Understanding Risk Forum 2020
Nov30, 2020 | Singapore EXPO, Singapore | #UR2020
Please note that, in light of the postponement, the Focus Day events may change. We are working with the organizers to solidify the Focus Day program. This schedule will provide a good sense of the types of events featured in the Focus Days.
Focus Days are comprised of 100+ events that include training sessions, workshops, and stakeholder meetings. These events are organized by individual organizations that take a deeper dive in topics around disaster risk management. Events can be anywhere from 1 hour to 2 days, 25 to 200 participants.
Day 1 – Monday, November 30 – Focus Days
9:00 – 10:30
Increasing disaster resilience in Asia-Pacific cities through science and technology
Developing a policy framework for investments in disaster risk resilience – an economic and social cost approach
The power of partnership: Sparking public-private engagement in hydromet services
Doing drainage differently: Tackling urban flooding in the future mega-city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Nature-based solutions: Balancing risk and reward
9:00 – 11:00
European Commission MISSION on Adaptation to Climate Change with Societal Transformation
9:00 – 12:00
Understanding the anatomy of DARAJA: How to construct the Ne Plus Ultra of Inclusive City / Community Forecasting and Early Warning Systems
Lloyd’s Register Foundation steering committee *closed event
How big is your appetite (for making a difficult decision)?
9:00 – 13:30
Do we need champions to understand disaster risk?
Efficient risk data sharing: A dedicated disaster risk data library
Disrupting the status quo: Brigade of youth and young professionals in DRR (continues to Day 2)
Setting the vision for resilient school infrastructure at global scale (continues to Day 2)
DAT/Artathon: Turning risk data into visual art *closed event (continues to Day 2)
9:30 – 11:00
Build-your-own risk map: Hands-on training series to create interactive maps for communicating risk
10:00 – 13:00
Responsible AI for disaster risk management
11:00 – 13:00
Expert collaboration to support disaster risk financing: New models and views of risk
From risk thinking to resilience thinking: Launch of the STAIN tool
Developing New Zealand’s open source multi-hazard risk assessment tool: RiskScape 2.0
11:30 – 13:00
Climate and design collaborative studio
Co-developing open risk models for risk financing and climate change adaptation
Early warning for early action: Toward more behaviorally-informed early warning system
11:30 – 13:30
Implementing real-time disaster risk models: Collaborations across government, non-profits, academia and private sector in Mozambique and The Bahamas
14:00 – 15:30
Geohazard risk monitoring and mitigation approaches: Increasing resilience of the Himalayan road network
Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for DRM
Risk, resilience & reform from ministries of finance
Understanding and assessing climate change risk to Cultural Heritage: the Climate Vulnerability Index applied to the Caribbean Forts
14:00 – 16:00
Telling a story that can change the world: Hands-on workshop with ArcGIS StoryMaps
14:00 – 17:00
Importance of modernization of hydromet systems and risk assessment
Misinformation, disinformation, and risk: When science alone doesn’t cut it
Reaching vulnerable communities faster: A hands-on exercise to explore how to improve information flows for humanitarian decision-makers
Launch of road geohazard risk management tools and products: Theory into practice
14:30 – 16:30
Supporting decision making for resilient transport
14:30 – 17:30
Map your city’s future: A spatial data for resilience workshop
Towards proactive disaster risk management: Benefits and challenges in linking early warning with risk financing
14:00 – 18:00
Resilience Academy: A sustainability solution for urban resilience skills development in Africa
The Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) approach
LRF World Risk Poll ideation workshop *closed event
16:00 – 17:30
Adaptive cross-sectoral disaster recovery and risk reduction in Sulawesi, Indonesia: Collaborations between global non-profits and national civil society
Ambition for early action at COP26: REAP (Risk-informed Early Action Partnership)
Integrated nature-based solutions (NBS) for urban flood resilience in Singapore *closed event
16:30 – 18:00
Virtual reality for urban risk perception enhancing
What do we learn when we map a city? Voices and impacts from Open Cities Africa
Cooler cities: Action to reduce extreme urban heat risk
Day 2 – Tuesday, December 1 – Focus Days
9:00 – 10:30
Geospatial data for post disaster building damage assessment challenge
Landslide susceptibility and hazard: Examples from the global, regional and local scale
Disruptive tech for Africa
Multiform Flood Risk in a complex future flooded world – Earth Observation and Complex Systems in support of compound floods in rapidly changing environments
9:00 – 11:00
Working together with local communities
Disrupting the status quo: Brigade of youth and young
9:00 – 12:00
Open Cities AI Challenge: Results workshop
Accelerating a shift from critical infrastructure resilience theory to practice
AIESEC Sustainable Youth Village (ASYV)
9:00 – 13:00
Access the past and foretell the future: Peering into the crystal ball of early action
Disruptive tech for Africa
9:00 – 13:30
High-stakes decision-making made real – through Chernobyl
Catching fire: New paradigms for wildfire resilience *closed event
9:00 – 16:00
International Charter of Major Disasters: Users training
Unpacking multi-hazard early warning systems: From concepts to measurable reduction of disaster risks and impacts
9:00 – 18:00
Forming radical collaborations to address climate and disaster risk: The Understanding Risk Field Lab
Putting resilience in place: Learn to apply cloud AI disruptive geospatial technologies people will use for decision making
Stories of impacts and innovations in Small Island Developing States
Mapping with low-cost centimeter precise surveys: Drones and open source software
Setting the vision for resilient school infrastructure at global scale
DAT/Artathon: Turning risk data into visual art
10:00 – 13:00
Using geospatial tools for nature-based solutions to reducing disaster and climate risks: A hands-on workshop session
11:00 – 12:30
Global model of social vulnerability and resilience launch
11:00 – 13:00
Telling a story that can change the world: Hands-on workshop with ArcGIS StoryMaps
Governing Risks of Emerging Technologies in Asia: New approaches to AI, Blockchain and Precision Medicine
11:30 – 13:00
Resilience building of the private sector in small island states
The #TimesUp moment for disaster risk? Transformational approaches for gender inclusion in DRR
Risk-Informed Development in Bangladesh
Building Climate resilience practices into City Planning – A Vietnamese Case study
14:00 – 15:30
A toolkit for landslide early warning systems
It takes a village: Digital skills to improve urban resilience in Africa
Preparing Local Communities to Assess Risk and Provide First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis
Managing climate risk: The way forward
Fire resilience and the urbanising margins
Management of OpenStreetMap data and data collection processes for integrated DRM
14:00 – 17:00
Breaking the silos: From single to comprehensive multi-hazard risk frameworks
Nature-based solutions at any cost? A role play to support decision-making for flood risk management
Dynamic cities and disaster risk: Capturing the complexity within risk models
Innovations in data analysis, geospatial technologies, and related frameworks in risk valuation
The Meguro Method: A public engagement technique to improve disaster preparedness
Crossroads: Managing intersecting risks of conflict, violence, disasters and climate change
14:00 – 18:00
The Development Impact of Risk Analytics
UNDRR / ISC Sendai Hazard Definition and Classification Review
14:00 – 18:30