| 14:00 - 14:10 |
Opening Remarks
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Seizo Onoe, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), ITU
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"Interaction between climate change & wildfires; importance of using technology to maximize resilience": Juerg Luterbacher, Vice-Chair of the ITU-T Focus Group on “Artificial Intelligence for Natural Disaster Management” (FG-AI4NDM) I Director of Science and Innovation and Chief Scientist, World Meteorological Organization
- "Summary of FG-AI4NDM": Monique Kuglitsch, Chair, ITU/WMO FG-AI4NDM I Innovation Manager at Fraunhofer HHI,Germany: [Presentation]
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14:10 - 14:30
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Keynote Session
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14:30 - 15:25
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Session 1: Wildfire preparedness
Moderator:
Ivanka Pelivan, Science Manager at Fraunhofer HHI I Co-Chair of the Working Group on AI for effective communications, ITU/WMO Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management
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"'A machine learning approach for wildfire susceptibility and hazard mapping at supranational level: The case study of Eastern Mediterranean": Andrea Trucchia,
Scientist, CIMA Research Foundation: [Presentation]
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"Deep learning for wildfire danger forecasting at different spatio-temporal scales": Ioannis Prapas & Ioannis Papoutsis,Researchers, Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens: [Presentation]
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"Understanding fire danger with explainable artificial intelligence": Michele Ronco, PhD, IPL: [Presentation]
- "Fighting wildfires with AI-powered insights": Helen Li, Senior AI Researcher, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT): [Presentation]
Q&A
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15:30 - 16:25
| Session 2: Wildfire detection & monitoring
Moderator:
Arif Albayrak, Associate Research Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA, Co-Chair, ITU/WMO Data Working Group
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"Canada’s WildFireSat mission and its contributions to operational wildfire monitoring and management": Morgan Crowley, Forest Fire Research Scientist, Natural Resources Canada: [Presentation]
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"EO-AI for active wildfire detection": Yu Zhao, PhD Candidate at the Division of Geoinformatics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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"An integrated system to protect Australia from catastrophic bushfires": Marta Yebra, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering, Fenner School of Environment & Society and the School of Engineering: [Presentation]
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"On-Board wildfire detection": Andrea Spichtinger, Satellite Data Scientist, Orora Technologies: [Presentation]
Q&A
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16:30 - 16:40
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Coffee Break
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16:40 - 17:40
| Session 3: Wildfire recovery
Moderator: Maria João Sousa, PhD student, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa I Researcher, Forest Fire Research Center
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"Representing burn assessments in knowledge graphs using AI (semantic technology)": Brian Wee,
Founder and Managing Director, Massive Connections (retired): [Presentation]
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Ritwik Gupta,
PhD student, University of California, Berkeley
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"EO-AI for wildfire monitoring using large-scale burned area datasets": Puzhao Zhang, Research Scientist at the Division of Geoinformatics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: [Presentation]
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| 17:40 - 18:10 |
Session 4: Stakeholder perspectives
Moderator:
Julia Gottfriedsen, Data Science Team Lead, Orora Technologies
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"ML in wildfire management product development": Kim Feuerbacher, Product Manager, OroraTech
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"ML for fire hazard / fire hazard": Dante Corti, Engineer and Head of the Fire Protection Central, Forestal Arauco
Q&A
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