The meeting will comprise a comprehensive program reflecting the conference theme and embracing the multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies that are used to facilitate the understanding of the mind and mental health conditions. The conference program includes international and national keynote and plenary speakers and will involve researchers, clinicians, consumers, carers and policy makers. The conference format includes streamed presentations, covering a range of topics in the biological, clinical, epidemiological, psychological, and translational sciences reflecting the broad focus of the conference that encompasses basic science and clinical research and translation of research outcomes into mental health policy and practice. If you are a student, an early or mid career or senior researcher, a clinician, a consumer or carer, or a policy maker, we strongly encourage you to submit an abstract to the conference so that you can share your work with this community.