2010 Outreach Meeting

Showcasing the development of state-of-the art, user-intuitive tools for global earthquake risk assessment through community participation - that is the theme of this years' Outreach Meeting.

The GEM Outreach Meeting 2010 is being held in tandem with the Understanding Risk conference on innovation in disaster risk assesment. As a matter of fact it is part of a series of events is organised by the GFDRR (World Bank) in cooperation with the UN-ISDR and others, brought together under the name Understanding Risk forum.

The entire event will be taking place from 1-4 June 2010 in Washington DC. A sparkling cocktail will open the event on Tuesday June 1st late-afternoon, and after a series of inspiring presentations and sessions, from June 3rd in the afternoon, GEM will kick-off with its annual meeting. The general event programme is hence as follows:

Tuesday June 1st: Registration, UR Keynote, Ignite Session, Reception
Wednesday June 2nd: Parallel Sessions of the UR Conference
Thursday June 3rd - morning: Parallel Sessions and Keynote Closing of UR
Thursday June 3rd - afternoon: GEM Outreach Meeting 2010
Friday June 4th: GEM Outreach Meeting 2010 (until 18.00) - optional State Department Reception [registration before May 31st]

Programme GEM Outreach Meeting 2010

Thursday June 3rd
14.00 – 14.15 Welcome
14.15 – 14.45 GEM Mission
14.45 – 15.15 Private Participants’ perspective
15.15 – 16.00 GEM framework and current status
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30 User needs – who are GEM’s users and how are they best served?
17.30 – 18.30 Regional Programmes – feeding and feedbaclking global models

Friday June 4th
09.00 – 09.30 GEM1 Overview
09.30 – 10.00 Global Components - for and from the community
10.00 – 10.30 Hazard Global Components I
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30 Hazard Global Components II
11.30 – 12.00 Risk Global Components
12.00 – 12.30 Socio-Economic Impact Module
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Calculating and Communicating Earthquake Risk [interactive demonstrations]
15.00 – 15.30 Discussion, spatial data infrastructure, users network
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.00 Collaborative development of GEM
17.00 – 17.30 Closing address

** Download the full programme [PDF] below.

An example of the loss maps that are being produced with the GEM risk engine. The development of the engine was part of the GEM1 project and will be presented at the 2010 Outreach Meeting together with other preliminary results and applications, partly in the form of an interactive demonstration.

Discuss about GEM and the themes of the UR conference
A community website has been set up to create a global risk assessment community; a community in which people share their knowledge on risk assessment and communication, learn about the newest developments and exchange all kinds of other information.

There are discussion groups for the 14 themes that will have sessions dedicated to them at the conference. A special discussion page has been created for discussions on GEM.

Click on the image to enter the website, to see the Understanding Risk Forum programme and to liase with other risk professionals.