10am – 4pm both days13th - 14th March, 2026Brisbane Convention and Exhibition CenterBrisbane Disability Connection Expo 2026

Don’t miss the biggest Disability and NDIS event Australia has ever seen!

Navigating the NDIS and finding service providers can be daunting and ongoing for participants, carers, family members, and guardians alike. Discover hundreds of service provider options all in one place, where you can take your time to explore, connect with different options, and receive support and answers to your questions. Visit our free ‘NDIS Information Hub’, staffed by a variety of seasoned experts who are ready to assist you.

For the adventurers among us, get ready for even more fun at the expo with our exciting new Treasure Hunt and epic prize giveaways! As you explore the venue, keep an eye out for hidden codewords that could land you some awesome prizes. It’s the perfect way to engage with providers, discover new services, and add a little adventure to your day. Let the hunt begin!

Settle in for the day and explore our various entertainment zones, operating throughout the day. Grab a meal, and if you need a break or want to engage in something different, enjoy activities like the jumping castle, hair braiding, face painting, balloon artistry, or take photos with cosplayers.

All visitors get a free magazine to help them find some of the best service provider options on offer.

As an added bonus, the first 50 people through the doors each day will receive a complimentary coffee or hot beverage on us! Be sure to arrive early, treat yourself to something delicious, and settle in for the day ahead.

It’s not just about booths and pamphlets—it’s a two-day experience at the largest disability and NDIS-related event ever, and best of all, it’s completely FREE!

With nearly three decades of experience in the disability sector, we understand the complexities and challenges involved in navigating supports, planning, and finding suitable options. Even after funding approval and access, navigating through the complexities of who, what, when, and how can be overwhelming: Where do I start? Who can provide the right support? How do I ensure trustworthiness? And how can I find someone I truly connect with?

Discover solutions and forge meaningful connections at the Brisbane Disability Connection Expo 2026, hosted at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on the 13th – 14th of March. Join NDIS participants, families, children, adults, and those exploring disability service options as we unite with service providers and the wider community.

Register now to secure your spot!

Don’t miss the biggest disability and NDIS event Australia has ever seen!

Why is this a must-attend expo?

Get answers to your NDIS questions
Many NDIS Participants, Carers and Family members have questions about their funding, how it works and who to work with.Visit our huge NDIS Information Hub staffed by a team of seasoned experts waiting to answer all of your burning questions. We also have a free expo magazine to help you find some of the best service provider options.

Clarity on your NDIS Funding Plan
Connect with informed and experienced Providers that can give you certainty so that you’re informed, educated and you can make the best decisions for your situation.

Have some fun!
We’ve designed the expo to include loads of entertainment (face painters, balloon artists, hair braiders and more), hourly performances and lots of chill out areas so you can enjoy your time, not just access information.

Increased ability to stand out

With tens of thousands of registered and unregistered providers across the country, participants are seeking to meet with people and build relationships with quality organisations and make those connections in easier ways. Choice and control involves navigating a list of thousands of providers. Expos narrow that search down to hundreds and featured sponsors help narrow that down further. Let’s make it easy for people to find you!

Connect with more Participants

From our huge Magazine free to thousands of people walking through the doors, NDIS Information Hub, to our 1:1 meeting rooms and our online booking system, our expos have been optimised to increase connection and conversations between providers and participants. Pre and post expo visitors can find service providers involved and follow up. Our expo magazine is published online also pre and post expo so that those that need to find the right service providers can.

Increased exposure

Attending as an exhibitor allows you to leverage our PR and Social Media campaigns, which reach over 1.5 million people every month. Our direct National and State press releases throughout the year provide massive exposure for those involved. We always have opportunities to deliver joint press releases with sponsors all year long on hot topics and sector reform to more than 4000 radio, TV, press galleries and journalist contacts nationally. We do a media call at the begin of all events also to attract local TV and journalists to help raise important issues and open with a bang!

Quality time with Participants

Our expos are designed to encourage people to stay longer. From balloon artists, face painters, jumping castles and hair braiders, combined with a spacious floor plan layout, the main feedback we receive from exhibitors is that people are less rushed and they spend more quality time with them. With 10 000 square meters of space, seating, food and entertainment it is a community event people spend time at and often come both days. We don’t do stalls and pamphlets alone.

