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The week-long IAHR 85th Anniversary Summit has 14 sessions with 85+ respected experts giving vision talks, keynote lectures and technical reports.

Note that, during different time slots, different sessions might be live-streamed on this same LIVE page! Choose the date and the session under the video screen above, or click the links in the LIVE Program List below:

LIVE Program List
All in Beijing Time (UTC+8). Click to watch live. Scroll down for details.

• Dec. 9-12 [01] Coastlab2020

• Dec. 14 | 08:00 [02] Ecohydraulics 1

• Dec. 14 | 16:00 [03] Anniversary Ceremony

• Dec. 14 | 19:00 [04] Climate Change and Coastal Resilience

• Dec. 14 | 22:00 [05] Ecohydraulics 2

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• Dec. 15 | 08:00 [06] Research Frontiers in Water Sciences (in Chinese only)

• Dec. 15 | 16:00 [07] AI and Water 1

• Dec. 15 | 17:30 [08] Water Security in Africa 1

• Dec. 15 | 19:00 [09] Science of Global Water Security

• Dec. 15 | 22:00 [10] AI and Water 2

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• Dec. 16 | 17:30 [11] Water Security in Africa 2

• Dec. 16 | 19:00 [12] Securing the Wider Water Cycle: Practice, Regulation, Investment

• Dec. 16 | 21:00 General Members Assembly

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• Dec. 17 | 19:00 [13] How Best to Approach Paper Writing?

• Dec. 17 | 21:00 [14] Weak Points in the Flood Risk Modelling Chain
  

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Current global challenges call for a strong interdisciplinary approach to mitigate issues like climate change and biodiversity loss in an ever evolving socio-economic landscape. Water and sediments are at the core of many of the issues being both a commodity and carrier of ecosystem services, making that the management thereof is done wisely and with a good understanding of the underlying processes...

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Celebrating 85 years is not just about looking back. With the Strategic Plan 2020-2023 in place, we are now better positioned to, while reflecting on the many outstanding legacies of the past 85 years, use this splendid experience to inform our future...

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This session explores the scientific and engineering challenges of resilient solutions to coastal management and the innovative nature-based solutions being considered...

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During this session presenters will explain connection between basic ecohydraulic research and the implementation thereof in practical situations where nature based solutions (NBS) can be used as alternatives to traditional grey measures...

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This session will try to make the point on the latest developments of WDN modelling, sensing, data analysis and decision support in order to show the state-of-the-art and provide possible future trajectories of the integration between AI and water supply...

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This session explores the challenges through perspectives of water leaders, experts and examples. It seeks to identify those areas where leadership, science, practice and capacity can join to bring practical progress to the African continent in the Hydro-Environment sector...

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This webinar will focus on framing high-level science and engineering solutions to the challenges and opportunities of Global Water Security; bringing together well-known experts in their fields from the hydro-environmental science and engineering community within IAHR...

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This session will look broadly at the water environment showing advanced AI applications and giving a glance to the future of water monitoring, modelling, data analysis...

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In the webinar, three eminent members of FRM-TC, namely Alastair Barnett (chair), Marian Muste (past chair) and Daniela Molinari (vice chair) will point out in their keynote speeches three of these weak points, with particular reference to: discharge estimation, monitoring unsteady flows and damage modelling...

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