Industry Events
DFI is pleased to provide this comprehensive listing of educational and networking events of interest to deep foundation and geotechnical professionals. The list is compiled from the many industry organizations with which DFI associates. If you’re aware of an event that would be of interest to your colleagues that is not listed below, please submit to us for addition to the listing.
Industry Events
| January 23-25, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada | World of Concrete 2024 | |
| January 27, 2024 Medford, Massachusetts | Tufts 2nd Annual Symposium in Geotechnical Engineering: Climate-Resilient and Equitable Infrastructure Tufts University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
 | February 7, 2024 Online | DFI Europe Webinar Series on Deep Foundation Performance under Hazard Loading DFI of Europe |
| February 7, 2024 New York, New York | George A. Fox Conference Underground Construction Association | |
| February 7, 2024 Portland, Oregon | 2023-2024 Traveling Lecturer at Oregon Geo-Institute Oregon Geo-Institute and DFI |
| February 8-9, 2024 Omaha, Nebraska | Geo-Omaha 41st Annual Geotechnical Conference Geo-Institute Nebraska Chapter, ASCE Nebraska Section | |
| February 12-13, 2024 Charlotte, North Carolina | GeoCarolinas 2024 Carolinas Geo-Institute Chapter | |
| February 14, 2024 Tiruchirappalli, India | International Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Heritage Structures (ISGHS 2024) Indian Geotechnical Society Trichy Chapter, NIT Trichy, NIT Puducherry and ISSMGE TC301 | |
| February 15-17, 2024 Kerala, India | National Conference on Soils and Foundations SAF-2024 and 7th TS Ramanatha Ayyer Memorial Lecture LBS Institute of Technology for Women, Indian Geotechnical Society-Thiruvananthapuram Chapter, Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the Technical Committee TC 212 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) |
| February 22, 2024 London, England | Concrete Forum: Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Solutions Federation of Piling Specialists | |
| February 23, 2024 Falcon Heights, Minnesota | University of Minnesota 72nd Annual Geotechnical Engineering Conference University of Minnesota | |
| February 25-28 2024 Vancouver, BC, Canada | GeoCongress 2024 ASCE Geo-Institute | |
| February 27-29, 2024 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 14th Asian Regional Conference of IAEG (ARC-14) – Engineering Geology and Geotechnics for Disaster Resilience Society for Engineering Geology and Rock Mechanics Malaysia (SEGRM) | |
| March 5-7, 2024 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Southeast Asian Conference and Exhibition on Tunnelling and Underground Space (SEACETUS2024) IEM Training Academy Sdn Bhd | |
| March 6-8, 2024 Sapporo, Japan | 9th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration (ISEV) and Transportation Geodynamics Japanese Geotechnical Society and the ISSMGE Technical Committee 202 | |
| March 14, 2024 Carnegie, Pennsylvania | 2023-2024 Traveling Lecturer at ASCE Geo-Institute: Pittsburgh Chapter ASCE Geo-Institute: Pittsburgh Chapter and DFI |
| April 4, 2024 University Park, Pennsylvania | 2023-2024 Traveling Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University and DFI |
| April 4-5, 2024 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 7th International Conference Series on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering and Structures (CIGOS) Association of Vietnamese Scientists and Experts (AVSE Global) and University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City (UAH) | |
| April 8-11, 2024 Knoxville, Tennessee | 2024 ASDSO Southeast Regional Conference Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) | |
| April 9-11, 2024 Rockbridge County, Virginia | 21st Annual Technical Forum on Geohazards CEGGA | |
| April 11, 2024 Copenhagen, Denmark | International Seminar on Successes and Failures: What did we learn? DFI Europe and the Danish Geotechnical Society |
| April 18, 2024 McLean, Virginia | 2023-2024 Traveling Lecturer at ASCE NCS Geo-Institute ASCE NCS Geo-Institute and DFI |
| April 18-20, 2024 Anaheim, CA | GBA 2024 Spring Conference Geoprofessional Business Association | |
| April 19-25, 2024, Shenzhen, China | World Tunnel Congress 2024 – Tunnelling for a better life China Civil Engineering Congress | |
