Program

Planning for a comprehensive program is underway – stay tuned for more information, in the meantime the Congress program will be delivered across 6 Streams, as described below:

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.