Jeramy Hope joins the conversation at the 2026 DSC Annual NDIS Conference
InLife Board member Jeramy Hope is heading to Brisbane for the 2026 DSC Annual NDIS Conference, joining a panel on leadership, reform and keeping lived experience at the centre of change.
There’s plenty happening across the NDIS right now, and plenty to talk about.
This week, InLife Director Jeramy Hope will be in Brisbane for the 2026 DSC Annual NDIS Conference, joining a panel discussion about leading through change and keeping lived experience at the centre of reform.
The annual conference brings together people with disability, advocates, providers, policymakers and other voices from across the sector to explore what’s happening in the NDIS and where things might be heading next. This year’s conference will be held in Brisbane and online on 13 and 14 August.
Meet Jeramy
Jeramy has worked across the disability, housing and not-for-profit sectors for more than 25 years, with experience spanning advocacy, governance, policy reform and organisational leadership.
Alongside his role on InLife’s Board, Jeramy is CEO of the Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) Alliance and a member of the NDIS Reform Advisory Committee. His work is also informed by his own lived experience of disability.
It gives Jeramy an interesting vantage point on the changes now happening across the NDIS: looking at reform through the lenses of lived experience, housing, service delivery, governance and the long-term sustainability of the scheme.
And there’s one idea he keeps coming back to.
“The greatest risk in NDIS reform is not change. It’s forgetting who the change is for.”
For Jeramy, that means looking beyond whether a new policy, process or program has been implemented and asking what it means in someone’s everyday life: their choice, control, independence and the quality and reliability of their supports.
Leading through change
Jeramy’s DSC panel will explore leadership through a period of significant change across the disability sector, including how confidence can be built while lived experience remains central to reform.
It’s a conversation that feels particularly relevant right now.
There will be different perspectives on what good reform looks like and how we get there. Having people with disability meaningfully involved in those conversations is an important part of working through that complexity.
We’re looking forward to hearing where the discussion goes and sharing some of Jeramy’s reflections after the conference.
The 2026 DSC Annual NDIS Conference is being held in Brisbane and online on 13 and 14 August 2026.
