Tuesday, August 18, 2026


Breakout Zone
Melbourne Room
7:15 AM - 5:00 PM ADATS 2026
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Diabetes Community Day: Creative Breakout Space
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:05 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Opening Ceremony


Community Exhibition Spotlight Stage
7:15 AM - 5:00 PM
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Diabetes Community Day: Special Guest Meet & Greet
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Diabetes Community Day: Children with Diabetes Journey Awards
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM Diabetes Community Day: Awareness & Advocacy Through Creative Expression
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Diabetes Community Day: Advocacy in Action - Driving Change
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:05 PM Diabetes Community Day: Advocating for Equitable Access to Diabetes Tech
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM Diabetes Community Day: Diabetes & Physical Activity
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Opening Ceremony

Breakout Zone
7:15 AM - 5:00 PM
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Diabetes Community Day: Creative Breakout Space
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:05 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Opening Ceremony

Melbourne Room
7:15 AM - 5:00 PM ADATS 2026
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:05 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Opening Ceremony


Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Plenary Room 2
Plenary Room 1
Eureka Room
Meeting Room 105 & 106
Meeting Room 109 & 110
Meeting Room 101 & 102
Meeting Room 111 & 112
Meeting Room 103
Meeting Room 104
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Insulet Sponsored Breakfast Symposia - Disrupting Diabetes Care: From challenging cases to Real-World Outcomes Abbott Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 109- Dual Glucose Ketone Sensing: Driving the Diabetes Revolution
Novo Nordisk Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 110 - Precision in Complexity: Advanced Diabetes cases
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Stream 3 Session #1: Adipocytes and Diabetes The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific Symposium Stream 6 Session #1: Young Onset Diabetes Stream 2: ADEA Abbott Case Study Competition Stream 2 Session #2: Oral Prize Session 1 - Technology, Digital Innovation and Data-Driven Quality Improvement Stream 1 Session #1: Communication Matters - the reframing of the diabetes story Stream 6 Session #2: Free communications- Type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes Stream 5 Session #1: Free communications - Diabetes complications- insights from clinical trials, cohort studies and national audits Quality in Diabetes Care (QIDC) Symposium
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Global Village Spotlight Session #1
Morning Tea: Day 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Stream 6 Session #3: Diabetes Clinical Trials Update Stream 2 Session #3: Reimagining Obesity Care Across the Lifespan: Education, Prevention, and Management Stream 2 Session #4: Advancing NCD Prevention and Equity: Global Frameworks, National Leadership, and Workplace Rights Stream 3 Session #2: Mitochondrial Metabolism Stream 4 Session #1: Type 1 diabetes: Current challenges Stream 5 Session #2: Symposium - Advances in diabetes-related eye disease Stream 6 Session #4: Free communications- Pathophysiology of metabolic disease Stream 1 Session #2: Growing up - and up! Diabetes in middle age and beyond Diabetes Australia Research Investment & Impact Update
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch: Day 1
12:50 PM - 1:35 PM Embecta Lunch Hub: Lipohypertrophy: An important aspect of insulin injection therapy
Roche Lunch Hub: Transforming Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Diabetes: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Wednesday Poster Viewing
Facilitated Poster Session #1: Stream 6 - Type 1 diabetes Facilitated Poster Session #2: Stream 5 - Clinical management and emerging complications ADS Ross Laybutt Discovery Science Poster Award ADS Clinical Poster Award Session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Stream 5 Session #3: Symposium- ADS-AAS Joint Symposium: Unmasking cardiovascular complications in people with diabetes Stream 1 Session #3: 'Difficult' Topics Stream 2 Session #5: Redefining Outcomes in Diabetes: Innovations in Care Models and Clinical Practice Stream 3 Stream #3: Beta Cells and Type 1 Diabetes Stream 6 Session #5: Precision Medicine in Diabetes Diabetes India Symposium Stream 2 Session #6: Oral Prize Session 2 - Workforce Development, Education and Self-Management Capability Stream 4 Session #2: Free communications- Gestational Diabetes and Obesity
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Tea: Day 1
Global Village Spotlight Session #2
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stream 2 Session #7: Transforming Diabetes Mental Health Care: Detection, Professional Upskilling, and Stepped‑Care Innovations Stream 6: ADS President's Young Investigator Award Stream 4 Session #3: Emerging Concepts in Diabetes Epidemiology Stream 3: ADS Pincus Taft Young Investigator Award Stream 5: Symposium- ADS/Diabetes Feet Australia: Diabetes-related Foot Disease- Improving outcomes for people with Diabetes-related foot disease IDF South East Asia Symposium Stream 2 Session #8: Oral Prize Session 3 - Equity, Access & Community-Centred Care Stream 6 Session #6: Free communications- Advances in type 1 diabetes
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Welcome Reception
6:10 PM - 7:15 PM Global Village Spotlight Session #3


