Annual Conference & Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) 2026
The 36th Annual Conference & Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE 2026) is the flagship event of the Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT), the official technical society for NDT/NDE in India. The conference runs 15-17 November 2026 at HITEX Exhibition Centre, Hall No. 4, Izzat Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, and is held in conjunction with AeroNDT 2026, the 15th International Symposium on NDT in Aerospace (14-17 November 2026), hosted by ISNT's Hyderabad Chapter.
NDE 2026 is a meeting point for more than 2,000 professionals, researchers, academicians and industry leaders from manufacturing, oil & gas, energy & power, metals & materials, third-party inspection and transportation, including automobile, railways, aviation and shipping. The programme combines scientific and industry sessions, plenary and keynote addresses, tutorials and interactive workshops with a large exhibition in which 100+ exhibitors present the latest NDT equipment, sensors, software and services. Conference proceedings of this series are published with Springer Nature, continuing a tradition of documented technical papers that reaches back to the 2006 edition.
The Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT) is a non-profit professional body founded in 1972, headquartered in Chennai with more than 5,000 members across chapters throughout India. Its National Certification Board runs NDT personnel certification schemes per IS 13805 and ISO 9712 under the ICNDT Mutual Recognition Agreement, making ICN certificates automatically recognised in member countries. ISNT organises the NDE conference annually; recent editions include NDE 2025 in Mumbai (11-13 December 2025), NDE 2024 at the Chennai Trade Centre (12-14 December 2024) and NDE 2023 in Pune (7-9 December 2023).
Organiser contact: Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT), Modules 60 & 61, 3rd Floor, Garment Complex, SIDCO Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai 600 032, Tamil Nadu, India. Phone +91-44-2250 0412; email [email protected]. Event web presence is currently maintained through the NDT.net event library while the dedicated conference site isntnde.in is offline.