Mini-symposia -- Invited speakers
| Seaweed study for climate change mitigation and adaptation | Ik Kyo Chung Hiroshi Kawai |
| Eucheuma | Michael Y. Roleda |
| Seaweed ecology: current issues and experimental approaches | Jeong Ha Kim Put O. Ang Jr |
| Ecology and current conservation studies on Crustose Coralline Algae in Pacific | Showe-Mei Lin Wendy Nelson |
| Response and Adaptation of Microalgae in the Changing Environment | Lim Phaik-Eem John Beardall |
| Phycological Women in the Asian-Pacific - past, present & emerging | Alecia Bellgrove |
| Signal transduction in algae | Gwan Hoon Kim |
| Securing sustainable seaweed aquaculture | Juliet Brodie Lim Phaik-Eem |
| Algal culture collection | Masanobu Kawachi Siew Moi Phang |
| Cryptic diversity and phylogeography in macroalgae | Mitsunobu Kamiya Myung Sook Kim |
| Carbon sequestration potential of seaweed aquaculture | Gregory N. Nishihara |
| Isoyake | Daisuke Fujita |
| Taxonomy of blue green algae | Shoichiro Suda Li Renhui |
| Seaweed Fishery – Current State and Issues – | Norishige Yotsukura Tifeng Shan |
| Chemical Biology of Algae | Tatsufumi Okino Lik Tong Tan |