Event Summary
Description
The first two days of UR2018 are comprised of side events that set the dialogue before the main conference. These events are organized by individual organizations and include training sessions, workshops, and stakeholder meetings. There are nearly 60 side events to choose from.
Please note that all side events will be held at the Palacio de Minería. Lunch will be provided at 1pm on Monday, May 14 and Tuesday, May 15.
Monday, May 14
9:00am – 10:00am: The Recovery Hub Knowledge Platform – Understanding Risk from the recovery perspective; GFDRR, Room C1
9:00am – 10:30am: Synergizing technology and knowledge for safer and resilient schools; World Bank, Room C3
9:00am – 11:30am: Informing decision-making in the face of adversity; GNS Science, Room C4
9:00am – 11:30am: Partnering with communities for sustainable, inclusive resilience: Tools and approaches; World Bank, Auditorio Bernardo Quintana
9:00am – 1:00pm: Many small drops make a big flood – Global Flood Partnership; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Deltares, and Global Flood Partnership, Bicentenario
9:00am – 5:00pm: Learning through Serious Gaming: Open geospatial technologies for disaster management practitioners (InaSAFE); Kartoza and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Room C10
9:00am – 6:00pm: Understanding risk for financial resilience – Partnership Day; Cass Business School, Centre for Global Disaster Protection, Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program of the World Bank Group, European Space Agency, GFDRR, Insurance Development Forum, InsuResilience Partnership, Overseas Development Institute, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, RMSI, UK AID, La Capilla
9:00am – 6:00pm: SISRI Practitioners’ Network (continued from Sunday, May 13), Galeria de Rectores
9:00am – 10:00pm: Interdisciplinary pressure cooker – Risk communication; Water Youth Network and GFDRR, Salon de Directores
10:00am – 11:30am: Report Launch: An innovation to Disaster Response – The Global RApid-post-disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) Approach; World Bank and GFDRR, Room C1
10:45am – 1:15pm: Satellite earth observation in support of disaster risk management, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS), Salon de Actos
11:00am – 1:00pm: Gestión Integral de Riesgos como Política Pública: Vulnerabilidad Institucional y Resiliencia Urbana; Citibanamex, Salon de Maestros
11:00am – 1:00pm: Climate risk-sensitive planning of public investments: The Latin American experience; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Room C2
11:00am – 1:00pm: Importance of Numerical Models in Prediction of Extreme Events – A robust technique to ‘evaluate’ and ‘quantify’ the risk; RMSI, Room C3
12:00pm – 1:00pm: Mind the Gap: Translating climate information into action for smallholder farmers; Mercy Corps, Room C1
12:00pm – 1:00pm: Reducing flood risk on urban areas by using early warning systems; Sadeem, Room C4
2:00pm – 3:30pm: Risk-informed decision-making for sustainable development; UN Development Programme (UNDP), Salon de Maestros
2:00pm – 4:00pm: OpenStreetMap Data for Resilience & Mapathon; Development Seed, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, GFDRR, Room C2
2:00pm – 5:00pm: The smallholder and the corporate lawyer (or how to include poverty and inequality considerations in risk assessments); GFDRR, Room C3
2:00pm – 5:00pm: Comprehensive climate risk management: Dealing with climate-related loss and damage; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Room C4
2:00pm – 5:00pm: From space to finance – A new framework for Earth observation, humanitarian, and insurance sectors; NASA, Salon de Actos
2:00pm – 6:00pm (continues onto Tuesday, May 15 all day): Towards climate resilience and the effective management of risk in the hydropower sector: Sharing good practice and promoting cooperation; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and International Hydropower Association, Bicentenario
4:00pm – 5:30pm: Top-down and bottom-up – Linking big data with local knowledge; SOS Children’s Villages International, Auditorio Bernardo Quintana
4:00pm – 6:00pm: Using the data revolution in risk-based decision-making for infrastructure, University of Oxford, Salon de Maestros
4:30pm – 5:30pm: The University of California’s Platform for Humanitarian Action and Resilience; University of California, Room C1
4:30pm – 6:00pm: Risk information needs from the end user perspective – Concept-testing the Global Risk Assessment Framework in support of the implementation of the Sendai Framework and related SDG targets; UNISDR, Room C2
Tuesday, May 15
9:00am – 10:30am: A global cost-benefit analysis tool for flood protection investment strategies; World Resources Institute, Institute for Environmental Studies, VU Amsterdam, Deltares and World Bank, Room C1
