A/Prof Sybil McAuley is a Melbourne-based endocrinologist and clinical researcher specialising in type 1 diabetes. Her research interests include diabetes therapeutic technology, healthy longevity, exercise, driving, sleep, and psychosocial wellbeing. Sybil leads the multidisciplinary Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Service at The Alfred, and holds a co-located Monash University Associate Professorship.

Professor Josephine Forbes from Mater Research-UQ in Queensland, is the current President of the Australian Diabetes Society advocating and supporting better and more equitable health care and research funding for people with diabetes. Her translational research extends from bench to bedside for novel therapies to prevent type 1 diabetes and kidney disease in vulnerable groups including youth and those who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. These studies are in partnership with Health care entities such as Mater Health and Qld Children’s Hospital, Diabetes Across the Lifecourse Partnership and global industry/biotechnology companies. Josephine is part of the leadership group of the Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovation (ACADI) and co-lead of their kidney disease program. She an editor board member for Kidney International and Diabetologia. She is also continually in the top 2% of scientists globally as published annually by Stanford University, has an H index of 67. She has received numerous prizes for her research including the Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research in Australia.

Distinguished Professor David Simmons is Chief Medical Officer for Diabetes Australia, Professor of Medicine at Western Sydney University, District Advisor on Diabetes for the South Western Sydney Local Health District and previous Director of the Macarthur Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism Service in Sydney, Australia. Before returning to Australia in 2014, Professor Simmons was the Clinical lead for the Diabetes service at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge UK. With over 500 refereed publications, he has won several national and international awards for his work in diabetes epidemiology, diabetes in pregnancy and diabetes service development including the American Diabetes Association 2020 Norbert Freinkel Award, 2022 Diabetes in Pregnancy Study Group Pederson Award and 2025 International Diabetes Epidemiology Group Peter Bennett Award. He is the immediate past president of the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS). He is the Chief Investigator for APHLID, an RCT of a mental health/diabetes app in young adults with type 1 diabetes, the TOBOGM study the first large RCT of diagnosing and treating early gestational diabetes mellitus and Australian Chief Investigator for the CIRCUIT RCT of closed loop in pregnancies complicated by Type 1 diabetes and the CORDELIA RCT of CGM in GDM. He remains a practising endocrinologist holding weekly diabetes in pregnancy clinics.