plenary speakers
- Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State University)
- Jan de Boer (Amsterdam University)
- Raphael Bousso (UC Berkeley)
- Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute)
- Johanna Erdmenger (Würzburg University)
- Steve Giddings (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Aaron Held (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
- Thomas Hertog (KU Leuven)
- Yixuan Li (Padua University)
- Hong Liu (MIT) (to be confirmed)
- Renate Loll (Radboud University)
- André Lukas (Oxford University)
- Axel Maas (Graz University)
- Liam McAllister (Cornell University)
- Rob Myers (Perimeter Institute)
- Alessia Platania (Graz University/ NBI)
- Manuel Reichert (Sussex University)
- Hanno Sahlmann (Erlangen-Nürnberg University)
- Ashoke Sen (ICTS, Bangalore) (to be confirmed)
- Sumati Surya (Raman Research Institute)
- Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University) (to be confirmed)
- Edward Wilson-Ewing (New Brunswick University)
- Further speakers to be announced