning transformation workshops.

Register For Day 2

Designed for IPC, EVS and Health Network management working at the Federal, State or Area Health Service level

Public Hospitals & Health Networks
Thurs, 19th March
System-Wide Standardisation at Scale
A full day conference focused on Healthcare Networks looking at standardisation and digitisation of environmental cleaning services:

- See what visibility and data transparency across all hospitals looks like.
- Be in the room with world leaders and peers focused on the challenges we all face.
- See what is available now to standardise, digitise and upskill your cleaning workforce.
- Connect with other leading pioneering managers and play your part in our saving lives through science based cleaning.

Register For Day 3

Why Attend?

Healthcare cleaning is no longer a support function — it is a front-line patient safety system. The iClean Conference equips healthcare cleaning teams to stay ahead of challenges by:

  • Gaining expert insights into the latest research, trends, and best-practice environmental services

  • Learning how leading organisations standardise cleaning and implement innovative solutions

  • Practical, science-backed strategies you can implement immediately

  • Translating clinical risk into real-world, evidence-based cleaning through practical, hands-on sessions

  • Clear actions to strengthen infection prevention and reduce riskPractical, science-backed strategies you can implement immediately

  • Proven approaches to engage, train, and retain cleaning teams

  • Direct access to expert speakers and valuable connections with peers facing the same clinical and operational risks

This is not a “sit and listen” conference.

It’s a working conference designed to help you lead better, reduce risk, and deliver safer outcomes in healthcare cleaning.

Join 200+ healthcare leaders committed to raising the standard of cleaning and patient safety.

SECURE YOUR DELEGATE PASS TODAY

iClean 2026 more than a conference.

It’s a community of people committed to lifting the profile, capability and leadership of environmental hygiene across the entire healthcare system.

Keynote Speakers

Learn from the best and transform your healthcare cleaning program.

  • Prof. Brett Mitchell

    Holds positions at the University of Newcastle, Central Coast Local Health District and Avondale University, and is Editor-in-Chief of Infection, Disease and Health.

  • Martin Kiernan

    Infection prevention specialist and researcher with 30 years of clinical, academic, and advisory experience in environmental hygiene and healthcare associated infections.

  • Fiona Nemetz

    MS, CHESP System Director of EVS, Safety & Security at Northside Hospital, Atlanta. Past President of the Association of Healthcare Environment US

  • Prof. Karen Vickery

    Honorary Scientific Director of the Surgical Infection Research Group, at the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia.

  • Dr. Alexandra Peters

    President of the Clean Hospitals Group, Geneva. A. Peters: “Healthcare cleaning is a career, not just a job”.

  • Justin Wilshaw

    Head of Hospitality & Lifestyle at Estia Health, Meat & Livestock Australia, Red Meat Ambassador.

  • Bill Bassett

    Specialist Consultant for Healthcare Cleaning Systems, and Founding Director of the iClean Conference.

  • Sophie Jeyaratnam

    CEO iClean Technology. Leads Australia’s most advanced digital workflow and hygiene management platform for Healthcare, Aged Care and FM.

READ MORE about our expert line up of speakers

THIS YEAR’S THEME:
Transformation & Engagement

This year’s theme, “Transformation & Engagement,” reflects a simple truth: meaningful change happens when people unite around shared purpose. Engagement fuels momentum. Transformation creates impact. When EVS, IPC and leadership come together, we remove variation, strengthen safety, and build systems that help protect the people who rely on us every day.

For the first time, we’ve created three sector-specific program streams, ensuring every session speaks directly to the pressures and opportunities in your environment. You’ll hear from world-class experts who bring evidence, clarity and real-world strategies you can apply immediately.

Across keynotes, workshops and hands-on sessions inside the iHub, you’ll connect with like-minded professionals, share solutions, and strengthen the practices that make care safer.

