Program

Please note: Times are shown in Australian Central Daylight Time.

This program is subject to change.

 

Program Key:

Short Courses
Plenary Sessions
Symposium Sessions
Oral Presentations
Poster Presentations
Industry Sessions
Social Functions
Meetings

 


Wednesday, November 11, 2026


Thursday, November 12, 2026

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 2026 SLEEP DOWN UNDER RUN FOR SLEEP
Sponsored by Compumedics
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM Eli Lilly Industry Breakfast Symposium
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Official opening and International keynote presentations (plenary session)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Thursday Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM New Investigator Award (plenary session)
DENTAL (symposium session): Welcome to the dental stream
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Thursday Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM Sleep in Women Working Group Meeting
12:50 PM - 1:30 PM Poster Viewing Session - Thursday
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM SLEEP & AGEING (symposium session): Sleep and biomarkers of healthy aging: from EEG signatures to blood-based neurodegeneration markers SLEEP AND BREATHING (poster discussion session): How do I manage OSA? Monitoring and drug treatments SLEEP HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR (oral session): Sleep and health, and sleep and knowledge – what can we learn? PAEDIATRICS (oral session): Paediatric sleep; New insights, New approaches OTHER CLINICAL SLEEP DISORDERS (oral session): Tired and sleepy, or waking frequently CLINICAL AND DENTAL (symposium session): Latest in oral appliance therapy evidence, innovation and integration into modern sleep medicine
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM New Members and First Timers Welcome Afternoon Tea
Thursday Afternoon Tea
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM CLINICAL (symposium session): Advancing detection of REM sleep behaviour disorder as an early symptom of neurodegeneration: from polysomnography scoring to novel biomarkers PAEDIATRICS (symposium session): The future of paediatric sleep medicine - where to next? SLEEP HEALTH (symposium session): The role of sleep in non-communicable disease prevention SLEEP AND BREATHING (poster discussion session): Sleep, the heart and muscles MEASUREMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND AI (poster discussion session): Agreement and optimisation DENTAL (symposium session): Sleep bruxism, orofacial pain and oral appliance therapy: controversies and clinical relevance
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM BMC Industry Evening Symposium
ASA Annual General Meeting
ACCP Annual General Meeting




Track 2
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 2026 SLEEP DOWN UNDER RUN FOR SLEEP
Sponsored by Compumedics
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Official opening and International keynote presentations (plenary session)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Thursday Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM New Investigator Award (plenary session)
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Thursday Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
12:50 PM - 1:30 PM Poster Viewing Session - Thursday
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM SLEEP AND BREATHING (poster discussion session): How do I manage OSA? Monitoring and drug treatments
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM New Members and First Timers Welcome Afternoon Tea
Thursday Afternoon Tea
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM PAEDIATRICS (symposium session): The future of paediatric sleep medicine - where to next?
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
ASA Annual General Meeting


Track 4
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM 2026 SLEEP DOWN UNDER RUN FOR SLEEP
Sponsored by Compumedics
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Official opening and International keynote presentations (plenary session)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Thursday Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM New Investigator Award (plenary session)
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Thursday Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
12:50 PM - 1:30 PM Poster Viewing Session - Thursday
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM PAEDIATRICS (oral session): Paediatric sleep; New insights, New approaches
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM New Members and First Timers Welcome Afternoon Tea
Thursday Afternoon Tea
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM SLEEP AND BREATHING (poster discussion session): Sleep, the heart and muscles
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM




