The meeting brings together all directions of chemistry represented within the society and offers a program of top plenary lectures, exciting specialized parallel sessions and plenty of room for interactions with meeting participants and exhibitors between scientific sessions. We are also celebrating the 150 anniversary of Kemiska Föreningen in Lund.A special invitation to young(er) chemists, to showcase their research and ideas and to take advantage of the unique networking opportunities. One of the aims of SCS2018 is to become the platform for chemists in Sweden, maintaining and expanding the “family gathering” feeling of divisional “Analysdagarna and Organikerdagarna”.