We are pleased to offer a wide variety of topics at the fifth global forum. Links to the abstracts will be provided as they become available from the session leads.
Plenaries
Technical sessions
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- A conversation on Geoengineering: Altering the planet, envisioning risk financing mechanisms
- Advances in drone technology: Flying robots
- Assessing and communicating risk to cultural heritage: The future of preserving the past
- Assessing urban flood risk: Going with the flow
- Big data: Innovations in disaster risk financing
- Communicating earth observation data: A picture is worth a thousand actions
- Communicating risk: Approaches for parametric insurance
- Communicating volcanic risk: Lava, eruptions and uncertainty
- Community engagement: Raising awareness and driving action
- Computer vision and machine learning: From cat videos to CAT modeling
- Early warning for early action: Forewarned and forearmed
- Human cognitive biases: The root of irrational risk decisions
- Learning from business risk analyses: Tying the knot
- Learning from Mexico’s experience: From 1985 to 2017
- Public policy in Mexico: Challenges and lessons learned
- Risk assessments in infrastructure planning: Learning from failure
- Risks in the digital age: Learning from cyber security
- Satellites, machine learning and community intelligence: Flood risk data on the fly
- Selecting the best satellite-derived risk tool: Mining the sky for decision-making
- Small islands: Innovations in understanding risk
- The future of risk modeling
- The risk information value chain: Data, science, narrative and action
- Understanding cascading events: Earth, wind and fire