UR2018 Quick Links

Check out the topics that will be covered.

Monday and Tuesday are reserved for side events – including training sessions, workshops, and stakeholder meetings organized by individual organizations – to set the dialogue before the main conference.

Monday, May 14

8:00                                    Registration opens

9:00 – 18:00                Side Event Day 1
Lunch provided at 13:00

Tuesday, May 15

8:00                                    Registration opens

9:00 – 18:00                Side Event Day 2
Lunch provided at 13:00

The Main Conference begins on Wednesday, May 16. 

All technical sessions have been organized by topic as follows:

a = Communicating risk
b = Risk modeling
c = Disruptive technologies
d = Data
e = Decision-making
f = Uncertainty
g = Highly interactive

Wednesday, May 16

13:00                                  Registration opens

14:30 – 15:00              Welcome refreshments

15:00 – 16:30              Opening Ceremony & Keynote Address

  • Jorge Familiar, Vice President of Latin America and the Caribbean, World Bank Group
  • Alfonso Navarrete Prida, Minister of Interior, Government of Mexico
  • Keynote: Dara Dotz, CoFounder, Principal Designer of FieldReady

16:30 – 17:30              Ignites

  • Five-minute rapid fire ‘pitch’ presentations about the technical sessions on Thursday and Friday

17:30 – 19:00              Welcome Reception

 

Thursday, May 17

8:00                                  Registration opens

8:30 – 9:00                  Coffee

9:00 – 10:30                Resilience Dialogue – Artificial Intelligence: Panacea or doomsday? (plenary)

10:30 – 11:15              Coffee

11:15 – 12:45              Technical sessions (concurrent)

  1. Satellites, machine learning and community intelligence: Flood risk data on the fly – Patio Principal – c, e, g
  2. Assessing and communicating risk to cultural heritage: The future of preserving the past – Bicentenario – a, e, f
  3. Communicating volcanic risk: Lava, eruptions and uncertainty – Salon de Actos – a, e, f
  4. Public policy in Mexico: Challenges and lessons learned (in Spanish) – La Capilla – b, e
  5. Human cognitive biases: The root of irrational risk decisions – Auditorio Bernardo Quintana – e, f, g

12:45 – 14:30              Lunch

14:30 – 16:00              UR Story: Narrative and Risk (plenary)

  • Iain Stewart, Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth
  • Georgiana Ilie, Editor-in-chief, Romanian magazine Școala9 (New School)
  • Dr. Raed Arafat, Romania Secretary of State, Head of Department of Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs
  • Gabriela Warkentin, Head, W Radio’s morning news (Mexico)
  • Andrew Revkin, Strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism, National Geographic Society

16:00 – 16:30              Coffee

16:30 – 18:00              Technical sessions (concurrent)

  1. Selecting the best satellite-derived risk tool: Mining the sky for decision-making – Bicentenario – a, d, g
  2. Risk assessments in infrastructure planning: Learning from failure – Salon de Actos – e, f, g
  3. Big data: Innovations in disaster risk financing – La Capilla – c, d
  4. Learning from business risk analyses: Tying the knot – Auditorio Bernardo Quintana – e, g

18:15 – 19:15             Performance by the Climate Music Project

Join us for a live performance by the Climate Music Project. The performance, Climate, was created to help audiences understand how our climate has changed in the last 200+ years, and what we might expect in the future. Climate was made by identifying four key indicators of climate change and assigning each of these a musical analog. The music is not generated by the climate data. Rather, this original composition is affected, and changed, by what the data prescribe. This will be a not to miss experience.

19:15 onward             Reception

Friday, May 18

8:00                                  Registration opens

8:30 – 9:00                   Coffee

9:00 – 10:45                Technical sessions (concurrent)

  1. Advances in drone technology: Flying robots – Patio Principal – c, d
  2. Early warning for early action: Forewarned and forearmed – Bicentenario – a, e, g
  3. The future of risk modeling – Salon de Actos – a, b, c, d
  4. Community engagement: Raising awareness and driving action – La Capilla – a, d
  5. Communicating earth observation data: A picture is worth a thousand actions – Auditorio Bernardo Quintana – a, d, e, g

10:45 – 11:15              Coffee

11:15 – 12:45              Technical sessions (concurrent)

  1. The risk information value chain: Data, science, narrative and action – Patio Principal – a, d, e
  2. Understanding cascading events: Earth, wind and fire – Bicentenario – b, e, f, g
  3. Small islands: Innovations in understanding risk – Salon de Actos – b, d
  4. Communicating risk: Approaches for parametric insurance – La Capilla – a, e
  5. Risks in the digital age: Learning from cyber security – Auditorio Bernardo Quintana – b, f

12:45 – 14:30              Lunch

14:30 – 16:00              Technical sessions (concurrent)

  1. Computer vision and machine learning: From cat videos to CAT modeling – Bicentenario – b, c, d
  2. Learning from Mexico’s experience: From 1985 to 2017 (in Spanish – Salon de Actos – a, d
  3. A conversation on Geoengineering: Altering the planet, envisioning risk financing mechanisms – La Capilla – f, g
  4. Assessing urban flood risk: Going with the flow – Auditorio Bernardo Quintana – b, f

16:00 – 16:30              Coffee

16:30 – 18:00              Closing Ceremony & Keynote Address

  • Laura Tuck, Vice President of Sustainable Development, World Bank Group
  • Luis Felipe Puente, National Coordinator of the Civil Protection Agency, Government of Mexico
  • Keynote: James Balog, Founder and Director, Earth Vision Institute and Extreme Ice Survey