Social Media for Disaster Risk Management: Researchers Meet Practitioners
7 - 8 June 2022
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!
Agenda
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
15:30-19:00 Central European Time, 09:30-13:00 US Eastern Daylight Time, 06:30-10:00 US Pacific Daylight Time
15:30 CET / 09:30 ET / 06:30 PT Welcome message Peter Salamon, Coordinator of Copernicus Emergency Management Services
15:40 CET / 09:40 ET / 06:40 PT Keynote 1Samuel Rufat, CY Cergy Paris University, France - "How fast is fast enough? Twitter usability during emergencies"
16:20 CET / 10:20 ET / 07:20 PT Break
16:30 CET / 10:30 ET / 07:30 PT Practitioner's Panel 1. "Insights, Experiences, and Views of Social Media Use in Recent Incidents"Moderator: Steve Peterson, Montgomery County Community Emergency Response TeamPanelistsAlexandre Penha, ProCiv PortugalChris Tarantino, Epicenter Innovation Charles Werner, DRONERESPONDERSKarine Zogbhy, Lebanon Civil Protection;
17:20 CET / 11:20 ET / 08:20 PT Break
17:30 CET / 11:30 ET / 08:30 PT Keynotes 2. “Social Media for Emergency Management Operationalization: From research to practice” Muhammad Imran, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)Paola Rufolo, Copernicus Emergency Management Services (CEMS), Joint Research Centre JRC of the European Commission
18:10 CET / 12:10 ET / 09:10 PT Break
18:20 CET / 12:20 ET / 09:20 PT Lightning Talks 1. "Recent Advances in Technologies to Process Social Media for Emergency Management"Moderator: Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, BarcelonaSpeakersHongmin Li, California State University, East Bay - "Automatically classify disaster related tweets"Renee Sieber and Drew Bush, McGill University - "Classification Models for Social Media about Extreme Weather "Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar - "Ranking of Tweets for effective Disaster Risk Management"Thomas Papadimos, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research & Technology - "Alert Framework for Fire Incidents Using Multimodal Event Detection on Social Media Streams "Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow, Scotland - "Systematic evaluation of crisis informatics research through data-driven competitions"
18:55 CET / 12:55 ET / 09:55 PT Invited Talk Hemant Purohit, Humanitarian Informatics Lab, George Mason University, US - “SMDRM Task Force and Survey, A Work in Progress”
19:00 CET / 13:00 ET / 10:00 PT End of Day 1
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
15:30-19:00 Central European Time, 09:30-13:00 US Eastern Daylight Time, 06:30-10:00 US Pacific Daylight Time
15:30 CET / 09:30 ET / 06:30 PT Practitioner Panel 2. "Path to Social Media Use in Operational Systems - What’s Missing in Research"Moderators: Jorge Gomes, VOST Portugal, Coordinator VOST Europe Steve Peterson, Montgomery County Community Emergency Response TeamPanelists: Jaime Abad Perez, , GDACS, Disaster Researcher, Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, ItalyMatthew Green, Director of Engagement, Epicenter Innovation, USKatie Picchione, GIS Corps, USJustin Kates, CEM, Director of Emergency Management Department at City of Sommerville, Ma, USGabe Lugo, Deputy Chief, DC Homeland Security & Emergency Management Agency, US
16:30 CET / 10:30 ET / 07:30 PT Break
16:45 CET / 10:45 ET / 07:45 PT Lightning Talks 2. "Social Media in Emergency Management - Researcher and Practitioners"Moderator: Amanda Hughes, Brigham Young University Speakers: Milena Andrade, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, Brazil - "Strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Amazon "Carlo Alberto Bono, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - "TriggerCit: Early Flood Alerting using Twitter and Geolocation" Chiara Fonio, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU, The Netherlands - "The LINKS Framework: a strategic planning tool for guiding disaster management organisations"Katelyn Keegan, Montgomery County CERT, US - “Virtual Emergency Response Team Program Overview” Jens Kersten, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany - "DLR's Perspective on Using Social Media and Webdata for Disaster Management "Lise St. Denis, University of Colorado Boulder - Earth Lab, US - "All Hazards Tweet Classification for Emergency Response"
18:05 CET / 12:05 ET / 09:05 PT Break
18:15 CET / 12:15 ET / 09:15 PT Invited Talk
Invited Talk (18:15 CET/12:15 EDT/09:15 PDT): Hemant Purohit, Humanitarian Informatics Lab, George Mason University, US - “SMDRM Task Force and Survey, A Work in Progress”
18:25 CET / 12:25 ET / 09:25 PT Closing Plenary and Wrap-up Notes
19:00 CET / 13:00 ET / 10:00 PT End of Day2
Keynote Speakers
Samuel-Rufat - Keynote 1
CY Cergy Paris University, France
Samuel Rufat is a senior lecturer of geography and disaster risk reduction at CY Cergy Paris University in France. He has launched the Risk-SoS European wide innovation network on risk perception and risk communication with the support from the CMINE platform. He is the scientific advisor of the Horizon Europe DRS01 RESILOC project, representing civil society at the French National Disaster Risk Reduction Platform (AFPCNT) and participant to the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS).
Paola Rufolo - Keynote 2
Project Manager, Copernicus Emergency Management Services (CEMS)
Paola Rufolo is a project manager working at the intersection between practitice and research. She supports daily operations of the Rapid Mapping service of CEMS. Being focused on identifying tools helping to develop new features for the Mapping service by complementing EO data, she published various reports and papers concerning the use of Social Media for situational awareness and impact assessment during crisis.
Muhammad Imran - Keynote 2
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar
Dr. Imran is serving as a co-chair of the Social Media Studies track of the ISCRAM conference and has served on Program Committees for many major conferences and workshops. He produces studies on the use of social media in crises and conflicts. This includes identifying barriers to effective use of social media by emergency response agencies and using social media to “visualize” or make sense of an evolving crisis.
Panelists
Alexandre Penha
National Operations Officer @ Civil Protection Portugal Practitioners Panel Day 1
Chris Tarantino
CEO @ Epicenter Innovation
Practitioners Panel Day 1
Charles Werner
Director/Founder @ DRONERESPONDERS
Practitioners Panel Day 1
Karine Zoghby
Consultant in Disaster Risk Reduction
Practitioners Panel Day 1
Engagement Director & Cadre Manager @ Epicenter Innovation
Practitioners Panel Day 2
Jaime Abad Perez
Scientific Officer @ JRC DRM Unit - GDACS
Practitioners Panel Day 2
Katie Picchione
Core Committee Member @ GIS Corps
Practitioners Panel Day 2
Justin Kates
Director @ City of Somerville, Massachusetts Emergency Management
Practitioners Panel Day 2
Deputy Chief, Public Affairs @ DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency
Practitioners Panel Day 2
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)
Where
we will send a link to the virtual meeting space to the participants
We hope to see you on June 7th & 8th!
Organizers: Task Force on Social Media for Disaster Risk Management
https://drmkc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/initiatives-services/social-media-driven-disaster-risk-management