Meeting Room 109 & 110
Meeting Room 101 & 102
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Abbott Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 109- Dual Glucose Ketone Sensing: Driving the Diabetes Revolution
Novo Nordisk Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 110 - Precision in Complexity: Advanced Diabetes cases
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Stream 2 Session #2: Oral Prize Session 1 - Technology, Digital Innovation and Data-Driven Quality Improvement Stream 1 Session #1: Communication Matters - the reframing of the diabetes story
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Global Village Spotlight Session #1
Morning Tea: Day 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Stream 4 Session #1: Type 1 diabetes: Current challenges Stream 5 Session #2: Symposium - Advances in diabetes-related eye disease
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch: Day 1
12:50 PM - 1:35 PM Embecta Lunch Hub: Lipohypertrophy: An important aspect of insulin injection therapy
Roche Lunch Hub: Transforming Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Diabetes: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Wednesday Poster Viewing
Facilitated Poster Session #1: Stream 6 - Type 1 diabetes
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Stream 6 Session #5: Precision Medicine in Diabetes Diabetes India Symposium
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Tea: Day 1
Global Village Spotlight Session #2
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stream 5: Symposium- ADS/Diabetes Feet Australia: Diabetes-related Foot Disease- Improving outcomes for people with Diabetes-related foot disease IDF South East Asia Symposium
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Welcome Reception
6:10 PM - 7:15 PM Global Village Spotlight Session #3

Meeting Room 111 & 112
Meeting Room 103
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Stream 6 Session #2: Free communications- Type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes Stream 5 Session #1: Free communications - Diabetes complications- insights from clinical trials, cohort studies and national audits
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Global Village Spotlight Session #1
Morning Tea: Day 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Stream 6 Session #4: Free communications- Pathophysiology of metabolic disease Stream 1 Session #2: Growing up - and up! Diabetes in middle age and beyond
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch: Day 1
12:50 PM - 1:35 PM Embecta Lunch Hub: Lipohypertrophy: An important aspect of insulin injection therapy
Roche Lunch Hub: Transforming Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in Diabetes: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Wednesday Poster Viewing
Facilitated Poster Session #2: Stream 5 - Clinical management and emerging complications ADS Ross Laybutt Discovery Science Poster Award
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Stream 2 Session #6: Oral Prize Session 2 - Workforce Development, Education and Self-Management Capability Stream 4 Session #2: Free communications- Gestational Diabetes and Obesity
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Tea: Day 1
Global Village Spotlight Session #2
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stream 2 Session #8: Oral Prize Session 3 - Equity, Access & Community-Centred Care Stream 6 Session #6: Free communications- Advances in type 1 diabetes
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Welcome Reception
6:10 PM - 7:15 PM Global Village Spotlight Session #3












