This is the15th workshop in the ISCOM series which was started in Mittleberg (Austria, 1995). Subsequent meetings include Sesimbra (Portugal, 1997), Oxford (United Kingdom, 1999), Rusutsu (Japan, 2001), Port-Bourgenay (France, 2003), Key West (United States, 2005), Peniscola (Spain, 2007), Niseko (Japan, 2009), Poznan-Gniezno (Poland, 2011), Montreal (Canada, 2013), Bad Gogging (Germany, 2015), Miyagi (Japan, 2017), Tomar (Portugal, 2019) , and Le Pouliguen (France, 2022).