| April 22-26, 2023 Online | DFI Midyear Committee Week DFI |
| April 22-26, 2024 Seattle, Washington | 2024 USSD Annual Conference and Exhibition USSD | |
| April 25-26, 2024 Ernakulam, India | International Conference on Novelties in Geotechnical Engineering (ICNGE 2024) Indian Geotechnical Society, Indian Geotechnical Society Kochi Chapter | |
| April 25-27, 2024 Hammamet, Tunisia | International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering (ICGE’24) The Geotechnical and Georisk Research Laboratory | |
| April 28-May 1, 2024 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | GeoAmericas 2024 International Geosynthetics Society | |
| May 5-7, 2024 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | International Geotechnical Innovation Conference Great Minds Event Management | |
| May 7-10, 2024 Dallas, Texas | IFCEE 2024 ADSC, DFI, Geo-Institute, PDCA |
| May 7-10, 2024 Osaka, Japan | 8th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering ISSMGE | |
| May 20-23, 2024 Albuquerque, New Mexico | 47th Southwest Geotechnical Engineering Conference (SWGEC) The University of Kansas | |
| May 26-29, 2024 Shanghai, China | 5th GeoShanghai International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering Tongji University, Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Shanghai Society of Civil Engineering | |
| May 28-30, 2024 Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 2nd Annual Conference on Foundation Decarbonization and Re-use KIVI, DFI |
| May 28-31, 2024 Chicago, Illinois | 2024 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference ASCE EMI Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline Extended: January 20, 2024 | |
| June 12-14, 2024 San Francisco, California | SuperPile 2024 DFI and ADSC |
| June 14-17, 2024 Macao SAR, China | IS-Macau 2024: 11th International Symposium of Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground University of Macau, LECM, and Technical Committee TC204 of the ISSMGE | |
| June 17, 2024 Barcelona, Spain | Non-Invasive Site Characterization using Open-Source Tools Short Course ISSMGE | |
| June 18-21, 2024 Barcelona Spain | 7th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization ISSMGE | |
| June 23-26, 2024 Nashville, Tennessee | North American Tunneling Conference Underground Construction Association (UCA) | |
| June 23-26, 2024 Golden, CO | 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium American Rock Mechanics Association | |
| June 24-26, 2024 Boston, Massachusetts | Global Business Summit 2024 Environment Analyst | |
| June 25-29, 2024 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia | European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference 2024 Macedonian Association for Geotechnics | |
| June 30-July 5, 2024 Milan, Italy | 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering ANIDIS and IAEE | |
| July 4-6, 2024 Warsaw, Poland | 5th International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials, and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2024) Institute of Civil Engineering | |
| July 7-10, 2024 Chambery, France | 4th International Symposium on Landslides 2024 ISSMGE | |
| August 5-8, 2024 Golden, Colorado | 5th International Conference on Information Technology in Geo-Engineering (ICITG) Colorado School of Mines Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: February 29, 2024 | |
| August 6-8, 2024 Aurora, Colorado | S3 2024: Slopes, Support and Stabilization DFI |
| August 26-30, 2024 Lisbon, Portugal | XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE 24) Sociedade Portuguesa de Geotecnia, SIMSG ISSMGE | |
| September 8-11, 2024 Portland, Oregon | GeoenvironMeet – Geoenvironmental Impacts of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resilience ASCE GI | |
| September 10-12, 2024 Orlando, Florida | 4th International Society for Intelligent Construction Conferenct (ISIC 2024) International Society for Intelligent Construction | |
| September 15-18, 2024 Louisville, Kentucky | AREMA 2024 American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association | |
| September 15-18, 2024 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | GeoMontreal 2024 CGS and IAH-CNC | |
| September 18-20, 2024 Göteborg, Sweden | Nordic Geotechnical Meeting – Ngm 2024 Swedish Geotechnical Society | |
