Schedule Monday - Interpraevent 2016

Daily schedule
Monday, 30 May 2016
8:30
Registration and coffee
10:15
Opening / Kurt Rohner, President Interpraevent
Josef Hess, President Organising committee Interpraevent
10:30
Keynotes
Living with natural risks as a challenge for politics, economy and society
Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard
Welcoming of the participants
Robert Küng, Government Council member of Canton Lucerne
Word of welcome: Living with natural hazards in the city of Lucerne
Adrian Borgula, City Council member of Lucerne
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
H.E. Margareta Wahlström, former SRSG for Disaster Risk Reduction
Living with natural risks: Integrated risk management as the key to success
Hans Peter Willi, Head of the Hazard Prevention Division of the Federal Office for the Environment
The role of insurances in integrated risk management
Robert Gremli, Head Global Risk Engineering, Zurich Insurance
12:00
Lunch, poster exhibition
13:30
Oral presentations: Risk governance and policies
Integrales Risikomanagement - Naturrisiken erfassen, bewerten und steuern
Integrated Risk Management - Identify, Evaluate and Manage Natural Risks
Staatliche Naturgefahrenprävention im Schweizer Recht: Verantwortlichkeiten, legislative
und verwaltungsorganisatorische Handlungsfelder in rechtlicher Perspektive
Public prevention of natural hazards in Swiss law: responsibilities and fields of action in
legislative and executive bodies
Evaluating the Effectiveness and the Efficiency of Mitigation Measures against Natural
Hazards – Experiences with EconoMe
Das Audit „Hochwasser - wie gut sind wir vorbereitet“ - ein strukturiertes Verfahren für
Kommunen zur Verbesserung des Risikomanagement
Audit "Flood - how prepared are we" - a method for local authorities to improve local risk
management
Questions and discussion
15:00
Coffee break
Gian Reto Bezzola,
SWITZERLAND
Roland Norer,
SWITZERLAND
Michael Bründl,
SWITZERLAND
Paul Gisenhofer,
GERMANY
15:30
Oral presentations: Risk governance and policies
Hochwasser-Restrisiko und Risikokommunikation: Ideen aus Bayern
Chances and Challenges in the Field of Residual Flood-Risk and Risk Communication:
Ideas from Bavaria
Lokale Rahmenbedingungen und Qualität von Experten-Netzwerken: Eine Fallstudie zu
Praktiken von Lawinenrisiko-Prävention (in Österreich)
Local Conditions and the Quality of Expert Networks: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk
Prevention Practices
Gender mainstreaming in disaster risk reduction - a step towards the visibility of women in
DRR
16:30
Coffee break
17:00
Oral presentations: Data acquisition and modelling
Ronja Wolter-Krautblatter, GERMANY
Gerhard Lieb,
AUSTRIA
Catrin Promper,
AUSTRIA
Einmündungen von Wildbächen in Gebirgsflüsse als kritische Spots für die Hochwassergefährdung – Prozessanalyse anhand 2d numerischer Geschiebe- und
Abflussmodellierung
Analysis of flood related processes at confluences of steep tributary channels and their
receiving streams - 2d numerical modelling application
Johannes
Kammerlander,
AUSTRIA
Monitoring sediment fluxes in alpine creeks: the AQUASED project
Gianluca Vignoli,
ITALY
Bedload transport simulation with the model sedFlow: application to mountain rivers in
Switzerland
Dieter Rickenmann,
SWITZERLAND
Monitoring and management of a huge landslide in a built-up area induced by the
excavation of deep highway tunnels
Guido Gottardi,
ITALY
Questions and discussion
18:15
Aperitif offered by Zurich
19:15
Public panel discussion
„Always more floods and other natural hazards on our doorstep –
What does this signify for politics, economy and society?“
Moderation:
Mirjam Breu, editor Radio SRF
Panel speakers:
Martha Bächler (former mayor Engelberg)
David N. Bresch (Global Partnerships Division Swiss Re)
Philipp Gmür (CEO Helvetia Schweiz)
Josef Hess (Vice director Federal Office for the Environment FOEN)
Albin Schmidhauser (Head Division Natural Hazards Kanton Luzern)
Michael Szönyi (Expert for natural hazards management Zurich)