We heartily welcome you to Malmö for the Near Surface Geoscience Conference & Exhibition 2017 that will be held in Malmö from 3–7 September. This edition will host the 23rd European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics and two parallel events; the Second European Airborne Electromagnetics Conference and the Fourth Sustainable Earth Sciences Conference. It will be a three-day scientific conference covering a wide array of issues related to Near Surface Geosciences including plenary talks, oral and poster presentations, an exhibition and field demonstrations. Furthermore, on the Sunday preceding the conference, two workshops and a short course will be offered. Different Field Trips will be organized immediately following the conference days.