Joint Welcome and keynote speakers

Tuesday 26 September 9.30-10.30 CEST
Location: SISSA Main Auditorium

Session co-chairs: Filippo Giorgi, Daniela Jacob and Silvina Solman
Rapporteurs: Sylvia Ampadu and Temitope Samuel Egbebiyi

Session report

Invited speakers:

Filippo GIORGI ICTP
Atish DABHOLKAR Director ICTP
Michele BABUDER Assessore all’Ambiente, City of Trieste
Raghavan KRISHNAN Director IITM
Nana Ama BROWNE KLUTSE vice chair IPCC WGI 
Mario CIANCARINI ENEL
Bjorn STEVENS EVE Initiative
Detlef STAMMER Chair JSC WCRP
Silvina SOLMAN and Daniela JACOB CORDEX Co-chairs

Welcome and keynote speakers in Pune

Tuesday 26 September 9.30-12.00 IST
Location: Meghdoot Auditorium
Rapporteurs: Aathira Maria Jose and Nischal Sharma

Hosted from Pune hub
Time for this session is indicated in Indian time

Session report

9.30-10.30 Welcome and opening

Welcome by Director IITM
Address by Chief Guest M. Ravichandran, Secretary, MoES
Talk by Guest of Honour Kamaljit Ray, Advisor, MoES – Climate Change and Regional Weather Extremes
Talk by Guest of Honour M. Mohapatra, DGM, IMD
Vote of Thanks  J. Sanjay, Project Director, CCCR, IITM, Pune

10.30-11.00 Health break

11.00-12.00 Keynote speakers

Session chairs. J. Sanjay

CORDEX activities over South Asia and Southeast Asia in advancing regional climate science through regional collaboration Fredolin Tangang Fredolin Tangang
CORDEX South Asia Interaction with Society Mandira Shrestha
CORDEX South Asia for Sectorial Impact Assessments Koji Dairaku

Due to unforeseen circumstances some speakers may be replaced or will not be able to participate