Honorary Chair Person
Professor Roger Owen, FRS, FREng (Swansea University)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Foreign Member of both the US National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Awarded the Computational Mechanics Award of IACM, Grand Prize of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering, Warner T. Koiter Medal of ASME, Gauss-Newton Medal of IACM, Premier Medal of the Spanish Society for Computational Mechanics and honorary doctorates by ENS Cachan, UPCD and University of Porto.

Co-Chairperson
Professor René de Borst, FREng, FRSE (The Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Officer in the National Order of Merit (France), Fellow of Institution of Civil Engineers. He has been awarded the Computational Mechanics Award of the IACM, Spinoza Prize, Grand Prize of the Japanese Society for Computational Engineering Science and degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon.

Co-Chairperson
Professor Jason Reese, FREng, FRSE (Regius Chair of Engineering, University of Edinburgh)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council. Awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Engineering (Leverhulme Trust), the Lord Kelvin Medal (Royal Society of Edinburgh), and a MacRobert Award (Royal Academy of Engineering) finalist.