Invited and plenary lectures will be given by
| ARASA | Carina | Elsevier, Amsterdam / The Hague | The Netherlands |
| BAKAN | Emine | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Germany |
| BERNDT | Christopher | University of Swinburne | Australia |
| BOLELLI | Giovanni | University of Modena and Reggio Emilia | Italy |
| CHEN | Chaoyue | ICB, Bourgogne Franche-Comte University | France |
| GUIPONT | Vincent | MINES ParisTech, UMR CNRS 7633 | France |
| DISTLER | Bernd | Oerlikon Metco (US) Inc | USA |
| DOSTA | Sergi | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain |
| HAZEL | Brian | Pratt & Whitney | USA |
| JOSHI | Shrikant | West University, Trollhättan | Sweden |
| JORDAN | Eric | University of Connecticut | USA |
| KIILAKOSKI | Jarkko | Tampere University of Technology | Finland |
| KILLINGER | Andreas | University of Stuttgart | Germany |
| KLASSEN | Thomas | Helmut Schmidt University | Germany |
| KLEMENT | Uta | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
| LATKA | Leszek | Wroclaw University of Technology | Poland |
| LI | Hua | Ningbo Institute of Mat. Sci. Eng. | China |
| LAMPKE | Thomas | Technical University of Chemnitz | Germany |
| LIAO | Hanlin | ICB, Bourgogne Franche-Comte University | France |
| LIMA | Carlos Robert | UNIMEP, Sao Paolo | Brazil |
| MATEJICEK | Jiri | Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague | Czech Republic |
| MAUER | Georg | FZ Jülich | Germany |
| MAUREL | Vincent | MINES ParisTech, UMR CNRS 7633 | France |
| SANCHEZ | Enrique | Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica | Spain |
| SOKOLOWSKI | Pawel | Wroclaw University of Technology | Poland |
| TULUI | Mario | CSM, Rome | Italy |
| VUORISTO | Petri | Tampere University of Technology | Finland |
Last updated: November 22, 2017