Professor Steven DANYLUK (Chairman) Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems & Professor, Mechanical Engineering, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Director, Manufacturing Research Centre, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	Professor Taylan ALTAN Director, Engineering Research Centre for Net Shape Manufacturing, USA Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Industrial, Welding & Systems Engineering, Ohio State University, USA
	Professor Howard R APPELMAN Materials, Process & Physics Engineer, and Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company Adjunct Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
	Professor Ekkard BRINKSMEIER Professor for Manufacturing Technologies, University of Bremen, Germany Director at the Foundation Institute of Materials Science (IWT), Bremen, Germany Director of the Laboratory for Precision Machining (LFM), Bremen, Germany
	Professor Kornel EHMANN James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, USA Distinguished Honorary Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India
	Professor Placid M. FERREIRA Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Director, Nano-CEMMS (a national Science Foundation sponsored Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
	Professor Mark S FOX Professor of Industrial Engineering with a cross appointment in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Head of the Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto
	Professor Robert J. HOCKEN Norvin Kennedy Dickerson Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Director, Center for Precision Metrology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
	Professor Wolfgang WAHLSTER Director and CEO, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH, Germany Professor, Computer Science Department, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany