All sessions will be in English.
During the Opening ceremony on Tuesday morning simultaneous translation to French will be available.
The General Assembly on Thursday will be bilingual. Simultaneous translation to English and French will be available.
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08:00 – 17:00: Short Course 1 (SC1) – Concrete Dam Modelling – Room R22-23
08:00 – 17:00: SwedCOLD Workshop 1 (WS1) – Defect detection in embankment dams – Room R17-18
08:00 – 17:00: Short Course 2 (SC2) – Static liquefaction of Tailings – Room R24-25
09:00 – 13:00: Meeting of ICOLD Board – J2
09:30 – 10:30: Coffee, Conference lobby
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch, Restaurant Seasons
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch ICOLD Board, Organising Com. and Chairpersons Tech. Com. (invitation only), Restaurant Imagine – Tower 3, level 29
13:30 – 16:00: Meeting of ICOLD Board and Chairpersons Tech.Com – Room J2
14:30 – 15:30: Coffee, Conference lobby
16:00 – 18:00: Meeting of ICOLD Board – Room J2
08:00 – 15:30: ICOLD Technical Committee Workshops
08:00 – 15:30: Short Course 3 (SC3) – Risk assessment – Current state of practice for tailing dams – Room R24-25
09:30 – 10:30: Coffee, H-hall
12:00 – 20:30: Exhibition is open
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch, Exhibition Hall
12:45: Opening ceremony of the Exhibition
15.00-16.00: Coffee, Exhibition Hall
16:00 – 18:00: Regional Clubs
Regional Club Asia (APG) – Room J1
Regional Club Americas (INCA) – Room G1
Regional Club Africa (ARC) – Room J2
Regional Club Europe (EURCOLD) – Room H1
19:00 – 20:30: Welcome Reception in Exhibition Hall
09:00 – 17:00: Exhibition open
08:00 – 17:00: Meeting of Tech. Committees (various times for different meetings)
09:30 – 10:30: Coffee, Exhibition hall
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch, Exhibition hall (lunch is available for exhibitors from 11:30)
12:15 – 13:15: Young Professionals Mentorship lunch, Bryggan
14:30 – 15:30: Coffee, Exhibition Hall
17:00 – 19:00: Francophone meeting, room J2
17:00 – 19:00: Young Professionals Forum meeting, room J1
19:00 – 22:30: European club network event at Melody Club
09:00 – 17:00: Exhibition open
08:30 – 09:45: Symposium Opening & Panel Discussion, Congress Hall
09:45 – 10:25: Coffee break sponsored by Axter Coletanche – Location: Exhibition Hall
10:25 – 10:30: Introduction to Scientific Program – Erik Nordström – Location: Congress Hall
10:30 – 11:50: Symposium Keynote Speakers – Congress Hall
10:30-11:05 Keynote speaker – Sten Bergström – A Swedish perspective on extreme floods and adaptation to climate change
Professor Sten Bergström has a background in civil engineering. He is now retired after long service with the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, among others as Director of research. He was responsible for the development of the widely used HBV hydrological model and engaged in the work on new Swedish guidelines for design floods for dams. He has also been working on the adaptation of infrastructure and community planning to global warming.
All sessions will be in English. During the Opening ceremony and Keynotes on Tuesday morning simultaneous translation to French will be available.
The General Assembly on Thursday will be bilingual. Simultaneous translation to English and French will be available.
11:05 – 11:40: Keynote Speaker – John Howchin – Mariana and Brumadhino: Lessons learnt, steps taken and the way forward
John Howchin is currently the Global Ambassador for the UN convened Global Tailings Management Institute, an outcome of the Investor Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, setup post the tragic Brumadhino accident in Brazil. He also runs the advisory firm Transition Inc.
John has been working for the responsible investment community for the last 20 years and held the role as Secretary-General of the Council on Ethics for the First, Second, Third and Fourth Swedish national pension funds for 12 years. Before that, in 2007 at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) in Oslo, Norway he was the first person responsible for environmental issues and he wrote the initial Climate Change expectations document and spent three years focused on corporate lobbying on climate change legislation in the US.
