As tradition of the CPT events, which foster a lively debate on recent advancements on cone penetration testing, the Symposium aims at providing Researchers, Practitioners and Contractors with a unique opportunity of sharing up-to-date knowledge in equipment, testing procedures, data interpretation and related applications, as well as discussing emerging solutions and new ideas with the largest gathering of world’s experts, academics and non-academics, working in the broad and dynamic area of CPTs.