Plenary lectures will be complemented by Invited Sessions organized by recognised experts in targeted research areas. Contributions to these sessions are by invitation of the organizers.

Persons willing to organize an Invited Session on a specific topic are kindly requested to send their proposal to the conference secretariat.

The preliminary list of confirmed Invited Sessions follows:

Adaptive Lightweight  Structures
Knut Göppertand and Christoph Paech
Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Germany

Advances on Inflatable Structures in Engineering and Architecture
Javier Marcipar and Eugenio Oñate
Buildair, Spain / CIMNE / UPC, Barcelona, Spain

Detailing - Case studies - Installation process
Josep Ignasi Llorens
UPC, School of Architecture, Barcelona, Spain
Günther H. Filz
University of Innsbruck, Austria 

Durability of Light Weight Structures
Heidrun Bögner-Balz 
HS-Anhalt and DEKRA Certification GmbH, Germany

Energetic Aspects
Jianhui Hu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Karsten Moritz
TAIYO Europe GmbH, Germany
Wujun Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

New Developments in Membrane Building
Lars Schiemann and Karsten Moritz
MUAS Munich / TAIYO Europe GmbH, Germany

New Materials
Thomas Stegmaier and Andreas Kunze
ITV Denkendorf, Germany

Numerical Methods and  Modelling of Tensile Structures
Benedikt Philipp, Falko Dieringer  and Kai-Uwe Bletzinger
TUM University / Konstruktionsgruppe Bauen AG/ TUM Univserity, Germany

Retractable Membrane Structures
Alfred Rein and Mike Sieder
Alfred Rein Ingenieure / VariCon, Germany

Transparent Building Skins - Challenges and Solutions
Karsten Moritz, Simone Toso and Lars Schiemann
TAIYO Europe GmbH / HTW Berlin, Germany

Wind Engineering and  Fluid-structure Interaction
Roland Wüchner and  Kai-Uwe Bletzinger 
TUM University, Germany