Advisory Board
| Member | Affiliation | Field of excellence |
| Gerhard Eschweiler | Centre for Geriatric Medicine Tübingen (Germany) | Head |
| Leo Wanner | Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) | Speech synthesis, linguistic analysis / generation |
| Grigoris Antoniou | University of Huddersfield (UK) | Semantic web, information fusion, artificial intelligence |
| Wolfgang Minker | Ulm University (Germany) | Dialogue management |