Technical Program will include: Distinguished lectures, Oral and poster presentations, Special (thematic) sessions, Invited lectures (one invited lecture for each session), Panel discussions, Short courses, Workshops and Side-event. At the Technical Exhibition, exhibitors are companies producing equipment or software for petroleum industry, as well as related to renewable energy. Publishing houses, scientific societies (EAGE, SEG, SPE, etc.) and universities, will also participate.

Special attention will be directed to students and young geophysicists – beside oral and poster presentations, Geo-Quiz will be organized, as well as Career Center and Universities corner.

Participants will have opportunity to enjoy the lecture and movie dedicated to Serbian geophysicist, Milutin Milankovic (within 130th Anniversary of his birth, celebrated under UNESCO patronage). One of invited lectures will be related to geophysical exploration at the Viminacium archaeological locality. Beside cultural heritage, geoheritage will be also topic No 1, promoting potential geoparks in Serbia , at Balkan region and more. Also, field excursions to geoparks in Serbia are planned (Fruška Gora, Stara Planina, Ðavolja Varoš).

Side-event Energy, Economy and Environment (14-16 May 2009) will be also organized. The world energy experts will come face to face with the top representatives of WB, UNESCO, UNDP, UNEP, EC and EEA, and with ministers of energy and environment from the Balkan countries. Geological storage CO2, an approach to mitigate climate changes, will be on the hot agenda. This is one of the Congress aims – to contribute towards achieving some of the UN Millenium Development Goals.

Technical exhibition is expected to be very important part of the event that will gather exhibitors from energy industry, companies producing equipment or software for petroleum industry, as well as for all governmental and private organizations operating in the geo-sciences. Those attending the Congress should plan to spend a part of every day in the exhibition area to become acquainted with the state-of–the-art in equipment, products and services. Being focused on the research in basic and applied Geophysics in the Balkan countries, it is as well market-positioned as the international event, teaching of Geophysics in the Universities and postgraduate R & D activities in the Institutions and Universities. A large proportion of the participants of the Congress is expected to come from the petroleum and mining industry. New frontiers in exploration and research are being opened, with different environmental and technological challenges to meet the Millennium development Goals. Organizers hope that these issues will be addressed at the Congress, which will be the main meeting place to discuss these important topics.

Belgrade, in the heart of the Balkan region, is the perfect location from which international companies can target the South East European market. The most modern multi-functional EXPO XXI Belgrade International Expocentre (www.expoxxi.co.yu) provides the highest levels of service, adapting to exhibitors’ needs with great choice of highest standard facilities and services. With 2,500m2 of column free, multi-functional space, partition walls allowing adaptation of the hall shape according to special requirements, high ceilings allowing to hang banners and lights and underground utilities channels altogether obtain technical connections at any part of the hall. Within the EXPO XXI Center, the Technical exhibition has space for more than 50 exhibitors for introducing many new products and services, including computer hardware and software; seismic acquisition and processing equipment; educational, consulting and project management services and numerous other innovative products, as well as science publishers to display their most recent books and journals.

Special part of the EXPO XXI is planned for promotion of universities from Balkan countries, but also from all over the world.