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Session	Disaster Early Warning and Response
Chair	Chris Chiesa, CIO, Pacific Disaster Center, Hawaii
Objective	To explore how data collected from space, land and ocean can be used to provide timely warning of natural disasters and extreme weather conditions and to support the development of response and mitigation strategies to mitigate impact and minimize damage, injury and loss of life. The extensive and ever increasing global collaborations in these area will also be covered.
Target Audience	Those with interest in Disaster Management, Extreme Weather Predicition, Earth and Ocean Monitoring and Observing, Climate Change, eScience and Global Collaboration as well as those involved in infrastructure provision to support these activities.
Agenda	Panel session - Each panel member will make a presentation, prior to the panel discussion - Pacific Disaster Center: ICT-based Disaster Early Warning Systems, with focus on recent projects in Vietnam and Thailand - National Center for Disaster Reduction (Taiwan) - ICT-based Disaster Warning and Response Systems in Taiwan for Typhoons and Earthquakes - GISTDA (Thailand) - THEOS support to Disaster Management Applications in Thailand and the Natural Disaster Information Network - Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance (COE-DM/HA) - Role of ITC in disaster response and humanitarian assistance -Concentris Systems, LLC - Indestructible Instant Networks for Disaster Response Operations All Presentation download
Remark	Room setup: Class room Shape

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