10:00 - 10:15
| Opening Remarks
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Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
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Cyrille Honore, Director, Disaster Risk Reduction and Public Services Branch, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Muralee Thummarukudy, Acting Head, Resilience to Disasters and Conflicts Global Support Branch, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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10:15 - 11:00
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Session 1: Introduction to ITU/WMO/UNEP FG-AI4NDM and Keynotes
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11:00 - 12:20
| Session 2: AI for Communications
The session will address how AI can support effective communication for natural hazard-related emergencies. It will explore how AI is being used for susceptibility mapping of natural hazards, how AI is being used for natural catastrophe modeling for insurance purposes, and how AI-based chatbots can be used during natural disasters.
Session Chair: Paula Padrino Vilela, Project Coordinator, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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Bahareh Kalantar, Research Scientist, RIKEN:
"Deep Neural Network Utilizing Remote Sensing Datasets for Flood Hazard Susceptibility Mapping" [
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Roland Schöbi, Senior Catastrophe Researcher, Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.:
"AI applications in natural and man-made catastrophe modelling" [
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Jamese Sims, Director, NWS OSTI Modeling Programs, Senior Science Advisor for Artificial Intelligence: "An Overview of the Use of Artificial Intelligence at NOAA" [
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Soichiro Yasukawa, Programme Specialist, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): "AI application on DRR: AI Chatbot and SMS analysis" [
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Q&A
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12:20 - 12:40
| Break
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12:40 - 14:00
| Session 3 - AI for Modeling (reforecasting and projecting)
The session will delve into the use of AI for forecasting and projecting natural disasters. For instance, it will look at how hail, floods, and fog can be forecasted using AI.
Session Chair:
Erica Allis, Scientific Officer, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Alex Marti, CEO and Co-Founder, Mitiga Solutions I Natural Hazards and Risk Analysis Group Leader, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC): "Hitting the mark: Using AI in hail and windstorm identification and hazard mapping" [
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Raffaele Albano, Assistant Professor, University of Basilicata: "AI for flood risk warning and communication: a network of rain gauge cameras on a 5G telecommunication network" [
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Jude Adeleke, Head, IT Division, National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA):
"Multi-Scale Flood Monitoring and Assessment Services for West Africa (MIFMASS)" [
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Kriti Bajaj and
Shruti Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur:
"Fog prediction using artificial intelligence"
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Q&A
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14:00 - 15:30 | Session 4: AI for Data (monitoring and detecting)
The session will focus on how AI can be used to monitor data streams and detect events in real time. It will look at how AI can be used to detect earthquakes and insect infestations. It will also look at how AI can be used to automate the annotation of remotely sensed imagery.
Session Chair:
Arif Albayrak, Co-Chair of ITU/WMO/UNEP Working Group on Data I Associate Research Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA, Co-Chair, ITU/WMO Data Working Group
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Marius Kriegerowski, Scientist and Software Engineer, German Research Centre for Geosciences:
"Pushing seismic data analysis and AI to the edge: Scalable large-N smart sensor network" [
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Nguyen Ha Trang, PhD Student, Yamagata University & M. Larry Lopez C., Professor,Yamagata University:
"Using UAV and Deep Learning to Identify Pest Infestation Trees in Natural Forest" [
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Rudy Venguswamy, Data Scientist, Pinterest and
Anirudh Koul, AI Scientist, Pinterest:
"Worldview Search - The NoCode Earth & Natural Disaster Dataset Curator from Unlabeled Petabyte Scale Imagery" [
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Christina Kumler, Associate Scientist II, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES):
"Using Deep Learning to Identify Cyclones in Satellite and Weather Model Data" [
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Q&A
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15:30 - 15:45
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Special Remarks
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Mike Farrar, Director, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) at National Weather Service: "The growing importance of AI in weather, water and climate applications: dual perspectives from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the U.S. National Weather Service" [
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