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Conference Time: 30th Apr 2025, 06:07:37pm CEST
 

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Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
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Session Overview
Date: Thursday, 30/Jan/2025
8:45am
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9:15am		 Keynote Georg Gartner: The relevance of cartography in the context of natural hazards and risks
Location: Lecture Hall S003
Chair: Georg Gartner

Georg Gartner (TU Vienna, ICA President), 
9:30am
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10:30am		 RS & Rapid Mapping II: Remote Sensing, Monitoring, and Rapid Mapping
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Johanna Roll

This session focuses on remote sensing applications for disaster risk management and rapid mapping of natural hazard events.

Session I will take place on Tuesday, 28 January 2025, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm in room A022.

 Mapping Natural Risks I: Mapping Natural Risks: Bridging Risk Modelling, Map Communication, Uncertainty and Emotional Response
Location: A-126 Lecture Hall
Chair: Pyry Kettunen

Session II will take place on Thursday, 30. January 2025, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in room A-126.

 ML & Forecasting I: Impact-Based Forecasting and Early Warning Systems Leveraging Machine Learning
Location: A-122 Lecture Hall
Chair: Pascal Horton
Chair: Olivia Martius
Chair: Noelia Otero Felipe
Chair: Vitus Benson

Session II will take place on Thursday, 30 January 2025, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm in room A-122.

Chairs:

  • Pascal Horton, Mobiliar Lab of Natural Risks, Oeschger Center for Climate Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Olivia Martius, Mobiliar Lab of Natural Risks, Oeschger Center for Cliamte Research, Universtiy of Bern
  • Noelia Felipe, Frauenhofer HHI, Germany
  • Vitus Benson, Max-Planck Insitute, Germany
10:30am
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11:00am		 Break Thursday 1: Coffee Break
Location: Foyer/Mensa
10:45am
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12:30pm		 Contemporary Visualization: Contemporary Visualization and Extended Reality Approaches to Hazard Preparedness and in-situ Emergency & Rescue Response – Current state of user-centered technology, automation and AI
Location: A-119 Lecture Hall
Chair: Arzu Çöltekin

Both sessions will cover visualization and extended (i.e., virtual, augmented or mixed) reality-related research and applications about conference themes (i.e., these presentations and discussions will be directed at work that intersects the common phases of crisis management) and specifically touch upon user-centred technologies (user experience, empirical studies) as well as the latest technology and science breakthroughs in the automation of visualization and 3D modelling and other related processes through, e.g., generative AI and other solutions.
11:00am
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12:30pm		 IRM Alps & Arctic: Integrated Risk Management in the Alps and the Arctic
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Nina Schuback
Chair: Danièle Rod
Presentations Eva Mätzler, Jona Peters, and Alexander Gamble: 'Landslide And Tsunami Monitoring In Remote Arctic Environment - Challenges And Possibilities' Raphael Mayoraz and Martin Proksch: 'Risk Management in Switzerland and Greenland' Anna Scolobig and Markus Stoffel: ‘ Acceptable for whom? Addressing social conflicts in integrated disaster risk management’ Panel discussion: Risk at the centre of the discussion: acceptable risk, risk perception and acceptance, effect of climate change on risk perception; challenges with EWS and communication in the Alps and in the Arctic, similarities, differences Moderation of panel discussion: Gabriel Chevalier Experts: Eva Mätzler from the Ministry of Industry, Trade, Mineral Resources, Justice and Gender Equality of the Government of Greenland Aske Wied Madsen from the Department for Contingency Management of the Government of Greenland Hugo Raetzo from the Federal Office for the Environment of Switzerland Raphael Mayoraz from the Natural...
 Mapping Natural Risks II: Mapping Natural Risks: Bridging Risk Modelling, Map Communication, Uncertainty and Emotional Response
Location: A-126 Lecture Hall
Chair: Tumasch Reichenbacher

Session I will take place on Thursday, 30 January 2025, from 9:30 am to 10:30 am in room A-126.

 ML & Forecasting II: Impact-Based Forecasting and Early Warning Systems Leveraging Machine Learning
Location: A-122 Lecture Hall
Chair: Pascal Horton
Chair: Olivia Martius
Chair: Noelia Otero Felipe
Chair: Vitus Benson
Session I will take place on Thursday, 30 January 2025, from 9:30 am to 10:30 am in room A-122. Program ML & Forecasting II 1. Presentations 2. Interactive Game: Forecasting rare events with generative human AI It is 11:45 am in Bern, Switzerland, and the International Committee on Unforeseen Risks is about to convene. Their latest session intends to prepare humanity for what is yet to come. RIMMA, the generative AI system built to forecast catastrophic outcomes, is opening the meeting with its latest assessment report. "Preparedness is key to mitigating the impacts of rare but catastrophic events. Here is a list of the top 10 unforeseen catastropheeeees that atataatat….“. What happened? A power outage struck the building, and now the committee is left to resort to their human intelligence to prepare a list they can present to the head of state within 45 minutes. We all become imagineers in this slot and play a collaborative game to forecast rare events! Join us for an interactive...
12:30pm
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2:00pm		 Lunch 2: Lunch Thursday
Location: Foyer/Mensa
2:00pm
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3:30pm		 GeoAI Workshop: Disaster Management with Deep Learning
Location: A022 Seminar Room
Chair: Raimund Schnürer

Invited experts:

  • Magnus Heitzler, Heitzler Geoinformatik, Germany

  • Maaz Sheikh, Ageospatial, Switzerland

  • Jan Svoboda, SLF Davos, Switzerland

  • Yizi Chen, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 Emergency and Crises Management: Emergency and Crises Management as Core Aspects of HEIs Curricula and Infrastructures: Enhancement of their Resilience and in Support of Secure Societies.
Location: A-119 Lecture Hall
Chair: Aikaterini POUSTOURLI
Chair: Horst Kremers

Speakers:

  • Annika Fröwies (University of Vienna, Austria)
  • Aleksandar Jovanovic(Steinbeis European Risk & Resilience Institute, Germany)
  • Orsolya Székely and Zoltán Székely (3T-IM Innovation Machine GmbH, Hungary)
  • Olga Vybornova (UCLouvain-CTMA, Belgium)
  • Georgios Sakkas (Center For Security Studies [KEMEA], Greece)
  
2:30pm
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3:30pm		 Weather & Health: Forecasting and Warning for Health
Location: A-122 Lecture Hall
Chair: Joan Ballester

This session covers presentations on the topic of weather forecasts for health management
3:30pm
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4:00pm		 Break Thursay 2: Coffee Break
Location: Foyer/Mensa
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 Keynote and Farewell: *Open to the public* Keynote Talk from Leonardo Milano on 'Using science to enable anticipatory humanitarian action' and Farewell
Location: Lecture Hall S003
Chair: Leonardo Milano
Chair: Christophe Lienert
Chair: Horst Kremers
Chair: Andreas Paul Zischg
Chair: David N. Bresch

Open to the public


This keynote will explore how scientific data, like weather and climate forecasts, can trigger early humanitarian interventions. We'll look at real-world examples where the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has used these triggers in Africa and Asia, discussing how reliable science can help decide when and where to act. We'll also address challenges in scaling this approach, such as the need for strong partnerships and accurate data.This talk will encourage collaboration between scientists and humanitarian workers to refine these methods, ensuring that future actions are both reactive and anticipatory

 
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