A/Prof Sarah Glastras is a clinician researcher who is the Head of Department, and Senior Staff Specialist in Endocrinology at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and is an academic Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She also consults at the Northern Sydney Endocrine Clinic. She undertakes basic science research in the area of type 1 diabetes and weight loss, and she is a principal researcher in a major NHMRC funded population-based project in gestational diabetes and pregnancy outcomes. She runs many clinical studies in the areas of diabetes, obesity, and hypertriglyceridaema, including type 1 diabetes prevention.

Dr Elizabeth Holmes-Truscott (PhD, health psychology) is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes (a partnership for better health between Diabetes Victoria and Deakin University). Elizabeth leads a varied program of applied research examining psychosocial aspects of diabetes. Her work currently focuses on: a) understanding and addressing diabetes stigma; b) understanding and reducing barriers to optimal health and self-care behaviours , and; c) the promotion of person-reported outcome assessment tools alongside biomedical markers. Elizabeth is Behavioural Platform lead for the Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI; 2022-2025), co-lead of the international consensus on ending diabetes stigma and discrimination, and coordinates the Diabetes MILES – Australia collaborative. Elizabeth is a journal editor for 'Diabetic Medicine', and an advisory member to The Obesity Collective stigma expert group as well as The diaTribe Foundation (US) dStigmatize Research Group.

David O'Neal is a clinician researcher who leads a research team (The Diabetes Technology Research Group) based at St Vincent's Hospital in the University of Melbourne Dept of Medicine and at the Baker Institute. He is Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations. His research interests include the use of technology to optimise metabolic control in people living with diabetes.

Professor Elif Ekinci MBBS FRACP PhD Head, Department of Medicine, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Director, Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI), Director, Centre for Research and Education in Diabetes and Obesity (CREDO), Head, Diabetes Research at Austin Health Sir Edward Weary Dunlop Professorial Fellow in Metabolic Medicine and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow at the University of Melbourne.