General Chair:

• Nikola Kasabov, (nkasabov@aut.ac.nz, www.kedri.info)

Program Co-Chairs:

• Mario Koeppen
• George Coghill
• Masumi Ishikawa

Publicity Chairs: 

• Shiro Usui
• Bill Howel
• Ajit Narayanan
• Suash Deb

Plenary and Invited Talks Chairs:

• Takeshi Yamakawa
• Andreas Koenig
• Tom Gedeon

Panels Chairs: 

• Robert Kozma
• Mario Fedrizzi
• M.Tsukada
• Stephen MacDonell

Tutorial Chairs:

• Sung-Bae Cho
• Martin McGinnity
• L.Benuskova

Special Session Chairs:

• Soo-Young Lee
• Richard Duro
• Shaoning Pang

Poster Session Chairs:

• Bernadete Ribeiro
• Qun Song
• Frances Joseph

Workshop Chairs:

• Mike Paulin
• Irwin King
• Kaori Yoshida
• Napoleon H. Reyes

Demonstrations Chairs:

• Sue Worner
• Russel Pears
• Michael Defoin-Platel

Local Organising Chair:

• Mrs. Joyce D’Mello, jdmello@aut.ac.nz

Technical Support Chair :

• Peter Hwang

Track Chairs:

• Neurodynamics, Takeshi Aihara, Tamagawa University, Japan
• Cognitive Neuroscience, Alessandro Villa, UJF Grenoble, France
• Brain Mapping, Jagath Rajapakse, Nanyang Technological University,  Singapore
• Neural Network Learning Paradigms, Nik Kasabov, Auckland University  of Technology, New Zealand
• Kernel Methods and SVM, Bernardete Ribeiro, University of Coimbra,  Portugal
• Ensemble Methods for Neural Networks, Andre C P L F de Carvalho,  University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Information Algebra, Andrzej Cichocki, RIKEN, Japan
• Neural Networks for Perception, Akira Iwata, Nagoya Institute of  Technology, Japan
• Neural Networks for Motoric Control, Minho Lee, Kyungpook National  University, Korea
• Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition, Paul Pang, Auckland 
• University of Technology, New Zealand
• Neural Networks for Robotics, Richard Duro, University of Coruna, Spain
• Neuromorphic Hardware, Leslie S. Smith, University of Stirling, UK
• Embedded Neural Networks, Andreas Koenig, University of  Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Neural Network Based Semantic Web, Data Mining and Knowledge  Discovery, Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, Hongkong
• Computational Intelligence, Wlodzislaw Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus  University, Poland
• Brain-Computer Interface, Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of  Technology, Japan
• Bioinformatics, Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
• Neural Paradigms for Real-World Networks, Tom Gedeon, The Australian  National University, Australia
• Quantum Neural Networks, Mika Hirvensalo, University of Turku, Finland
• Neural Network Implementation in Hardware and Software, George  Coghill, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
• Biologically Inspired Neural Networks, Nik Kasabov, Auckland  University of Technology, New Zealand