During our 1st workshop, "Social Media for Disaster Risk Management: Researchers Meet Practitioners", held in November 2020, practitioners, although widely recognizing the potential value of social media for accessing timely information, outlined some critical challenges for improving its adoption during crises. These challenges include validating and integrating near real-time information generated on social media with authoritative information and more traditional information systems; and preventing negative impacts from misinformation and disinformation. All participants expressed their desire to continue the discussion towards identifying new directions for research and development of systems that can better serve the information needs of emergency managers. We have listened!

Lightning Talk Speakers

Lightning Talks 1. "Recent Advances in Technologies to Process Social Media for Emergency Management" - Day 1

• Hongmin Li, California State University - East Bay, US - "Automatically classify disaster related tweets" - (Researchers)

• Renee Sieber and Drew Bush, Department of Geography, McGill University, Canada - "Classification Models for Social Media about Extreme Weather - Classification Models for Social Media about Extreme Weather" - (Researchers)

• Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, IIIT Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India - "Ranking of Tweets for effective Disaster Risk Management - Ranking of Tweets for effective Disaster Risk Management" - (Researchers)

• Thomas Papadimos, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Greece - "Real-time Alert Framework for Fire Incidents Using Multimodal Event Detection on Social Media Streams" - (Researchers)

• Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow, Scotland - "Systematic evaluation of crisis informatics research through data-driven competitions" - (Researchers)

Lightning Talks 2. "Recent Advances in Technologies to Process Social Media for Emergency Management" - Day 2

• Milena Andrade, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Brazil - "Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Amazon” - (Researchers)

• Carlo Alberto Bono, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - "TriggerCit: Early Flood Alerting using Twitter and Geolocation"- (Researchers)

• Chiara Fonio, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands - "The LINKS Framework: a strategic planning tool for guiding disaster management organisations" - (Practitioners)

• Katelyn Keegan, Montgomery County CERT, US - "Virtual Emergency Response Team Program Overview” - - (Practitioners)

• Jens Kersten, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany - "DLR's Perspective on Using Social Media and Webdata for Disaster Management" - (Practitioners)

• Lise St. Denis, University of Colorado Boulder - Earth Lab, US -"All Hazards Tweet Classification for Emergency Response" - (Researchers)