Invited speakers include Keith Blades, masonry conservation specialist, architectural and engineering technical consultant, educator; Craig Campbell, ASLA, landscape architect and author of "Water in Landscape Architecture;" Davendra Contractor, architect, stonemason; Malcolm Holzman, FAIA, architect and author of the book "Stone Work;" Gen Kumigai, Japanese architect and scholar; Tomas Lipps, stonemason. Stone Foundation founder; John Maine, English public art sculptor/stonemason; Richard Sammons, architect, one of a number of "new traditionalist" architects, whose structures utilize traditional materials and techniques including load-bearing stone walls; and Dan Snow, dry stonemason, philosopher and author of "In the Company of Stone.

Themes include Stonework in Architecture, Restoration Masonry, Medieval Stonemasonry, Structural Stonework, Tectonic Stone Art, Dry Stone Walling, Stone in the Landscape, Amerindian Masonry, Traditional Lime Mortar and Stonework of Other Lands.