Program
View the 2026 Program to explore the conference schedule and speaker lineup.
Meet the Keynote Speakers →Plenary Sessions
Inaugural Morgenstern Lecture: Recent Developments in Flow Liquefaction
The inaugural N.R. Morgenstern Lecture honours Professor Norbert Morgenstern’s enduring contributions to the field. This lecture explores recent developments in flow liquefaction, including advances in understanding and evaluating liquefaction behaviour and its implications for tailings dam design and risk.
Speaker
Peter Robertson
The GTMI: Status, Progress, and Timeline
The Global Tailings Management Institute (GTMI) was established to help translate the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management into credible, repeatable and independently verified conformance. This session will provide an update on the GTMI’s status, progress and timeline.
Speakers
Ed Toms, Theo Gerritsen, Janis Shandro, Kristin Pouw, Jeronimo Covacevich, Vicente Mello, Naomi Hodgkinson-Lee
The Relationship of Tailings Practitioners and Tailings Innovation
This session will explore the relationship between tailings practitioners and innovation, with speakers discussing the role of innovation in addressing the challenges facing the tailings sector.
Speakers
To be announced.