The 28th DCA Annual Congress will start on Wednesday with two optional city tours in Barcelona. In the evening, after the dinner, a "Get Together" is planned in the hotel.

We would particularly like to draw your attention to the evening meeting of the ‘Women Empowering HDD’ group, which will take place on Wednesday, 9 October 2024 at 6.15 pm not far from the hotel in the Nudos cocktail bar. All interested women from the HDD industry are cordially invited to attend the meeting.

Thursday will again start with an interesting guest lecture. This year the DCA was able to win the social psychologist and generational expert Dr Kim Jansen, who will speak on the topic "Generations @ work". Further specialist presentations on projects of the company Red Eléctrica de España and on the topic of SuedLink are on the programme.

As already successfully organised last year, a panel discussion will take place again this year. The title of the panel discussion, which is divided into two blocks, is "How to attract and keep people in the industry?".

The moderator will once again be the journalist Dr.In Antje Wöhnke and co-moderated by President Jorn Stoelinga. The panel discussion will be held in English and accompanied by simultaneous translation (German/English). Block 1 of the panel discussion will deal with the topic "How to attract people in the industry?". Block 2 will be on "How to keep people in the industry?".

As is tradition, presentations on current HDD projects from Europe and a presentation from Brazil are planned for Friday. The congress will again be accompanied by an attractive spouse programme. As always the highlight of the spouse programme will be Thursday evening. This year the DCA invites you to the Hotel Miramar, Barcelona.

Please note:

Due to the very good response in the course of the past annual congress and the overall limited capacity in the hotel in Barcelona, DCA members will generally have priority for registration until the registration deadline. Registration for non-members will be activated at a later date, depending on the registration situation.

As last year, registration from members for the congress will be exclusively digital. Please use for registration the following link.

Registration for speakers/participants on the podium

Members giving a lecture at the annual congress or involving at the podium discussion (podium) will be contacted separately by the office. Registration via the portal is not necessary.

Please note! The registration deadline is 03rd September 2024. 

If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact our office in Aachen (contact: Dipl.-Geol. Antje Quante, a.quante@dca-europe.org).