Thursday, August 20, 2026

Plenary Room 2
Plenary 1
Eureka Room
Meeting Room 105 & 106
Meeting Room 109 & 110
Meeting Room 101 & 102
Meeting Room 111 & 112
Meeting Room 103
Meeting Room 104
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Sanofi Sponsored Breakfast Symposia - BR1DGE: From Autoimmunity to Action - Managing Early-stage Type 1 Diabetes Lilly Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 109 - Incretin mimetics, body composition and muscle function: The Tirzepatide and Resistance Exercise (TREx) Study
Novo Nordisk Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 110 - Stepping up obesity management: Personalising care in the era of next-generation therapies
7:30 AM - 8:20 AM ACADI: Translating Diabetes Research into Meaningful Outcomes
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM ADS Awards 2026 Showcase Stream 2 Session #9: Innovations in Diabetes Prevention and Care Across the Lifespan Stream 1 Session #4: Access and cost challenges - the reality of living with diabetes Stream 4 Session #4: Diabetes Complications: newly emerging and changing epidemiology Stream 2 Session #10: Hands-on Implementation Science: Bridging the Diabetes “Know-Do” Gap Stream 3 Session #4: Tissue crosstalk in metabolism Stream 2 Session #11: Oral Session 1 - Technology, Digital Health and Clinical Innovation Stream 2: Poster Session 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Global Village Spotlight Session #4
Morning Tea: Day 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Stream 3 Session #5: Lipids and Metabolism Stream 6 Session #7: Management of Obesity with Diabetes Stream 6 Session #8: Changing phenotypes and complications in T1D and T2D Stream 2 Session #13: Artificial Intelligence & Continuous Glucose Monitoring Therapy Stream 2 Session #14: Applying Co-design to Develop and Implement Patient-Centred Diabetes Education NZ and VIC Stream 4 Session #5: Free communications: Socioeconomic status, ethnicity and diabetes Stream 5 Session #5: Symposium - Emerging complications of diabetes Stream 1 Session #5: On the quest to end diabetes-related stigma
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch: Day 2
GMHA Impact House Melbourne
12:50 PM - 1:35 PM Ascensia Lunch Hub: Active safety pen needle considerations in clinical and aged care settings
Novo Nordisk Lunch Hub: Optimising MASLD care in the Diabetes Clinic: A Practical Approach
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Thursday Poster Viewing
ADS Annual General Meeting 2026
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ADEA Awards Session and ADEA Board & Member Forum Stream 4 Session #6: Diabetes Prevention Stream 1 Session #6: What people with diabetes are talking about today Stream 3 Session #6: Exercise and Metabolism Stream 6 Session #9: Breakthrough T1D presents the future of T1D treatment: disease-modifying and cell therapies Huaxia Regional Diabetes Symposium Stream 6 Session #10: Free communications- Inpatient and acute diabetes care Stream 5 Session #6: Free communications - Diabetes complications- Discovery Science
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Tea: Day 2
Global Village Spotlight Session #5
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stream 6 Session #11: Updates on Type 2 Diabetes Stream 5: Diabetes Complications: Innovations in Diabetes-Related Kidney Disease Stream 2 Session #15: Prevention to Practice: Reducing Needlestick Harm & Improving Insulin Safety Stream 3 Session #7: Metabolic Dysfunction and Complications Stream 2 Session #16: Culturally Responsive Diabetes Care Across Communities Korean and Australian Diabetes Societies Joint Symposium Stream 4 Session #7: Free communications: Risk factors and diabetes Stream 6 Session #12: Free communications- GLP1RA-related therapies, diabetes and MAFLD South Asia Diabetes Symposia by DASG & RSSDI
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM Congress Dinner


Meeting Room 109 & 110
Meeting Room 101 & 102
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Lilly Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 109 - Incretin mimetics, body composition and muscle function: The Tirzepatide and Resistance Exercise (TREx) Study
Novo Nordisk Sponsored Breakfast Symposia Room 110 - Stepping up obesity management: Personalising care in the era of next-generation therapies
7:30 AM - 8:20 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Stream 2 Session #10: Hands-on Implementation Science: Bridging the Diabetes “Know-Do” Gap Stream 3 Session #4: Tissue crosstalk in metabolism
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Global Village Spotlight Session #4
Morning Tea: Day 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Stream 2 Session #14: Applying Co-design to Develop and Implement Patient-Centred Diabetes Education NZ and VIC Stream 4 Session #5: Free communications: Socioeconomic status, ethnicity and diabetes
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch: Day 2
12:50 PM - 1:35 PM Ascensia Lunch Hub: Active safety pen needle considerations in clinical and aged care settings
Novo Nordisk Lunch Hub: Optimising MASLD care in the Diabetes Clinic: A Practical Approach
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Thursday Poster Viewing
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Stream 6 Session #9: Breakthrough T1D presents the future of T1D treatment: disease-modifying and cell therapies Huaxia Regional Diabetes Symposium
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Tea: Day 2
Global Village Spotlight Session #5
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stream 2 Session #16: Culturally Responsive Diabetes Care Across Communities Korean and Australian Diabetes Societies Joint Symposium
7:00 PM - 12:00 AM Congress Dinner













