Organizing committee: Satu Kuure, Pekka Katajisto, Sara Wickström (), Sara Wilson, Ulrika Marklund, Claudio Cantù, Henrik Boije, Ruth Palmer, Mattias Mannervik (), Elke Ober, Palle Serup (Denmark), Luiza Ghila (Norway)
Plenary speakers: Denis Duboule (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Elly Tanaka (Vienna IMP, Austria)
Confirmed Invited speakers :
Carien Niessen (Univesity of Cologne, Germany)
Elisabetta Ferretti (DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
David Sprinzak (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Marja Mikkola (University of Helsinki, Finland)
François Spitz (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Markus Affolter (Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland)
Jakub Sedzinski (DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Ditte Andersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Maria Genander (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
Emre Yaksi (NTNU Trondheim, Norway)
Alex Shier (Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland)