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Competing Interests: We declare no competing interests. We are grateful to the Society for Endocrinology (SfE) for their full support in undertaking this research and taking on the findings. We are particularly indebted to the SfE BES Programme Committee and the Bioscientifica events management team, and to the wider Society members who answered our survey and focus group requests. We want to especially thank the following Society members who helped monitor sessions and provide corroborative data for the audience breakdowns or contributed with their thoughts and opinions in other ways: Gavin Bewick, Ed Chambers, Mike Clements, Aygul Dagbasi, Maralyn Druce, Saira Hameed, Chioma Izzi Engbeaya, Niamh Martin, Aldara Martin-Alonso, Karim Meeran, Ed Mills, Mariana Norton, Bryn Owen, Yateen Patel, Julia Prague, Kinga Suba, Tricia Tan, Risheka Walls, and Alison Wren. The study was not externally funded. VS is the recipient of a Diabetes UK Harry Keen Clinician Scientist Fellowship. KGM is supported by grants from Diabetes UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction at Imperial College, London, is funded by grants from the Medical Research Council and BBSRC, and is supported by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre Funding Scheme. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the mentioned funders, the UK National Health Service, the NIHR, or the UK Department of Health.