Presided by his Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic Prof. Dr Aníbal Cavaco Silva, President of República Portuguesa
Dr. Pedro Passos Coelho, Prime Minister
Prof. Dr. António Sampaio da Nóvoa, Rector of Universidade de Lisboa
Prof. Dr. Sabine Flitsch, chair of EUROGLYCOFORUM
Prof. Nuno Crato, Minister for Education and Science
Prof. Dr. Mariano Gago, Ex-Minister of Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education
Prof. Dr. João Sentieiro, President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Prof. Dr. Mário Nuno Berberan, President of Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
Prof. Dr. Maria Helena Nazaré, President elect of the European University Association
Prof. Dr. António Rendas, President of Conselho de Reitores das Universidades Portuguesas and Rector of Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Prof. Dr. Jorge Medeiros, Rector of Universidade dos Açores
Prof. Dr. João Queiroz, Rector of Universidade da Beira Interior
Prof. Dr. António de Vasconcelos Tavares, Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon
Prof. Dr. Maria Amélia Loução, Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon and chair of the Knowledge Transfer Unit of the University of Lisbon (UL-INOVAR)
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Pinto Paixão, Director of Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Rebordão, member of the Board of Directors of Fundação da Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa
Prof. Dr. Carlos Castro, President of Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, FCUL
Prof. Dr. Ana Ponces, President of Centro de Química e Bioquímica, FCUL
Dr. Alexandre Miguel Mestre, Secretary of State for Sport and Youth
Dr. António Costa, President of City Hall
Prof. Dr. Nicole Moreau, President of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
Prof. Dr. Anne Dell, President of the Society for Glycobiology
Prof. Dr. João Moura Bordado, President of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais
Prof. Dr. Jesus Jimenéz Barbero, Secretary of the Real Sociedad Española de Química
Prof. Dr. Anthony Merry, Secretary of EUROGLYCOFORUM
Prof. Dr. Yukishige Ito, President of the International Carbohydrate Organisation
Prof. Dr. Antonio Molinaro, President of the European Carbohydrate Organisation
Prof. Dr. Johannis Kamerling, Secretary of the International Carbohydrate Organization
Prof. Dr. Ben Davis, Secretary of the European Carbohydrate Organisation
Eng. Augusto Guedes, Presidente da Associação Nacional dos Engenheiros Técnicos
Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. Philippe Delannoy, President of theGroupe Français des Glucides, France
Prof. Dr. Francisco Santoyo, President of the Grupo de Carbohidratos de la Real Sociedad Española de Quimica
Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Esteves, Coordinator of the Carbohydrate Group of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Quimica
Comendador Sebastião Alves, President of Conselho de Administração de AtralCipan
Dr. Guy Villax, Chief Executive Hovione
Eng. João Manuel Dias de Sousa, President of the Board of Directors of Fundação Jacqueline Dias de Sousa
Dr. Armando Torres Paulo, President of growers and Exporters of Rocha
Pear Association
Prof. Dr. Serge Perez, advisory expert of EUROGLYCOFORUM
Prof. Dr. Bernardo Herold - Secretary of IUPAC - Interdivisional Committee on Terminology, Nomenclature and Symbols
Prof. Dr. Derek Horton, Chair of Carbohydrates in the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB)-IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature and Editor of Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Johannes Vliegenthart, titular member of IUBMB-IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature
Prof. Francesco Nicotra, Chair of the IUPAC Division III Subcommittee on Biotechnolohgy
Prof. Dr. Paul Kosma, Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur Wien, Austria
Prof. Dr. Richard Schmidt, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Pierre Vogel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, editor of Topics in Current Chemistry
Dr. Armando Torres Paulo, President of Growers and Exporters of Rocha Pear Association
Comendador Rui Nabeiro, Administrador de Cafés Delta
Juan Carlos Estevez Cabanas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain