CyGS AGM - Angela Küpper, Ph.D., P.Eng, FEIC

The Calgary Geotechnical Society will be capping off our 2025-2026 season with the Annual General Meeting (AGM). Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Angela Küpper from BGC Engineering. 

Join us for our final event of the season to hear our year-end recap and an exciting presentation.

This event will be hosted at the Alt Hotel Calgary East Village. Dinner will be provided.

Please register by Tuesday, April 21, 2026; 5PM MST.

**No walk-in tickets will be available for this event (all tickets must be purchased in advance).**

 

Topic:

CONSIDERATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROBUST DESIGNS

 

Speaker:

Angela Küpper, Ph.D., P.Eng, FEIC

 

Date:

Thursday, April 23, 2026

 

Details:

5:30 pm to 6:00 pm – Doors open, networking & registration

6:00 pm to 6:45 pm – Dinner & Executive Committee Updates

6:45 pm to 8:00 pm – Presentation and Q&A

 

Cost:

$50 (Regular) / $20 (Student)

 

Location:

Alt Hotel Calgary East Village

635 Confluence Way SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0G1

 

Abstract:

The presentation will explore the importance of developing designs that are robust and will consider the elements that contribute to a robust design throughout the project lifecycle from design basis definition to performance.  Robust designs are an important element of risk management.  The presentation will provide an example of the approach to the development of a robust design in practice, which is of value to various types of projects.  In particular, development of robust designs is a requirement of the Global Industry Standard for Tailings Management (GISTM) in support of its intent to enhance the safety of tailings facilities.

 

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Angela Küpper has over forty years of experience in design, construction, rehabilitation and independent reviews of tailings dams, waste dumps, water retention dams, slope stability and other projects. She has worked in most continents.  She serves on a number of review boards for major mining companies.  She has been keynote speaker in conferences and has authored and co-authored several papers. Angela has served as Vice-President Technical for the CGS for two terms (2013-14 and 2015-16).

Angela has received a number of awards amongst them the R.M. Quigley Award of Canadian Geotechnical Society in 2001, the Alberta Government Award of Excellence for Innovation in 2013. She was inducted as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2021 for “exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada”. Angela was selected as the 2011 Industry Distinguished Lecturer of the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and as the Distinguished Lecturer of the UBC Geological Engineering Program in 2019. And she was part of the Expert Panel that prepared the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM).