|  Abstract Submission

A. Lessons learned for smart response and recovery planning

1.  Cross-Border & Multi-Agency Organizational Response

• Coordination, mutual aid, inter-governmental collaboration, incident management, and “lessons learned” transfer across countries and cities

2.  Shelters and Housing Pathways (Smart & Inclusive)

• Shelter management, temporary housing, permanent housing transitions, vulnerable groups, and technology-enabled operations (e.g., allocation, tracking, logistics)

3.  Recovery Planning and Reconstruction for Smart Cities

• Recovery governance, resilient reconstruction, land-use and infrastructure planning, long-term recovery monitoring, and “build-forward-better” strategies supported by practice-ready tools

B. Understanding disaster impacts and losses for better decisions

4.  Economic Impacts and Urban Continuity

• Economic loss assessment, business continuity, supply chains, critical services continuity, recovery finance and insurance mechanisms

5.  Human Impacts, Health, and Social Equity

• Casualties and injuries, public health, mental health, displacement, risk to vulnerable populations, equity in response and recovery outcomes

6.  Physical Damage and Rapid Impact Assessment (AI in Practice)

• Damage assessment and monitoring using practical AI/analytics, remote sensing, drones, crowdsourcing, digital twins, and post-event needs assessment workflows

C. Promoting preparedness and mitigation through shared disaster safety

7.  Early Warning and Actionable Intelligence

• Multi-hazard early warning, last-mile delivery, decision support, threshold setting, forecast-based action, and operationalizing AI (not prototypes only)

8.  Risk Communication and Knowledge Exchange

• Community engagement, multilingual communication, misinformation management, trust-building, warnings-to-actions communication, and cross-country knowledge sharing

9.  Disaster Information Sharing & Smart City Platforms

• Interoperability and standards, data governance, privacy/ethics, cybersecurity for disaster systems, and any emerging topics that strengthen “shared disaster safety”