Dr. Liberato Manna (confirmed) Affiliation: ITT, Milan, Italy Title: Chemical and Structural Transformations in Colloidal Inorganic Nanocrystals.

Dr. Molly Stevens (confirmed) Affiliation: Imperial College, UK Title: Bio-inorganic Nanomaterials for Ultrasensitive Biosensing

Dr. Johan Hofkens (confirmed) Affiliation: U. KU Leuven, Belgium Title: Silver particles: from luminescent clusters to remote Raman in cells via wires.

Dr. Daniel Ruiz (confirmed) Affiliation: ICNN, CSIC, UAB, Barcelona, Spain Title: Novel (Coordination) Polymer Nanoparticles for Advanced Theranostics.

Dr. Jerry Morrissey (confirmed) Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA Title: Synthesis and functionalization of various gold nanoparticles for molecular medicine and molecular biology

Dr. Elvira Fortunato (confirmed) Affiliation: FCT-UNL. Portugal Title: Functional Metal Oxide Nanoparticles used from Optical Sensors to Biosensors