Based on the success of the past sixteen Eilat Conferences on New Antiepileptic Drugs (AEDs), the Organizing Committee takes pleasure in inviting you to participate in the Seventeenth Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices (EILAT XVII), which will take place in Madrid, Spain, May 5-8, 2024. For the forthcoming conference, we will be continuing with debates as well as adhering to the format of the previous conferences which are designed to provide an in-depth progress report on new antiepileptic drugs in various stages of development, as well as to present new findings on second-generation treatments.