The 2nd International Forum on Fluid Machinery and Engineering held in Jiangsu University. Professor Rene Van den Braembussche gave speeches at “Optimization systems for multidisciplinary turbomachinery design”. Professor Srinath Ekkad gave speeches at “Gas turbine research at Virginia Tech”. Professor Franco Magagnato Bryan Karney gave speeches at “Comparison of the harmonic balance method for flows in fluid machinery”. Professor Luca D’Agostino gave speeches at “Turbomachinery developments and cavitaiton; Hydrodynamic instabilities of turbopumps; On the design of centrifugal turbopumps Cavitation Instabilities in a 4-Bladed High-Head Inducer; Rotordynamic Forces on a 4-Bladed High-Head Inducer”. Professor Hyung Hee Cho gave speeches at “Thermal and fluidic analysis of rotor blade with various inlet flow conditions”. Professor Gerard Bois gave speeches at “Some specific problems related to measurements with rotor-stator interactions in the rotor and the vane diffuser of an air pump test model”. Professor Giorgio Pavesi gave speeches at “Experimental and Numerical Characterization of Unsteady Phenomena in Pumps”.