2026

• For the years 2025-26, Mike has focused on small group presentations, averaging about 15 per year. Main topics have been avoiding nursing homes, finding roles, technology, retiring for the second time, dealing with decline and dependence, and navigating everything.

• Dementia Blue Zones. COTA SA Policy Council.

2025

• Habits for good frail lives. Move for Better Health Annual Conference.

• Small group presentations.

2024

• What do you say when some asks you what do you do? Attitude: Ageing well in Clunes Community Forum.

• Retirees and Yahoos. LG PRO Annual Victorian State Conference.

• Why do we institutionalise old people. But no one else? Australian Association of Gerontology National Conference.

• Longevity thinking tools (workshop). Australian Association of Gerontology National Conference.

2023

• Closing the divide between aged care quality and good lives. Australian Association of Gerontology National Conference.

• The ingredients to ageing well. ABC National Radio. Big Ideas.

• Let modern elders guide you. Peddle Thorp Staff Event.

• Retirees and modern elders. Peddle Thorp Client Event.

• Skilling for the transition to a life with frailty. Modern Elder Academy: Australia/Pacific Meeting.

• Does role-avidity get in the road of elderhood? International SRV Distance Conference.

2022

• Nudging older lives. Attitude: Ageing well in Clunes Community Forum.

• Spotting a modern elder. TARAC Planning Event.

• Designing residential care for modern elders. Paynters Staff Event.

• The modern elder customer journey. Paynters Client Event.

• The older workforce. Industry Leaders Fund Conference.

• The importance of social roles and technology to develop purpose for aged care residents. KPMG Governance for Reform National Seminar Series.

• Aligning the 4 WHYS of aged care. Industry Leaders Forum.

2021

• Your next role. Glenelg Probus Club.

2020

• Narrative, prototype, measure, share. Do Come Monday Event.

• What do the startups think modern elders want? Ageing 2.0 Adelaide Industry Event.

• The longevity start-ups. Ageing 2.0 Sydney Conference Series.

• The most stunning way you could contribute to the future of older Queenslanders. Lutheran Services (Qld) Staff Event.

2019

• I am not a consumer. Ageing Australia Annual Conference (for Global Centre for Modern Ageing).

• Elders developing mastery. Churchill Trust Board.

• Older people want to be productive, so what does this look like? GAP Productive Ageing Working Group.

• The top 15 practices for becoming a work-ready elder. COTA National Policy Conference.

• The purpose of longevity and how to house it. Planning Institute of Australia, South Australia, State Conference.

• The 10-point plan for better and cheaper aged care. Aventedge National Conference.

2018

• The new narrative forming in the hearts and minds of older people. Barossa Village Organisation workshop.

• The purpose of longevity and how to house it. Department for Infrastructure and Transport State Conference.

• Aged care services or longevity ecosystem? You decide. Uniting SA Organisation Event.

• There are more trends favouring modern eldering than you might think.  Global Centre for Modern Ageing workshop.

• Incentivising the mission in aged care. Aged Care Financing Authority workshop.

2017

• Are we building retirement villages for people who haven’t retired? Leaders Summit.

• The characteristics of an emerging elder life stage. Adelaide Rotary Club.

• Full lives for older people. Aged Care in Thailand Conference.

• Real quality in aged care. Aged Care in Thailand Conference.

• A start-up workshop on IT enabled products for modern Thai elders. Aged Care in Thailand Conference extension.