Steering and local committee
| François Blayo | NeoInstinct |
| Marie Cottrell | Univ. Paris I |
| Mia Loccufier | Univ.Gent |
| Gilles Louppe | Liège University |
| Bernard Manderick | Vrije Univ. Brussel |
| Jean-Pierre Peters | Univ. Namur |
| Johan Suykens | KULeuven |
| Joos Vandewalle | KULeuven |
| Michel Verleysen | UCLouvain |
| Louis Wehenkel | Univ. Liège |
| Souhaib Ben Taieb | University of Mons |
Scientific committee
| Fabio Aiolli | University of Padova | |
| Amparo Alonso-Betanzos | Univ. of A Coruña | |
| Plamen Angelov | Lancaster Univ. | |
| Davide Anguita | University of Genoa | |
| Cecilio Angulo | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya | |
| Aluizio Araújo | Univ. Federal de Pernambuco | |
| Cédric Archambeau | Amazon Development Center | |
| Miguel Atencia | Univ. Malaga | |
| Michael Aupetit | Qatar Computing Res. Inst. | |
| Davide Bacciu | Università di Pisa | |
| Andreas Backhaus | Fraunhofer-Institut | |
| Lluís Belanche | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya | |
| Younès Bennani | Université Paris 13 | |
| Michael Biehl | University of Groningen | |
| Martin Bogdan | Univ. Leipzig | |
| Verónica Bolón-Canedo | University of A Coruña | |
| Pierre Borgnat | ENS Lyon | |
| Charles Bouveyron | Université Côte d’Azur | |
| Antonio Braga | Federal University of Minas Gerais | |
| Kerstin Bunte | University of Groningen | |
| Joan Cabestany | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya | |
| Stéphane Canu | INSA Rouen Normandie | |
| Andreu Català | Univ. Polit. de Catalunya | |
| Nestor Caticha | Univ. Sao Paulo | |
| Sylvain Chevallier | University of Versailles | |
| Valentina Colla | Scuola Sup. Sant'Anna | |
| Etienne Côme | IFSTTAR | |
| Nigel Crook | Oxford Brookes University | |
| Holk Cruse | Universität Bielefeld | |
| Giovanni Da San Martino | Qatar Computing Res. Inst. | |
| Massimo De Gregorio | Ist. di Sci. Appl. e Sistemi Intelligenti | |
| Wilson de Oliveira | Univ. Fed. Rural Pernambuco | |
| Gilles Delmaire | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale | |
| Michele Donini | Amazon | |
| Wlodek Duch | Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. | |
| Bruno Dumas | Univ. Namur | |
| Marc Duranton | CEA Saclay | |
| Richard Duro | Univ. Coruna | |
| Mark Embrechts | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
| Anibal Figueiras-Vidal | Univ. Carlos III Madrid | |
| Felipe M. G. França | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Damien François | Université catholique de Louvain | |
| Benoît Frénay | Univ. Namur | |
| Claudio Gallicchio | University of Pisa | |
| Manjunath Gandhi | University of Pretoria | |
| Alexander Gepperth | HAW Fulda | |
| Alessandro Ghio | Big Data Analytics Consult. | |
| Maurizio Giordano | Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni | |
| Luis Gonzalez Abril | University of Sevilla | |
| Marco Gori | Univ. Siena | |
| Bernard Gosselin | Univ. Mons | |
| Anne Guérin-Dugué | University Grenoble Alpes | |
| Barbara Hammer | Bielefeld Univ. | |
| Verena Heidrich-Meisner | CAU Kiel | |
| Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler | Univ. Vienna | |
| Gonzalo Joya | Univ. Malaga | |
| Christian Jutten | INPG Grenoble | |
| Ata Kaban | Univ. Birmingham | |
| Marika Kaden | Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida | |
| DaeEun Kim | Yonsei Univ. | |
| Stefanos Kollias | University of Lincoln | |
| Lubomir Kostal | Institute of Physiology CAS | |
| Jouko Lampinen | Aalto Univ. | |
| Beatrice Lazzerini | Univ. Pisa | |
| John Lee | UCLouvain | |
| Minho Lee | Kyungpook National University | |
| Amaury Lendasse | University of Houston | |
| Priscila M. V. Lima | Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Paulo Lisboa | Liverpool John Moores University | |
| Thomas Martinetz | Univ. Lübeck | |
| David Martinez Rego | Univ. A Coruna | |
| José D. Martín-Guerrero | Univ. of Valencia | |
| Siamak Mehrkanoon | Maastricht University | |
| Stefano Melacci | Univ. Siena | |
| Erzsebet Merenyi | Rice Univ. | |
| David Meunier | Aix-Marseille Université | |
| Anke Meyer-Bäse | Florida State Univ. | |
| Yoan Miche | Nokia Bell Labs | |
| Alessio Micheli | University of Pisa | |
| Nicola Navarin | Univ. of Padova | |
| Ann Nowe | Vrije Univ. Brussel | |
| Tjeerd olde Scheper | Oxford Brookes University | |
| Madalina Olteanu | Université Paris 1 | |
| Luca Oneto | Univ. Genova | |
| Latifa Oukhellou | IFSTTAR | |
| Benjamin Paassen | Bielefeld Univ. | |
| Gilles Pagès | Sorbonne Université | |
| German Parisi | Univ. Hamburg | |
| Kristiaan Pelckmans | Uppsala University | |
| Jaakko Peltonen | ||
| Francesco Pistolesi | Universita di Pisa | |
| Matthieu Puigt | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale | |
| Didier Puzenat | Université Lumière Lyon 2 | |
| Beatriz Remeseiro | University of Oviedo | |
| Jean-Pierre Rospars | INRA Versailles | |
| Fabrice Rossi | University Paris-Dauphine | |
| Gilles Roussel | Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale | |
| Ulrich Rückert | Bielefeld University | |
| David Saad | Aston Univ. | |
| Jose Santos Reyes | Univ. Coruna | |
| Frank-Michael Schleif | Univ. Applied Sciences Würzburg | |
| Udo Seiffert | Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg | |
| Emilio Soria | Univ. Valencia | |
| Alessandro Sperduti | Università degli Studi di Padova | |
| Jochen Steil | Technische Universität Braunschweig | |
| Ruxandra Stoean | University of Craiova | |
| Peter Tino | University of Birmingham | |
| Claude Touzet | Aix-Marseille University | |
| Marc Van Hulle | KULeuven | |
| Alfredo Vellido | Univ. Polit. Catalunya | |
| Nathalie Vialaneix | INRA | |
| Thomas Villmann | Univ. Applied Sciences Mittweida | |
| Heiko Wersing | Honda Research Institute Europe | |
| Axel Wismüller | University of Rochester | |
| Dietlind Zühlke | Technische Hochschule Köln |