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Conference Schedule

Aged Care

Protecting the Most Vulnerable from Invisible Risk

Designed for Infection Control and Management

  • * Engage your IPC and EVS people with leading world experts
  • * Hear from other hospitality leaders about their journey of standardisation
  • * Learn how to build your cleaning around infection prevention
8.00
Arrive
Registration, Tea & Coffee on Arrival
8.45
Intro
Start of Conference
9.00
Keynote 1
Beyond the Visible Clean: Understanding Germ Growth and Movement in Aged Care Environments. Prof. Karen Vickery. Explore how germs grow, spread and persist on aged care surfaces, revealing hidden risks.
9.40
Keynote 2
Cleaning as Care: Elevating Aged Care Outcomes Through Staff Engagement. Martin Kiernan. Drawing on 35 years’ evidence, Martin shows engaged, valued cleaning teams prevent infections, protect residents, and transform aged care.
10.10
Round Table
Engagement Session
10.35
Break
Morning Tea
11.00
Session
Digitisation and Team Engagement in Aged Care. Justin Wilshaw. What has been achieved through Standardisation & Digitisation at Estia Health and their future innovation plans.
11.10
Keynote 3
Cleaning That Saves Lives: Proven Interventions for a Safer Aged Care Environment. Prof. Brett Mitchell Evidence-based cleaning interventions from landmark trials show how better surface and equipment cleaning dramatically cuts healthcare acquired infections, and improved resident safety.
11.50
Keynote 4
Designing Teams That Care: Engaging Boards, Managers and Frontline Staff to Lift Aged Care Cleaning Standards. Fiona Nemetz. Practical strategies to align boards, managers and frontline staff, building accountable cleaning teams that improve safety, dignity and outcomes.
12.30
Round Table
Engagement Session
1.00
Break
Lunch
2.00
Round Table
Ideas at the Table. What Can We Do Now
2.30
Session
Benchmarking Aged Care Cleaning: Creating a Scoreboard for Quality, Safety, and Efficiency. Bill Bassett. Learn how benchmarking transforms aged care cleaning into a visible scoreboard, tracking standards, safety outcomes, and efficiency so teams can continuously improve.
3.00
Session
Digital Transformation. Sophie Jeyaratnam. What’s New in iClean – Aged Care (Training App)
3.30
Workshops 1
Session 1A: Bill Bassett - Healthcare Cleaning Training, UV Markers and ATP (iHub Theatre)
3.30
Workshops 1
Session 1B: Martin Kiernan - Closing the Gap Between Infection Control Standards and Environmental Services Deliverables.
4.15
Workshops 2
Session 2A: Sophie Jeyaratnam - Auditing & Supervisor Apps.
4.15
Workshops 2
Session 2B: Fiona Nemetz - Getting a Seat at the Table < – How to Engage Senior Levels
4.15
Workshops 2
Session 2C: Bill Bassett & Justin Wilshaw - Looking into Standard 4 of the New Aged Care Cleaning Standards
5.00
Q&A
Closing Session
5.15
Networking
Drinks and Nibbles
6.30
Dinner
Speaker Dinner – optional booking required
Private Hospitals & FM

Removing Commercial and Clinical Risk at Once

Designed for IPC, Environmental Services and Corporate Services Management

  • * Learn how to build repeatable, science-based workflows
  • * Discover operational efficiencies that reduce labour without reducing quality
  • * See what other hospitals are achieving with efficient, resilient teams
8.00
Arrive
Registration, Tea & Coffee on Arrival
8.45
Intro
Start of Conference
9.00
Keynote 1
Invisible Threats in Private Hospitals: How Germs Grow, Spread and Survive on “Clean” Surfaces. Prof. Karen Vickery. Unpacks the hidden world of hospital germs, explaining how they grow, spread and survive on “clean” surfaces, creating ongoing, often unnoticed infection risks.
9.40
Keynote 2
Keeping Your Best: Retention Strategies that Make Private Hospital Cleaning Teams Want to Stay. Fiona Nemetz. How to create supportive, valued workplaces so private hospital cleaning staff feel respected, grow their skills, and choose to stay long term.
10.10
Round Table
Engagement Session
10.35
Break
Morning Tea
11.00
Session
A Global Approach to Environmental Hygiene. Dr Alexandra Peters Clean Hospitals Update & Engagement Opportunities.
11.10
Keynote 3
Preventable Healthcare-Associated Infections: Turning Evidence into Everyday Practice in Private Hospitals. Martin Kiernan Preventable HAIs drop when evidence-based bundles, enhanced cleaning, engagement and education of frontline staff become everyday practice, not optional extras.
11.50
Keynote 4
Environmental Cleaning: Reduces HAIs and Saves Money. Prof. Brett Mitchell Understand how improving cleaning can reduce preventable HAIs, free up beds and can save your hospital budgets.
12.30
Round Table
Engagement Session
1.00
Break
Lunch
2.00
Round Table
Ideas at the Table. What Can We Do Now
2.25
Session
What Has Been Achieved Through Standardisation & Digitisation in Over 200 Sites. Justin Wilshaw.
2.30
Session
Standards vs. Service: Closing the Compliance Gap in Hospital Cleaning. Martin Kiernan. Connect infection control standards with daily cleaning reality, by aligning expectations, training, auditing and feedback so environmental services reliably deliver safe care.
3.00
Session
Digital Transformation. Sophie Jeyaratnam. What’s New in iClean – Hospitals (Training App)
3.30
Workshops 1
Session 1A: Bill Bassett / Fiona Nemetz - Healthcare Cleaning Training, UV Markers and ATP (iHub Theatre) (iHub Theatre)
4.15
Workshops 1
Session 1B: Sophie Jeyaratnam - Auditing & Supervisor Apps.
4.15
Workshops 2
Session 2B: Bill Bassett - Standardised and Digitised - What are the Numbers in Private Hospitals
4.15
Workshops 2
Session 2C: Fiona Nemetz - Getting a Seat at the Table < – How to Engage Senior Levels
5.00
Q&A
Closing Session
5.15
Networking
Drinks and Nibbles
Public Hospitals & Health Networks

