Emergency Telecommunications Events

• ​​AI for Early Warnings for All Workshop: Bridging gaps, saving lives​​, 09 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland​
• WSIS+20 High Level Event: Session on the Power of Satellites in Emergency Alerting and Protecting Lives​, 08 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland​​​
• WSIS+20 Side Event: Co-designing the Environmental Dimensions of WSIS +20, 08 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
• AI4Good Global Summit Panel Session on Early warning for All – Leveraging AI to identify the unconnected​, 08 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland​​
• EW4All Pillar 3 Workshop on National Emergency Telecommunication Plan (NETP) and Cell Broadcast Early Warning System (CB EWS) for Bangladesh​, 17 to 19 June 2025, Dhaka, Bangladesh​​​
• Early Warnings for All Global Multi-Stakeholder Forum Thematic Session 4 - Harnessing Innovation: Advancing Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems through Science, Technology and Local Knowledge​​​​​​​​​​​, ​02 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland​
  
• AI for Early Warnings for All Innovation Challenge: Bridging gaps with AI solutions​​, 12 to 26 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland​​
  
• The Tech Dividend: Leveraging Digital Technologies for Preparedness, Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks​, 25 March 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
  
• Haiti National Workshop for the Finalization and Validation of the Initial Design of the Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (SAPMAH) and Validation of the EW4All Roadmap​​, 15 to 23 March 2025, Cap-Haïtien, Haiti
  
• Humanitarian Connectivity Charter Pakistan Workshop 2024​, 11 to 12 December 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan
  
• National workshop for the development and implementation of the NETP framework for Gambia​, 20 and 21 November 2024, Banjul, Gambia
  
• AI for UN EW4All Initiative AI-Sub-Group event​, 16 November, Bulgarian Pavilion, Baku, Azerbaijan 
  
• COP29 Presidency High-level event on Strengthening Climate Information and Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for Increased Resilience, 16 November, Hirkan Room, Baku, Azerbaijan
  
• EW4All 4th Advisory Panel Meeting, 15 November, Baku, Azerbaijan   
  
• UNFCCC Official Side Event Scaling-up climate finance for ambitious action on early warning systems for adaptation with a focus on the most vulnerable, 14 November, Side Event Room 3, Baku, Azerbaijan
  
• EW4All Progress and Cross-Learning Event, 14 November, WMO Pavilion, Baku, Azerbaijan
  
• Presentations of the Tonga and Jamaica Smart Weather App, 13 November, Moana, Blue Pacific Pavilion, Baku, Azerbaijan
  
• High level event convened by the UN Secretary-General on Delivering Early Warnings for All and Addressing Extreme Heat​, 13 November, MR 22, Baku, Azerbaijan  
  
• Advanced technologies, innovation and digital transformations for Earth observation, 11 November, Caspian Plenary, Baku, Azerbaijan
  
• ​Caribbean Regional Workshop on Emergency Telecommunications Preparedness: Strengthening Collaboration for Resilient Connectivity​​, 29 and 30 October 2024, Bridgetown, Barbados 
  
• ATU-ITU Joint Workshop on Early Warning for All (EW4ALL)​, 12 September 2024
  
• Forecasting the future: AI in early warning systems, AI for Good Global Summit, 14:00–18:00 CEST, 31 May 2024, Geneva, Switzerland​
  
• COP-28 Digital connectivity and technologies for Early Warnings for All​, 18:00-19:00, 4 December 2023, WMO Pavilion, Dubai
  
• COP-28 Early Warnings for All: Artificial Intelligence to unlock the potential of Early Warning Systems​, 18:00-19:00, 1 December 2023, IPCC-WMO-MERI Pavilion, Dubai
  
• Regional Caribbean workshop on the role of telecommunications in in disaster preparedness, response and recovery​, 21-23 November 2023, Barbados
  
• Disaster Connectivity Map – understanding connectivity during and after the disasters​, NetHope Global Summit, 24 October 2023​
  
• 2023 CAP Implementation Workshop and Training, 10-12 October 2023, Geneva
  
• Global Symposium for Regulators Session 7: Saving Lives: Emergency public earlywarning systems, 7 June 2023, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt 
  
• Rapporteur Group Meeting for Question 3/1: The use of telecommunications/ICTs for disaster risk reduction and management, 12 May 2023, Geneva, Switzerland
  
• Question 3/1 workshop on Emergency Preparedness for Disaster Management, 11 May 2023, Geneva, Switzerland
  
• Validation Workshop of the Situational Analysis Report – SADC National Emergency Telecommunications Plan​, 22-24 March 2023
  
• WSIS&SDG TalkX : ICTs and Disaster Risk Reduction​, virtual, 13 October 2022, 14:00–15:00 (UTC+02:00)
  
• WSIS ALFM C7: E Environment "Digital Public Goods for Climate Change Adaptation", virtual, 30 May 2022, 
  09:00 -​ 10:00 (CET)​​
  
• MHEWC-III Status, gaps and ways forward - Thematic perspective: Warning communication and dissemination (co-organized by ITU and WMO, Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction), hybrid, 24 May 2022, 09:00 - 09:40, Bali, Indonesia 
• MHEWC-III Learning Event: Common Aler​ting Protocol (CAP), (co-organized by ITU, WMO and IFRC, Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction), 23 May 2022, 17:45 - 19:15, Bali, Indonesia 
• WSIS session 238 - The Global Call to Action on Emergency Alerting, virtual, 19 April 2022
• ​​WSIS session 224: Tackling disasters and reducing risks through awareness of citizens, virtual, 5 April 2022
• Webinar on the latest developments of Disaster Connectivity Maps (DCM), 2 February 2022

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• Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction​, 2-6 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland​​
• Disaster Connectivity Map – understanding connectivity during and after the disasters, NetHope Global Summit, 24 October 2023 (link to the event will be available soon)​
• Nineteenth World Meteorological Congress (Cg-19), 22 May to 2 June 2023, Geneva, Switzerland
  
• From readiness to response: How building Telecommunications Capacity leads to rapid and cost-efficient response, Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, 17-28 April 2023, Geneva, Switzerland
  
• EENA Conference &Exhibition 2023​, 19-21 April 2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  
• Mobile World Congress 2023, 27 Feb – 2 Mar 2023, Barcelona, Spain​
  
• 2022 CAP Implementation Workshop and Training​, 19 to 21 September 2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
  
• Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 23-28 May 2022, Bali, Indonesia
• Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 13-17 May 2019, Geneva, Switzerland
• 2018 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, 31 October - 1 November 2018, Hong Kong, China
• ​2017 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop, 20-21 September 2017, Rome, Italy