#AI4NDM 7th Meeting

Opening Remarks & Introduction to ITU/WMO/UNEP FG-AI4NDM

• ​ TSB, ITU (TBD)​
• Juerg Luterbacher, Chief Scientist, Director Science and Innovation, WMO
• Paula Padrino Vilela​, Project Coordinator, UN Environment
• Monique Kuglitsch​, Chair, ITU/WMO/UNEP FG-AI4NDM I Innovation Manager, Fraunhofer HHI,Germany

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Session 1: Keynotes

• Moderator: Elena Xoplaki​, Senior Scientist I Acting Head of the Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change Research Group, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany​
  • ​​Athanasios Staveris Polykalas, Secretary General of Telecommunications and Post, Ministry of Digital Governance
  • Yannis Mastrogeorgiou, Special Secretary for Strategic Foresight at the Presidency of the Government of the Hellenic Republic
  • Konstantinos Aravossis, Secretary General of Forests, Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy.
  • Christos Zerefos, Secretary General of the Academy of Athens,  Climate Envoy for Greece, Head, Research Center for Atmospheric Physics & Climatology Academy of Athens, Greece
  • 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
  • Demetris Gerogiannis, Founding Member/Board Member AICatalyst (www.aicatalyst.gr); Hellenic Association for Artificial Intelligence, Responsible for R&D; Founder & Tech Lead AI and Me
  • Christos Nikoloudis, CEO & Founder at Mantis Business Innovation; Head of Research at Environmental Economics and Sustainability Unit of National Technical University of Athens

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Coffe Break

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Session 2: AI for Monitoring and Detecting

• Nikos Bartsotas, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
• "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
• "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.​
• "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

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Lunch Break​

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Session 3: AI for Forecasting and Projecting

• "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
• "Probing Seismogenesis for Fault Slip and Earthquake Hazard": Chris Johnson, Scientist​, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Haris Kontoes, National Observatory of Athens, Greece 
• "Setting the ground for AI-enhanced drought monitoring and forecasting": Arthur Hrast Essenfelder​, Project officer, European Commission, Joint Research Center (JCR)​, Italy

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Session 4: AI for Communications

• "Monitoring landslides in real-time on local and global scales": Catherine Pennington, Engineering Geologist, Landslide Specialist​,  British Geological Survey, UK
• Kian Mirshahi, Mayday.ai, Germany
• Elias Kosmatopoulos, Democritus University of Thrace & CERTH, Greece
• Andrej Ceglar​, European Central Bank, Germany

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Discussion

​​Ioannis Pitas, Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis Lab, School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Closing Remarks

Elena Xoplaki​, Senior Scientist I Acting Head of the Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change Research Group, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany​   ​​​

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