Neil Bar holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and has over 15 years of engineering & related experience on a diversity of mining, tunnelling and civil engineering projects across 6 continents. He is a Geotechnical Engineer with Gecko Geotechnics and currently serves as the Chairman of the ISRM Commission on Risks and Reliability in Rock Slope Engineering.

Title of lecture: Understanding failure mechanisms to design and manage surface and underground excavations.