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): Beyond branching: uncovering novel activities and structural elements in GH13 and GH57 glycogen branching enzymes

 Alan Myers (Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA): Transition from insoluble to soluble alpha-polyglucans conditioned by cooperation between three starch debranching enzymes in maize endosperm

 Romina Rodriguez-Sanoja (Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Coyoacan, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico): 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