It is with great pleasure to inform the scholars that Professor Frank Allgöwer as a keynote speaker at the Sixth International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Automation (ACCIA2019) has accepted the organizers’ invitation. It is noteworthy that currently he is President of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for the years 2017-2020, Vice President of the DFG since 2012 and professor in mechanical engineering at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. His lecture’s title is the past, present and future of Model Predictive Control (MPC).