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Day 1 – September 7 (Mon), 2026
Opening Ceremony and Congratulatory Remarks
Vice Mayor for Balanced Development, Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea
Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Head of UNDRR
President, The Incheon Institute, Republic of Korea
Deputy Minister, Office of Natural Disaster Management, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Republic of Korea
Secretary-General, Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat
Deputy Minister, Office of Natural Disaster Management, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Republic of Korea
Session 1
New Strategies for the Prevention and Management of Complex Disasters using AI
Deputy Minister, Office of Natural Disaster Management, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Republic of Korea
Director of the Information Guidance Division, Department of Science, Technology and Informatization, Ministry of Emergency Management, China
Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan
Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Department, National Emergency Management Agency, Mongolia
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Commander, 4th SCDF Division, Singapore Civil Defence Force, Singapore
Session 2
Risk-informed Investments for Local Resilience
Officer, Resilient Development Team, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
Regional Project Manager, UCLG Asia Pacific
Parish Disaster Coordinator, St. Elizabeth Municipal Corporation, Jamaica
Cooperation Officer, Quelimane Municipality, Mozambique
Director, Safety Situation Room, Incheon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea
Manager for Regional Development, City Institute, Ukraine
Head of Risk Department, Dubai Resilience Centre, United Arab Emirates
Voices of the Future
Head, UNDRR ONEA&GETI
Stony Brook University, SUNY Korea
George Mason University Korea
George Mason University Korea
George Mason University Korea
George Mason University Korea
Session 3
Strategic Foresight Interactive Session
Programme Management Officer, UNDRR
City Networking Event
Programme Management Officer, UNDRR
Town Planner, Sirajganj Municipality, Bangladesh
Additional Municipal Commissioner, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, India
Head of Regional Planning, Research and Innovation, Bontang City Government, Indonesia
Assistant Deputy, Disaster Management, Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, Indonesia
Mayor, Iloilo City, Philippines
Research Fellow, Safety and Environmental Research Division, Ulsan Research Institute, Republic of Korea
Director General, Safety Policy Bureau, Yongin Special City, Republic of Korea
Director, Safety General Division, Boryeong City, Republic of Korea
Deputy Mayor, Nakhon Sawan Municipality, Thailand
Day 2 – September 8 (Tue), 2026
Session 4
Institutionalizing AI-driven Localized Disaster Safety Management Systems
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Disaster, Risk & Safety Management, Korea Institute of Public Administration, Republic of Korea
Professor, School of Emergency Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Senior Researcher, Research Division for Social Resilience, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Japan
Associate Research Fellow, Disaster Management Research Center, The Seoul Institute, Republic of Korea
Senior Airside Operations Officer, Airside Operation Department, Gimhae International Airport, Korea Airports Corporation, Republic of Korea
Director of Civil Protection Department, Municipality of Matosinhos, Portugal
City Networking Event
Associate Expert, UNDRR ONEA & GETI
Liaison Officer, City Emergency Management Organization, Belize City Council, Belize
Networks Coordinator, Secretariat for Citizen Governance and Rural Development (SMGOV) / Porto Alegre City Hall, Brazil
Director of Disaster Risk Reduction, Nairobi City County, Kenya
Manager, Fire and Emergency Safety, Mariental Municipality, Namibia
Member of Salalah Resilience Centre, Head of the Emergency and Health Risk Management Department, Directorate General of Health Services in Dhofar Governorate, Oman
Municipal Manager, Alfred Nzo District Municipality, South Africa
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, Syria
Head, Department of Disaster Affairs and Risk Management, Türkiye
Director, City Development Institute of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Session 5
Building and Operating Community-based Smart Disaster Management Systems
Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
Executive Director, Promotion Office of SIP for Disaster Risk Reduction, Japan
Director, Project Promotion Section, City Planning Policy Bureau, City of Sendai, Japan
Advisor on Inclusion, Almaty Development Center JSC, Kazakhstan
Researcher, Disaster Management Research Center, The Seoul Institute, Republic of Korea
Associate Research Fellow, Department of Urban Spatial Research, Yongin Research Institute, Republic of Korea
