Marcelo Guerin - Keynote Speaker (Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain): Molecular basis of glycogen metabolism regulation in bacteria

 Bernard Henrissat - Banquet Speaker and Lifetime Achievement Awardee (Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark): Carbohydrate-Active enZymes: back to the future

 Nicolas Terrapon (Architecture et Fonction des Macromolecules Biologiques, UMR CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France): Title to be announced soon

 Leila Lo Leggio (Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark): Title to be announced soon

 Eui-Jeon Woo (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea): Title to be announced soon

 Marie Sofie Moeller (Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark): Title to be announced soon

Yuxiang Bai (School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, Peoples Republic of China): Regulation on the glycosidic bond and molecular weight specificity of GH70 4,3/6-α-glycosyltransferase products via rational mutagenesis

 Edita Jurak (Product Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands): Title to be announced soon

Christophe D'Hulst (Unite de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionelle, Universite de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France): Title to be announced soon

Alan Myers (Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA): Title to be announced soon