Highlights of the WTC2023 and its 49th ITA Annual General Assembly

WTC2023 in Athens has been a memorable success. Up to 2,000 delegates and more than 180 exhibitors attended and there was a programme of events, sessions and scientific papers to keep all industry professionals fully engaged across the seven days of the gathering. Of the 78 Member Nations of the ITA more than 50 were represented in person at the two sessions of the General Assembly where important business was discussed, voted on and decided. Read the full report for more details and in brief:

• Pakistan was welcomed as the 79th Member Nation of the ITA

• Canada was selected to host the 2026 WTC

• The next Sir Alan Muir Wood ITA Lecture will be delivered by Professor Priscilla Nelson of the USA

• The 2023 ITA Awards will be hosted by India in Mumbai from 2-4 November

• WTC 2024 will be hosted next year by China in the city of Shenzhen.

• WTC 2025 will be hosted by Sweden in Stockholm.

Yes, it was enjoyable and memorable WTC and a chance for the international WTC underground space engineering and construction community to get back to something nearing normal after the two years of imposed isolation due to the Covid pandemic and a cautious WTC gathering in Copenhagen last year.

We will see you all there and then.