The next International geotechnical conference in Sri Lanka will be held in August in 2020 and abstracts for technical papers have been requested. In 2015, a similar international conference (ICGE-Colombo-2015) was held with the participation of more than 300 delegates including 110 overseas participants (about 40 from Australia). Attached to this email is Bulletin No 2 issued under the guidance of Prof Kulathilaka which lists the keynote speakers and provides brief biodata: