Pr. Pierre-Yves Benhamou, MD, PhD, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism at University Hospital Grenoble Alpes, France, is an endocrinologist with a main clinical focus on Diabetology. He was also the founder and head of the Swiss-French clinical research network (GRAGIL network) devoted to pancreatic islet transplantation since 1998, and founder and head of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Study Group of the Societe Francophone du Diabete (SFD) since 2005. He is currently appointed as adjunct-chief medical officer at Diabeloop SA in the field of automated insulin delivery systems. As a key opinion leader, he is often involved in conferences about diabetes and has co-authored 177 publications in peer-reviewed journals, mainly on type 1 diabetes.

MD and PhD-student investigating dermatological complications towards diabetes devices in especially pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes.

Professor Richard M. Bergenstal, MD International Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Richard M. Bergenstal is an endocrinologist and Executive Director of the International Diabetes Center, HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis, MN, USA. He is Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and served as President, Science & Medicine of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in 2010. In 2007, Prof. Bergenstal was named the ADA’s Outstanding Physician-Clinician of the Year and in 2010 was awarded the Banting Medal for Service. He received his MD and endocrine training from the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, where he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine before joining the International Diabetes Center in 1983. His clinical research has focused on glucose control and diabetes complications and advanced technology, including continuous glucose monitoring and automated insulin delivery systems, and he has served as a Principal Investigator of five National Institutes of Health trials. Prof. Bergenstal’s clinical efforts are directed towards improving systems of care for patients with diabetes by translating new research findings into practice. He teaches on the importance of patient‐centred team care, has been listed in Best Doctors in America since it began in 1992, and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles.

Stéphane Besançon is a biologist and nutritionist with specialised degrees in nutritional physiopathology and international development. He founded the international NGO Santé Diabète, became the Programme Director in 2003 and the CEO in 2009. ONG Santé Diabète (SD) has set up numerous pilot schemes for the prevention and management of NCDs and especially diabetes in Africa. Besancon’s work on health systems, chronic diseases, Access to treatment, nutrition and diabetes in Africa has featured in many international and scientific publications. Together with Dr. Kaushik Ramaiya (vice president of the IDF) he has published a book entitled "Diabetes Africa" - devoted to the problematic of diabetes in Africa. He has also lent his expertise to a large number of reports for governments and international organisations. He is a member, with the NGO Santé Diabète, of the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs and he was a member of the Lancet Commission on Diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also a member of the Diabetes Atlas International Board and a member of the board of the Diabetes in humanitarian setting international board. In 2018, he's been nominated, by Dr Tedros, General Director of WHO, as one of the 27 members of the WHO Civil Society Working Group on the third High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on NCDs. During the 24th World Diabetes Congress held in December 2017 in Abu Dhabi, he received a special award for his work done for over 15 years in the fight against diabetes in Africa and he has given for this award one of the 9 "Award Lecture" of the congress. Since 2015, he leads a weekly nutrition chronic on Radio France Internationale (RFI) in the broadcast "Priorité Santé" and a twitter account about nutrition but also of diabetes in Africa issues @StephBesancon.