PPE Practices and Presentations

High-Level Sessions of the OCP

Fourth High-level Session of the Open Consultative Platform (OCP-HL-4) 

SPEAKERS

Welcome 

Opening Remarks 

Presentation on the latest progress and the plan for the EW4All implementation 

  • Cyrille Honoré

Gaps and expected outcomes of the plan of the EW4All implementation

  • Outhone Phetluangsy
    • Permanent Representative of Lao PDR with WMO (Lao PDR)

HMEI and private sector presentations and commitments 

  • Joshua Campbel
  • Chris Sharrock
    • Vice President, United Nations Affairs and IOs, Microsoft 
  • Yossi Matias
    • Vice President , Engineering and Research, Google 
  • Nelson Gonzalez
  • Kaushik Sethuraman
    • Head, Programs, Central Social Impact Group, Meta
  • Ye Huang
    • Country Manager, DACH, Benelux, and CEE Region, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence
  • Kimberly Brown 
    • Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation, Mobile for Development, GSMA

Key Messages 

  • Tatsuya Kimura 

Closing

 

Third High-Level Session of the Open Consultative Platform (OCP-HL-3) 

SPEAKERS

Welcome

Opening Remarks

Keynote Speech 

Panel Discussion 1: Operating Models and Environment

  • Prof Penny Endersby 
  • Prof Alberto Arribas Herranz 
    • Europe Lead for Environmental Sustainability Science, Microsoft
  • Mr Kai Öistämö
  • Mr Yong Yu
  • Q&A (through 42m21s)

Panel Discussion 2: Legislative/Institutional Framework

Panel Discussion 3: Human Resources, Permanent Representative's role, and Global and Regional Cooperation

  • Prof Albert Klein Tank
    • Director, Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services (United Kingdom)
  • Dr Andrew Johnson
  • Mr Jonathan Porter 
    • Senior Vice President and Chief Meteorologist, AccuWeather
  • Ms Courtney Draggon
    • Director, International Affairs Office, NWS/NOAA (USA
  • Q&A (through 94m00s)

Key messages

Closing Remarks 

  • Dr Elena Manaenkova

Closing of the session

 

Second High-level Session of the Open Consultative Platform (OCP-HL-2) 

SPEAKERS (May 2021)

Theme of day one (26 May) - Launch of the first OCP White Paper on Future of Weather and Climate Forecasting (vision 2030+)

 PRESENTATIONS

PANEL DISCUSSION

THEME ONE KEY MESSAGES

Theme of day two (27 May) - Evolving Roles and Responsibilities – Future of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (vision 2030+)

PRESENTATIONS

PANEL DISCUSSION

THEME II KEY MESSAGES

 

Round-table discussion - High-Level Round Table for the launch of the Open Consultative Platform (OCP-HL-1)  (June 2019)

SPEAKERS

Day one (5 June) - Opening

Theme 1, day one (5 June) - Data and ... more (shared) data 

  • Sue BARRELL
  • Alain RATIER
    • Director-General, European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
  • Øystein HOV
    • Secretary-General, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • Jim ANDERSON
  • Gerhard ADRIAN
  • Kjell FORSÉN - CEO, Vaisala: Video ¦ Summary

Theme 2, day one (5 June) - Forecasting and ... forecasters

  • Florence RABIER
  • Kevin PETTY
    • Director, Science and Forecast Operations, IBM
  • Tim PALMER
    • Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, Oxford University
  • David PARSONS
    • President's Associates Presidential Professor, School of Meteorology, Oklahoma University
  • Karl GUTBROD 
  • Sarah JONES
  • Jay TROBEC
    • Chair, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology
  • Pavel KABAT
    • Director of Research and Chief Scientist, WMO

Theme 3, day one (5 June) - Demand and Supply of Services ... Weather/Climate/Water/Environment intelligence driving decision-making 