Friday, August 21, 2026

Plenary Room 2
Plenary Room 1
Eureka Room
Meeting Room 105 & 106
Meeting Room 109 & 110
Meeting Room 101 & 102
Meeting Room 111 & 112
Meeting Room 103
Meeting Room 104
6:30 AM - 7:30 AM ADS/ADEA Fun Run
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM Roche Sponsored Breakfast Symposia - A Wake-Up Call: Predictive CGM and the Future of Proactive Diabetes Care Air Liquide & SIBIONICS Sponsored Breakfast Symposia - Beyond Glucose: The Integrated Future of CGM, CKM, and AI in Diabetes Boehringer Ingelheim Sponsored Breakfast Symposia - The Metabolic Maze: managing metabolic health now and in the future
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Stream 2 Session #17: Co-creation of Health Services Diabetes Care Symposium Stream 6: ADS/NADC Symposium: Innovative Models of Diabetes Care: Leading Change Across the Region Stream 3 Session #8: Neural Control of Metabolism Stream 4 Session #8: Value, Outcome and Affordability in diabetes care Stream 2 Session #18: Oral Session 2 - Education, Workforce Development and Quality Improvement Stream 1 Session #7: Diabetes in families Stream 5: Diabetes Complications including Late Breaking Abstracts #7 Policy Leadership for a Healthier Future: Lessons & Actions for the Region (Part 1)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Global Village Spotlight Session #6
Morning Tea: Day 3
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Stream 4 Session #9: Current Controveries in Diabetes Epidemiology Stream 5 Session #8: Symposium - Metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease in people with diabetes Stream 2 Session #19: Building Capability in Diabetes Care: Frameworks, Technology and Practical Tools Stream 3 Session #9: Metabolic Signalling Stream 6 Session #13: Diabetes and Women Stream 6 Session #14: Free communications- Exercise and diabetes Stream 1 Session #8: Diabetes in Indigenous communities Stream 2 Session #20: Oral Session 3 - Psychosocial Wellbeing, Behaviour and Patient Experience Policy Leadership for a Healthier Future: Lessons & Actions for the Region (Part 2)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch: Day 3
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM Friday Poster Viewing
Facilitated Poster Session #5: Stream 3 - Discovery Science Facilitated Poster Session #6: Stream 4 - Epidemiology, public health and policy Facilitated Poster Session #3: Stream 5 - Foot, renal and cardiovascular disease Facilitated Poster Session #4: Stream 6 - Type 2 diabetes and models of care
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Stream 5 Session #9: Diabetes complications Keynote speakers plenary presentation Stream 2 Session #21: Accelerating Innovation: Symposium on Integrating Co-design, Behavioural & Implementation Science Stream 6 Session #15: Improving Outcomes in Children with Diabetes Stream 3 Session #10: Glucose Control Stream 6 Session #16: Diagnosis and Management of Atypical Diabetes Stream 2 Session #22: Oral Session 4 - Equity, Community and Culturally-responsive Care Stream 1 Session #9: Mental Health and Diabetes Stream 4 Session #10: Diabetes work participation, cost effectiveness and other Beyond GLP-1 RAs: Aligning Emerging Injectable Intensification Guidance with IDF Recommendations 2025
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Tea: Day 3
3:45 PM - 5:30 PM ADIPS/ADS/ADEA/IDF-WPR Pregnancy Symposium
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stream 2 Session #23: Redesigning Diabetes Care: Integrating Specialised Care Into National Models of Care Stream 6 Session #17: Diabetes Mellitus in Special Scenarios (Jointly hosted Stream 2) Stream 3 Session #11: Drug Discovery in Metabolism Stream 4 Session #11: Health Policy, Health services and Diabetes Stream 6 Session #18: Late Breaking Abstracts Stream 5 Session #10: Free communications - Diabetes-related kidney disease Stream 2: Poster Session 2 - Clinical Management, Technology and Innovation















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