UR2020 is evolving from the classical 5-days in-person event to hybrid! Focus Days will be spread out over the course of a few weeks in December and will primarily be online. The following list will give you a sense of what kind of sessions you can expect during the Focus Days. Please note that sessions and topics may change.
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
European Commission MISSION on Adaptation to Climate Change with Societal Transformation
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
How big is your appetite (for making a difficult decision)?
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
Setting the vision for resilient school infrastructure at global scale
DAT/Artathon: Turning risk data into visual art
Build-your-own risk map: Hands-on training series to create interactive maps for communicating risk
Responsible AI for disaster risk management
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
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
Implementing real-time disaster risk models: Collaborations across government, non-profits, academia and private sector in Mozambique and The Bahamas
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
Telling a story that can change the world: Hands-on workshop with ArcGIS StoryMaps
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
Supporting decision making for resilient transport
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
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
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
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
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
Working together with local communities
Disrupting the status quo: Brigade of youth and young
Open Cities AI Challenge: Results workshop
Accelerating a shift from critical infrastructure resilience theory to practice
AIESEC Sustainable Youth Village (ASYV)
Access the past and foretell the future: Peering into the crystal ball of early action
Disruptive tech for Africa
High-stakes decision-making made real – through Chernobyl
Catching fire: New paradigms for wildfire resilience *closed event
International Charter of Major Disasters: Users training
Unpacking multi-hazard early warning systems: From concepts to measurable reduction of disaster risks and impacts
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
Using geospatial tools for nature-based solutions to reducing disaster and climate risks: A hands-on workshop session
Global model of social vulnerability and resilience launch
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
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