11. - 14. June 2026

Graz, Austria (more information to be announced soon)

Each ISSMGE Member Society will be asked to select two representatives to attend the young geotechnical conference. Ideally, they should be 35 years of age or younger at the time of the meeting. Senior geotechnical engineers will deliver keynote lectures and engage with the young engineer delegates during the technical sessions.

Franz Tschuchnigg
Institute of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Computational Geotechnics
Graz University of Technology

Haris Felic, Johannes Leo
Institute of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Computational Geotechnics
Graz University of Technology
iygec2026noSpam@tugraz.at

There is no specific conference theme, any topic related to geotechnical engineering is appropriate. Some examples are:

• Site investigation
• Laboratory and field testing
• Field monitoring
• Selection of design parameters
• Constitutive, numerical and physical modelling
• Shallow and deep foundations
• Deep excavations and retaining structures
• Tunnelling and underground structures
• Slope stability and landslides
• Infrastructure projects
• Ground improvement
• Mechanical, hydraulic and thermal behaviour of saturated and unsaturated soils
• Environmental Geotechnics
• Ground Modelling
• Data-driven methods
• Machine learning

More information to be announced soon.