THURSDAY
Morning session
Showcases, new data, new activities, new partners
9.00-10.30 hrs: Partner showcase session 1
- Global harmonized definition of cities and settlements (Lewis Dijkstra, Economic Analysis Unit at European Commission Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy) (presentation)
- New global settlement data and civil society (Eugenie Birch, co-director, Pennsylvania University, Institute for Urban Research; chair, World Urban Campaign; president, Habitat3 General Assembly of Partners) (presentation)
- Capacity building and traineeship on new global settlement data (Richard Sliuzas, ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente; Vince Seaman Deputy Director, Data & Analytics, Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates foundation) (presentation)
- Global Urban Climate and Mitigation Planning, (Chao Ren, School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools WUDAPT) (presentation)
- Global Urban Footprint Suite (GUF+) and Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform (Thomas Esch, Team Urban Areas and Land Management, German Aerospace Center - DLR) (presentation)
Coffee break
11.00-12.30 hrs: Partner showcase session 2
- Towards understanding human settlement growth in South Africa ( Nale Mudau, Research and Applications Development, South African National Space Agency (SANSA) (presentation)
- Global future population grids, (Deborah Balk, associate director, City University of New York, Institute for Demographic Research) (presentation)
- Global urban metabolism, (Paul Sutton, University of Denver Department of Geography & the Environment) (presentation)
- Global slum analysis achievement and challenges (Monika Kuffer & Richard Sliuzas, ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente) (presentation)
- Urbanization dynamics in China and the Belt and Road, (LinLin Lu , Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (presentation)
Lunch 12.30 - 13.30 hrs
Afternoon session
13.30 - 14.30 hrs: Ignite talks
Sequence of ignite talks from the representatives of the Expert Groups – 5 minutes each. Structure: who we are, what we plan to do, why you should join the efforts, who is the contact person.
- Global harmonized definition of cities and settlements
– Point of Contact from the Economic Analysis Unit at European Commission DG for Regional and Urban Policy (Lewis Dijkstra) - New global settlement data and civil society
– Point of Contact from the Pennsylvania University, Penn Institute for Urban Research - Penn IUR (Eugenie Birch) - Global Settlements in Disaster Risk Reduction
– Point of Contact from the Global Partnership on Space Technology Applications for Disaster Risk Reduction GP-STAR (Joachim Post) - Global Urban Climate and Mitigation Planning
– Point of Contact from the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) (Gerald Mills) - Global updated and historical baseline data on population and built-up areas
– Point of contact from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (Thomas Kemper) - Global high resolution age-structured population maps 2000-2020
– Point of contact from the Univ. of Southampton, WorldPop (Alessandro Sorichetta) - Global Settlements, Infrastructure, and Population Data Intercomparison
– Point of contact from the Columbia Univ., Center for International Earth Science Information Network (Bob Chen) - Building a framework for accuracy assessment of global settlement layers (Stefan Leyk)
- Global future population grids including demography and migration
– Point of Contact from the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. (Deborah.Balk) - Global urban metabolism
– Point of Contact from the University of Denver Department of Geography & the Environment (Paul Sutton) - Urbanization dynamics in China and the Belt and Road
– Point of Contact from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences (LinLin Lu) - Capacity building and traineeships
– Point of Contact from the ITC Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation of the University of Twente (Richard Sliuzas)
14.30 - 16.00 hrs: ‘World Café’
‘World Café’ session with separate desks for each Expert Group topic chaired by the group leader to interact with the all interested partners
16.00 - 17.00 hrs: Poster session / Preparation for wrap-up panel
17.00 - 18.00 hrs: Wrap-up panel
Final panel of the chairs reporting about the findings of the expert groups.