Prof. Dr. Jack W. Szostak, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2009 will be speaking on the topic "RNA and the Origin of Life."

Prof. Jagannath Mondal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India, will be speaking on the topic "Computer Simulation of Substrate Recognition: Folded protein versus IDP as Case Study."

Dr. Jan Michael Schuller, Department of Chemistry; Universität Marburg, will be speaking on the topic "Dissecting the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway - Molecular Basis of Metalloprotein Catalysis."

Prof. Dr. Rahul Banerjee, Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, will be speaking on the topic "Reticular Chemistry: From Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) to Porous Crystalline Nitrogen Doped Graphite".

Prof. Dr. Douglas W. Stephan, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, will be speaking on the topic "Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Reactivity across the Periodic Table."

Prof. Omar M. Yaghi, Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet, University of California-Berkeley, will be speaking on the topic: "Organic Chemistry for Solving the Climate Problem."

Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramírez, ETH Zurich, will be speaking on the topic "Catalysis and Sustainability: A Journey from Atom to Planet."

Prof. Dr. Zhenhui Kang, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, will be speaking on the topic "Carbon Dots Functional Materials".

Prof. Cecilia Clementi, Freie Universität Berlin, will be speaking on the topic "Navigating Protein Landscapes with a machine learned transferable coarse-grained model."