Full Conference Program

Featured Learning Themes

The conference program will help attendees connect and learn with experts across many theme areas and disciplines so they can further advance their knowledge and work. Over 110+ conference sessions will cover:

1. Designing for Performance, Not Just Compliance – How to move beyond code minimums to design buildings that perform predictably and recover quickly.
2. AI & Open-Source Tools in Earthquake Engineering – AI and other tools that are transforming how to analyze, scale, and implement earthquake solutions.
3. Retrofit That Works: Practical Strategies for Existing Buildings – Proven approaches to upgrade existing buildings efficiently and effectively.
4. Cascadia Lifelines: Understanding Risk at Regional Scale – Critical lessons on large-scale risk, cascading failures, and infrastructure resilience from Cascadia region case-studies and beyond.
5. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from Site Characterization to System Performance – New tools, field data, and modeling approaches are advancing the assessment of site response, liquefaction, and soil-structure interaction for research and practice
6. Multi-Hazard Considerations: Designing for Complex Risk – How to address complex risks from interacting and compounding hazards, not just single events.
7. Improved hazard characterization through modeling and simulation – Understand advances in seismic hazard characterization, ground motion modeling, & simulations that are influencing site response & design demands.
8. What Full-Scale Testing Is Telling Us About Real Buildings – Large-scale experiments and research are reshaping what we know about actual structural behavior.
9. Nontraditional Systems and Materials: What You Need to Know – Discover emerging systems and materials that are entering practice.
10. High-Resolution Simulations: From Models to Actionable Decisions – Next-generation simulations provide high-fidelity insights that directly inform practice.
11. Steel Systems Under the Microscope: What We’ve Learned and What is Changing – New insights into steel frames, bracing systems, and connections that directly impact design decisions.
12. Tools That Are Changing Practice: Analysis, Data, and Decision Support – New tools are enabling engineers to make better, faster, and more defensible decisions
13. Beyond the Building: Infrastructure and System-Level Impacts – Understand networks, dependencies, and system-wide impacts because buildings don’t act alone.
14. From Engineering to Policy: Turning Knowledge into Action – How to turn knowledge into action through policy that shapes codes, ordinances, and real-world implementation.
15. And so much more!