Steering and local committee (to be confirmed)
| Souhaib Ben Taieb | University of Mons (B) |
| François Blayo | NeoInstinct (CH) |
| Marie Cottrell | Univ. Paris I (F) |
| Mia Loccufier | Univ.Gent (B) |
| Gilles Louppe | Liège University (B) |
| Bernard Manderick | Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) |
| Jean-Pierre Peters | Univ. Namur (B) |
| Johan Suykens | KULeuven (B) |
| Joos Vandewalle | KULeuven (B) |
| Michel Verleysen | UCLouvain (B) |
| Louis Wehenkel | Univ. Liège (B) |
Scientific committee (to be confirmed)
| Fabio Aiolli | University of Padova (I) |
| Cesare Alippi | Università della Svizzera italiana (I) |
| Amparo Alonso-Betanzos | Univ. of A Coruña (E) |
| Plamen Angelov | Lancaster Univ. (UK) |
| Davide Anguita | University of Genoa (I) |
| Cecilio Angulo | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Aluizio Araújo | Univ. Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil) |
| Cédric Archambeau | Amazon Development Center (D) |
| Miguel Atencia | Universidad de Malaga (E) |
| Michael Aupetit | Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU (Qatar) |
| Davide Bacciu | Università di Pisa (I) |
| Andreas Backhaus | Fraunhofer-Institut (D) |
| Lluís Belanche | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Younès Bennani | Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (F) |
| Gyan Bhanot | Rutgers Univ. (USA) |
| Filippo Maria Bianchi | NORCE - the Norwegian Research Center (NO) |
| Monica Bianchini | University of Siena (I) |
| Michael Biehl | University of Groningen (NL) |
| Battista Biggio | University of Cagliari (I) |
| Martin Bogdan | Leipzig University (D) |
| Verónica Bolón-Canedo | University of A Coruña (E) |
| Pierre Borgnat | ENS Lyon (F) |
| Charles Bouveyron | Université Côte d’Azur (F) |
| Antonio Braga | Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) |
| Kerstin Bunte | University of Groningen (NL) |
| Joan Cabestany | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Stéphane Canu | INSA Rouen Normandie (F) |
| Andreu Català | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E) |
| Nestor Caticha | Univ. Sao Paulo (Brazil) |
| Sylvain Chevallier | University of Versailles (F) |
| Valentina Colla | Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna (I) |
| Etienne Côme | Université Gustave Eiffel (F) |
| Nigel Crook | Oxford Brookes University (UK) |
| Holk Cruse | Universität Bielefeld (D) |
| Giovanni Da San Martino | University of Padova (I) |
| Bernard de Baets | Univ. Gent (B) |
| Massimo De Gregorio | Ist. di Sci. Appl. e Sistemi Intelligenti (I) |
| Wilson de Oliveira | Univ. Fed. Rural Pernambuco (Brazil) |
| Gilles Delmaire | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale (F) |
| Michele Donini | Amazon (USA) |
| Wlodek Duch | Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (PL) |
| Bruno Dumas | Univ. Namur (B) |
| Marc Duranton | CEA Saclay (F) |
| Richard Duro | Univ. Coruna (E) |
| Mark Embrechts | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) |
| Federico Errica | Università di Pisa (I) |
| Anibal Figueiras-Vidal | Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E) |
| Felipe M. G. França | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| Damien François | Université catholique de Louvain (B) |
| Benoît Frénay | Univ. Namur (B) |
| Claudio Gallicchio | University of Pisa (I) |
| Manjunath Gandhi | University of Pretoria (South Africa) |
| Alexander Gepperth | HAW Fulda (D) |
| Pierre Geurts | Univ. Liège (B) |
| Alessandro Ghio | Big Data Analytics Consult. (I) |
| Maurizio Giordano | Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (I) |
| Luis Gonzalez Abril | University of Sevilla (E) |
| Marco Gori | Univ. Siena (I) |
| Bernard Gosselin | Univ. Mons (B) |
| Anne Guérin-Dugué | University Grenoble Alpes (F) |
| Barbara Hammer | Bielefeld Univ. (D) |
| Verena Heidrich-Meisner | CAU Kiel (D) |
