17th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials took place from May 13th to 15th 2008 in Hradec nad Moravicí and it had 5 Symposia again. There were reported four papers in the plenary session aimed at europe research programs a technological platforms. The participants had possibility to listen to another 152 papers. The number of participants was 223. There was 137 participants from Czech Republic. There was participants from abroad: Slovakia 31, Poland 1, Russia 6, Venezuela 1, Lithuana 4, South Korea 1, India 1, Romania 5, Germany 1, Belgium 1, Greece 1, Algeria 1, U.S.A. 4, Turkey 2, France 2 and Libya 2..