| 09.00 | Welcome Coffee, Registration |
| 09.30 | Opening of the symposium, welcome message Dr. Brigitte Buchmann, Head of Department Mobility, Energy and Environment, Empa |
| 09.45 | Prof. Dr. Mercouri Kanatzidis, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston (USA) «Chemistry and Devices from Halide Perovskites Semiconductors» |
| 10.35 | Dr. Maryna Bodnarchuk, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa, Dübendorf (SUI) «Colloidal Quantum Dots: from their Discovery to Applications» |
| 11.25 | Prof. Dr. Edward Sargent, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto (CAN) |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
| 13.00 | SCS General Assembly 2019 |
| 13.30 | Werner Prize Award Lecture 2019 Prof. Jeremy Luterbacher, EPFL Lausanne (SUI) «Protect and serve: acetal formation during biomass fractionation as a toolkit for reducing degradation and introducing new reactivity» |
| 14.20 | Prof. Dr. Christophe Copéret, Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, ETH Zurich (SUI) «Molecular Understanding and Controlled Functionalization of Surfaces Towards Single-Site Catalysts and Beyond» |
| 15.10 | Coffee Break |
| 15.40 | Prof. Dr. Jürgen Janek, Institute of Physical Chemistry & Center for Materials Research, Justus-Liebig University Gießen, (GER) and BELLA, Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (GER) «Advanced Solid Electrolytes and the Development of Solid State Batteries» |
| 16.30 | Prof. Dr. Michele Ceriotti, Labaratory of Computational Science and Modelling, EPFL Lausanne (SUI) «Physics-Based Machine Learning for Atomistic Modelling» |
| 17.20 | Closing remarks, Aperitif |