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Are they gonna get their positions back? Or some kind of compensation? If not that's a pretty shit apology
They never lost their jobs. They were banned from the conference which is something hard to put a damage number on. They probably won't sue the org because they remain part of it and are unlikely to want to take any real money from it that can otherwise continue going to helping diabetes research and advocacy. Maybe they can get a future conference paid for. They're all relatively established in their careers.
The easiest damages would be the cost of attending (conference tickets, travel, hotel). If there was reputational damage, that's harder to prove but the conference could be liable for that. Seeing how many vocal supporters they have, reputational damage would be hard to prove
Did they lose their positions? I haven't read anything indicating that, just that they weren't allowed back into the conference.