Returning optics to the heart of clinical practice.

Clinical care does not end at the prescription.

CLEAR 2026 addresses the gap between clinical decision making and optical implementation. The conference brings together clinical optometry, optical dispensing, lens design, measurement, and practice systems.

The programme is built around practical insight. 

What do experienced clinicians, dispensers, educators, and industry specialists know, apply, and want to pass on to their colleagues.

Two days of applied clinical optics.

Programme details remain subject to confirmation as speakers and session titles are finalised. CPD hours will apply for Australian, New Zealand and UK optometrists, as well as New Zealand and UK dispensing opticians.

Speakers 

Dr Grant Hannaford (ophthalmic physicist & researcher)

Dr Thao Hannaford (optometrist)

Dr Nayuta Yoshioka (Senior Lecturer UNSW)

Dr Peter Wagner (Research Associate UNSW)

Dr Peter Nixon (optometrist)

Dr Vinita Nand (optometrist)

Felicia Le (vision scientist)

8.45am Welcome

9.00am Progressive lens design- Dr Grant Hannaford

9.45am Pitfalls of prescribing degressives and anti-fatigue lenses in early presbyopes-Dr Thao Hannaford (optometrist)

10.15am MORNING TEA

10.45am Myopia control and optical strategy (EssilorLuxottica sponsored lecture)

11.30am Clinical measurements and practice systems-Dr Thao Hannaford (optometrist)

12.00pm PANEL 1: Optimising lenses in practice

12.30pm LUNCH

1.30pm Concussion and visual implications-Dr Peter Nixon (optometrist)

2.30pm Facial measurements & digital tools-Dr Grant Hannaford

3.00pm AFTERNOON TEA

3.30pm Challenging the traditional optometry practice-Dr Thao Hannaford (optometrist)

4.00pm PANEL 2: Clinical versus retail optometry 

4.30pm Close

8.45am Welcome 

9.00am Practice management: managing lens warranties

9.45am Photochromic and tint technologies-Felicia Le (Rodenstock sponsored lecture)

10.15am MORNING TEA

10.45am Prism as a field effect- Dr Grant Hannaford

11.30am Therapeutic tints: Enhancing everyday vision-Dr Vinita Nand (optometrist)

12.00pm PANEL 1: Optimising clinical outcomes in practice

12.30pm LUNCH

1.30pm Augmented and virtual reality: computer vision syndrome - Dr Peter Wagner

2.15pm Incorporating AI in the development of ophthalmic tools -Dr Nayuta Yoshioka

3.00pm AFTERNOON TEA

3.30pm PANEL 2: AI in ophthalmic optics

4.00pm Special announcement 

4.30pm Close