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EXHIBITORS

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SOCIAL REACH

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MEDIA REACH

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Products and services you’ll find at the expos

  • Accommodation / Tenancy Assistance
  • Assistance Animals
  • Assistance in Coordinating or Managing Life Stages, Transitions And Supports
  • Assistance to Access and Maintain Employment or Higher Education
  • Assistance with Daily Life Tasks in a Group or Shared Living Arrangement
  • Assistance with Travel/Transport Arrangements
  • Assistive Equipment for Recreation
  • Assistive Products for Household Tasks
  • Assistive Products for Personal Care and Safety
  • Assistive Technology and Equipment Registration Groups
  • Communication and Information Equipment
  • Community Nursing Care
  • Customised Prosthetics
  • Daily Personal Activities
  • Development of Daily Living and Life Skills
  • Early Intervention Supports for Early Childhood
  • Exercise Physiology and Personal Training
  • Group and Centre Based Activities
  • Hearing Equipment
  • Hearing Services
  • High Intensity Daily Personal Activities
  • Home and Vehicle Modification registration Groups
  • Home Modifications
  • Household Tasks
  • Innovative Community Participation
  • Interpreting and Translation
  • Management of Funding for Supports in Participants’ Plans
  • Participation in Community, Social and Civic Activities
  • Personal Mobility Equipment
  • Professional Registration Groups
  • Specialised Disability Accommodation
  • Specialised Driver Training
  • Specialised Hearing Services
  • Specialised Support Coordination
  • Specialised Supported Employment
  • Specialist Positive Behaviour Support
  • Therapeutic Supports
  • Vehicle Modifications
  • Vision Equipment

Confirmed Service Providers

  • A Better Life Home Care Services
  • AAA Advance Quality Care
  • Ability Action Australia
  • Access Lifecare
  • Achieve Disability Supports
  • Adapt Housing
  • Adaptable Support Services
  • Adaptive Equipment
  • AEIOU Foundation
  • Air Liquide Healthcare
  • Allinto Australia
  • Alvie – Where Friends Are Made
  • Amity Support Services
  • Amplify – Accessible Travel Specialists
  • Anotida Healthcare
  • APM Employment Services
  • Apollo SDA
  • Arafmi
  • Ardent Disability Care
  • ARMIA Healing the Incurables
  • AS4P CARE
  • ASAP Solutions
  • ASDA Provider Group
  • Aussie Angels Nursing & Disability Services
  • Auto Extras – Driving Mobility
  • B With Tourette’s
  • Be Positive Therapy
  • Beachwheels Australia
  • Beacon Support
  • Beneficence Care Support Services (BCSS)
  • Better Rehab
  • Beyond Choice
  • Breakthru
  • Brighter Living Australia
  • Brisbane Footwear Services
  • Capacity Builders
  • Care Agency Services
  • Care To Care
  • Carer Gateway Wellways
  • Carers Plus
  • Centacare
  • Choices & Rights
  • CLARO
  • Clear Stratus
  • ClearSky Allied Health
  • Clickability
  • Cloud 9 Youth & Supports
  • ClubMates Travel
  • Co.As.It.Community Services
  • Complete Care Disability Service
  • Complete Care Nursing & Home Care Queensland
  • Complete Healthcare Connect
  • Connect Coordination Qld
  • Connect2Group Inc
  • Country Care Group
  • Cross River Rail Delivery Authority
  • Cure Care Australia
  • DASH GROUP
  • Department of Social Services
  • DependableCare DRPS
  • Disability Gateway
  • Disability Support Guide
  • Diversey Care Allied Health
  • Diversity Community Services
  • Early Star Partners Advisory + Accounting
  • Eden Care
  • Embrace Care
  • Empathy Community Services
  • Empowered Therapy and Training
  • Endeavour Foundation
  • etrainu
  • Everhomes
  • Exercise Healthcare Australia
  • eZaango Care Partners
  • Fabic Behaviour Specialist Centre
  • Fit Your Ability
  • Funphix
  • Get Picked Up
  • Get Readii Group
  • Girardi Labour Hire
  • GNA Services
  • Goals Psychology
  • Grafox
  • Guardian Safety Pendants
  • Gundarang Support
  • Haven Care Australia
  • Health n Home
  • Health Next Door
  • Healthcare Consulting
  • Heart-led Support
  • HECSA
  • Hiya Health
  • Holistic Horizons Support Services
  • Hospequip
  • Hydrotherapy Brisbane
  • HYPAR
  • IDEAL Plan Management
  • Institute for Urban Indigenous Health
  • Interact Australia
  • Ipswich Holistic Community Care
  • Joya Medical Supplies
  • JPS Disability Support
  • Just SDA Management
  • Kangaroo Care
  • Kite Mobility Vehicles
  • Kitty & Raffy
  • KS Life Care
  • Kuremara Care
  • Leading Humanity Care
  • LIFETEC Australia
  • Lightmare Studios
  • Lite n’ Easy
  • Livability Care Australia
  • Living Communities
  • Magnum Support Services
  • Maverick Care Collective
  • McArthur
  • Megalines Insurance & Risk Advisers
  • Me Plus More
  • Metanoia Rays
  • Metro South Health
  • Mighty Care Services
  • Mob Management
  • Mobile Attendant Care Services
  • Mothers Who Care
  • Motion Health Rehab
  • Multicap
  • Music Beat Therapy Services
  • My Choice Disability Support
  • My Health Team
  • My Plan Manager
  • National 360 – Allied Health
  • National Assistance Card
  • NIGHT N DAY
  • OCTEC
  • ONCALL Group Australia
  • Open Minds
  • Our Pixie Friends
  • Pathways Support Services
  • Pebble Community Support
  • People With Disability Australia PWDA
  • Performotion Rehab and Performance
  • Phil Terry Health Care QLD
  • PlanCare
  • Property Specialists Australia
  • Prydes Support
  • Queensland Rail
  • Queenslanders With Disability Network
  • Quick Response Carers
  • Quilly
  • Raise Your Spirit
  • Ramsay Health Care
  • Remarkable Care For All
  • Rise Allied Health
  • Rise Family Support
  • Royalty Healthcare
  • SCMB Disability Supports
  • Sensible Health
  • Services Australia
  • Sky High Healthcare
  • Skyring SDA
  • Sleep Electric
  • Sleepy’s
  • Soulmate Care Services
  • Specialist Support Solutions
  • Spinal Life Australia
  • Splash Blanket
  • St Jude’s Disability Services
  • Sunshine Coast Nurse
  • Sustainable Certification
  • Swara
  • TAG 5 LTD
  • The Disability Housing Centre
  • The ND Affirming Collective
  • The Therapy Collective
  • TLC First Support Services
  • Total Life Choice
  • Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia
  • Trevena Glen Farm
  • Unique StarShine
  • UnitingCare
  • Valens Health Group
  • Vertex Consulting and Compliance Group
  • Vision Australia
  • VisQue Planner Disability Services
  • Visual Care
  • Wesley Mission Queensland
  • Wheelchair Vehicle Sales and Rentals
  • Youngcare

