| The Organizing Committee of the 6th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (GEOTEC HANOI 2026) would like to extend our warmest regards and sincere greetings to you. Following the success of the five previous events, the 6th International Conference of GEOTEC HANOI will be held on November 26–27, 2026, at the National Convention Center (NCC), Hanoi, Vietnam. We are delighted to announce that the following distinguished scholars from around the world will deliver keynote lectures at the conference:
| NO. | THEME | KEYNOTE SPEAKER | ORGANIZATION |
|---|
| 1 | Deep Foundations | Prof. Raffaele Di Laora | Univ. of Campania, ITALIA; Secretary of ISSMGE TC212 | | 2 | Tunnelling and Underground Spaces | Prof. Xiangsheng Chen | Shenzhen University, China | | 3 | Ground Improvement | Prof. Stefan Larsson | Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden | | 4 | Landslide and Erosion | Prof. Limin ZHANG | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China | | 5 | Offshore Wind Power and Coastal Geotechnics | Prof. Byron Byrne | Oxford University, the UK | | 6 | Geotechnical Modelling and Smart Monitoring | Prof. David M. Potts | Imperial College London, the UK | | 7 | AI in Geotechnical Engineering | Prof. Gang Zheng | Tianjin University, China | | 8 | Geotechnics for High-speed Railways | Prof. Tatsuya Ishikawa | Hokkaido University, Japan; Chair of ISSMGE TC202 | |
Further details on the keynote lecture titles and abstracts can be found on the conference website: https://geotechn.vn/ On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to submit papers and participate in the conference in Hanoi next year. Authors are invited to submit abstracts through the conference management system at https://geotechn.vn/programme-2026-2/#prg-paper-submission before the deadline of November 30, 2025. Papers on well-instrumented case histories and design experiences are encouraged. Accepted papers will be published as an E-proceedings in the series of Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering of Springer, which is indexed in Scopus. We would be most grateful if you could kindly forward this call for papers to your colleagues. Thank you very much for your support of the conference. We look forward to welcoming you to GEOTEC HANOI 2026. |
