At the anniversary workshop three invited lectures took place:

• Dr. Romano Hoofmann from Europractice reported on the future of European Union funding. He also put new fields, such as. B. the integration of optical elements and the microsystem technology before.
• Dr. Jan-Peter Berns of the local company Hyperstone reported how the reliability of solid state memory (flash memory) can be effectively increased.
• Dr. Peter Baumgartner of INTEL introduced high-frequency technologies for mobile applications.

The Best Paper Award received at the MPC workshop Dipl.-Ing. MSc. Christian Epe from the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf.