Time: May 12, 2022, 2:00 pm-5:45 pm, China Standard Time (UTC+8:00)
Venue: Meeting Room 1, 4F Administration Building, Wangjiang Campus, Sichuan University
Organizer: Sichuan University

Agenda for the IDMR Scientific Symposium on Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development: In Memory of the Wenchuan Earthquake of May 12, 2008
2:00 – 2:30 pm:  Opening ceremony, chaired by Prof. Yao Leye, Vice President of Sichuan University

• Welcome Remarks by Prof. Yao Leye, Vice President, Sichuan University
• Remarks by Academician Li Yanrong, President, Sichuan University
• Online Remarks by Academician Teng Jinguang, President, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Online Remarks by Mr. Raymond Tam Chi-yuen, Executive Director, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (8 minutes)

2:30 – 5:45 pm: Scientific Symposium, chaired by Prof. Gretchen Kalonji, Dean of IDMR
2:30 - 3:30 pm: Part 1 - Keynote speeches
• Academician Guo Huadong, Director, International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS): “Big Data for Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development”
• Academician Zhang Renhe, Vice President, Fudan University: “A united, holistic and one health approach to respond to the climate change crisis”
• Academician Cui Peng, Co-Chair, Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR): “Natural Hazards Risk Assessment and Reduction on the Belt and Road”
• Professor Simon Redfern, Dean of Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, former Head of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University: “The Future of Earth Sciences for Disaster Risk Reduction”

3:30 – 3:45 pm Tea Break

3:45 – 5:45 pm: Part 2 - Keynote speeches
1. Professor Yang Saini, Beijing Normal University:  “‘Reducing disaster risk and creating a better future” calls for synergies”  
2. Professor Wang Juanle, Research Professor, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences; Executive Director, Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service in the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology under the Auspices of UNESCO: “Trend Analysis of Global Disaster Education Research Based on Scientific Knowledge Graphs”
3. Professor Marie-Luce Chevalier, Research Professor, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences:  "What can past large earthquakes teach us about future ones - Example of the Xianshuihe fault, eastern Tibet"
4. Professor Toshio Koike, Executive Director, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM): “HELP – the High-Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters, and its Alliance of Alliances for Research and Education”
5. Professor Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Head of the UN Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Advisory Group (APSTAG).  Distinguished Part-Time Professor at IDMR.  "Intergovernmental Collaborations for Disaster Risk Reduction:  The UN Asia Pacific Science and Technology Advisory Group (APSTAG) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”
6. Professor Han Qunli, Executive Director, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) program:  “ The new global research framework for DRR and IRDR 2022-2031 under the joint sponsorship of UNDRR and the International Science Council (ISC)”
7. Dr. Mandira Shrestha, Program Coordinator, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). “Models for transboundary data sharing for Disaster Risk Reduction: examples from the Hindu Kush Himalayan region”
8. Professor Fumihiko Imamura, Director, the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University. Video message.
9. Dr. Mizan Bisri, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University:  “The roles of youth and young professionals in data and knowledge sharing:  the example of the U-INSPIRE Alliance”
10. Prof. Wang Tun, College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University: ” Some progress on the  Multi-Hazard Early warning System in China”
11. Professor Maurice Yap, Professor Emeritus, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and former Dean of their Faculty of Health and Social Sciences: “Sichuan University – the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Collaborations on IDMR:  Reflections on the first phase and the way forward”