Keynote Speakers and Programm Committe

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

• Georg Gartner (TU Vienna, President of the International Cartographic Association [ICA])
• Shen Jie (Nanjing Normal University, ICA Commission on Cartography in Early Warning and Crisis Management)
• Jürg Luterbacher (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, MedEWSa Coordinator, ex-WMO)
• Leonardo Milano (UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data)
• Thomas Röösli (MeteoSwiss, Weather4UN Project) & Isabelle Bey (Head of the Western Regional Center of the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Weather4UN Project Lead) & Alicia Pache (Weather4UN Project Coordinator, MeteoSwiss)
• Katrin Schneeberger (Director of the Federal Office for the Environment, Chair of the Steering Committee on Intervention in Natural Hazards)

Programme Committee

• Franziska Angly (LAINAT, Switzerland)
• Pia Bereuter (FHNW, Switzerland)
• Susanne Bleisch (FHNW, Switzerland)
• David N. Bresch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
• William Cartwright (ex-Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT, Melbourne, Australia)
• Juliane Cron (TU Munich, Germany)
• Pierfranco Costabile (University of Calabria, Italy)
• Arzu Çöltekin (FHNW, Switzerland)
• Carina Fearnley (UCL Warning Research Centre, London, United Kingdom)
• Georg Gartner (TU Vienna, Austria)
• Valentin Gebhart (ETH Zurich)
• Lorenz Hurni (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
• Shen Jie (Nanjing Normal University, People's Republic of China)
• Pyry Kettunen (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute, Finland)
• Milan Konečny (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
• Horst Kremers (RIMMA CoE, Berlin, Germany)
• Christophe Lienert (LAINAT, Switzerland)
• Xintao Liu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
• Olivia Martius (University of Bern, Switzerland)
• Jamie McCaughey (ETH Zurich)
• Erika Meléndez (Centre de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia CRAHI, Barcelona, Spain)
• Scira Menoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Markus Mosimann (University of Bern)
• Aikaterini Poustourli (IHU, Head of the Civil Protection Planning and Emergency Management Dept., Greece)
• Stefan Rass (University of Linz, Austria)
• Tumasch Reichenbacher (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
• Angela Santos (Centre of Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Wang Yong (Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping CASM, Beijing, People's Republic of China)
• Andreas Zischg (University of Bern, Switzerland)