The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to scale up their application in software industry and to encourage their integration with practical engineering methods.

Authors are invited to submit both research and tool papers. The scientific program will include invited talks, paper and tool presentations, tool demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and a special track on Service Engineering for Next Generation Networks and Converged Telecom and Web 2.0 Services.

The conference will be preceded by a two-week school, addressed to postgraduate students and researchers from academia and industry of the Southern Africa region.