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1st Geotech Asia International Conference 2025, Goa
TAJ CIDADE DE GOA HORIZON, GOA
7–10 October 2025
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
DAY 0 – 06.10.2025 (MONDAY)
From To Programme
9:00 AM 5:00 PM Board Meeting of Federation of International Geo-Engineering Societies (FedIGS)
Venue: Taj Cidade de Goa Horizon
10:00 AM 5:00 PM Portugal - Brazil - India Joint Pre-conference Workshop
Geotechnics in Civil Infrastructure
Venue: The International Centre Goa
10:00 AM 5:00 PM Indo-US Joint Pre-conference Workshop
Venue: The International Centre Goa
10:00 AM 5:00 PM Pre-conference Workshop on Risk Assessment and Machine learning
Venue: Taj Cidade de Goa Horizon
10:00 AM 5:00 PM TC 302 Pre-Conference Workshop on Forensic Geotechnical Engineering
Venue: The International Centre Goa
3:00 PM 9:00 PM REGISTRATION
DAY 01 – 07.10.2025 (TUESDAY)
8:00 AM 5:00 PM REGISTRATION
10:30 AM 5:30 PM EXHIBITION
8:30 AM 8:40 AM PRELUDE
8:40 AM 9:40 AM OPENING CEREMONY
9:40 AM 10:20 AM Distinguished Keynote Lecture 1 - Dr. Marc Ballouz, President ISSMGE
Topic: Geotechnical philosophies and challenges in laterally loaded piles
10:20 AM 11:00 AM Distinguished Keynote Lecture 2 - Prof. Lee Fook Hou, Emeritus Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Topic : Recent Developments in Quality Assessment and Control in Deep Mixing and Jet Grouting and their Engineering Implications.
11:00 AM 11:40 AM EXHIBITION INAUGURATION & TEA/ COFFEE BREAK
11:40 AM 12:10 PM Keynote Speaker 3 - Prof. T.G Sitharam. Chairman, AICTE
Topic : Designing Against the Odds: The Chenab Bridge and the Evolution of Geotechnical Strategies
12:10 PM 12:30 PM Title Sponsors slot (10 minute each)
12:30 PM 1:00 PM Keynote Lecture 4 - Prof. Chungsik Yoo, President FedIGS
Topic : Smart Geotechnology and AI-Driven Geotechnical Design: Progress, Challenges and Future Directions
1:00 PM 2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM 4:00 PM Parallel Sessions
Assembly 1 Assembly 2 Assembly 3 South 1 South 2 West 1 West 2 Day‑in‑Day‑out
Topics:
Foundations and Deep Excavation		 Topics:
Earthquake and Soil Dynamics 		Topics:
Practice, Risk and Education		 Topics:
Geosynthetic Engineering		 Topics:
Slope Stability and Landslides		 Topics:
Ground Improvement and Stabilisation		 Topics:
Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Engineering		 Topics:
Cold, Coastal and Environmental Geotechnical Engineering
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4:00 PM 4:30 PM TEA/ COFFEE BREAK
4:30 PM 5:00 PM Keynote Lecture 5 - Prof. Keh Jian Shou, ISSMGE Vice President Asia
Topic : Advances of Trenchless Technology for Infrastructures
5:00 PM 5:30 PM Keynote Lecture 6 - Prof. Rolf Katzenbach, IK & Technical University of Darmstadt
Topic : The History and the geotechnical Basis of the Combined Pile-Raft Foundation (CPRF)
5:30 PM 6:15 PM PANEL DISCUSSION- FedIGS
Geo-disaster Mitigation in the face of Climate Change
7:00 PM 8:00 PM WELCOME RECEPTION
DAY 02 - 08.10.2025 WEDNESDAY
From To Programme
8:00 AM5:00 PMREGISTRATION
