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Day 1September 7 (Mon), 2026

Opening Ceremony and Congratulatory Remarks

Chair · Speaker
Opening Remarks
Ms. Younghee Nam

Vice Mayor for Balanced Development, Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea

Welcome Speech 1
Mr. Kamal Kishore

Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Head of UNDRR

Welcome Speech 2
Mr. Gye Woon Choi

President, The Incheon Institute, Republic of Korea

Congratulatory Remarks 1
Mr. Yong Kyun Kim

Deputy Minister, Office of Natural Disaster Management, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Republic of Korea

Congratulatory Remarks 2
Mr. Tatsushi Nishioka

Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat

Keynote
Mr. Hong-Gyoo Sohn

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Session 1

New Strategies for the Prevention and Management of Complex Disasters using AI

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Mr. Sanjaya Bhatia

Head, ONEA&GETI, UNDRR

Speaker 1
Mr. Ming Zhang

Director of the Information Guidance Division, Department of Science, Technology and Informatization, Ministry of Emergency Management, China

Speaker 2
Mr. Rajib Shaw

Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan

Speaker 3
Mr. Ulziibayar Luvsansharav

Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Department, National Emergency Management Agency, Mongolia

Speaker 4
Mr. Hong-Gyoo Sohn

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Speaker 5
Mr. Dennis Quah

Commander, 4th SCDF Division, Singapore Civil Defence Force, Singapore

Session 2

Risk-informed Investments for Local Resilience

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Ms. Anina Hartung

Officer, Resilient Development Team, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

Keynote
Mr. Mohammad Helmi Abidin

Regional Project Manager, UCLG Asia Pacific

Speaker 1
Ms. Rasha Lloyd

Parish Disaster Coordinator, St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, Jamaica

Speaker 3
Mr. Fernando Sozinho

Cooperation Officer, Quelimane Municipality, Mozambique

Speaker 4
Mr. Yong Seong Seo

Director, Safety Situation Room, Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea

Speaker 5
Ms. Valeriia Levchyshyna

Manager for Regional Development, City Institute, Ukraine

Speaker 6
Mr. Abdulla Almheiri

Head of Risk Department, Dubai Resilience Centre, United Arab Emirates

Voices of the Future

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Mr. Sanjaya Bhatia

Head, UNDRR ONEA&GETI

Speaker 1
Ms. Junhee Kim

Stony Brook University, SUNY Korea

Speaker 2
Ms. Riwon Yang and Ms. Suyoung Oh

George Mason University Korea

Speaker 3
Ms. Yumin Park

George Mason University Korea

Speaker 4
Ms. Jeongyeon Lim

George Mason University Korea

Speaker 5
Ms. Seoyoung Jung

George Mason University Korea

Session 3

Strategic Foresight Interactive Session

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Ms. Rhea Katsanakis

Programme Management Officer, UNDRR

City Networking Event

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Ms. Temily Baker

Programme Management Officer, UNDRR

Speaker 1
Mr. Md Anisur Rahman

Town Planner, Sirajganj Municipality, Bangladesh

Speaker 2
Mr. Abhijit Bangar

Additional Municipal Commissioner, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, India

Speaker 3
Ms. Merry Efriana

Assistant Deputy, Disaster Management, Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, Indonesia

Speaker 4
Ms. Raisa S. Treñas

Mayor, Iloilo City, Philippines

Speaker 5
Mr. Yeongbae Yoon

Research Fellow, Safety and Environmental Research Division, Ulsan Research Institute, Republic of Korea

Speaker 6
Mr. Chang-Mook Kang

Director General, Safety Policy Bureau, Yongin Special City, Republic of Korea

Speaker 7
Mr. Hee-Cheon Lee

Team Leader, Safety General Division, Boryeong City, Republic of Korea

Speaker 8
Mr. Jaturawit Nirojthanarat

Deputy Mayor, Nakhon Sawan Municipality, Thailand

Day 2September 8 (Tue), 2026

Session 4

Institutionalizing AI-driven Localized Disaster Safety Management Systems

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Ms. Hyeon-Suk Lyu

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Disaster, Risk & Safety Management, Korea Institute of Public Administration, Republic of Korea

Speaker 1
Ms. Xin Liang

Professor, School of Emergency Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Speaker 2
Mr. Shingo Suzuki

Senior Researcher, Research Division for Social Resilience, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan

Speaker 3
Ms. Dahye Yeon

Associate Research Fellow, Disaster Management Research Center, The Seoul Institute, Republic of Korea

Speaker 4
Mr. Seunghwan Kim

Senior Airside Operations Officer, Airside Operation Department, Gimhae International Airport, Korea Airports Corporation, Republic of Korea

Speaker 5
Ms. Susana Gonçalves

Director of Civil Protection Department, Municipality of Matosinhos, Portugal

City Networking Event

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Ms. Fei Cao

Associate Expert, UNDRR ONEA & GETI

Speaker 1
Ms. Melony Dawson

Liaison Officer, City Emergency Management Organization, Belize City Council, Belize

Speaker 2
Ms. Olivia Trevisani Bertolini Monteiro

Networks Coordinator, Secretariat for Citizen Governance and Rural Development (SMGOV) / Porto Alegre City Hall, Brazil

Speaker 3
Mr. Douglas Atamba

Director of Disaster Risk Reduction, Nairobi City County, Kenya

Speaker 4
Mr. Dirk Patrick Cloete

Manager, Fire and Emergency Safety, Mariental Municipality, Namibia

Speaker 5
Mr. Amer Salim Amer Al Hamar

Member of Salalah Resilience Centre, Head of the Emergency and Health Risk Management Department, Directorate General of Health Services in Dhofar Governorate, Oman

Speaker 6
Ms. Pumza Maquvana

Acting Head of Disaster Management, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, South Africa

Speaker 7
Mr. Ahmed Ekzayez

Deputy Minister, Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, Syria

Speaker 8
Mr. Mutlu Gürler

Head, Department of Disaster Affairs and Risk Management, Türkiye

Speaker 9
Ms. Viktoriia Agientaieva

Director, City Development Institute of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Session 5

Building and Operating Community-based Smart Disaster Management Systems

Chair · Speaker
Moderator
Mr. Dong Keun Yoon

Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

Speaker 1
Mr. Yasushi Taguchi

Executive Director, Promotion Office of SIP for Disaster Risk Reduction, Japan

Speaker 2
Ms. Miyuki Higashijima

Director, Project Promotion Section, City Planning Policy Bureau, City of Sendai, Japan

Speaker 3
Ms. Kassiyet Omarova

Advisor on Inclusion, Almaty Development Center JSC, Kazakhstan

Speaker 4
Mr. Youngsuk Lee

Researcher, Disaster Management Research Center, The Seoul Institute, Republic of Korea

Speaker 5
Mr. Seungwook Lee

Associate Research Fellow, Department of Urban Spatial Research, Yongin Research Institute, Republic of Korea