| Paolo Atzeni | Universita di Roma 3, Italy | confirmed |
| Phil Bernstein | Microsoft Research, USA | confirmed |
| Andrea Calì | Oxford University, UK | confirmed |
| Diego Calvanese | Università di Bolzano, Italy | confirmed |
| Lorenzo Carlucci | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy | confirmed |
| Giuseppe De Giacomo | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy | confirmed |
| Umeshwar Dayal | HP Labs, USA | confirmed |
| Christian Drumm | SAP AG, Germany | confirmed |
| Michael Fink | Vienna University of Technology, Austria | confirmed |
| Giorgio Gianforme | Universita di Roma 3, Italy | confirmed |
| Georg Gottlob | Oxford University, UK | confirmed |
| Gosta Grahne | Concordia Uiversity, Canada | confirmed |
| Gianluigi Greco | Università della Calabria, Italy | confirmed |
| Todd Green | University of Pennsylvania, USA | confirmed |
| Laura Haas | IBM Almaden, USA | confirmed |
| Phokion Kolaitis | IBM Almaden, USA | confirmed |
| Zach Ives | University of Pennsylvania, USA | confirmed |
| Maurizio Lenzerini | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy | confirmed |
| Rene Miller | University of Torornto, Canada | confirmed |
| Reinhard Pichler | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | confirmed |
| Antonella Poggi | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy | confirmed |
| Lucian Popa | IBM Almaden, USA | confirmed |
| Riccardo Rosati | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy | confirmed |
| Arnie Rosenthal | The MITRE Corporation, USA | confirmed |
| Pavel Shvaiko | Università di Trento, Italy | confirmed |
| Vadim Savenkov | Technische Universität Wien, Austria | confirmed |
| Dimitris Skoutas | National Technical University of Athens, Greece | confirmed |
| Guido Vetere | IBM Italia, Italy | confirmed |