Keynote session 1.
LIPs and cratons: Lithospheric structure of the intracratonic basins in Siberia
Irina M. Artemieva (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Keynote session 2.
Joint application of thermo-mechanical and stratigraphic numerical modeling: the tectono-sedimentary evolution of asymmetric extensional basins
Attila Balazs, Liviu Matenco, Didier Granjeon, Sierd Cloetingh (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Keynote session 3:
Issues And Challenges In Deep Water Drilling
Vassilios Kelessidis (Petroleum Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Keynote session 4.
Crustal structure and tectonic evolution along the African-Anatolian plate boundary offshore southern Cyprus.
Sönke Reiche (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Keynote session 6.
Innovative approaches of carbonate diagenesis quantification (Δ47 thermometry - U/Pb chronometry) - towards appraisal in geological modeling
Xavier Mangenot (IFPEN, France) Gasparrini, M., Montano, D., Bonifacie, M., Gerdes, A., Rouchon, V., Della Porta, G

Keynote session 7. Integrated approach for tectono-sedimentary basin analysis of the Levant (East-Mediterranean region): Implications on petroleum potentials and exploration de-risking of frontier basins
Fadi Henri Nader (IFPEN, France)