Last week’s conference in Beijing was a great success! 200 scientists met in Beijing and discussed the latest scientific and industrial developments in the field of Capacitive Deionization. The 4-day conference started on Monday with three tutorials on theory, cell architectures and metrics by renowned professors. Thereafter, the scientific part of the program started, with many talks on operation, materials design, ion selective removal & recovery and the industrial application of CDI technology. The conference was hosted by Prof. Peng Liang from the School of Environment of Tsinghua University, and due to his tremendous efforts and the excellent support by his students, all scientists and industrial partners had an amazing week in Beijing!