Focusing on enhancing society’s resilience towards future catastrophic disaster by providing the possible and severe disaster scenarios and leading actions of citizens this public forum aimed to provide an opportunity to share the advances of disaster management system by fusion of simulation, sensing and geo-informatics, and to discuss its utilization and future perspectives. The form consists of some thematic sessions with a keynote lecture, presentations from Japan government, academia, and industries. The agenda was as follows;

1st Session
Enhancing Disaster Resilience by Real-time Tsunami Inundation Forecasting and Robust Information Dissemination

9:30-9:35 Opening Remarks
Prof. S. Koshimura (Tohoku Univ.)

9:35-9:55 Keynote Speech
Dr. Takuo Imagawa (MIC, Japan)

9:55-10:25 Keynote Speech
Prof. Ryosuke Shibasaki (Univ. of Tokyo)

10:25-10:55 Special Presentation
Dr. Eddie Bernard (Former Director, NOAA/PMEL)

11:00-11:30 Project Report
Prof. Shunichi Koshimura (Tohoku Univ.)

11:30-11:50 Project Report
Prof. Hiromichi Fukui (Chubu Univ.)

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2nd Session
Establishing the Most Advanced Disaster Reduction Management System by Fusion of Real-time Disaster Simulation and Big Data Assimilation

13:00-13:15 Opening Remarks & Introduction
Prof. S. Koshimura (Tohoku Univ.)

13:15-13:30 Project Report
Dr. Takane Hori (JAMSTEC)

13:30-13:45 Project Report
Prof. Yoshihide Sekimoto (Univ. of Tokyo)

13:45-14:00 Project Report
Prof. Fumio Yamazaki (Chiba Univ.)

14:00-14:15 Project Report
Prof. Kaoru Sezaki (Univ. of Tokyo)

14:15-14:30 Discussion

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3rd Session
Satellite Earth Observations to Support National and Local Disaster Risk Reduction

14:45-14:55 Shunichi Koshimura (Tohoku Univ.)

14:55-15:10 Simonetta Di Pippo (Director, UNOOSA)

15:10-15:25 Ivan Petiteville (Chair, Disaster Working Group, ESA/CEOS)

15:25-15:40 Chu Ishida (JAXA)

15:40-15:55 Günter Strunz (Head of Department, DLR)

15:55-16:10Joachim Post (Expert, UN-SPIDER)

16:10-16:25 Makoto Ikeda (ADRC)

16:25-16:45 Discussion and Conclusion