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 were invited to submit both research and tool papers. The scientific program has included invited talks, paper and tool presentations and tutorials.

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