| 13:00-13:05 | Opening address |
| 13:05-13:40 | Masahiko Tsuchiya (Yokohama National University) |
| "Soft ionization--its Birth to the Eve of ESI" | |
| 13:40-14:15 | Toshihiro Fujii (ANELVA Corporation) |
| "Ion Attachment Mass Spectrometry" | |
| 14:15-14:50 | Masamichi Yamashita (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science) |
| "Chemistry, Physics and Engineering for Electrospraying Biological Molecules" | |
| Intermission | |
| 15:00-15:45 | Catherine C. Fenselau (University of Maryland) |
| "Rapid Characterization of Intact Microorganisms by Soft Laser Desorption Mass Spectrometry" | |
| 15:45-16:30 | Robert J. Cotter (Johns Hopkins University) |
| "From TinyTOFs to TOF/TOFs" | |
| Intermission | |
| 16:45-17:45 | Robert J. Cotter (Johns Hopkins University) |
| "Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Soft Ionization" | |
| 18:00- | Convivial party |