Raluca Trifu is the ESLA Board member responsible for Professional and Scientific-based Standards, hence responsible for the Congress. Previously she was actively involved in the activity of the Task Force for European SLT Day and Webinar Series. Raluca is an associate professor and researcher at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj – Napoca and founding member and vice-president of the Association of Specialists in Speech and Language Therapy in Romania-ASTTLR. In her clinical practice, Raluca focuses on language development in children with typical or impaired development and on adults with neurologic language disorder. Her interests include early intervention and prevention of language impairment and myofunctional therapy. She is the author and co-author of 5 volumes, over 40 scientific articles and numerous conference proceedings. She is involved in the process of translation and adaptation in the Romanian language of a series of materials in the field of SLT.

Carolina Bodea Haţegan is a PhD Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Department of Special Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca/ founding member and president of the Association of Specialists in Speech and Language Therapy in Romania-ASTTLR. Her areas of interest are: speech and language disorders, voice disorders, language assessment, early intervention in speech and language field, learning disabilities. Author and co-author of 12 volumes (of which the most recent and most popular is the volume Speech Therapy. Therapy of language disorders. Open Structures) of over 100 scientific articles, involved in the process of translation and adaptation for the Romanian language of a series of materials in the field of speech and language therapy. For the Future ESLA Congress she is the Chair of the Scientific Committee.

Ronny Boey is a clinician, researcher and teacher since 1980 specialized in stuttering. He did his PhD at the University of Antwerp in 2008 with research on the epidemiology and phenomenology of stuttering and the long-term effects of social cognitive behavioural therapy. He is a post doc researcher at the University of Antwerp Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

He is president of the Center for Information, Research and Training on Stuttering (CIOOS).

In 2017 R. Boey and H. Niessen were awarded the prize of the Flemish Association for Speech Therapists for the innovative scientific work in the field of diagnostics of dyslexia and for the lifelong publications in the field of stuttering for R. Boey.

Publications  see https://publicaties.cvst.be/

Francesca Ballatore, bilingual speech and language therapist. She currently works in different multidisciplinary teams at Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, in Brussels. Her role involved developing and delivering clinical assessment and management of patients with paediatric eating disorders and complex communication needs in genetic disorders such as Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder… Passionate about several fields of SLT, and constantly looking for new opportunities to learn and improve my skills, she joined the congress ESLA task force in order to support this major event for European SLTs to increase the visibility and awareness of our profession.

Marleen D’hondt, an SLT with over 40 years of pediatric feeding and developmental disorder experience, previously taught at Artevelde University College, Gent. Currently, she serves at Prinses Elisabeth University Hospital for children in Gent's gastroenterology unit. Certified in several areas, Marleen is a Senior Bobath tutor, secretary of the EBTA, and offers international pediatric feeding disorder courses. For 30 years, she's been a board member of VVL, the Flemish SLT professional association, having organized conferences and served as chair of the Recognition Committee in Flanders and vice president of the technical commission for paramedical professions.