Asia Climate Forum

19 - 21 June 2024 Sands Expo & Convention Centre Singapore

WMO Forum

Details about the WMO Forum 2024 will be available at a later date. Meanwhile, the programme for the WMO Forum at Asia Climate Forum 2023 is shown below

Tuesday, 18th April 2023

09:30 am

Opening, jointly with the Asia Climate Forum

30 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Morning Session: Challenges and Opportunities

Michael Wilton, CEO and Managing Director, MMI Asia 
DR Abdullah Ahmed AI Mandous, President of WMO Regional Association II
Mr ‘Ofa Fa’anunu, President of WMO Regional Association V
Dr Wenjian Zhang, WMO Assistant Secretary-General

10:00 am

Keynote Presentations

50 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Morning Session: Challenges and Opportunities

Tatsuya Kimura, PPE Office, WMO Secretariat 
Mr Ashish Raval, HMEI
Mr Stephen Hunt, PR of NZ with WMO
Mr ZHU Xiaoxiang, DG, Public Meteorological Service Centre, China Meteorological Administration
Mr Seungwan MA, Director, Int’l Cooperation Division, Korea Meteorological Administration
Mr Daisuke Abe, Weathernews, Inc

10:50 am

Panel Discussion and Q&A

70 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Morning Session: Challenges and Opportunities

Main panellist (Speakers shown above)
PRs
PR of Cook Is. 
PR of Kiribati
Deputy Director of Kyrgyzstan 
PR of Lao PDR
PR of Maldives
PR of Nauru
PR of Pakistan
PR of Solomon Is.
PR of Sri Lanka

Private sector
CMSA 
OTT HydroMET
PIESAT Information & Technology Co 
Spire Global
Synoptic Data PBC

12:00 pm

Lunch Hosted by CMSA

90 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

13:30 pm

Keynote Presentations

60 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Afternoon Session: Enabling Strategy and Legislation

Masanori Obayashi, PR of Japan with WMO
Raymond Tanabe, NWM Pacific Region HQ, NWS
Dr James Sun, Vice President, ZOGLAB Microsystems 
Baron Weather
MFI

14:30 pm

Panel Discussion and Q&A

70 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Afternoon Session: Enabling Strategy and Legislation

Main panellist (Speakers shown above)
PRs
PR of India
PR of Indonesia 
PR of Iman
PR of Qatar
PR of Singapore
PR of Thailand 
Naohisa Koide, Japan Meteorological Agency

Private sector
Campbell Scientific 
DTN
LEONARDO Germany 
Vaisala

15:40 pm

Coffee Break

30 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

16:10 pm

Closing Summary

10 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Tatsuya Kimura

16:20 pm

Closing remarks

10 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Dr Wenjian Zhang, WMO Assistant Secretary-General

16:30 pm

Guided Tour in Exhibition

60 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

18:00 pm

Networking Reception

120 minutes

Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre

Networking Reception Hosted by National Centre of Meteorology (NCM