This workshop will be organised by WMO, Eumetsat ECMWF and EMS and serves to provide a forum of exchange for NMHS communications officers on the sidelines of the EMS Annual Meeting.

The workshop will be held Monday afternoon and all day Tuesday, with the Media & Communication Session on Tuesday morning as joint event.


12 SEPTEMBER 2016

9:00–12:30
EMS opening Plenary
Special invitation from the European Meteorological Society (optional)

12:30–14:00: Lunch

14:00–15:00
First session; Weather preparedness and climate resilience
Moderator: Haleh Kotval, WMO
- Will Lang, Chief Meteorologist, Met Office
- Gerald Fleming, Eirann

15:00–16:00
Second session: Multi-hazard impacts-based forecasts and warnings
Moderator: Hilda Carr, ECMWF
- Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, WMO, on serving the customer
- Dee Cotgrove, Communications Director, MetOffice, on UK activities
- Haleh Kotval, Public Weather Services, WMO, on WMO activities

16:00–16:30: Tea break

16:30–18:30
Third session: Show & Tell
Moderator: Neil Fletcher, EUMETSAT
- Updates from Eumetsat, WMO, and ECMWF
- Annemarie Hoogendoorn and Femke Goutbeek, KNMI
- Nina Aemisegger, MeteoSwiss, on new trilingual blog
- Murni Kemala Dewi, BMKG, Indonesia, on the challenge of public outreach
- Science Park of the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics by Thomas Wostal, ZAMG

19:30–22:00: Reception and dinner (self-funded)



13 SEPTEMBER 2016

9:00–13:00
Joint session on Media & Communications with EMS Annual Meeting (Convener: Tanja Cegnar)
A description of this session is available at http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EMS2016/session/22075

13:00–13:30: Lunch

13:30–14:30
Fourth session: The Paris Agreement and climate communications
Moderator: Michael Williams, Chief Communications & Public Affairs, WMO
- Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General Emeritus, WMO
- Jill Peeters,weather presenter, VTM Nieuws, Belgium
- Jay Trobec, Chief Meteorologist, KELO-TV, USA

14:30–15:30
Fifth session: Discussion on generating content for social media, websites, animations, video
Moderator: Clare Nullis, Media Officer, WMO

15:30–16:30
Sixth session: Innovative ways of engaging the public, especially young people and children
Moderator: Inge Niedek, IABM
- UK and Met Eireann Storm Naming, by Gerald Fleming, Eirann
- Engaging the public, especially children, in Greece, by Panos Giannopoulos. Hellenic Meteorological Society

16:30: Close