Friday, November 13, 2026

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM Phillips Industry Breakfast Symposium Resmed Industry Breakfast Symposium
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Helen Bearpark Memorial Lecture - Artificial Intelligence in sleep medicine: evidence from Sleep Revolution and implications for practice (plenary session)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Friday Morning Tea
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM NEUROSCIENCE (symposium session): When fear has no bedtime: REM sleep, threat memory and PTSD FIRST NATIONS (symposium session): From community engagement to implementation: co-designed models for obstructive sleep apnoea care in First Nations communities SLEEP AND BREATHING (symposium session): Sleep science masterclass: from mixed signals to mastery CLINICAL (symposium session): Clinical Year In Review PAEDIATRICS (symposium session): Paediatric Year In Review DENTAL (symposium session): Surgical pathways in OSA: What dentists need to know
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Friday Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM SLEEP AND BREATHING / DENTAL / CLINICAL (symposium session): Sam Robinson Memorial Lecture: How do we pick up the pieces when CPAP fails? INSOMNIA AND PHYSIOLOGY COMBINED (poster discussion session): Solving the problems of sleep and wake in different populations PHYSIOLOGY AND CHRONOBIOLOGY (oral session): Arousing interest in sleep, circadian timing, performance, and shiftwork INSOMNIA (oral session): Digital CBT-I and primary care delivery MEASUREMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND AI (symposium session): PSG Mentimeter session - "Drawing the fact from artefact"
Dental stream will be attending the Sam Robinson Memorial Lecture
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Friday Afternoon Tea
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM PAEDIATRICS (symposium session): From bench to bedside: advances in child sleep and development ADVANCED TRAINEES (poster discussion session) SLEEP HEALTH (symposium session): What matters most to patients: importance of co-designing and conducting research with people from lived experience and examples from sleep health research MEASUREMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND AI (oral session): Advanced analytic methods SLEEP HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR (poster discussion session): Circadian dynamics and human performance DENTAL: sponsor networking and rapid fire presentations in the exhibition hall
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
ANZSSA Annual General Meeting
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Compumedics Industry Evening Symposium








Track 6
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Helen Bearpark Memorial Lecture - Artificial Intelligence in sleep medicine: evidence from Sleep Revolution and implications for practice (plenary session)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Friday Morning Tea
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM DENTAL (symposium session): Surgical pathways in OSA: What dentists need to know
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Friday Lunch
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Dental stream will be attending the Sam Robinson Memorial Lecture
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Friday Afternoon Tea
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM DENTAL: sponsor networking and rapid fire presentations in the exhibition hall
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM


Saturday, November 14, 2026

Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM DENTAL (symposium session): Evidence to chairside: Optimising Oral Appliance Therapy outcomes
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Sleep in hospital and aged care - the elephant in the room (plenary session)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Saturday Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CLINICAL (symposium session): Australasian Sleep Association position statement on the treatment of restless legs syndrome NEUROSCIENCE (symposium session): Year in review - Basic sleep science and technology SLEEP HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR (oral session): Shiftwork, environment and occupational safety SLEEP AND BREATHING (oral session): Obesity, mood and OSA in diverse populations INSOMNIA (symposium session): Expanding the Insomnia Toolkit: Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Insomnia (MBTI) DENTAL (symposium session): Paediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: differences from adults and evolving multidisciplinary treatment pathways
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Saturday Lunch
12:50 PM - 1:30 PM Poster Viewing Session - Saturday
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM SLEEP AND BREATHING (symposium session): Obstructive sleep apnoea management in Australian primary care: exploring diversity, new treatments and different models of care SLEEP HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR (oral session): Socio-behavioural drivers of sleep health PAEDIATRICS (poster discussion session): Novel perspectives in paediatric sleep assessment SLEEP HEALTH AND BEHAVIOUR (poster discussion session): Community interventions and healthcare support SLEEP AND BREATHING (oral session): Investigation, treatment and outcomes of sleep and sleep and breathing disorders DENTAL (symposium session): Rethinking sleep assessment: Diagnostics, women's health and COMISA
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Saturday Afternoon Tea
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM SLEEP HEALTH / CLINICAL (symposium session): Eating disorders in OSA and hypersomnolence: under the radar yet impacting health outcomes PAEDIATRICS (symposium session): Expanding OSA care in children: evidence-based alternatives/adjuncts to CPAP and adenotonsillectomy SLEEP SCIENCE (symposium session): The Sleep Health Foundation's Annual Sleep Science Communication Award SLEEP AND BREATHING (symposium session): Beyond efficacy: assessing patient centred outcomes and Mean Disease Alleviation (MDA) SLEEP AND BREATHING (symposium session): Digital biomarkers in sleep medicine and cardiology: CPAP - derived Cheyne-Stokes respiration as a medium for heart failure surveillance
Dental stream will be attending Sleep & Breathing or Paediatric symposium
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Gala Dinner








Track 6
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM DENTAL (symposium session): Evidence to chairside: Optimising Oral Appliance Therapy outcomes
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Sleep in hospital and aged care - the elephant in the room (plenary session)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Saturday Morning Tea
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM DENTAL (symposium session): Paediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: differences from adults and evolving multidisciplinary treatment pathways
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Saturday Lunch
12:50 PM - 1:30 PM Poster Viewing Session - Saturday
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM DENTAL (symposium session): Rethinking sleep assessment: Diagnostics, women's health and COMISA
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Saturday Afternoon Tea
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM
Dental stream will be attending Sleep & Breathing or Paediatric symposium
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Gala Dinner


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