An overview of the scientific program of the conference will be given. The conference covered a broad range topics related to strong interactions and QCD, and it was organized in the seven sections: Vacuum Structure and Confinement, Light Quarks, Heavy Quarks, Deconfinement, QCD and New Physics, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Strongly Coupled Theories.
Inaugurated in 1994 in Como, Italy, this series of conferences has become an important forum for scientists working on strong interactions, stimulating exchanges among theorists and experimentalists as well as across related fields. This edition of the conference was dedicated to the memory of Michael Müller-Preußker. More than 350 scientist participated in the conference, the scientific program included over 270 talks.