Margareta Wahlström will make a keynote presentation at the FIG Working Week opening ceremony.
Thought leaders and visionaries from the surveying and spatial industry will again take the keynote stage at FIG Working Week 2016 in Christchurch, New Zealand, to address the theme “Recovery from Disaster”.
The New Zealand survey profession has interesting stories to share on this theme after the consequences of the Christchurch Earthquake in 2011. The Working Week aims to draw attention to the work being done in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction at the international, national and local level.
At the Opening Ceremony, Tuesday 3 May 2016 Margareta Wahlström, who was Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction until the end of 2015, will make a keynote presentation.
Ms Wahlström has over 30 years of extensive national and international experience in humanitarian relief operations in disaster and conflict areas, and in institution-building to strengthen national capacity for disaster preparedness, response and for risk reduction.
In November 2008, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced her appointment as the first Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The FIG Working Week programme will be underpinned by invited high-level presentations in three plenary sessions covering topics within the overall theme “Recovery from Disaster”.
Nine powerful keynote speakers will set the stage on knowledge sharing and cover best practices, trends and case studies. Presenters include:
Tuesday 3 May 2016 – “Christchurch’s response to the 2011 earth quake”
Ms. Lianne Dalziel, Mayor of Christchurch
Hon. Gerry Brownlee, Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, Member of Parliament
Mr. Duncan Gibb, Founding General Manager of SCIRT (Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team)
Wednesday 4 May 2016 – “Disaster Management and Recovery framework – The Surveyors response”
Dr. Hiroshi Murakami, Deputy Director General, Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
Mr. Gregory Scott, United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
Mr. Keith Bell, World Bank
Thursday 5 May 2016 – “The Public, The Private and the Peoples response for Disaster Management and Recovery in the Surveying Profession – New technologies”
Mr. Bryn Fosburgh, Trimble Navigation
Prof. Dr. Pengfei Cheng, Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping
Mr. Sam Johnson, Student Volunteer Army
The full program is available here: http://www.fig.net/fig2016/technical_program.htm
Name: FIG Working Week 2016
Time: Various
Date: 2-6 May 2016
Venue: Horncastle Arena / Addington Events Centre
Address: 55 Jack Hinton Dr, Addington, Christchurch / 75 Jack Hinton Dr, Addington, Addington, Christchurch 8024, New Zealand
Cost: 640 EUR
Event Website: http://www.fig.net/fig2016/index.htm