| Moritz Heusinger | Univ. Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (D) |
| Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler | University of Vienna (A) |
| Xiaolin Huang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) |
| Jose Jerez | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Gonzalo Joya | Univ. Malaga (E) |
| Christian Jutten | INPG Grenoble Univ. Grenoble Alpes (F) |
| Ata Kaban | Univ. Birmingham (UK) |
| Marika Kaden | Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D) |
| DaeEun Kim | Yonsei Univ. (South Korea) |
| Stefanos Kollias | National Technical University of Athens (GR) |
| Lubomir Kostal | Institute of Physiology CAS (CZ) |
| Lucas Lamata | Universidad de Sevilla (E) |
| Jouko Lampinen | Aalto Univ. (FIN) |
| Pierre Latouche | Univ. Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (F) |
| Ivano Lauriola | Amazon Alexa (USA) |
| Alberto Lavelli | Fondazione Bruno Kessler (I) |
| Beatrice Lazzerini | Univ. Pisa (I) |
| John Lee | UCLouvain (B) |
| Minho Lee | Kyungpook National University (KR) |
| Amaury Lendasse | University of Houston (USA) |
| Priscila M. V. Lima | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| Paulo Lisboa | Liverpool John Moores University (UK) |
| Thomas Martinetz | Univ. Lübeck (D) |
| David Martinez Rego | Univ. A Coruna (E) |
| José D. Martín-Guerrero | Universitat de València (E) |
| Siamak Mehrkanoon | Maastricht University (NL) |
| Stefano Melacci | Univ. Siena (I) |
| Erzsebet Merenyi | Rice Univ. (USA) |
| David Meunier | Aix-Marseille Université (F) |
| Anke Meyer-Bäse | Florida State Univ. (USA) |
| Yoan Miche | Nokia Bell Labs (FIN) |
| Alessio Micheli | University of Pisa (I) |
| Nicolò Navarin | Univ. of Padova (I) |
| Ann Nowe | Vrije Univ. Brussel (B) |
| Tjeerd olde Scheper | Oxford Brookes University (UK) |
| Madalina Olteanu | University Paris Dauphine PSL (F) |
| Luca Oneto | Univ. Genova (I) |
| Latifa Oukhellou | Université Gustave Eiffel (F) |
| Benjamin Paassen | Humboldt-University of Berlin (D) |
| Gilles Pagès | Sorbonne Université (F) |
| German Parisi | Univ. Hamburg (D) |
| Kristiaan Pelckmans | Uppsala University (SE) |
| Jaakko Peltonen | Tampere University (FIN) |
| Francesco Pistolesi | Universita di Pisa (I) |
| Matthieu Puigt | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale (F) |
| Didier Puzenat | Université Lumière Lyon 2 (F) |
| Christoph Raab | Univ. Applied Science Würzburg-Schweinfurt (D) |
| Beatriz Remeseiro | University of Oviedo (E) |
| Jean-Pierre Rospars | INRA Versailles (F) |
| Fabrice Rossi | University Paris-Dauphine (F) |
| Gilles Roussel | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale (F) |
| Ulrich Rückert | Bielefeld University (D) |
| David Saad | Aston Univ. (UK) |
| Allou Samé | Université Gustave Eiffel (F) |
| Jose Santos Reyes | University of A Coruña (E) |
| Sascha Saralajew | Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (D) |
| Simone Scardapane | Sapienza University of Rome (IT) |
| Franco Scarselli | University of Siena (I) |
| Frank-Michael Schleif | Univ. Applied Sciences Würzburg (D) |
| Udo Seiffert | Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg (D) |
| Emilio Soria | Univ. Valencia (E) |
| Alessandro Sperduti | Università degli Studi di Padova (I) |
| Jochen Steil | Technische Universität Braunschweig (D) |
| Ruxandra Stoean | University of Craiova (RO) |
| Lijun Sun | McGill University (USA) |
| Peter Tino | University of Birmingham (UK) |
| Claude Touzet | Aix-Marseille University (F) |
| Marc Van Hulle | KULeuven (B) |
| Alfredo Vellido | Univ. Polit. Catalunya (E) |
| Nathalie Vialaneix | INRAE (F) |
| Thomas Villmann | Univ. Applied Sciences Mittweida (D) |
| Heiko Wersing | Honda Research Institute Europe (D) |
| Axel Wismüller | University of Rochester (USA) |
| Florian Yger | Université Paris Dauphine (F) |
| Djamel Zighed | Université de Lyon (F) |
| Dietlind Zühlke | Technische Hochschule Köln (D) |