Honorary Committee:
1. Dr Jarosław Sellin - Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, Secretary of State, General Conservator of Monuments - Chairman
2. Jakub Chełstowski - Marshall of the Silesian Voivodship
3. Professor Meinrad Maria Grewenig - Chairman of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH)
4. Professor Michał Kleiber - Chairman of the Polish Committee for UNESCO
5. Łukasz Kmita - Governor of Lesser Poland Voivodship
6. Małgorzata Mańka- Szulik - President of the City of Zabrze
7. Adam Mirek, Dr.-Ing.- President of the Higher Mining Authority
8. Miles Oglethorpe, PhD - Chairman of the International Committee on Industrial Heritage (TICCIH)
9. Professor Jacek Purchla - Chairman of the Council of the Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka
10. Piotr Rypson, PhD - Chairman of the Polish National Committee of the International Council of Museums ICOM
11. Professor Bogusław Szmygin - President of the Polish National Committee of ICOMOS
12. Katarzyna Zalasińska, Ph.D. - Director of the National Heritage Institute