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The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) will take place in Athens, Greece from September 5th to 9th, 2011. This event builds upon a very successful series of 21 ECML and 14 PKDD conferences, which have been jointly organized for the past ten years. It has become the major European scientific event in these fields and in 2011 it will comprise presentations of contributed papers and invited speakers, a wide program of workshops and tutorials, a discovery challenge, a demo track and an industrial track. We stress the excellent key note speeches by top researchers in the area of Machine Learning following: - Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Search Labs, California, USA), • Albert-László Barabási, Center of Complex Networks Research, Harvard University. • Christofer Bishop, Microsoft Research Labs, Cambridge, UK • Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy • Heikki Mannila, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland • Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research Finally the conference will offer an extraordinary social programme centered around the world heritage monument of ACROPOLIS and its companion, the new Museum of the Acropolis – an architectural jewel by the architect Bernard Tschumi. The organizing institutions: -Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece -Univ. of Piraeus, Greece -Univ. of Athens, Greece -Univ. of Bari, Italy -Univ. of Ioannina, Greece -Google Research