  • Naoyuki HASEGAWA
    • Director-General, Forecast Department, JMA (Japan)
  • Andrew ECCLESTON
  • Ralph RENNER
    • President, Weather Risk Management Association
  • Cristophe CUDENNEC
    • Secretary-General, International Association of Hydrological Sciences 
  • Agnes KIJAZI
  • Young YU
  • Michel JARRAUD
  • Louis UCCELLINI
  • David GRIMES 
    • PR of Canada with WMO and President of WMO (Canada)

Theme 4, day two (6 June) - Capacity Gap - Alleviating inequality and advancing together

  • Vladimir TSIRKUNOV
    • Lead Specialist, Hydromet Programme, Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery, World Bank Group
  • Albert MARTIS
    • PR of Curacao and Saint Maarten with WMO (Curacao)
  • Djime ADOUM 
    • Executive Secretary, Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel
  • Patrick BENICHOU
  • Pauline DUBE
    • Professor, Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana (Botswana)
  • `Ofa Fa´ANUNU
  • Deon TERBLANCHE
    • Special Science Advisor, South African Weather Service (South Africa)
  • Michel JEAN
    • President, Commission for Basic Systems WMO (Canada)
  • Bob RIDDAWAY
    • President, European Meteorological Society
  • Michael STAUDINGER 

Theme 5, day two (6 June) - Roles, Responsabilities ... Parternships for common action 

  • Brian DAY
  • Andrew JOHNSON
  • Maxim YAKOVENKO
    • PR of Russian Federation with WMO (Russian Federation)
  • Abdalah MOKSSIT
  • Matthew ALTO 
    • Manager, Global Data Partnerships, Accuweather
  • Phil EVANS 
    • Chief Operating Officer, UK Met Office (United Kingdom)
  • Miloslav TLAMICHA
  • Daisuke ABE
    • Director and Chief Service Officer of Weathernews
  • Roger PULWARTY
    • Senior Scientist, Physical Sciences Divisios, NOAA (USA
  • Celeste SAULO

Day two (6 June) - Closing and Way Forward

  • Dimitar IVANOV

Day two (6 June) - Closing remarks

  • Petteri TAALAS
    • WMO Secretary-General

High-Level Conferences

WMO Technical Conference on: "The UN Global Early Warning Initiative for Climate Adaptation: Early Warnings for All 

SPEAKERS

Opening

  • Dr Wenjian Zhang

  • Dr Elena Manaenkova

  • Mr Ian Lisk

    • WMO Services Commission President (United Kingdom)

  • Mr Michel Jean

    • WMO Infrastructure Commission President (Canada)

Session 1: Current Early Warning Service Value Cycle Initiatives 

Session 3: The Role of the Big Tech in Early Warnings for All

  • Mr Anthony Louen Fernandez 

  • Ms Amelie Grangeat

  • Mr Sella Nevo

  • Mr Xiaohui Zhong

    • Managing Director of Strategic Investment Department, Alibaba

  • Mr Matt Corey

  • Mr Jonas Weiss 

Regional Forums of the OCP 

High-Level Regional Forum of the OCP in RA II & V (Asia and South-West Pacific) 

SPEAKERS

Opening 

Challenges and Opportunities 

Enabling Estrategy and Legislation

Closing 

High-Level Regional Forum of the OCP in RA I (Africa)

SPEAKERS

Welcome 

  • Dr Aderito Aramuge  
    • Director General of National Institute of Meteorology (Mozmabique)

Keynote on the opportunities for digital transformation of hydrometeorological services in Africa

Sharing experiences on good practices on digital transformation on services delivery 

  • Dr Ladislaus Chang'a
  • Dr Joao Afonso 

Financing Opportunities 

  • Dr Joseph D. Intsiful 
    • Senior Climate Information and Early Warning Systems Specialist, GCF
  • Mr Makoto Suwa 

Digital technologies in support of the EW4All Initiative 

  • Ms Vanessa Gray 
    • Head of Environment and Emergeny Telecommunications Division, ITU 
  • Mr Patrick Benichou 
  • Dr Omer Nevo 
  • Mr Owen Ombima 

Digital transformation - Private Sectors' Assitance in enhancing capacities of hydrometeorological services in Africa

