| Speaker | Affiliation | Title of talks |
| Cara Haney | University of British Columbia, CAN | To be announced |
| Jonathan Jones | The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK | Plant immune receptor mechanisms: investigation and exploitation |
| Giles Oldroyd | University of Cambridge, UK | Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations |
| Richard Michelmore | The Michelmore Lab | Lettuce as a model for understanding disease resistance in the Compositae |
| Ton Bisseling | Wageningen University & Research, NL | Evolution of intracellular accommodation of rhizobia in root nodules |
| Sheng-Yang He | Duke University, USA | Bacterial pathogenesis and high humidity sensing |
| Xin Li | University of British Columbia, CAN | A forward genetic screen in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum: Finding the most unexpected |
| Wenbo Ma | The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK | Modularity-driven diversification of pathogen effectors |
| Thorsten Nuernberger | Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, GER | Plant pattern recognition receptors-evolution and function |
| Francesco Pennacchio | Università di Napoli | Multitrophic interactions and crop health |
| Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar | University of California, USA | Chloroplasts as a hub for innate immune signaling |
| Feng Shao | National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, CHN | Membrane pore formation or pyroptosis as an effector mechanism in innate immunity" |
| Zuhua He | CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, CHN | Signaling networks of broad-spectrum disease resistance and immunosuppression in crops |
| Michael R. Strand | University of Georgia, USA | To be announced |
| Baoan Song | Guizhou University, CHN | To be announced |
| Lianyang Bai | Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science, CHN | To be announced |
| Weicai Yang | Yazhouwan National Laboratory, CHN | To be announced |
| Xiaojie Wang | Northwest A&F University, CHN | To be announced |
| Ruisheng Gu | NSFC, CHN | To be announced |
