Held every 2 years, the Young Geotechnical Professional Conference (YGPC) events are unique 3 day conferences facilitated by a joint initiative of Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) and New Zealand Geotechnical Society.
The aim of the 11YGPC conference is to provide younger professionals both in industry and academia, experience in technical paper preparation and conference presentation. Presenting at this conference is the culmination of many months of paper preparation, peer review by senior professionals and uniquely conference attendance is limited to only presenting authors with what is likely to be their first technical paper to their peers and a panel of senior industry professionals. It is also important to note that for this YGPC there were a the record number of abstracts received, so unfortunately we were unable to accept all authors wanting to present and therefore attendance has been highly competitive.