Full Research Papers Chairs: Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Jie Ma (Jilin University, China) and Preben Hansen (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Short Research Papers Chairs: Dan Wu (Wuhan University, China), Masanori Koizumi (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Anne Gilliland (University of California, USA)

Posters Chairs: Lei Pei (Nanjing University, China), Alex Poole (Drexel University, USA) and Ellie Sayyad Abdi (Curtin University, Australia)

Spanish-Portuguese Research Papers Chairs: Josep Cobarsí Morales (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain), Diana Lucio Arias (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana), Colombia, Sara Martínez Cardama (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) and Alan César Belo Angeluci (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Chinese Research Papers Chairs: Xiwei Wang (Jilin University, China), Yang Zhang (Sun Yat-Sen University, China) and Gaohui Zhang (Central China Normal University, China)

Workshops & Panels Chairs: Ina Fourie (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Chengzhi Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China) and Wonsik Jeff Shim (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)

Doctoral Colloquium Chairs: Widad Mustafa El Hadi (Europe & Africa, University of Lille, France), Howard Rosenbaum (North America, Indiana University Bloomington, USA), Tina Du (Asia Pacific, Charles Sturt University, Australia)

Early Career Colloquium Chairs: Charles Senteio (North America, Rutgers University, USA), Jiangping Chen (North America, University of North Texas, USA), Debbie Meharg (Europe & Africa, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland), YuXiang Zhao (Asia Pacific, Nanjing University, China)

Student Symposium Chairs: Hui Yan (Asia Pacific, Renmin University of China, China), Romain Herault (Europe & Africa, Linnaeus University, Sweden) and Elizabeth Eikey (North America, University of Californa, USA)

Proceedings Chair: Isaac Sserwanga, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin