National Organizing Committee

• Florian Kongoli, Flogen, Chair
• Manuel Ramos, Asarco, USA

• Florian Kongoli, Chair, Flogen, Canada/USA
• Wojciech Kedzia, Co-Chair, KGHM, Poland
• Luis Bergh, Co-Chair, Universidad Technica Federico Santa Maria, Chile
• Kazuya Asano, Co-Chair, JFE Steel Corporation, Japan
• Jurgen Gegner, Co-Chair, University of Siegen Paul-Bonatz-Str., Germany
• Michael Zinigrad, Co-Chair, Ariel University, Israel

• Andrey N. Dmitriev, Ural Federal University, Russia
• Yeongseob Kueon, PosLASER R&D Department, South Korea
• Jay Lee, KAIST
• Jesse Juhyun Park, Yeungnam University, South Korea
• Khalil Qureshi, Pakistan Materials Research Society, Pakistan
• Prakash Swatantra, Academic Scientific and Industrial Research New Delhi (Ac-SIR), India
• Evgeny V. Tsirulnikov, Ore & Metals Publishers, Russia
• Hardev Singh Virk, Eternal University, Baru Sahib (HP), India
• Wei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
• Sangchul Won, Pohang University of Science & Technology, South Korea

• Chris Aldrich, Curtin University Australia

• Hans-Georg Braun, Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany
• Stan Cierpisz, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
• Istvan Erlich, Univ of Duisburg-Essen
• Tomas Havlik, Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic
• Camile Hol, Tata Steel, Netherlands
• Walter Holweger, Schaeffler company, Germany
• Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Technology & Science, Norway
• Sirkka-liisa Jamsa-Jounela, Finland
• Karl Jones, John Moores University, United Kingdom
• Jorgaq Kacani, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
• Michel Kinnaert, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Andreas Kugi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• R Vasant Kumar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Ilirjan Malollari, University of Tirana, Albania
• Zoran S Markovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Manfred Mauntz , cmc Instruments GmbH, Germany
• Ivan Nishkov, University of Mining and Geology "St. Ivan Rilski", Bulgaria
• Traycho Penzov, TRAPEN CO., Bulgaria
• Harald Peters, Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH Dusseldorf, Germany
• Jose Ragot, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, France
• Musa Rizaj, University of Prishtina,Kosovo
• Jari Ruuska, University of Oulu, Finland
• Dominique Sauter, France
• Kurt Schlacher, University of Linz, Austria
• Carsten Schwandt, University of Cambridge, UK.
• Jakob Stoustrup, Aalborg University
• Didier Theilliol, University of Lorraine, France
• Dragana Zivkovic, University of Bor, Serbia

• Osvaldo Bascur, OSIsoft, LLC Texas, USA
• Peter Clout, Vista Control Systems, Inc. NM, USA
• André Desbiens, Laval University, Canada
• Daniel Hodouin, Laval University
• Bao Lin, The Dow Chemical Company Texas, USA
• Yale Zhang, Vale Base Metals Technology Development, Canada

• Adriano Ferreira, Novelis, Brasil
• André Carlos Silva, Federal University of Goiás, Brasil