Plenary talkers
- Mirko Kovac (Imperial College London / Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa))
- Shizuko Hiryu (Doshisha University)
- Takuya Umedachi (Shinshu University)
- Eiichi Izawa (Keio University)
Invited talkers
- Alexander Spröwitz (Max Planck Institute)
- Akira Fukuhara (Tohoku University)
- Yoichi Masuda (Osaka University)
- Megu Gunji (Toyo University)
- Tetsuya Kinugasa (Okayama University of Science)
- Hiroyuki Nabae (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
- Nick Gravish (University of California San Diego)
- Simon Sponberg (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Noriyasu Ando (Maebashi Institute of Technology)
- Tanvi Deora (University of Washington)
- Arion Pons (Chalmers University of Technology)
- Jonathan Arreguit (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne)
- Emily Standen (University of Ottawa)
- Henry Astley (The University of Akron)
- Dimitri Ryckzo (Université de Sherbrooke)
- Hidemitsu Furukawa (Yamagata University)
- Ryo Minegishi (The University of Queensland)
- Amir Ayali (Tel Aviv University)
- Poramate Manoonpong (Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology)
- Nguyen Huu Duoc (Nanyang Technological University)
- Takeshi Sakurai (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
- Malte Schilling (University of Münster)
- Hiroshi Ito (Kyushu University)
- Dario Floreano (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne)
- Yusuke Tsunoda (Osaka University)
- William Sellers (The University of Manchester)
- Monica Daley (University of California Irvine)
- Maziar Sharbafi (The Technical University of Darmstadt)
Organized Sessions
- Beyond aerodynamics - the role of mechanics, materials, and morphing in flight
- Comprehensive biomimetics - decoding functionality of animal body by collaboration between anatomy and robotics