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
| December 4-7, 2023 São Paulo, Brazil | SEFE 10 Brazilian Society for Foundation Engineering and Geotechnical Services | |
| December 4-7, 2023 Dubai, UAE | Big 5 Global | |
 | December 5, 2023 Online | What’s Shaking Webinar Series DFI’s Seismic and Lateral Loads Committee |
| December 6, 2023 Dubai, UAE | Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering Talks at Big 5 Global DFI Middle East Chapter |
| December 4-8, 2023 Online | Geo-Institute 8th Annual Live Streaming Web Conference Geo-Institute | |
| December 12, 2023 Online | DFI of Europe Webinar Series on Deep Foundation Performance Under Hazard Loading DFI of Europe |
| December 14-15, 2023 Hanoi, Vietnam | 5th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development FECON, VSSMGE, JGS, TLU, VPI | |
| December 27-28, 2023 New Cairo, Egypt | 16th International Conference on Structural And Geotechnical Engineering Faculty of Engineering- Ain Shams University | |
| January 7–11, 2024 Washington, DC | TRB Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board | |
| January 23-25, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada | World of Concrete 2024 | |
| 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 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 | |
| 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 Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: November 30, 2023 | |
| 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 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 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 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: December 31, 2023 | |
| June 12-14, 2024 San Francisco, California | SuperPile 2024 DFI and ADSC Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: December 6, 2023 |
| 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 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 Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: December 15, 2023 | |
| July 7-10, 2024 Chambery, France | 4th International Symposium on Landslides 2024 ISSMGE | |
| August 6-8, 2024 Aurora, Colorado | S3 2024: Slopes, Support and Stabilization DFI Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline: January 10, 2024 |
| 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 | 5th Specialty Conference on Geoenvironmental Engineering ASCE GI | |
| September 10-12, 2024 Orlando, Florida | 4th International Conference for Intelligent Construction ISIC | |
| September 18-20, 2024 Göteborg, Sweden | Nordic Geotechnical Meeting – Ngm 2024 Swedish Geotechnical Society | |
| 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: January 8, 2024 Student/Young Professor Paper Competition call for abstracts – click here. Deadline: January 8, 2024 MSSP call for abstracts – click here. Deadline: May 17, 2024 | |
| 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 14-16, 2023 Tsu, Japan | Geomate 2023 The Geomate International Society | |
| November 12-17, 2024 La Serena, Chile | XVII Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Chilean Geotechnical Society | |
| November 17-20, 2024 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Geo-Structures 2024 Geo-Institute | |
| November 20 – 22, 2024 Sydney, Australia | 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics UTS | |
| December 2-5, 2024 Yokohama, Japan | Deep Mixing 2024 Port and Airport Research Institute Call for Abstracts – click here. Deadline Extended: | |
| December 4-6, 2024 Melbourne, Australia | 8th Asian Pacific Conference on Unsaturated Soils (AP-UNSAT 2024) RMIT University and MONASH University Call for Abstracts – click Here. Deadline: November 30, 2023 | |
| 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 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 6-13, 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 |
