09:00 - 09:20
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Opening Remarks & Introduction to ITU/WMO/UNEP FG-AI4NDM |
09:20 - 10:30
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Session 1: Keynotes
Moderator: Elena Xoplaki, Senior Scientist I Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change Research Group, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
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Yannis Mastrogeorgiou, Special Secretary for Strategic Foresight at the Presidency of the Government of the Hellenic Republic
Konstantinos Aravossis, Secretary General for Forestry, Ministry of Environment and Energy I Professor, National Technical University of Athens
Costas Synolakis, Academician; President, Athens College; Chairman, Special Scientific Committee on Climate Change in Greece; Prof. Civil, Environmental and Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California
Christos Nikoloudis, CEO & Founder at Mantis Business Innovation; Head of Research at Environmental Economics and Sustainability Unit of National Technical University of Athens [Presentation]
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10:30 - 10:45
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Session 2: AI for Monitoring and Detecting -
"Smoke plum tracing through a fusion of numerical weather prediction, satellite remote sensing and dispersion modelling": Nikolaos S. Bartsotas, Senior Research Associate, National Observatory of Athens, BEYOND Centre of EO Research & Satellite Remote Sensing [Presentation]
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"Earth Observation Big Data and AI for Early Detection and Near Real-Time Monitoring of Wildfires": Yifang Ban, Professor & Director of Geoinformatics Division, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden [Presentation]
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"Improving landslide detection and mapping on SAR data through Deep Learning": Lorenzo Nava,
Ph.D. Researcher, Machine Intelligence and Slope Stability Laboratory, University of Padova, Italy. [Presentation]
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"The EU Space Programme enabling AI for emergency management applications": Vasilieios Kalogirou, Space Downstream R&I Officer, EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), Czech Republic [Presentation]
Q&A
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11:55 - 13:25
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Lunch Break
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13:25 - 14:05
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Session 3: AI for Forecasting and Projecting
Moderator: Elena Xoplaki, Senior Scientist I Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change Research Group, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
- "Understanding the drivers controlling the seasonal predictability of hydrological extremes over Europe": Ilias Pechlivanidis, Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden [Presentation]
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"Probing Seismogenesis for Fault Slip and Earthquake Hazard": Chris Johnson, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States [Presentation]
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"EYWA: An established Early Warning System Expanding to new Frontiers": Haris Kontoes, Research Director, National Observatory of Athens, Greece [Presentation]
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"Setting the ground for AI-enhanced drought monitoring and forecasting": Arthur Hrast Essenfelder,
Project officer, European Commission, Joint Research Center (JCR), Italy [Presentation]
Q&A |
14:25 - 15:35
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Session 4: AI for Communications
Moderator: Marco Massabo, Program Director, CIMA Foundation, Italy
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"Monitoring landslides in real-time on local and global scales": Catherine Pennington, Engineering Geologist, Landslide Specialist, British Geological Survey, UK [Presentation]
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"Mayday.ai : Global Risks, Disasters, & Environmental Intelligence": Kian Mirshahi, Mayday.ai, Germany [Presentation]
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"On the use of swarms of autonomous aerial vehicles for disaster management":
Elias Kosmatopoulos, Professor of Applied Automatic Control, Dept of Electrical and Computer Eng., Democritus University of Thrace [Presentation]
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"Natural disasters – impact on economy and financial stability": Andrej Ceglar, European Central Bank, Germany [Presentation]
Q&A
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15:35 - 15:45
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Discussion
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Ioannis Pitas, Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Lab, School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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