Chairpersons: P.M. Seferović, B. Maisch, K. Dickstein, A. Keren,
M. Matucci-Cerinic, V. Kanjuh, V. Mitrović, R. Maksimović

Welcome on Behalf of the Organizing Committee
P.M. SEFEROVIĆ, Belgrade, RS, Director of the Conference

Welcome to the Serbian Academy of Sciencies and Arts
Z. KOVAČEVIĆ, Belgrade, RS, Member, SASA Executive Board

Welcome on Behalf of the Scientific Committee
V. KANJUH, Belgrade, RS, President, SASA Board of Cardiovascular Pathology

Welcome on Behalf of the Government of the Republic of Serbia
T. MILOSAVLJEVIĆ, Belgrade, RS, Minister of Health of the Republic of Serbia

Welcome on Behalf of the ESC WG on Myocardial & Pericardial Diseases
A. KEREN, Jerusalem, IL, Chairman, ESC WG on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

Welcome on Behalf of EULAR
M. MATUCCI-CERINIC, Florence, IT, Secretary General, European League Against the Rheumatism (EULAR)

Cooperation of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC and the ESC WG on Myocardial & Pericardial Diseases
K. DICKSTEIN, Stavanger, NO, President, Heart Failure Association of the ESC

SPECIAL LECTURE AND OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Guidelines implementation, a challenge for the clinician.
M. TENDERA, Katowice, PL, Immediate Past President of the European Society of Cardiology

Multimedia performance

"This Town is the Spot to which our Heart is Bound"
Concept: Petar Popović, Ana Rodić & Nebojša Babić
Realisation: Orange Studio Beograd
Art exhibition by Željko Komosar
"Struggle of the failing heart - Heart of Immagination and Watercolors"
Host Mrs. Ana Sofrenović
Band 'Good Morning Heartache'
Quartet Intermezzo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 'Divertimento' D dur