IDRiM 2018 Conference
Data Driven Approaches to Integrated Disaster Management
Dates: 2-4 October 2018
Venue: Leighton Hall, John Niland Scientia Building,
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Official Site : HereThe 9th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk
Management (IDRiM2018) will be hosted by CSIRO Date61 in cooperation with IDRiM
Society in Sydney, Australia.
The vision for this year’s event is to put data driven approaches at the epicentre ofdisaster mitigation, management, and resilience appealing across all disciplines andextending through to practitioners, academics, industry and Government.
The scientific and organizing committees are proud to present this program, thatdemonstrates how poignant and relevant this field is, now more than ever, and theimportance of a cross disciplinary approach.
Over the three days, you will be able to attend upwards of 25 sessions, inclusive ofpresentations, plenaries and panel discussions. We would like to encourage you to
deeply engage in the Young Scientist Sessions to ensure we are building the best andbrightest players in this industry.
Australia is prone to a wide variety of hazards, most prominently bushfires, which arepresently more intense and not just during summer. We would like to connect theIDRIM Society with the risks facing Australia, and with those who are at the frontier ofthese climatic issues. Sydney itself is surrounded by several bushfire prone regions,and we will be travelling to one of them to discuss approaches of the localcommunities, practitioners, and governments in these regions.

Overview
The overarching theme of IDRIM 2018 will be "data driven approaches to disasterrisk management". Submissions with a key focus on data, data assimilation andintegration, modelling and analytics are particularly encouraged. The emerging areasof machine learning and artifical intelligence in the context of integrated disastermanagement are also highly relevant.
Disaster risk management presents unique challenges that require truly multidisciplinary perspectives and contributions emphasizing such aspects are mostwelcome.
A suggested list of relevant topics that will be discussed at the conference is provided
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Social and Behavioural aspects
Climate change and its impact
Natech, Natural Hazard Triggered Technological AccidentsEarly warning systems
Community engagement and communication
Economic aspects
Compound/cascading disasters (simultaneous and/or co-located) and Megadisasters
Practical applications of Integrated Disaster Risk Management
Resilience and Vulnerability
Scientific evidence-based decision-making, modelling and analytics
Cross-disciplinary challenges for integrated disaster risk management
Archiving and knowledge management
Connecting observed data and disaster risk management decision-making

Keynote speakers
John Handmer, RMIT School of Science; Geography, University ofMelbourne; IIASAKEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Resilient Nation? Australia in the 21st Century.
Many in the emergency managements sector have argued that Australia and many
Australians lack resilience. His talk will look at three dimensions of Australia as aresilient nation: the question of national resilience and what it might entail; ideologies,activities and trends that are supporting or undermining resilience in Australia; and thesituation of groups that would normally be seen as especially needing support forresilience. It will be argued that the situation of these groups can provide insights intoa nation’s resilience, and should be part of resilience assessments.

Robert Glasser, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) andAustralian National University

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: The Cascading Impacts of Climate Change: Implications for
Disaster Management
Climate change is dramatically increasing the frequency and severity of many hazards,
but it will be the greatly underappreciated cascading impacts of these hazards that will
present the most profound challenges to society in general and disaster management
agencies in particular. Dr Glasser will outline the links between climate change
adaptation and disaster risk reduction, sketch the implications of cascading hazardsand propose measures to prepare for the unprecedented disasters that will result if
the planet warms well beyond the commitments countries made in the Paris Climate
Agreement.

Anne Hale, Miglarese, Founder and CEO of Radiant

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: The Convergence of Computer Technology, Earth
Observations, Unharnessed Innovation and Humanity
Until very recently, humanity had little ability to predict or respond to natural
disasters. Our ancestors became paralyzed even at benign natural occurrences such as
solar eclipses. Two things are true in 2018: 1) we are facing increasing disaster-relatedrisks and 2) technology is evolving at lightning pace. Many of us today can easily accesssophisticated weather data on our smart phones, allowing us to monitor changing
phenomena by the hour. The data in our pockets is derived from Earth Observation(EO) satellites—something unimaginable fifty years ago. The volume of Earth
Observation data and the ability to process it quickly is changing our world. Thesedevelopments have led to an explosion in the use of EO data by companies,
governments and other organizations across sectors and industries. Together, we areinnovating to deliver new insights about the world around us. Climate change, similarlychanging our world, presents a crucial challenge to us all. This is a challenge that musttake on as a community. Harnessing data for good will continue to be an importantpiece of this puzzle. Data gives us the ability to predict disasters with growing accuracy.
We know when and where many disasters will happen—the next step is mitigation.
Like our ancestors, we cannot imagine the advances in technology that lie ahead. The
future presents a great challenge, but within that challenge lies great opportunity.

Sarah Barker, Special Counsel at MinterEllison

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Climate change: why are financial markets getting involved?
Sarah Barker is one of the world’s leading experts on climate change risk
governance. She will provide a unique perspective on climate change-related risks
through the lens of a corporate lawyer and institutional investor – and explain whysome of the most important impacts for the disaster management sector are notscientific or physical, but financial and legal.

Stephanie Chang, University of British Columbia, Canada

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Developing data-driven typologies of risk for resilience
This presentation focuses on a promising and under-explored approach to putting
data-driven approaches at the center of disaster mitigation, management, andresilience: developing data-driven typologies of risk. I argue that while disaster risk forany city or community is multi-faceted, locally conditioned, dynamic, and in many ways
unique, there are also many commonalities that can and should be systematicallyexplored to identify common risk patterns. Empirical typologies are not new in thehazards and disasters field; for example, some researchers have developed typologies
of post-disaster recovery trajectories. I argue, however, that there remains a gap inconnecting patterns of risk to resilience-building objectives. This approach requires
analytical approaches that are designed not only to describe risk but more deliberately
to contribute to knowledge-sharing, learning, decision-making, and action. Three
illustrative examples from the U.S. and Canada are presented that develop data-driven
typologies to support resilience-building for coastal communities at risk of tsunamis
and coastal flooding associated with sea-level rise. The presentation concludes byrecognizing limitations, raising possibilities, and proposing a research agenda for theuse of data-driven typologies of risk in disaster research and practice.

Ilan Noy, Victoria University and the Chair in the Economics ofDisasters

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: A Dismal Examination of a Boring Topic: An Economic
Perspective on Disaster Insurance

The Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand (2011) was one of the most insured
disasters ever. Yet the insurance system there failed to deliver the best of all possible
worlds, and in multiple ways. The lecture will focus on several observations on disasterinsurance and its discontents.

Jean-Michel Tanguy, CEO of the Group of Scientific Interest

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Impact of new technologies and new data (related to DDM)
in a fast-moving connected society
Disaster Risk Management implies all levels of the society : from the elected officials to
the individuals, which must be in close contact when a disaster occurs. But to predict
and characterize an incoming disaster, data are necessary. These data are traditionary
obtained via physical gauges in the field : along rivers for inundation, coasts for storm
surges or tsunamis, forests for bushfires, mountains for avalanches, steep slopes forlandslides… But new technologies are rapidly arising with airborne data sensors on
satellites, drones, planes as well as new data from people using smartphone : picturesor videos via Internet. The progress of Science produces faster and powerfulalgorithms and new tools from disciplines like Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning,Robotics. These new products interfere and make people change their behavior, being
more aware and informed, but loosing each day a parcel of freedom. The arrival ofhuge amount of heterogeneous data impose to rethink the classical technologies andinfrastructure used by the risk analysis community. Moreover, a lot of questions
regarding the society arise like the individual privacy and the change of paradigm inthe next future. International strategies like Sendai framework which is the actualized
doctrine of DDR, associated with Open Gov Partnership initiative promotes theopening of data bases, strengthening the interface between science and policy,
enhances participation processes between all actors of DDR.

Important Dates
First Call for Papers

May 2018

Abstract deadline

Friday, 27th July 2018

Acceptances announcement

Monday, 13th August 2018

Early Bird Registration Ends

Sunday, 16th September 2018

Conference Bigins

Tuesday, 2nd October 2018

Organizing Committee
Mahesh PrakashData61, Local organizing committee co-chair

Vincent Lemiale

Data61, Local organizing committee co-chair

Raymond Cohen

Data 61, Young scientist session coordinator

Nikhil Garg

Data 61

James Hilton

Data 61

Leorey Marquez

Data 61

Leah Moss

Data 61

Robert Rower

Data 61

Ana Maria Cruz

Conference Chair, Kyoto University, Japan

Mohsen Ashtiany

IIEES, Iran

Kelvin Berryman

GNS Science, NZ

Andrew Collins

Northumbria University, UK

Matt Dorfstaetter

QFES, Australia

Michinori HatayamaKyoto University, Japan

Stefan Hochrainer

IIASA, Austria

Junko Mochizuki

IIASA, Austria

Norio Okada

Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University, Japan

Adam Rose

University of Southern California, USALubica Seadon
Hirokazu Tatano

Kyoto University, Japan

Muneta Yokomatsu

Kyoto University, Japan

Scientific Committee
Mahesh Prakash

Scientific Committee Chair, CSIRO Data61, Australia

David Alecander

University College London, UK

Bijay Anand Misra

SPA, India

Joanne Bayer-Linerooth

IIASA, Austria

Manas Chatterji

State University of NY, Binghamton, USA

Raymond Cohen

CRISO Data61, Australia

Miguel Gomez Da Crua

CSIRO L&W, Australia

Carolyn HustonCSIRO Data61, Australia

Paul Kovacs

Western University, Canada

Vincent Lemiale

CSIRO Data61, Australia

Kathy Mclnner

CSIRO O&A, Australia

Hans-Peter Nachtnebel

BOKU, Austria

Roland Nussbaum

AFPCN, France

Valentijn Pauwels

Monash University, Australia

Robert PowerCSIRO Data61, Australia

Ortwin Renn

IASS, Germany

Chris Rudiger

Monash University, Australia

William Siembieda

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, USA

Marcus Thatcher

CSIRO O&A, Australia

Michele Wood

Cal State Fullerton, USA

Photos: IDRiM2018 Conference Gallery