Chairman of the program comittee
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Dilthey
President of the IIW

Members of the program committee
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Keitel
Managing Director of GSI mbH, Duisburg
Managing Director of SLV Halle GmbH

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Rethmeier
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Berlin

Prof. Seiji Katayama
Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka

Dr. rer. nat. Wolfram Rath
Rofin-Sinar Laser GmbH, Hamburg

Dr. sc. techn. Klaus-Rainer Schulze
PTR Präzisionstechnik GmbH, Maintal (Dörnigheim)

Mr. Eugene Shcherbakov
IPG Laser GmbH, Burbach

Dipl.-Phys. Dietrich Freiherr von Dobeneck
pro-beam AG & Co. KGaA, Planegg

Prof. (aff.), Ph.D. Jens Klaestrup Kristensen
Force Technology, Brondby, Denmark

Dr.-Ing. Igor Krivtzun
The E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute of the NAS of Ukraine , KYIV

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Beyer
Fraunhofer-Institut Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik, Dresden

Dr. Ian Norris
TWI Ltd Granta Park, Cambridge, United Kingdom