System-Wide Standardisation at Scale

Designed for IPC, EVS and Health Network management at Federal, State or Area Health Service level

  • * See what visibility and data transparency across all hospitals looks like
  • * Be in the room with world leaders and peers focused on shared challenges
  • * See what is available to standardise, digitise and upskill your workforce
8.00
Arrive
Registration, Tea & Coffee on Arrival
8.45
Intro
Start of Conference
9.00
Keynote 1
Beyond the Visible Clean: When Clean Isn’t Safe: Germ Survival, Movement and Biofilms in Public Health Facilities. Prof. Karen Vickery. Uncovers how germs in public hospitals grow, travel between patients and departments, and persist on “clean” surfaces, driving hidden, ongoing infection risks.
9.40
Keynote 2
Balancing the Load: How to Match Cleaning Workloads to Risk and Reality in Public Hospitals. Fiona Nemetz. How to set fair, risk based workloads and supportive structures so public hospital EVS staff feel valued, avoid burnout, and choose to stay.
10.10
Round Table
Engagement Session
10.35
Break
Morning Tea
11.00
Session
What Has Been Achieved Through Standardisation & Digitisation in Over 200 Sites. Justin Wilshaw. What has been achieved through Standardisation & Digitisation at Estia Health and their future innovation plans.
11.10
Keynote 3
Science at the Surface: Building a Public Health Culture Where Cleaning Saves Lives. Martin Kiernan This session will show you how to create the right team culture that leads to engaged cleaning staff saving lives.
11.50
Keynote 4
Evidence Based Cleaning Strategies to Prevent HAIs. Prof. Brett Mitchell. Learn how evidence-based hospital cleaning reduces infections, frees beds and saves money, turning routine cleaning into a high value public health intervention
12.30
Round Table
Engagement Session. What is the Business Case for Standardisation Across Hospitals?
1.00
Break
Lunch
2.00
Round Table
Ideas at the Table. What Can We Do Now
2.45
Session
Same Standards, Different Numbers: How Standardisation and Digitisation Reveal Public and Private Hospital Cleaning Performance. Bill Bassett. Explores how standardised methods and digital data highlights differences in cleaning quality, safety, and efficiency and how you can learn from other healthcare cleaning pioneers.
3.15
Session
Digital Transformation. Sophie Jeyaratnam. What’s New in iClean – Hospitals (Training App)
3.45
Workshops 1
Session 1A: Bill Bassett - Healthcare Cleaning Training, UV Markers and ATP (iHub Theatre)
3.45
Workshops 2
Session 1B: Sophie Jeyaratnam - Auditing & Supervisor Apps.
4.30
Q&A
Closing ENGAGEMENT Session: Martin Kiernan, Fiona Nemetz, Bill Bassett
5.00
Networking
Drinks and Nibbles
6.30
Dinner
Speaker Dinner – optional booking required
* NB: Conference Schedule above is indicative of a 1 Day Conference Program and subject to change. Full Conference Program available online after Jan 21, 2026