High-Level Regional Forum of the OCP in RA IV (North America, Central America and the Caribbean) 

SPEAKERS

Welcoming remarks

Public-Private Engagement Presentations 

  • Ms Courtney Draggon 
    • Director of International Affairs of NOAA/NWS (USA
  • Ms Berta Olmedo 
  • Mr Jeffrey W Simmons and Mr Robert Carron 
    • Acting Director of the Bahamas Department of Meteorology and PR of Bahamas with WMO (Bahamas) / Founder of the Bahamas Aviation, Climate and Severe Weather Network LTD 
  • Ms Jay Wilson 
  • Mr Carlos Villamil
  • Director of Sales LATAM, OTT Hydromet 

Key messages

Closing remarks

  • Mr Evan Thompson 
  • Dr Wenjian Zhang 

High-Level Regional Forum of the OCP in RA VI (Europe) 

SPEAKERS

Introduction 

Key Note Presentations 

Launch of the High-Level Regional Forum of the OCP in RA III (South America) 

SPEAKERS

Introduction

  • Mr Julian Baez Benitez - Moderator 

Opening Remarks

  • Dr Wenjian Zhang 

Presentation: Review of WMO Public-Private Engagement activities and Region-specific status

Sharing good practice and experience 

Panel discussion: The way forward - Globally, Regionally and Nationally

Key Messages 

Closing Remarks

  • Prof Celeste Saulo 
  • Ms Yolanda González Hernández 
  • Dr Wenjian Zhang 

Webinars 

Presentation - WMO OCP Innovation Webinar – Innovation and Cutting-edge Activities in Space Borne Precipitation Measurements and Applications | Information page | Presentation1 | Presentation 2 | Presentation 3 | Recording (14 December 2021)

Presentation - WMO OCP Innovation Webinar – Met Office and Microsoft share information on what their partnership means for the future of the Met Office | Information page | Presentation | Recording (4 October 2021)

Presentation - WMO OCP Innovation Webinar - Microsoft and the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Information pageRecording (April 2021)

Presentation - WMO Data Conference Preparatory Workshop on Theme 2: "Business models and data policy issues" (October 2020)

Presentation - WMO OCP Innovation Webinar - Innovation in PPE - Public Goods in Weather and Climate: Information pagePresentationRecording (July 2020)
Presentation - WMO OCP Innovation Webinar - Multi-hazards early warning system in the Pacific: Information pagePresentationSummaryRecording (April 2020)

Talk - Business of Weather Podcast: The WMO encourages collaboration between the public & private sectors - interview with Dimitar Ivanov (April 2020)

Presentation - WMO OCP Innovation Webinar - Integrating Technology-Driven Solutions to Improve The Production and Utilization of Weather Products and Services in Africa: Information pagePresentation (February 2020)

Good Practices

Public-Private Engagement to Enhance Observation in Japan (March 2022)

Meteorological Services in Japan and Lessons for Developing Countries (February 2022, especially Chapter 2 on Legal Framework and Chapter 4 on Public-Private Engagement; a paper commissioned by the World Bank’s Disaster Risk Management Hub, Tokyo)

Meteo France International (MFI): Modernizing National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) through public-private partnerships: English | French (July 2020)

Legal framework and policies related to PPE for meteorological services in China: Consistent emphasis and legally binding provisions on the authority of public meteorological offices in the public weather forecast and weather warnings (July 2020)

Public-Private Engagement in Japan Underpinned by its Legislative Framework (June 2020)

Ensuring sound development of meteorological services: Japan Meteorological Agency and the Weather Business Consortium (WXBC) (April 2020)

Public and Private Engagement in Korea’s Weather & Climate business (April 2020)

Establishing a successful public-private partnership: MeteoSwiss collaborates with the private weather company MeteoGroup, the largest operator of a network of private weather stations in Switzerland (April 2020)

Integrating private sector observations in operational weather forecasting in Norway (March 2020)

Boosting innovation and national dialogue: 2nd Meteorological Service Technology Innovation Competition and Annual Forum, Beijing, China: SummaryVideo (February 2020)

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