Invited speakers and topics:
- Alceste Bonanos (National Observatory of Athens, Greece) – Variable massive stars
- Andreas Sander (Universität Heidelberg, Germany) – Hot star winds
- Anjasha Gangopadhyay (Hiroshima University, Japan) – Interacting SNe type IIn, Ibn, Icn
- Daichi Hiramatsu (Harvard University, USA) – SNe Type II, stripped-envelope SNe, and superluminous SNe
- Daniel Perley (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) – Fast transients and new discoveries of peculiar supernovae/transients
- Emma Beasor (University of Arizona, USA) – Red supergiant mass loss and evolution
- Mansi Kasliwal (California Institute of Technology, USA) – Recent and future transient surveys
- Morgan Fraser (University College Dublin, Ireland) – Luminous red novae, SN impostors, intermediate-luminosity transients
- Tomer Shenar (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) – Observational constraints on massive binary star evolution
- Ylva Götberg (Carnegie Observatories, USA) – Stripped-envelope stars in binary systems