Invited Speaker	Affiliation	Tentative title/topic
Dragan Damjanovic	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne – Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland	Polar response in nominally centrosymmetric phases of oxide and organometallic halide perovskites
Martijn Kemerink	Linköping University, Sweden	Columnar molecular multi-ferroic materials
Apostolos Kyritsis	National Technical University of Athens – NTUA, Greece	Hyaluronic Acid – Gelatin hydrogels as bioelectrets: charge transport and dielectric polarization processe
Takeo Furukawa	Kobayasi Institute of Physical Research, Japan	Bernhard Gross Memorial Lecture
Reimund Gerhard	University of Potsdam, Germany	50 years of international electret symposia from 1967 to 2017 – A global history
Andrei Kholkin	University of Aveiro, Portugal	Recent advancements in Scanning Probe Microscopy of functional materials
Dorina Opris	EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland	Smart capacitors
Michael Wübbenhorst	Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Belgium	Vapor deposited ultrastable glasses: a novel route towards polar amorphous solids
Martin Kaltenbrunner	Johannes Kepler University, Austria	Biodegradable Soft Transducers and Sensor Skins
Collette Lacabanne	Université de Toulouse, France	Influence of the particles aspect ratio on the ferromagnetic and piezoelectric coupling in polymer based nanocomposites
Peng Fang	Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China	The Electric Charges on Polymeric Electrets and Their Applications
Yuji Suzuki	University of Tokyo, Japan	Electret piezoelectricity
Tomas Plecenik	Comenius University, Slovakia	Resistive switching phenomena for Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and other alternative applications
Ruy AP Altafim	Univ Federal Paraíba, Brazil	3D-printed piezoelectrets
Qiming Zhang	Pennsylvania State University, MA, USA	Dielectric Metamaterials Exhibiting Amazing Interfacial Effects.