Programme Day 3

2 August 2026 - Main Congress (Day 3)

Time	Session

08:00 08:45	Meet the Expert 4: Preventing Non Ventilated HAP - What Works and What Doesn't	Meet the Expert 5: Penicillin Allergy Delabeling: A Hidden IPC Strategy for Safer, Smarter Antibiotic Use		SHEA : Panelist Dicussion Regarding Disinfection and Sterilisation
08:45 09:15	Plenary Lecture 4: Real World Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship
09:15 09:30	Award Presentation CSSD Centre of Excellence Award and APSIC ICN Award
10:00 10:30	Plenary lecture 5: Biofilm Driven GNB infections: Strengthening Water Safety Programmes
10:30 11:00	Morning Tea Break & Poster Viewing
11:00 12:15	Symposium 9a: Strategies for Surgical Site Infection Prevention Implementing IPC- Centered SSI Prevention Programs: Local Approaches That Work Decolonisation and Gut Decontamination Using Bacteriophages Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Surgery: IPC Implications in the Age of Resistance Q&A	Symposium 9b: Oral Abstract Presentations		Symposium 9c: ADVANCE-ID Symposium From Surveillance to Stewardship: Harnessing ACORN-HAI for Regional Infection Control Impact Trials That Matter: Designing Pragmatic Studies for Drug-Resistant Infections in LMIC Settings Strengthening IPC with Genomics: Lessons from Regional AMR Surveillance Q&A
12:15 12:45	Plenary Lecture 6: Enhancing Compliance with Infection Control Protocols: Evidence from latest literature
12:45 13:45	Lunch Symposium		Lunch and Poster Viewing
13:45 15:00	Symposium 10a: Preventing Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Strategies to Prevent CAUTI in the MDR era Diagnostic Stewardship in CAUTI: Is It Really CAUTI? Using A Multimodal Approach to Improve Practice Q&A	Symposium 10b: Behaviour Modification in IPC Promoting a Safety Culture in Healthcare Settings Personalising Patient Management and IPC Establishing Effective Communication in MDRO Q&A		Symposium 10c: Emerging Fungal Infections Candida Auris : An Emerging IPC threat Management of Outbreaks of Fungal Infection in Hospitals Q&A
15:00 16:15	Symposium 11a: Cutting Edge Topics in IPC Reimagining Dental infection prevention in a post Pandemic World Next-Generation Infection Surveillance: AI, Big Data, and Beyond Leveraging Technology and Leadership to Advance Patient Safety and Engage IP Workforce Q&A	Symposium 11b: Prevention of Respiratory Diseases Healthcare Associated TB: Protecting Healthcare Workers Ventilator Associated Events: the Surveillance and Progress for Prevention Room Ventilation in Managing Patients with Transmissable Respiratory Pathogens Q&A		Symposium 11c: Point Prevalent Surveys National Point Prevalence Surveys - Challenges and Uses WHO's Guideline Update on HAI Surveillance - They Why's and Hows PPS Surveillance in Australia: Aligning PPS with National IPC and AMS Goals Q&A
16:15 17:00	Closing and Prize-Giving Ceremony

This is a tentative programme and subject to change. Last updated on 22 January 2025.