European Meteorological Society Workshop for communications professionals of NMHS (co-organised by ECMWF, EUMETSAT and WMO)

Tuesday, 9 September
8:00 AM 8:05 AM
Welcome/housekeeping
5m
8:05 AM 8:10 AM
Welcome from local meteorological service (Tanja Cegnar, Chair of the local EMS2025 organising committee)
5m
8:10 AM 8:40 AM
Data visualisation - how data visualisation is so effective in communicating scientific information to various audiences, and why it can prove to be a powerful tool for scientists to gain insights from data and to better communicate their results (Anna Lombardi, ECMWF)
30m
8:40 AM 9:00 AM
EUMETSAT satellites update (Neil Fletcher, EUMETSAT)
20m
9:00 AM 9:30 AM
The weather-climate connection: Weather presenters as climate communicators (Gemma Plumb, Weather Change)
30m
9:30 AM 10:00 AM
Coffee break and networking
30m
10:00 AM 10:15 AM
Morning session: Prof. Liz Bentley, Chief Executive of Royal Meteorological Society and President of EMS
15m
10:15 AM 10:50 AM
WMO updates including AI, World Met Day, campaign on the value of observations; update on key WMO initiatives (Brigitte Perrin, WMO)
35m
10:50 AM 11:50 AM
NMHS presentations - short updates (10 mins each), including: "360 degrees approach to improve stakeholders' awareness of FMI" (FMI, Nina Kukkurainen); “Developing a Beta Community in the Weather App” (Meteo Swiss, Barbara Galiker); "Lessons Learned from the Co-Development and Integration of a Subseasonal Forecast into the Yr weather service" (Lonneke van Bijsterveldt, Met Norway) ; "Tackling weather and climate misinformation" (Stephen Dixon and Oliver Claydon, Met Office communications team)
1h
11:50 AM 11:55 AM
Introduction to networking group and afternoon session (Filip Bukowski)
5m
11:55 AM 12:00 PM
Group photo
5m
12:00 PM 1:00 PM
Lunch
1h
1:00 PM 4:00 PM
Networking session/discussion-based component with best practices and experience sharing across the different services and research
3h
2:30 PM 3:00 PM
Coffee break and networking
30m
4:00 PM 4:15 PM
Afternoon session: Wrap up
15m

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