High-Level Round Table for the Launch of the Open Consultative Platform (OCP-HL-1)
(Europe/Zurich:
05 May 2019, 13:00 - 06 May 2019, 14:30)
Past event
Geneva, Switzerland

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.

Presentations
Summary of Responses to the Pre-Event Questionnaire
Information Note for Participants
Recording
Report
Joint Statement in
Press release
- Public-Private Sector link vital for weather forecasting 6 June 2019
- Partnerships help meet challenges 7 June 2019

For any queries, please contact:
ppe@wmo.int
Speakers

Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

Sue Barrell, Former Chief Scientist, BoM

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

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

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

Gerhard Adrian, Former President, WMO

Kjell Forsén, CEO, Vaisala

Florence Rabier, Director-General of the ECMWF

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

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

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

Karl Gutbrod, CEO, Meteoble AG, Switzerland

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

Jay Trobec, Chair, International Association of Broadcast Meteorology

Pavel Kabat, Director of Research and Chief Scientist, WMO

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

Andrew Eccleston, General-Secretary, PRIMET

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

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

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

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

Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General Emeritus of WMO

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

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

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

Albert Martis, Second Vice-President of the WMO

Patrick Benichou, President, Météo-France International

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

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

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

Deon Terblance, Special Advisor, South African Weather Service

Michel Jean, President, Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM), WMO

Bob Riddaway, President, European Meteorological Society

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

Brian Day, Chairman, The Association of Hydrometeorological Equipment Industry

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

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

Abdalah Mokssit, Head Secretariat, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Matthew Alto, Manager, Global Data Partnerships, Accuweather

Phil Evans, Chief Operating Officer, UK Met Office

Miloslav Tlamicha, Manager of Sales, Windy

Abdulla Al Mandous, President of WMO

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

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

Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization

Erica Grow Cei, Moderator

Tomas Molina, Moderator