In 2000, he co-founded the company Green Index, who together with the insurance company Folksam produced the first climate change index in the world, covering the companies at the Stockholm stock exchange. Green Index together with Etikanalytikerna (today ISS-Ethix) also performed the first norm-based screening for the AP-funds in 2001.
John started his career at ABB where he worked with corporate sustainability.
11:40 – 11:50: Closing Remarks – Congress Hall
Denis Aalbrecht, Head of Technology, EDF Hydro Engineering Center, President of CFBR / French-COLD
All sessions will be in English. During the Opening ceremony and Keynotes on Tuesday morning simultaneous translation to French will be available. The General Assembly on Thursday will be bilingual. Simultaneous translation to English and French will be available.
11:50 – 13:20: Lunch, Exhibition Hall (lunch is available for exhibitors from 11:30)
13:00 – 14:00 Women mentorship, Panel discussion – Special Session
13:20 – 15:05: Symposium, parallel sessions
14:15 – 15:00 Turkish experience from February seismic event – Special session
15:05– 15:45: Coffee, Exhibition Hall (coffee will be served from 14:45 for exhibitors)
15:05-15:45: Poster Exhibition, Exhibition Hall
15:45 – 17:30: Symposium, parallel sessions
19:00 – 21:30 Cultural Evening at Liseberg
08:00 – 09:45: Symposium, parallel sessions
08:00 – 18:00: Technical Excursion 3: Håverud-Dals Långed
09:00 – 12:00: Short Course 4 (SC4) – Fundamental Tailing Dam Safety & ICOLD Bulletin 194 – Room R24-25
09:00 – 18:00: Technical Excursion 1: Lilla Edet, Trollhättan-Locks
09:30 – 10:30: Coffee, Exhibition Hall
10:15 – 12:00: Symposium, parallel sessions
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch, Exhibition hall (Lunch is available for exhibitors from 11:30)
12:15-13:15: Young Professionals Mentorship lunch, Bryggan
13:00 – 17:00: SwedCOLD Workshop 2 (SC2) – Rock engineering issues – Room H1
13:00 – 17:00: SwedCOLD Workshop 3 (SC3) – Best Practices for Tailings Dam Breach Analysis – Room H2
13:30 – 17:00: Technical Excursion 4: Flood Protection Gothenburg
14:00 – 15:00: WAPDA’s experience on construction of resilient dams & hydropower projects for clean, green and secure Pakistan – Special Session
14:00: Exhibition closes
14:30-15:30: Coffee, H-hall
17:30 – 19:00 ICOLD Nordic Tailings Network event, 1st meeting – Room H2, Special Session
19:00 – 22:00 Young Professionals networking event at Universeum
08:00 – 12:00: SwedCOLD Workshop 4 (WS4) – Operational safety of dams and reservoirs – Room J1
08:00 – 12:00: SwedCOLD Workshop 5 (WS5) – Environmental adaption of dams – Room H1
09:00 – 18:00: Technical Excursion 1: Lilla Edet, Trollhättan-Locks
09:00 – 17:00: General Assembly
09:30 – 10:30: Coffee – H-hall (200-300 pers)
12:00 – 13:30: Lunch, Restaurant Seasons
13:00 – 17:00: SwedCOLD Workshop 6 (WS6) – Capacity Building – Room R17-18
13:00 – 17:00: SwedCOLD Workshop 7 (WS7) – Strategies and adaptation to a changing climate – Room J1
14:30- 15:30: Coffee, H-hall
19:00 – 23:00 Farwell Dinner in the Congress Hall at Svenska Mässan
Study Tour 4: Norway – Sweden tour
Date: Post-conference 16-20 June
Time: Boarding from 07:30, departure 08:00
Date: Post-conference 16-19 June
Time: 09:50 at Front desk, Hotel Gothia Towers
Sweden Meetx AB is the conference bureau handling the secretariat for the 90th ICOLD-CIGB Annual Meeting in 2023.
E-mail: icold2023@meetx.se
Phone: +46 31 708 86 90
Submission of papers: 15 January 2023
Notification from paper review process: 17 March 2023
Deadline for presenting authors to register: 17 April 2023
Registration early bird deadline: 27 March 2023
Conference dates: 11-15 June 2023
