Gordon Bunyan has lived with T1D for over 50 year and for all of that time has been active in diabetes member and research organisations in Australia, and internationally as Chair of the IDF Western Pacific Region, Vice President of International Diabetes Federation and as an initial director of Life For A Child (USA). Today he is a director of Diabetes Australia, Deputy Chair, Programme Committee for the IDF-WPR Australasian Diabetes Congress 2026 and the Kellion Victory Medal Ambassador in Australia. He is a strong advocate for people with diabetes, working to ensure organisations put people with diabetes first. And, by racing classic sports cars in his spare time, demonstrates that the things other people think we should NOT do are always possible.

Meaghan has 39 years of lived experience of type 1 diabetes and qualifications in research and community engagement. She brings these together for two research organisations - the Australasian Type 1 Immunotherapy Collaborative where she is the Community Engagement and Communications Lead and the Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes where she is the Community Engagement Coordinator.

David's lived with T1D since 1982, and been active as a lived-experience advocate for all types of diabetes in Australia and around the world since 2017. He started out documenting many issues and experiences (and still does) on his Bionic Wookiee blog. Today he also works directly in diabetes research (primarily but not limited to automated insulin delivery systems) through Nascence Biomed and with the Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.