PROGRAM

November 4^th 

09:00 – 16:00 Workshop and lunch

19:00 – 21:00 Welcome cocktail reception

November 5^th

09:00 Registration

10:00 – 11:00 Opening ceremony
Prof. Vladan Djokic, PhD, rector of Belgrade University, Chair of the Conference
Prof. Dimitris Kaliampakos, PhD, ACUUS President
Goran Jeftenic, PhD, Vice-President of the Managing Board and President of the Executive Board of the Civil Engineering Section of the Serbian Chamber of Engineers
Cultural Performance
Video of Belgrade

11:00 – 11:30 Keynote Speaker I: Prof. Dimitris Kaliampakos, PhD
Shaping the Future Underground: Where We Stand and What’s Next

11:30 – 12:00 Keynote Speaker II: Prof. Raymond Sterling, PhD
The Challenges in Achieving Effective and Long-term Approaches to Underground Space Use and its Planning

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Keynote Speaker III: Prof. Michael Mooney, PhD
How will future AI advance the development of underground space

14:00 – 15:30 Panel Session: “Integrating Underground Urbanism into Institutional Practice: Strategic Directions, Institutional Preconditions, and Platform Development in Serbia”
Moderator: Ivana Milenković, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS)
Panelists: 

• Speaker 1: MSc Marko Stojčić, the City Architect of the City of Belgrade
  Topic: Study on the Development of Urban Planning in the Underground Space of the City of Belgrade — current conditions, institutional challenges, and next steps toward systemic integration.
• Speaker 2: Prof. Emeritus Takayuki Kishii, PhD, The Urban Underground Space Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
  Topic: Overview of Japan’s multi-layered underground planning system — from the Basic Guidelines on Underground Shopping Centers to the Deep Underground Act — and lessons for institutional continuity.
• Speaker 3: Dr. Yingxin Zhou, Academy of Engineering Singapore, Singapore
  Topic: Insights into Singapore’s Digital Underground Project and the development of 3D subsurface planning through institutional coordination between URA, SLA, and DSTA.
• Speaker 4: Prof. Fang-Le Peng, PhD, Underground Space Research Center at Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  Topic: Institutional mechanisms for underground development in China — regulatory frameworks, university–government collaboration, and transdisciplinary integration.
• Speaker 5: Prof. Chris Rogers, PhD, UK Government Foresight Future of Cities project, London, United Kingdom
  Topic: Application of Theory of Change and foresight methods in the UK’s infrastructure planning — systems thinking, scenario planning, and policy foresight for sustainable underground urbanism.

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00 Technical Sessions Block I

17:00 – 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 – 18:30 Technical Sessions Block II

November 6^th

09:00 – 9:30 Keynote Speaker IV: Prof. Shuilong Shen, PhD, Dean and Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering, Shantou University, China
Fellow, European Academy of Sciences; European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Climate Change induced vulnerability evaluation of Urban Underground Space and artificial intelligence solutions

09:30 – 10:00 Keynote Speaker V: Sanja Zlatanic and Prof. Andreas Benardos, PhD
ACUUS Mission and Vision – Forward and Upward – Underground!

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 Technical Sessions Block III

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:45 Technical Sessions Block IV

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:15 Technical Sessions Block V

16:30 – 18:00 General Assembly

20:00 – 00:00 Gala dinner with Cultural Performance, includes “History of ACUUS”

November 7^th

09:00 – 10:15 Technical Sessions Block VI

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:45 Technical Sessions Block VII

11:45 – 13:00 Lunch         

13:00 – 13:30 Closing ceremony and transition

November 8^th

09:00 – 13:30 Technical excursions