Side Events

The 40 GEO Week side events will focus on impact, innovation and announcements on a range of topics including:

• Agriculture and food security
• Blockchain and Earth observations
• Disaster risk reduction
• EO and health: early warning systems and beyond
• GEO blue planet
• National GEOs
• Nature-based solutions
• Open data to open knowledge
• Urban resilience

The side event schedule will also include the AfriGEO symposium, which has the theme “Harnessing Earth observations towards resilient and sustainable systems, communities, and resources. The symposium will include discussion sessions, the steering committee meeting (closed) and training.