9:00am – 10:30am: Community flood resilience – Can you measure it, yes you can! Experiences of using the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance Measurement Tool; Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, Salon de Maestros
9:00am – 11:00am: Satellite support for risk management in Haiti – an innovative example; Haiti CNIGS and Haiti Civil Protection Department, and CNES, La Capilla
9:00am – 11:00am: Report launch: Advancing disaster risk finance in the Caribbean; Developing targeted solutions for a recurrent problem; World Bank, Room C4
9:00am – 12:00pm: MapWoW! in resilient asset management; MapWOW! by NepCol, Room C5
9:00am – 1:00pm: Jurassic park: cascading impacts of failing critical infrastructure in Mexico City; Deltares, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Tanzania Red Cross Society, Salon de Actos
9:00am – 1:00pm: Discussions on DRR Tools and the Exchange of Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability Data; Kartoza, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, GFDRR, Galeria de Rectores
9:00am – 1:00pm: Post Disaster Needs Assessment and Disaster Recovery Framework (PDNA/DRF) overview, GFDRR, Room C2
9:00am – 6:00pm (continuation from Monday afternoon): Towards climate resilience and the effective management of risk in the hydropower sector: Sharing good practice and promoting cooperation; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and International Hydropower Association, Bicentenario
9:30am – 11:00am: Beyond Global Risk Metrics – a use case for assessing displacement risk, developing early warning and understanding system failure; Risk Nexus Initiative, in partnership with Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), CIMA, CIMNE and UNDP, Room C10
10:00am – 11:00am: AWS approach to enabling resiliency through the cloud, Amazon Web Services, Auditorio Bernardo Quintana
11:00am – 1:00pm: City coastal resilience – How would YOU protect Africa’s coastal cities from climate change? World Bank, Salon de Maestros
11:00am – 1:00pm: Mapping and analyzing community risk: Resilience solutions and requirements gathering; Esri, Room C1
11:30am – 1:00pm: The Caribbean at the frontline of the war on climate change: Using natural hazard and infrastructure information effectively as part of a successful line of defense, INES Ingenieros Consultores, University of Leeds, University of Michigan and World Bank, La Capilla
11:30am – 1:00pm: Comprehensive climate risk management for resilient SMEs; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Auditorio Bernardo Quintana
11:30am – 1:00pm: How can we assess the real costs of disasters? The benefits of shared international efforts to build better evidence for investing in DRR; OECD, Room C10
11:30am – 1:00pm: Disaster risk reduction as child’s play; Loughborough University and University of Auckland, Room C4
2:00pm – 3:00pm: Local Disaster Recovery Framework Guide: a new tool to strengthen local capacity for quicker, more resilient recovery; GFDRR, Room C2
2:00pm – 3:30pm: Resilient Cultural Heritage: Building the Community of Practice through Risk Identification and Communication, World Bank and GFDRR, Room C5
2:00pm – 3:30pm: Participatory mapping, social media, and the city: Citizen-generated data for risk identification and communication; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Pacific Disaster Center, MIT Urban Risk Lab, Room C10
2:00pm – 3:30pm: Is migration our future? People in the frontline of a changing world; UN Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY), United Nations International Strategy on Disaster Risk (UNISDR), Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Auditorio Bernardo Quintana
2:00pm – 4:00pm: Launch of new UR sub-community: Challenges that weather extremes are posing on food security; RMSI, Room C1
2:00pm – 4:30pm: Lights – camera – risk-informed action: Making and using videos for effective communication of risks and good practices to address them; Independent and Loughborough University, Salon de Maestros
2:00pm – 5:30pm: Twenty years since Mitch hit Central America: a “hard talk” about the state of DRM in the region and the challenges ahead; World Bank, Room C3
2:00pm – 6:00pm: Design and risk communication for impact – Roadtesting the new GFDRR Framework and tools for the effective use of open risk data; Resurgence, Vizonomy and GFDRR, Galeria de Rectores
2:00pm – 6:00pm: Understanding risk from space; Satellite Applications Catapult, Room C4
2:00pm – 6:00pm: Green walls: Using nature to manage nature’s risks; JBA, GFDRR and World Bank, Salon de Actos
4:00pm – 6:00pm: Storytelling for safer communities, DoR Magazine, Room C5
4:30pm – 6:00pm: Reaching the last mile: Challenges and lessons from early warning systems; Practical Action, Room C1
4:30pm onwards: UR Showcase – Communicating risk through film; British Geological Survey, Auditorio Bernardo Quintana