Christian Eckelmann is the Chief Executive Officer of FlowLogic, an Australian software company purpose-built for NDIS and aged care providers.Christian will tell you himself that he is new to the disability sector. Change is another matter: it has been his job for most of his career. Ten years as an IT engineer at Audi. Eight years in McKinsey's transformation and turnaround practice, delivering more than ten transformations and hundreds of millions of dollars in value across banking, mining, agriculture and IT. A fintech of his own, where he raised more than $5 million, took the risks, and ultimately shut it down. Then Chief Transformation Officer of intellectual property law firm IPH, where he built and led the transformation team, set the strategy and drove change across 23 offices in more than ten countries.

Different industries, same pattern: the organisations that treat disruption as strategy rather than admin come out ahead.He is also dyslexic. A lifetime of finding his own way through systems designed for someone else is part of why this sector's work is personal to him.His keynote draws on published sector data and FlowLogic's interviews with providers and sector leaders to map the 2026 to 2030 reform runway, and what separates providers who absorb reform as cost from those who turn it into advantage.