• Outline the Academy’s commitment to leadership excellence and digital readiness.

• Reflect on South Africa’s progress and future priorities for nursing education.

• Extend an invitation to build a collective regional roadmap.

• Explore the transformative power of AI for clinical practice and decision support.

• Address the balance between automation and compassionate care.

• Share case studies on integrating AI tools into nursing curricula.

• Demonstrate how VR/AR tools enrich experiential learning in nursing education.

• Discuss practical applications for building empathy and cultural competence.

• Highlight implementation challenges and strategies for success.

• Define core informatics skills every modern nurse should develop.

• Link informatics to safer, evidence-based, patient-centred care.

• Identify opportunities for building informatics training into leadership pathways.

• Debate real-world AI applications for nursing education and practice.
• Explore ways to ensure culturally relevant, equitable adoption of technologies.
• Identify leadership and policy actions to develop future-ready nurse educators.

Panellists:

• Prof Jennifer Chipps, Chair Digital Health, University of the Western Cape

• Dr Sharon Vasuthevan, Healthcare Consultant, Sunrise Healthcare Solution

• Ms Loretta Le Roux, Lecturer, University of the Western Cape

• Mary Ann Nabbie, Group Director Nursing, Netcare Healthcare Limited

• SANC Representative

• Recap key insights and commitments from the forum.

• Call for continued collaboration through the Academy of Nursing of South Africa.

• Inspire attendees to lead the next wave of nursing transformation.