“The expo is for us, because we love to connect with people and this is a better place: this is just a grand place where you can meet with a lot of people, you can make a lot of connections and it’s a very big shout out for our company when we get to show what exactly we are providing and what we are offering.”

“The expo is definitely very good exposure and a very good environment: Open space, meeting different participants. There are heaps of participants asking how to apply for NDIS and also asking what services we can provide. So, we got to help the participants.”

“The expo is beautiful! Lots of people are coming who are desperate (for NDIS solutions). Now I can understand that Brisbane needs lots of services. We’ll be here soon – our office will be here (in Brisbane) soon.”

“It feels like there’s so much more, so many more providers here this year, and it’s really good to see so many different providers providing all sorts of different supports. It’s been amazing, great! Well done guys. Love it.”

“We really, really love this particular expo. There’s something that you guys do that’s really special. I think that whole developing of community just shines through and that’s the most important thing for us: We’re about community all the time, about making sure that our young people are connecting in community and supported and so, we can feel that in this kind of space and we love being a part of it, so, we are really grateful to be here.”

“It’s been a great experience for us because this is the first year participating in this. We tried last year, but we just were too late. So, we’re looking forward to more years, actually!”

“It’s been so busy we have been struggling to keep up, honestly. The great thing about this expo is that we have everything under one roof here. People can come and just explore all different aspects of services, specialised goods etc, so, it’s just great for the people coming to the expo. So, it’s just great for the people coming to the expo. We will definitely be back as a major sponsor next year.”

“It’s been such an amazing turnout. I’ve been so amazed even just by the mood of everybody here. Everyone is so welcoming and so excited about the different options here available. All the exhibitors have been so friendly. It’s been just a wonderful experience so far.”

“Oh, it’s amazing. It’s so refreshing to see a consistent stream of people coming through… every one I’ve attended it’s just getting bigger and better as we go. So well done. Great job. And we love being here. It’s been very busy and you know we just love seeing familiar faces and helping people get the support though they need, or at least give them information to get the support they need.”

“It’s been awesome, we’ve met so many great people, and a lot of participants have come up to say hello. We’ve actually found a lot of people coming over just to ask generalised questions. Sometimes they’re just not quite sure on who to actually talk to, so they’ve come, taken a seat and we’ve just been having a bit of a chat about what supported independent living actually is, and what short term accommodation is as well, because some people are not quite sure what the difference is. It’s been great really talking to the participants and their guardians as well around that.”

We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we gather for our event and pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. We extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that attend any of our events.

Creating A Voice for the Disability Sector

ENHANCING AUSTRALIA’S DISABILITY SERVICES ONE STEP AND EVENT AT A TIME – At Developing Australian Communities, we believe that working closely with Service Providers, Carers and Participants through our events will ensure that the much-needed change in our sector will be provided for the betterment of the services in our sector. Learn more about us and our dreams for our community.

1300 910 503 / events@developingauscommunities.com.au / PO Box 4026 Forest Lake QLD 4078