Call for abstracts

Stream Descriptions 

Stream 1: Living with Diabetes

This stream amplifies the voices of people living with diabetes, centering lived experience to shape research, healthcare, and policy. Sessions will highlight stories, insights, and co-designed approaches that ensure services are responsive, equitable, and grounded in real-life challenges and strengths of the diabetes community.

Stream 2: Diabetes Education and Quality Improvement

Approaches to diabetes education and healthcare improvement, highlighting strategies to empower and support people living with diabetes and enhance clinical outcomes. Sessions will showcase research, models of care, peer support, and education initiatives that drive better self-management, equity, and system-wide improvements in diabetes care.

Stream 3: Metabolic Diseases 2026 – Discovery Science in Diabetes

The Metabolic Diseases 2026 biennial meeting, combining with the IDF-WPR/ADC 2026 meeting, in this stream brings together discovery, clinical, and pharmaceutical science communities to enable exchange of their latest research, ideas and strategies to combat diabetes, obesity and their complications.

Stream 4: Epidemiology, Public Health and Policy

An understanding of the full impact of diabetes and its complications at a population level, as well as factors driving it that are modifiable, is essential to facilitate optimal policy making decisions to help reduce the burden. The impact of diabetes on the countries of the Western Pacific Region, and how public health measures and their adoption into policy could lessen this impact, will be the focus of this stream.

Stream 5: Diabetes Complications

Prevention, slowing progression and management of diabetes complications, including classical micro- and macro-vascular complications (retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, coronary artery, cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular disease), in addition to diabetes-related  foot disease, metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease, and emerging complications of diabetes (e.g. cognitive impairment, poor oral health, others) will be encompassed in the stream.

Stream 6: Clinical Diabetes Management and Therapeutics

Advances in the management of diabetes, whether through the introduction of new medications, novel technologies or innovations in models of care delivery, will be covered in this stream. The challenges of diabetes management in particular groups, including First Nations people, the young and old, in pregnancy and those with mental health or complex co-morbidities will be addressed. The latest learnings from clinical trials will be presented.

Abstract Templates

The Congress encourages everyone referring to and about people with diabetes to be mindful of the power of language. When writing your abstract and preparing your presentation, please refer to the Diabetes Australia Language Position Statement, which is also available on the website in the call for papers tab.

Your abstract should provide delegates with an overview of your proposed presentation.

The Stream 1 abstract template is available to download here.

The Stream 2 abstract template is available to download here.

The Stream 2 Symposium / Masterclass abstract template is available to download here.

The Stream 3 - 6 abstract template is available to download here.

Abstract Formatting: Please ensure sentence case is used in your title and throughout your abstract and your spelling is correct. Abstracts should be typed into the relevant template and saved on your computer for later reference. Stream 2 Abstracts must be submitted with the template provided. The filename of the Word document should be named as the first five words of your abstract title. It should contain alpha/numeric characters only. The abstract should be typed in Arial font, size 11pt.

Abstract title (max. 25 words): The title should be as brief as possible and clearly indicate the nature of the abstract. If you wish to include a subtitle, it must be included in this field and included in the 25-word limit.

Permission to publish: You are required to provide permission on behalf of all authors and affiliations associated with the abstract submission, for the abstract to appear on the ADCIDFMBD 2026 Congress website, Congress app and in printed Congress material if it is accepted for presentation.

Once you are satisfied with your submission, click submit abstract. You will be given an ID number and an abstract number, please use these in any communication when emailing the congress office.

Withdraw an abstract

If you want to withdraw an abstract, please contact the Congress Organisers via adc@theconferencecompany.com. Please note that withdrawals need to be communicated in writing by the author who originally submitted the abstract, and in doing so, the Congress Organisers assumes that all other authors/presenters have been informed of the withdrawal.

Have a question?

Queries relating to the call for abstracts can be directed to the IDF-WPR / ADC / MBD Congress Organisers, The Conference Company on adc@theconferencecompany.com, 1800 193 405 or +64 9360 1240.