This years conference will have a new feature of focused sessions, each containing one or more invited talks and a number of contributed talks, and organized by leading workers in the following respective fields. Abstract submissions are encouraged in these fields.

• Devices, organized by M Koide
• Single Defects in Diamond and Quantum Computing, organized by J Wrachtrup
• Superconductivity in Diamond, organized by E Bustarret
• ‘Graphene’ organized by L Ley