9:30 Opening of the EMS2019 and Welcome Addresses
-> Robert Riddaway, EMS President: Opening and Welcome
-> Sven-Erik Gryning, DaMS President: Welcome Address
-> Marianne Thyrring, Director Danish Meteorological Institute: Welcome Address
-> Peter Hauge Madsen, Director of the DTU Wind Energy Department: Welcome Address

Strategic Lectures:
Johanna Ekman, FMI
-> "Increased meteorological cooperation - what it means for the Arctic"

Thomas Jung, AWI, WWRP Polar Prediction Project, Year of Polar Prediction
-> "Advances in Polar Prediction"

Robert Riddaway: 20 years EMS – how has the landscape changed over the past 20 years?


Profiles of speakers: https://www.ems2019.eu/plenaries_and_events/plenary_session_speakers.html