Four parallel tracks · Tuesday and Wednesday
One climate, four seasons of risk
Every afternoon from 14:00 to 16:10 the summit splits into four tracks, one for each season when its risk peaks. Six talks per track, one room per track, and time to switch between talks.
How the tracks work
Pick a season, or move between them
Each track has its own room for both afternoons: Spring in Room A, Summer in Room B, Autumn in Room C and Winter in Room D. Talks start at 14:00, 14:45 and 15:30, so you can follow one track or build your own afternoon across all four.
Every talk leaves time for questions, and the speakers stay on for the poster sessions and the evening programme.
4
tracks, one per season
24
talks across two afternoons
4
rooms, A to D
3
start times: 14:00, 14:45, 15:30
01
Spring
Food & Land
Crops, soils and water for farming and food systems under drought and heat.
Room A · Tue and Wed · 14:00–16:10
Track 01 · Room A · Tuesday and Wednesday
Six sessions in Spring
Day 1
2:00 pm
–
2:40 pm
Room A
Drought-Tolerant Cereals: What Three Seasons of Field Trials Show
Results from 40 trial sites across Europe, and which traits held up in the 2025 drought.
Spring · Talk
Day 1
2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Room A
Soil as Infrastructure: Carbon, Water and Yield
How soil organic carbon changes water retention, with numbers farmers and planners can use.
Spring · Talk
Day 1
3:30 pm
–
4:10 pm
Room A
Seeing Crop Stress from Orbit
Satellite indices that flag crop stress two weeks before it shows in the field.
Spring · Talk
Day 2
2:00 pm
–
2:40 pm
Room A
Irrigation with Reused Water
Quality, cost and acceptance of treated wastewater for irrigation in dry regions.
Spring · Talk
Day 2
2:45 pm
–
3:25 pm
Room A
Regional Food Systems Under Heat
What happens to supply chains, prices and labour when the growing season gets hotter.
Spring · Talk
Day 2
3:30 pm
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4:10 pm
Room A
Panel: Who Carries the Risk on Small Farms?
Insurance, credit and public support for smallholders facing more frequent drought.
Panel · Spring
02
Summer
Heat & Cities
Urban heat, health, cooling and shade, and how cities protect people in hotter summers.
Room B · Tue and Wed · 14:00–16:10
Track 02 · Room B · Tuesday and Wednesday
Six sessions in Summer
Day 1
2:00 pm
–
2:40 pm
Room B
Mapping Urban Heat Islands at Street Level
A 400-sensor network in Accra and what it reveals that satellites miss.
Summer · Talk
Day 1
2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Room B
Heat and Hospital Admissions: New Evidence
Admissions data from six European heatwaves and the groups most at risk.
Summer · Talk
Day 1
3:30 pm
–
4:10 pm
Room B
Passive Cooling at Scale
Lessons from retrofitting 600 schools and clinics without adding air conditioning.
Summer · Talk
Day 2
2:00 pm
–
2:40 pm
Room B
Trees, Shade and Who Gets Them
Using canopy data to direct tree planting to the neighbourhoods that need it most.
Summer · Talk
Day 2
2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Room B
Heat Action Plans That Work
What separates heat plans that save lives from those that stay on paper.
Summer · Talk
Day 2
3:30 pm
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4:10 pm
Room B
Cooling Without the Grid Spike
Designing cooling demand so it does not collide with peak electricity load.
Summer · Talk
03
Autumn
Water & Risk
Floods, storm surge, river basins and the science of pricing and warning for water risk.
Room C · Tue and Wed · 14:00–16:10
Track 03 · Room C · Tuesday and Wednesday
Six sessions in Autumn
Day 1
2:00 pm
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2:40 pm
Room C
Compound Flooding in Deltas
When surge, river and rain arrive together: models, observations and design standards.
Autumn · Talk
Day 1
2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Room C
Pricing Flood Risk Honestly
How climate projections enter catastrophe models, and where the uncertainty sits.
Autumn · Talk
Day 1
3:30 pm
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4:10 pm
Room C
River Basins Under Extremes
Two decades of Niger basin data and what they say about the next twenty years.
Autumn · Talk
Day 2
2:00 pm
–
2:40 pm
Room C
Early Warning in the Last Mile
Getting flood warnings to the people who need them, in time and in a form they trust.
Autumn · Talk
Day 2
2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Room C
Nature-Based Flood Defences
Wetlands, floodplains and living shorelines: measured performance against hard defences.
Autumn · Talk
Day 2
3:30 pm
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4:10 pm
Room C
Managed Retreat: the Hard Conversation
How a metropolitan authority talks with residents about moving away from risk.
Autumn · Talk
04
Winter
Energy & Grids
Power systems, storage and demand through heatwaves, storms and dark, still winters.
Room D · Tue and Wed · 14:00–16:10
Track 04 · Room D · Tuesday and Wednesday
Six sessions in Winter
Day 1
2:00 pm
–
2:40 pm
Room D
Grids in a Heatwave
Line sag, transformer stress and demand peaks: what failed in recent European heatwaves.
Talk · Winter
Day 1
2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Room D
Storage for Cold, Dark Weeks
Sizing storage for winter periods when wind and solar drop together.
Talk · Winter
Day 1
3:30 pm
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4:10 pm
Room D
The Energy Cost of Fresh Water
Desalination and reuse demand on grids, and how to run them flexibly.
Talk · Winter
Day 2
2:00 pm
–
2:40 pm
Room D
Hardening Distribution Networks
Affordable upgrades that keep local networks running through storms and floods.
Talk · Winter
Day 2
2:45 pm
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3:25 pm
Room D
Forecasting Demand in a Warmer Climate
Why historical demand curves no longer work, and what to use instead.
Talk · Winter
Day 2
3:30 pm
–
4:10 pm
Room D
Community Energy and Resilience
Local generation and storage as a backup for critical services.
Talk · Winter
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