Indian Geotechnical Society Kochi Chapter was established in 2009.  IGS Kochi Chapter enables professionals in Kerala to keep abreast of latest technologies by arranging technical lectures, seminars, workshops and site visits. The society has eminent geotechnical engineers as members and has grown in strength to over 400 members. In this short period, the chapter has been vested with the honour of hosting the prestigious annual conference of IGS in 2011 and 2022. After the well acclaimed IGC 2011, Kochi Chapter had the privilege of organizing successfully IGS- DFI India Workshop on Piling in 2014, Workshop on Soil Behaviour in 2015, 5th Ferroco Terzaghi Oration in 2016, National Symposium on Landslides in 2018 and Arvind Verma Memorial Lecture in 2019. The chapter has been conducting the annual Praphulla Kumar Lecture Series from 2012 till date.

Kerala with its peculiar geography with a length of over 600km and a width of less than 100km is bounded by the Western Ghats on the east and Arabian Sea on the west. While the hilly terrain on the east presents numerous problems associated with landslides and earthquakes, the coastal belt mostly comprises of very deep deposits of soft marine clays. The state thus provides a wide spectrum of challenges to geotechnical engineers.