Governance

Organization

The conference was a forum for innovative collaboration and dialogue between researchers, users, and other relevant experts at the highest international level. An important element of the conference was outreach and dissemination of the main results and recommendations.

The Scientific Organizing Committee's (SOC) primary responsibility was facilitation and coordination of the four-group process leading up to the conference and preparation of the conference programme.

SOC consists of:

• Professor Bjarne Bruun Jensen (chair) SDCC
• Representatives from The Danish Diabetes Association
• Representatives from each of the four groups
• Selected national and international experts (including users).

Other Steno Centres in Denmark are represented via SOC or the researcher groups.

Members of Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

• Bjarne Bruun Jensen, DK (Chair) – Professor and Senior Adviser, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Janet Harris, UK – Reader, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
• Richard IG Holt, UK – Professor, Medicine, University of Southampton
• Birgitte Brock, – Professor, Clinical Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Ingrid Willaing, DK – Professor, Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Kasper Olesen, DK – Senior Researcher, Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Paul Bloch, DK – Senior Researcher, Health Promotion Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Helle Terkildsen Maindal, DK – Professor, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University
• Peter Rossing, DK – Professor, Clinical Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Kirsten Lomborg, DK – Professor, Clinical Research, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Lone Holm, DK – Head of User Involvement program, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Ole Nørgaard, DK – Danish Diabetes Knowledge Center, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen
• Annesofie Lunde Jensen, DK – Clinical Nursing Specialist and Postdoc, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus
• Anna Pietraszek, DK – Clinician and associate professor, Steno Diabetes Center North Denmark
• Tanja Thybo, DK – Head of Research and Analysis, Danish Diabetes Association
• Tina Blichfeldt, DK – User representative, Steering Committee of the User involvement program, Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen

Each research group consisted of two co-chairs, one of whom was from SDCC, and 3-5 additional international researchers with expertise in the specific domain. The two co-chairs structured the group's work in collaboration with SOC.

The national user group was facilitated by an individual from SDCC and a co-chair and consisted of representatives from various user groups. The group addressed the issues described above and were represented in SOC. SOC met several times in the period leading up to the conference and after the conference for the purpose of finalizing the white paper.

Funding and collaboration

Financial support for the conference came from SDCC, conference fees, and funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation. There is no industry financial support.

Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen was the institution responsible for conference finance and content and collaborated closely with the other Steno Diabetes Centres in Denmark and the Diabetes Association, as well as selected national and international research environments. Planning and execution of the conference was in close collaboration with Crone & Co., a Copenhagen-based professional conference organizer.