10:00 AM5:30 PMEXHIBITION
8:45 AM9:00 AMPRELUDE
9:00 AM9:20 AM Invited Lecture / Special Lecture 1 - Prof. Cazzuffi Daniele Antonio, CESI SpA
Topic : Use of geomembranes in embankment dams and their long-time behavior in service
9:20 AM9:40 AM Invited Lecture / Special Lecture 2 - Prof. G. Madhavi Latha, IISc Bangalore
Topic : Micro to macro of sand liquefaction and its mitigation
9:40 AM10:00 AM Invited Lecture / Special Lecture 3 - Dr. Mandip Subedi, President, Nepal Geotechhnical Society
Topic: A Decade After the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake: Reassessing Nepal’s Readiness for Future Seismic Events
10:00 AM10:30 AM Keynote Lecture 7 - Prof. Kenichi Soga, UC Berkeley, USA
Topic : Smart Geotechnical Infrastructure – the value of distributed sensing for geotechnical engineering
10:30 AM11:00 AMTEA/ COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM11:30 AM Keynote Lecture 8 - Prof. Walter Paniagua, Vice President (North America), Intl. Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Founder and CEO of PILOTEC, Mexico
Topic: Precast Slurry Walls and Plunged concrete columns: an alternative for the top-down system
11:30 AM12:00 PM Corporate Presentation Slot: Diamond (10 minutes each), Platinum (7.5 minutes each)
12:00 PM12:30 PM Keynote Lecture 9 - Prof. Budhima Indraratna, University of Technology Sydney
Topic : Advanced Geotechnical Solutions for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure using Waste Materials
12:30 PM1:00 PM Keynote Lecture 10 - Prof. Lyesse Laloui, Director, Soil Mechanics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Topic : Bio-cementation: Advancing Sustainable Soils Stabilization in Geotechnics
1:00 PM2:00 PMLUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM3:30 PM Parallel Sessions
Assembleia 1 Assembleia 2 Assembleia 3 South 1 South 2 West 1 West 2 Day-in Day-out
Topics:
Ground Improvement and Stabilisation		 Topics:
Transportation Geotechnics		 Topics:
Cold, Coastal and Environmental Geotechnical Engineering		 Topics:
Practice, Risk and Education		 Topics:
Foundations and Deep Excavation		 Topics:
AI and Computational Geomechanics		 AsRTC Workshop Asian Council Meeting
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3:30 PM4:00 PMTEA/ COFFEE BREAK
4:00 PM5:00 PMPanel Discussions – Presidents of Asian Geotechnical Society
5:00 PM6:00 PMASIAN AWARDS CEREMONY
7:00 PM8:00 PMCULTURAL PROGRAM
DAY 03 - 09.10.2025 THURSDAY
From To Programme
8:00 AM5:00 PMREGISTRATION
10:00 AM5:30 PMEXHIBITION
8:45 AM9:00 AMPRELUDE
9:00 AM9:20 AM Invited / Special Lecture 4 - Prof. Tomoyoshi Nishimura, Ashikaga University, Japan
Topic : Mechanical behavior of unsaturated soils with experimental technique
9:20 AM9:40 AM Invited / Special Lecture 5 - Prof. Yong Liu, Wuhan University, China
Topic : Advances in Uncertainty Modelling and Propagation of Geotechnical Practices
9:40 AM10:00 AM Invited / Special Lecture 6 - Prof. Marcelo Sanchez, Texas A&M University, USA
Topic : Cracking and Shrinkage in Levees under Drying Conditions: Experimental and Modeling Approaches.
