The Power of Community - #dedocº symposium EASD26

The Power of Community | #dedoc° Symposium at EASD 2026 Milan What does meaningful diabetes support really look like, and what happens when people with diabetes turn connection, lived experience, and community into action? Join the #dedoc° Symposium live from EASD 2026 in Milan, bringing together diabetes advocates from around the world to explore the power of peer support, compassionate care, community building, and lived experience in shaping better diabetes care. 📅 October 1, 2026 🕝 14:30–16:00 CEST 📍 Oslo Hall | EASD 2026, Milan 🔍 In this symposium: • Becoming the Community You Needed Orla Duane, Ireland • From Seeking Support to Strengthening Community May Millward, UK • Beyond the Data: The Power of Compassionate Support Asra Ahmed, Saudi Arabia • From Connection to Contribution: How Community Opens New Pathways Leon Tribe, Australia From finding the support you once needed yourself to building communities that create change, this session looks beyond clinical outcomes and asks what people living with diabetes need to feel understood, connected, supported, and empowered. The speakers bring lived experience from different countries, backgrounds, and communities to explore how peer support can strengthen diabetes self-management, how compassion can transform care, and how individual connections can grow into collective action. 🎤 Expect conversations around: • Lived experience with diabetes • Peer support and diabetes communities • Compassionate and person-centred diabetes care • The role of connection in living with diabetes • Community-led diabetes advocacy • Turning personal experience into collective change • Meaningful involvement of people with diabetes in healthcare and research And stay with us until the end: we’ll be sharing an important #dedoc° announcement during the symposium. 👀💙 #dedoc° symposia take place alongside leading international diabetes conferences, bringing the perspectives and expertise of people living with diabetes directly into conversations about research, healthcare, technology, policy, and the future of diabetes care. 🌍 About #dedoc° #dedoc° is an international community by and for people with diabetes. Through the #dedoc° voices scholarship program, community activities, advocacy, education, and events, we work to ensure that lived experience is meaningfully included wherever decisions about diabetes are made. 🔗 Learn more: www.dedoc.org/symposium www.dedoc.org 💬 Join the conversation: What has community meant in your own life with diabetes? Share your experience in the comments. 👍 Like the stream 💬 Join the conversation 📲 Subscribe to #dedoc° for more diabetes advocacy, lived experience, conference coverage, and community perspectives from around the world. #EASD2026 #Diabetes #Type1Diabetes #T1D #DiabetesCommunity #DiabetesAdvocacy #LivedExperience #PeerSupport #DiabetesCare #PersonCentredCare #PatientAdvocacy #DiabetesResearch #EASD #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs