ICES Biennial Workshop V, December 3rd 2019

 
 
08:00-08:30
Arrival, registration, refreshments
08:30-09:00
Introduction to ICES and the day’s agenda - Bob Bishop & Barbara Ryan
09:00-09:45
Panel session 1 - Healthy Planet, Healthy People
 
Moderator
Dr. Ghassem Asrar, ICES Expert & Senior VP of Science, Universities Space Research Association; former Director, Joint Global Change Research Institute, PNNL, US Dept of Energy; former Director, World Climate Research Program, Geneva
 
Panelists
Prof. Antoine Flahault, Founding Director, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva & Deputy Director of the Swiss School of Public Health
Dr. John Haynes, Program Manager Health and Air Quality, NASA
09:45-10:30
Panel session 2 - The Future of Climate Science & its role in managing our planet
 
Moderator
Dr. Bob Bishop, ICES Foundation President and Founder; former Chairman and CEO, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
 
Panelists
Prof. Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor, Dept of Physics, University of Oxford & ECMWF Fellow; former ECMWF Dept Head, Ensemble Modelling, UK
Prof. Jagadish Shukla, ICES Expert & Distinguished Professor, Climate Science, George Mason University; Founder IGES and COLA non-profit organizations
10:30-11:00
                                                                                          Networking break
11:00-11:45
Panel session 3 - Remote Sensing from satellites, aircraft, ultra-lights, drones
 
Moderator
Dr. Ghassem Asrar, ICES Expert & Senior VP of Science, Universities Space Research Association; former Chief Scientist, NASA Earth Observation System
 
Panelists
Dr. Michael Rast, ICES Expert & Head, Science Strategy, Coordination and Planning, EO Programme, ESA; Adjunct Professor, Dept of Geography, University of Munich, Germany
Mr. Samuel Harper, Head, Global Business Systems, WWF International
11:45-12:30
Panel session 4 - Making City-Region Resilience Practical and Affordable
 
Moderator
Dr. Barbara Ryan, ICES Expert; former Secretariat Director for GEO, Geneva;
 former Director of WMO’s Space Programme, Geneva
 
Panelists
Prof. Peter Head CBE, ICES Expert & Chairman and Founder of Resilience Brokers, UK; Executive Chairman, The Ecological Sequestration Trust, UK;
Visiting Professor, Sustainable Systems Engineering, Bristol University
Mr. Edwin Douglass, ICES Financial Advisor & VP Finance of Equinix, Inc.
12:30-13:15
                                                                                   Buffet lunch (mezzanine)
13:15-14:00
Panel session 5 - Earthquake Hazard & Disasters - urban vs poor, critical facilities
 
Moderator
Emeritus Prof. Max Wyss, ICES Expert & Seismic Consultant; Emeritus Professor University of Alaska
 
Panelists
Dr. Philippe Rosset, ICES Research Associate & Director, Earth in Motion, France
Dr. Stavros Tolis, ICES Research Associate & Geotechnical Engineer, Greece
Dr. Michel Speiser, ICES Chief Data Scientist; former IBM Researcher and Data Scientist, Zurich
14:00-14:45
Panel session 6 - UN Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF)
 
Moderator
Dr. Jean-Claude Badoux, ICES Ambassador-at-Large; former President EPFL
 
Panelists
Mr. Marc Gordon, Head, Global Risk Analysis and Reporting Unit, UNDRR, Geneva
Mr. Scott Williams, Lead for Risk, Resilience and Regeneration, EIT Climate-KIC
14:45-15:30
Panel session 7 - AI & Machine Learning for Science
 
Moderator
Dr. Michel Speiser, ICES Chief Data Scientist; former IBM Researcher and Data Scientist, Zurich
 
Panelists
Dr. Olivier Verscheure, Executive Director of Swiss Data Science Center, ETH
Dr. Kevin Schawinski,  Co-Founder and CEO of Modulos SA; Co-Founder of Galaxy Zoo
15:30-16:00
                                                                                          Networking break
16:00-16:45
Panel session 8 - Exascale Computing is here:
Will HPC and AI/ML converge and improve our climate & weather skills?
 
Moderator
Mr. Mike Horner, ICES Advisor for Integrated Modelling; former Program Manager, DEC
 
Panelists
Dr. Marie-Christine Sawley, ICES Expert & Director, Exascale Laboratory, Intel Corp, Paris
Dr. Thomas Ludwig, ICES Expert & Director of German Climate Research Centre, Hamburg
Mr. Matthias Fouquet-Lapar, Systems Architect HPC and ML/AI, Lenovo Europe and former SGI/Cray
16:45-17:45
Panel session 9 - A Challenging Mix - Science, Storytelling, Giving Advice and Policy-Making
 
Moderator
Dr. Bill Westermeyer, ICES Policy Advisor;
former Senior Policy Analyst, US Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment;
former Senior Fellow, European Parliament Science and Technological Options Assessment Programme
 
Panelists
Dr. Nicole Ostlaender, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Hon. Dr. Michael Armitage, ICES Expert & Advisor to Minister of Public Health, Qatar; former CEO of Australia’s Health Insurance Association;former Minister for Health, Aboriginal Affairs & Digital Economy for South Australia; & former Director for Government Affairs, Asia-Pacific, Silicon Graphics, Inc.  
18:00-18:15
Finale/Wrap (All)