Confirmed invited speakers and topics:
- Anna Y. Q. Ho (Cornell University, USA): The population of luminous fast and blue optical transients
- Armin Rest (STScI, USA): High-redshift transients survey
- Benito Marcote (JIVE Dwingeloo, Netherlands): Observations of fast radio bursts
- Brenna Mockler (UC Davis, USA): New insights on tidal disruption event simulations (TBC)
- Daichi Hiramatsu (Harvard CfA, USA): Hydrogen-rich supernovae interacting with circumstellar medium
- Daniel Kasen (UC Berkeley, USA): Central engine theory in fast transients across wavelengths
- Emille Ishida (Université Clermont Auvergne, France): LSST brokers and novel methods in big data analysis
- Eva Laplace (KU Leuven, Belgium): Stellar evolution in binary systems
- Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University, Israel): Observations of tidal disruption events and other nuclear transients
- Irene Tamborra (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark): Neutrino and gravitational wave emissions from core-collapse supernovae
- Janet T. W. Chen (National Central University, Taiwan): Superluminous supernovae with future facilities
- Joseph P. Anderson (ESO Chile): Supernova environments, host galaxies, and remnants
- Kate Maguire (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Future prospects on Type Ia supernova studies
- Kuntal Misra (ARIES, India): Gamma-ray bursts with current and future instrumentations
- Mario Hamuy (Fundación Chilena de Astronomía, Chile): Efforts on public involvement in transient astrophysics
- Masaomi Tanaka (Tohoku University, Japan): Observations and predictions of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave and neutrino events
- Nadia Blagorodnova (University of Barcelona, Spain): Luminous red novae and gap transients
- Samaporn Tinyanont (NARIT, Thailand): Polarization and near-infrared studies of core-collapse supernovae
- Weimin Yuan (NAOC, China): X-ray transient discoveries with the Einstein Probe