High-Level Round Table for the Launch of the Open Consultative Platform (OCP-HL-1)

Public event

Hybrid

05 May 2019, 13:00 - 06 May 2019, 14:30

(Europe/Zurich: 05 May 2019, 13:00 - 06 May 2019, 14:30)

Past event

Geneva, Switzerland

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Background

The Open Consultative Platform (OCP) will bring together public, private and academic sectors on a Round Table to help articulate a common vision for the future of the weather enterprise in the coming decade and beyond with the expectation that the next decade will be the decade of digital transformation in almost every sphere of businesses and human activities.

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Presentations

Day one and day two

Summary of Responses to the Pre-Event Questionnaire

Pre-event Questionnaire Summary

Information Note for Participants

Additional Information

Recording

Report

OCP-HL-1 June 2019, Geneva, Switzerland

Joint Statement in

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Speakers

WMO Secretary-General, Professor Petteri Taalas (Jan 2016-Dec 2023)

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

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Sue Barrell, Former Chief Scientist, BoM

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Alan Ratier, Director-General, European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

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Øystein Hov, Secretary-General, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

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James Earl Anderson, Vice President of Global Sales, Advanced Environmental Monitoring and Chair of HMEI

Gerhard Adrian

Gerhard Adrian, President, WMO

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Kjell Forsén, CEO, Vaisala

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Florence Rabier, Director-General of the ECMWF

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Kevin Petty, Director of Science and Forecast Operations and PPP, The Weather Company, IBM

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Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, University of Oxford

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David Parsons, President's Associates Presidential Professor, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

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Karl Gutbrod, CEO, Meteoble AG, Switzerland

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Sarah Jones, Director, Research and Development, WWRP, Deutsche Wetterdienst

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Jay Trobec, Chair, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology

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Pavel Kabat, Director of Research and Chief Scientist, WMO

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Naoyuki Hasegawa, Director-General, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Permanent Representative of Japan with WMO

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Andrew Eccleston, General-Secretary, PRIMET

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Ralph Renner, President, Weather Risk Management Association; Head of European Origination, Sompo International Holdings Ltd

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Cristophe Cudennec, Secretary-General, International Association of Hydrological Sciences

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Agnes L. Kijazi, Director-General, Tanzania Meteorological Authority, Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania with WMO and Third Vice President of WMO

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Yong Yu, Deputy Administrator, China Meteorological Administration (CMA)

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Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General Emeritus of WMO

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Louis Uccellini, Assistant Administrator, NOAA for Weather Services; Director, National Weather Service and Permanent Representative of the United States of America with WMO

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David Grimes, Permanent Representative of Canada with WMO and WMO President (2011-2019)

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Vladimir Tsirkunov, Lead Specialist, Hydromet Program, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, World Bank Group

Albert Martis

Albert Martis, Second Vice-President of the WMO

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Patrick Benichou, President, Météo-France International

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Djime Adoum, Executive Secretary, Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel

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Pauline Dube, Professor, Department of Environmental Science, University of Botswana

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‘Ofa Fa’ Anunu, Director, Tonga Meteorological Service and Permanent Representative of Tonga with WMO

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Deon Terblance, Special Advisor, South African Weather Service

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Michel Jean, President, Commission for Basic Systems, WMO

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Bob Riddaway, President, European Meteorological Society

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Michael Staudinger, Director, Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics and Permanent Representative of Austria with WMO

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Brian Day, Chairman, The Association of Hydrometeorological Equipment Industry

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Andrew Johnson, CEO and Director of Meteorology, Bureau of Meteorology and Permanent Representative of Australia with WMO

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Maxim Yakovenko, Head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation with WMO

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Abdalah Mokssit, Head Secretariat, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Matthew Alto, Manager, Global Data Partnerships, Accuweather

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Phil Evans, Chief Operating Officer, UK Met Office

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Miloslav Tlamicha, Manager of Sales, Windy

Abdulla Al Mandous

Abdulla Al Mandous, President of WMO

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Daisuke Abe, Managing Executive Officer Service Operation and Development Weathernews Inc.

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Roger Pulwarty, Senior Scientist, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System, Research Laboratory in Boulder

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Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

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Erica Grow Cei, Moderator

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Tomas Molina, Moderator

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