Geotec Hanoi 2026

Themes & Keynote Lectures

Keynote Speakers

Deep foundations

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Raffaele Di Laora
Univ.of Campania, ITALIA;
Secretary of ISSMGE TC212
Keynote Lecture
Innovative methods for pile foundation design

Tunnelling and Underground Spaces

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Xiangsheng CHEN
Shenzhen University
Keynote Lecture
State-of-the-Art, Tunnel Engineering in Mainland China

Ground Improvement

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Stefan Larsson
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm, Sweden
Keynote Lecture
The Nordic Dry Deep Mixing method for infrastructure development

Landslide and Erosion

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Limin ZHANG
Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong China
Keynote Lecture
AI & Digital-twin Empowered Landslide Risk Management

Offshore Wind Power and Coastal Geotechnics

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Byron Byrne
Oxford University, the UK
Keynote Lecture
Design of Monopiles for Offshore Wind Turbines

Geotechnical Modelling and Monitoring

Keynote Speaker
Prof. David M. Potts
Imperial College London, the UK
Keynote Lecture
Simulating strain softening behaviour and progressive failure in geotechnical analysis

AI in Geotecnical Engineering

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Gang Zheng
Tianjin University, China
Keynote Lecture
AI-Empowered Geotechnical Engineering: Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty

Geotechnics for High-speed Railways

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Tatsuya Ishikawa
Hokkaido University, Japan;
Chair of ISSMGE TC202
Keynote Lecture
Transportation Geotechnics toward Sustainable and Resilient High-Speed Railways

Special Invited Speakers

Tunnelling and Underground Spaces

Special invited speaker
Prof. Arnold Dix
Invited Lecture
What the Mountain Does Not Forgive: Disaster Risk, Communication Failure, and the Human Conditions for Safe Underground Construction in Vietnam’s Infrastructure Era

Invited Speakers

Geotechnics for High-speed Railways

Invited Speaker
Prof. Erol Tutumluer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Lecture
Advanced Sensing and Modeling of Ballasted Track Deformation Behavior