• Anne Condon (University of British Columbia, Vancouver/British Columbia, Canada) ,
  Invited Talk:"On the Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Chemical Reaction Networks"
• Stavros Konstantinidis (St. Mary's University, Halifax/Nova Scotia, Canada) ,
  Invited Talk:"Regular Expressions and Transducers over Alphabet-invariant and User-defined Labels"
• Andreas Malcher (Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany) ,
  Invited Talk:"Boosting Pushdown and Queue Machines by Preprocessing"
• Jacques Sakarovitch (CNRS/Paris Diderot University and Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France) ,
  Invited Talk:"Validity of weighted automata"