| September 19-21, 2024 Panaji, Goa, India | DFI of India 13th Annual Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India DFI of India Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: February 19, 2024 |
| September 22-26, 2024 Denver, Colorado | Dam Safety 2024 ASDSO Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: February 4, 2024 | |
| September 23-25, 2024 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada | CDA Conference 2024 Canadian Dam Association | |
| October 2-4, 2024 Delft, the Netherlands | 5th European Conference on Physical Modelling In Geotechnics Deltares & Delft University of Technology | |
| October 6-9, 2024 Algiers, Algeria | XVIII African Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics And Geotechnical Engineering Algerian Geotechnical Society | |
| October 7-10, 2024 Aurora, Colorado | 49th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations DFI Paper/Presentation call for abstracts – click here. Deadline Extended Student/Young Professor Paper Competition call for abstracts – click here. Deadline: February 12, 2024 MSSP call for abstracts – click here. Deadline: May 17, 2024 | |
| October 8-12, 2024 Dubrovnik, Croatia | 4th European Regional Conference of IAEG (EUROENGEO 2024) – Engineering Geology and Geotechnics: Building for the Future International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment | |
| October 18-24, 2024 New Delhi, India | 92nd ICOLD Annual Meeting and International Symposium ICOLD | |
| October 30-November 1, 2024 Hershey, Pennsylvania | 34th Central Pennsylvania Geotechnical Conference ASCE Central PA Chapter | |
| November 1, 2024 Westminster, Colorado | Rocky Mountain Geo-Conference 2024 Colorado Association of Geotechnical Engineers | |
| November 12-17, 2024 La Serena, Chile | XVII Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Chilean Geotechnical Society | |
| November 14-16, 2024 Tsu, Japan | Geomate 2024 The Geomate International Society | |
| November 17-20, 2024 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Geo-Structures 2024 Geo-Institute | |
| November 19-21, 2024 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore | Offshore Southeast Asia 2024 InformaMarkets | |
| November 20 – 22, 2024 Sydney, Australia | 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics UTS | |
| November 28-29, 2024 Kathmandu, Nepal | Second GeoMandu Conference “Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructures” Nepal Geotechnical Society | |
| December 2-5, 2024 Yokohama, Japan | Deep Mixing 2024 Port and Airport Research Institute | |
| December 4-6, 2024 Melbourne, Australia | 8th Asian Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils (AP-UNSAT 2024) RMIT University and MONASH University | |
| December 19-21, 2024 Aurangabad, India | Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC-2024) IGS Aurangabad Chapter and Civil Engineering Department, MIT Aurangabad | |
| January 5–9, 2025 Washington, DC | TRB Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board | |
| January 29-30, 2025 Houston, Texas | Symposium on Shear Testing of Soils Soil and Rock Committee (D18) of ASTM | |
| March 2-5, 2025 Louisville, Kentucky | Geotechnical Frontiers 2025 Geo-Institute and Geosynthetics Materials Association Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: February 16, 2024 | |
| May 14-19, 2025 Stockholm, Sweden | World Tunnel Congress (WTC2025) – Tunnelling into a sustainable future – methods and technologies Swedish Rock Engineering Association | |
| May 18-21, 2025 Tempe, Arizona | International Conference on Bio-Mediated and Bio-Inspired Geotechnics (I-CBBG) 2025 NMSU, Georgia Institute of Technology, UC Davis, ASU, NSF, CBBG Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: | |
| June 9-13, 2025 La Cité des Congrès de Nantes, France | 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG) University Gustave Eiffel, CFMS, French Mirror Group of the Technical Committee 209 of the ISSMGE | |
| June 18-20, 2025 Cleveland, Ohio | SuperPile 2025 DFI and ADSC |
| June 14-19, 2026 Vienna, Austria | 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Austrian Geotechnical Society, Austrian Society for Geomechanics | |
| June 24-26, 2026 New Orleans, Louisiana | SuperPile 2026 DFI and ADSC |