10:00 AM10:30 AM Keynote Lecture 11 - Prof. Limin Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Topic : to be announced
10:30 AM11:00 AMTEA/ COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM11:30 AM Keynote Lecture 12 - Prof. Ikuo Towhata
Topic : Ground Water Effects on Coseismic Slope Instability during the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan
11:30 AM12:00 PM Corporate Presentation Slot: Gold (5 minutes each)
12:00 PM12:30 PM Keynote Lecture 13 - Prof. Anand J Puppula, Texas A&M University, USA
Topic : Sustainability and Resilience Assessments of Geosynthetic Reinforcement and Geothermal Technologies for Supporting Transportation Infrastructure
12:30 PM1:00 PM Keynote Lecture 14 - Prof. Dimitrios Zekkos, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Topic : A Big Data Approach to Regional Resiliency Against Co-Seismic Landslides
1:00 PM2:00 PMLUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM2:20 PM Invited / Special Lecture 7 - Prof. E C Shin, Professor Emeritus Incheon National University, South Korea, Immediate past VP, ISSMGE for Asia
Topic : Recent Development of ISSMGE Asian Regional Activities
2:20 PM2:40 PM Invited / Special Lecture 8 - Prof. Askar Zhussupbekov, President & Professor Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan
Topic : The Experience of Geotechnical Constructions and Testing of Piling Foundations of Megastructures on Problematical Soil Ground of Kazakhstan
2:40 PM3:00 PM Invited / Special Lecture 9 - Prof. Hemant Hazarika, Kyushu University, Japan
Topic : Lateral Flow-induced Damage in Residential Buildings: Case Study of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake, Japan
3:00 PM3:30 PM Keynote Lecture 15 - Prof. Tatsuya Ishikawa, Hokkaido University, Japan
Topic : Slope stability-soil runout integrated analysis considering rainfall infiltration and runoff
3:30 PM4:00 PMTEA/ COFFEE BREAK
4:00 PM5:30 PM Parallel Sessions
Assembleia 1 Assembleia 2 Assembleia 3 South 1 South 2 West 1 West 2 Day-in Day-out
Topics:
Ground Improvement and Stabilisation		 Topics:
Practice, Risk and Education		 Topics:
Geosynthetic Engineering		 Topics:
Foundations and Deep Excavation		 Topics:
Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Engineering		 AsRTC Workshop AsRTC-1 & AsRTC-3 Committee Meetings TC-307 Workshop
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5:30 PM6:15 PMPANEL DISCUSSIONS - Presidents of Asian Geotechnical Society
7:00 PM10:00 PMGRAND GALA DINNER
DAY 04 - 10.10.2025 FRIDAY
From To Programme
8:00 AM5:00 PMREGISTRATION
10:00 AM5:30 PMEXHIBITION
8:45 AM9:00 AMPRELUDE
9:00 AM9:20 AM Invited / Special Lecture 10 - Dr. Chaido (Yuli) Doulala Rigby, Vice Chair of the British Geotechnical Association
Topic : Polymer Geogrid GeoStructures: from concept to perfection through lessons learnt and good practice
9:20 AM9:40 AM Invited / Special Lecture 11 - Dr. Leong Kam Weng, Director Keller ASEAN, Singapore
Topic : Debunking the myth of Ground Improvement Applications
9:40 AM10:00 AM Invited / Special Lecture 12 - to be announced
10:00 AM10:30 AM Invited / Special Lecture 13 - Prof. Chian Siau Chen Darren, President, Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS)
Topic : Geophysical Methods in Tunnel Look-Ahead and Deep Soil Mixing
10:30 AM11:00 AMTEA/ COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM11:20 AM Invited / Special Lecture 14 - Prof. N K Samadhiya, Past President, Indian Geotechnical Society & Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India Topic : Rock Mass Characterization and Evaluation of Support for Anthpa Jhakri Head Race Tunnel
11:20 AM11:40 AM Invited / Special Lecture 15 - Prof. Robinson, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Topic : Consolidation under radial drainage-Some insights
11:40 AM12:00 PM Corporate Presentation Slot
12:00 PM1:00 PM Panel Discussion of ISSMGE Board Members
1:00 PM2:00 PMLUNCH BREAK
2:00 PM3:30 PM Parallel Sessions
Assembleia 1 Assembleia 2 Assembleia 3 South 1 South 2 West 1 West 2 Day-in Day-out
Topics:
Slope Stability and Landslides		 Topics:
Earthquake and Soil Dynamics 		Topics:
AI and Computational Geomechanics		 Topics:
Transportation Geotechnics		 Topics:
Cold, Coastal and Environmental Geotechnical Engineering		 Topics:
Ground Improvement and Stabilisation		 AsRTC Workshop Heritage Time Capsule
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3:30 PM4:00 PMTEA/ COFFEE BREAK
4:00 PM4:20 PMBright Spark Lecture 01
4:20 PM4:40 PMBright Spark Lecture 02
4:40 PM5:00 PMBright Spark Lecture 03
5:00 PM6:15 PMCLOSING CEREMONY & HANDING OVER TO 2nd GEOTECH ASIA 2029
DAY 05 – 11.10.2025 SATURDAY
9:00 AM5:00 PM Board Meeting of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Venue: Taj Cidade De Goa Horizon, Goa
8:00 AM5:00 PMTECHNICAL TOUR
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