It is a great pleasure for me to invite the whole power electronics community to join the European Power Electronics and Adjustable Speed Drives Conference (EPE’2007) held in Aalborg, Denmark, from September 2 to September 5, 2007 in order to exchange ideas/views on research progresses and technological developments in all related matters for power electronics. Denmark has during the last 20 years been through a change in respect to electrical power production and use. Today about 20 % of all electrical energy is covered by wind and further 30 % is covered by small combined heat and power plants which is a record in this scale. Further due to energy saving programmes the use of electricity has almost been constant even though production and population have increased. These issues will of course be adressed at the EPE’2007 conference which is sponsored by the EPE Association and will be held in the Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre – a perfect place for large conferences which is located in the center of Aalborg. The city is beautiful and lively, steeped in history and rich in great experiences, located by the banks of the rolling Limfjord. It was the Vikings who founded a settlement at this point where the Limfjord is narrowest, and through the years, the city developed into one of the busiest trading centre’s in the country. Trade and wealth set their mark on the city and many of the old buildings from that time have been preserved as natural elements in the city scene. Aalborg has excellent flight connections through Copenhagen with about twenty daily arrivals which make it easy to come to Aalborg. The airport is located 6 km from hotels and conference site. As usual we will have tutorials on Sunday, three days with paper presentations both orally and dialogue sessions and after the conference there will industrial tours to major Danish power electronic companies. We will also set up a spouse programme showing the beauty and the culture of Denmark. All presented papers will be included in IEEEXplore as we have technical co-sponsorships from major IEEE societies and the papers will also be registered in the Engineering Index. I hope to see you all in Denmark to make the conference a great success.

Frede Blaabjerg
Professor, Dean
EPE 2007 Conference Chair