DFI India 2020: A Virtual Precursor to the 10th Anniversary Conference DFI-India 2021 in November 2021
Thursday, 19 November 2020 and Friday, 20 November 2020
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Conference Overview
India has to equip herself to face the increasingly challenging geotechnical and structural demands for the infrastructure developments embracing advanced cutting edge technologies and risk management tools. Join us for the two-day precursor conference to the 10th Anniversary Conference on Deep Foundation Technologies for Infrastructure Development in India, to be held virtually during November 19-20, 2020.
The Conference will provide a forum for a wide range of geo-professionals to present, discuss and debate many aspects of the latest deep foundation technologies appropriate for the faster development, expansion and improvement of India’s critical infrastructure.
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United States
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India
Mr. Mohamed Athif
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Email: mma@dfi-india.org
Mr. T S Mahendran
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Email: dfiindiaoffice@gmail.com
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DFII 10th Anniversary Conference will be held in three parts to make it unique, purposeful and impactful to all the stakeholders in these difficult times:
- Conference in the regular format will be held during November ’21 at IIT Madras where distinguished key speakers and all other speakers can make an in-person presentation. The authors of the selected abstracts are being requested to submit the full-length papers, and the accepted papers for DFI India 2020 will be carried forward for the 2021 event.
- As a precursor to the main event, a two-day virtual conference will be held on 19th and 20th November ’20. This conference will offer keynote presentations by international experts and some presentations selected from the contributory papers. There will be a panel discussion session during this two-day programme.
- Three webinar programs are scheduled during August to October ’20, comprising presentations from the global best foundation industry practitioners covering selected topics.
The November 2021 conference will focus on these topics,
- Improving Current Practice with Case Studies
- Developments in Safe and Efficient Geo-Construction
- Advances in Deep Foundations, Earth Retention Systems and Ground Improvement
- Geotechnical Investigation, Testing, Quality Management and Numerical Methods
In addition to showcasing several DFI of India initiatives in the fields of new technology applications and skill development, this conference will provide an interesting program for aspiring students to align their actions to become future leaders.
Conference Chairs
Mr Mohan Ramanathan, ACT Chennai, EC Member-DFI India, Conference Chair
Prof A. Boominathan, IIT Madras, EC Member-DFI India, Conference Technical Chair
Organising Team
Dr V K Stalin, CEG, Anna University, Chair-IGS Chennai
Prof Robinson, IIT Madras, Hon. Sec.-IGS Chennai
Mr G. V. Prasad, Director Operations, DFI of India
Ms Theresa Engler, Executive Director, DFI USA
Mr Bairagi Kondapalli, L&T Construction, EC Member, DFI India
Mr Mohamed Athif, Manager-Operations, DFI of India
Mr T. S. Mahendran, Manager – Admin & Accounts, DFI India
Mr Pranav Jha, Assistant Manager-Operations, DFI India
Technical Committee
Ms Mary Ellen Large, Director of Technical Activities, DFI USA
Dr Sunil S Basarkar, Afcons, EC Member-DFI of India
Prof Muttharam, CEG, Anna University, EC Member-IGS Chennai
Prof Ilamparuthi, CEG Anna University (rtd.), EC Member-IGS Chennai
Prof T Thiyagarajan, IIT Madras, EC Member-IGS Chennai
Dr Vidya Bhushan Maji, IITMadras, EC Member-IGS Chennai
Dr Subhadeep Banerjee, IITMadras, EC Member-IGS Chennai
Er Seth Vaidya, Langan USA, DFI USA
Prof Amit Prashant, IIT Gandhinagar, EC Member-DFI India
Dr Kumar Pitchumani, AECOM, EC Mebmber-DFI India
Mr Chandrasekharan, VIT University, Hon. Secretary-IGS Vellore
Mr Jeevan Reddy, AECOM
Mr Ravikiran Vaidya, Geodynamics, EC Member-DFI of India
Dr Jaykumar Shukla, Geodynamics
Mr Govind Raj, Keller India
Mr PVSR Prasad, Keller India
Ms Jaime Cettina, Professional Development Coordinator-DFI
DFI of India Executive Committee
Dr K. S. Rama Krishna, Chairman, DFI India
Mr Anirudhan I. V., Vice Chair, DFI India
Mr Arvind Shrivastava, NPCIL Mumbai
Prof Sivakumar Babu, IISc Bangalore, President-IGS
Prof Shailesh Gandhi, SVNIT Surat
Dr Sunil S Basarkar, Afcons
Mr Harikrishna, Keller India
Mr Mohan Ramanathan, ACT Chennai
Mr Sanjoy Chakraborty, Soilmec
Mr Bikshapathi Kondai, NAC
Mr B Srinivas, CMRL
Prof Amit Prashant, IITGn
Mr Ravikiran Vaidya, Geodynamics
Dr Kumar Pitchumani, AECOM
Mr Kondapalli Bairagi, L&T Construction
Mr V K Panwar, EIL New Delhi
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