• To provide to infectious disease specialists, clinical microbiologists, intensive care physicians, emergency department physicians and paediatricians an updated overview of all aspects of sepsis, from pathophysiology to management.

• To give participants the opportunity to have state-of-the-art, new insights and scientific exchanges on sepsis diagnosis and treatment, including:

· Current views on the pathogenesis of sepsis

· Usefulness of biomarkers in sepsis

· New developments in the diagnosis of sepsis

· The new “Surviving Sepsis Guidelines” update

· Novel antibiotics and optimal dosing in sepsis

· Novel adjunctive immunotherapies

· The sepsis research agenda for the coming decade

• To give participants the opportunity to have small scale insightful discussions with the leaders in the field.