Programme · 8–10 June 2027
Three days, 52 sessions, one programme
Keynotes and panels each morning, four parallel tracks on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and field visits and workshops on Thursday. All times are Central European Summer Time.
Spring · Food & Land
Summer · Heat & Cities
Autumn · Water & Risk
Winter · Energy & Grids
At a glance
How the three days fit together
Day 1 · Tuesday 8 June
Heat, water and the city
- Opening keynotes: Ingrid Vos and Kwame Mensah
- Panel on the adaptation data cities use
- Poster session A over lunch
- Four tracks, 14:00–16:10
- Early-career lightning talks
- Welcome reception on the Harbour Terrace
Day 2 · Wednesday 9 June
Soil, grids and who pays
- Keynotes: Lucía Ferrer and Henrik Aalto
- Panel: who pays for adaptation
- Poster session B over lunch
- Four tracks, 14:00–16:10
- Fireside on science and policy
- Summit dinner at 19:00
Day 3 · Thursday 10 June
Field visits and priorities
- Field visit: water squares and green roofs
- Field visit: floating homes and the storm barrier
- Workshops on open climate data and writing for decision-makers
- Closing plenary: priorities for 2030
- Awards for best poster and early-career prize
- Close at 15:15
Day 1 · Tuesday 8 June
Heat, water and the city
The opening keynotes and the data panel in the Plenary Hall, posters over lunch, the four tracks in the afternoon and a welcome reception on the Harbour Terrace.
8:30 am
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9:30 am
Foyer
Registration and Coffee
Collect your badge and programme. Coffee and pastries in the foyer.
Networking
9:30 am
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9:45 am
Plenary Hall
Welcome to Stagioni 2027
Hannah Becker opens three days on the science and practice of climate adaptation.
Plenary
9:45 am
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10:30 am
Plenary Hall
Keynote: The Delta Is the Lab
Ingrid Vos on what living below sea level has taught hydrology, and what every coastal city can borrow.
Keynote · Plenary
10:30 am
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11:15 am
Plenary Hall
Keynote: Cooler Streets, Fewer Deaths
Kwame Mensah on the evidence linking street-level heat to mortality, and the cheapest ways to cut it.
Keynote · Plenary
11:15 am
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11:45 am
Poster Hall
Coffee and Posters
Coffee in the Poster Hall. Poster session A authors are at their boards.
Networking
11:45 am
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12:45 pm
Plenary Hall
Panel: What Adaptation Data Do Cities Actually Use?
A resilience officer, a risk modeller and a remote sensing scientist on the gap between published data and planning decisions.
Panel · Plenary
12:45 pm
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2:00 pm
Poster Hall
Lunch and Poster Session A
Lunch with 60 posters on heat, health, food and land. Authors present from 13:15.
Poster session
2:00 pm
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4:10 pm
Rooms A–D
Parallel Tracks: Spring and Summer, Autumn and Winter
Four tracks run side by side: Spring (Food & Land), Summer (Heat & Cities), Autumn (Water & Risk) and Winter (Energy & Grids). Switch rooms at each changeover.
Tracks
4:30 pm
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5:30 pm
Plenary Hall
Early-Career Lightning Talks
Twelve PhD students and postdocs, five minutes each, chosen from the call for posters.
Plenary · Talk
5:30 pm
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7:30 pm
Harbour Terrace
The afternoon tracks are listed below and on the tracks page.
Day 2 · Wednesday 9 June
Soil, grids and who pays
Keynotes on soil and grids, a panel on who pays for adaptation, the second poster session, the tracks, and the summit dinner at 19:00.
8:30 am
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9:15 am
Foyer
9:15 am
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10:00 am
Plenary Hall
Keynote: Soil as Infrastructure
Lucía Ferrer on why the ground beneath farms deserves the same investment as dikes and pipes.
Keynote · Plenary
10:00 am
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10:45 am
Plenary Hall
Keynote: Grids for a Changing Climate
Henrik Aalto on designing power systems for the weather we will have, not the weather we had.
Keynote · Plenary
10:45 am
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11:15 am
Poster Hall
Coffee and Posters
Coffee in the Poster Hall. Poster session B authors are at their boards.
Networking
11:15 am
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12:15 pm
Plenary Hall
Panel: Who Pays for Adaptation?
Insurance, private capital and public budgets: three views on financing adaptation at scale.
Panel · Plenary
12:15 pm
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2:00 pm
Poster Hall
Lunch and Poster Session B
Lunch with 60 posters on water, risk, energy and grids. Authors present from 12:45.
Poster session
2:00 pm
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4:10 pm
Rooms A–D
Parallel Tracks: Spring and Summer, Autumn and Winter
The second day of the four parallel tracks. Each room runs three sessions with short changeovers.
Tracks
4:30 pm
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5:30 pm
Plenary Hall
Fireside: Science, Policy and the Next Ten Years
A plant geneticist and an epidemiologist on what research must deliver for 2035, and what policy must ask for.
Plenary · Talk
7:00 pm
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10:30 pm
Harbour Terrace
Summit Dinner
Dinner for all delegates with Full and Institutional passes. Seated, three courses.
Networking
The afternoon tracks are listed below and on the tracks page.
Tuesday and Wednesday, 14:00–16:10
Four tracks side by side
Three talks per track each afternoon, one room per track. Changeovers are timed so you can switch rooms between talks.
01 · Room A
Spring
Food & Land
Day 1 · 2:45 pm
Soil as Infrastructure: Carbon, Water and Yield
Day 1 · 3:30 pm
Seeing Crop Stress from Orbit
Day 2 · 2:00 pm
Irrigation with Reused Water
Day 2 · 2:45 pm
Regional Food Systems Under Heat
Day 2 · 3:30 pm
Panel: Who Carries the Risk on Small Farms?
02 · Room B
Summer
Heat & Cities
Day 1 · 2:00 pm
Mapping Urban Heat Islands at Street Level
Day 1 · 2:45 pm
Heat and Hospital Admissions: New Evidence
Day 1 · 3:30 pm
Passive Cooling at Scale
Day 2 · 2:00 pm
Trees, Shade and Who Gets Them
Day 2 · 2:45 pm
Heat Action Plans That Work
Day 2 · 3:30 pm
Cooling Without the Grid Spike
03 · Room C
Autumn
Water & Risk
Day 1 · 2:00 pm
Compound Flooding in Deltas
Day 1 · 2:45 pm
Pricing Flood Risk Honestly
Day 1 · 3:30 pm
River Basins Under Extremes
Day 2 · 2:00 pm
Early Warning in the Last Mile
Day 2 · 2:45 pm
Nature-Based Flood Defences
Day 2 · 3:30 pm
Managed Retreat: the Hard Conversation
04 · Room D
Winter
Energy & Grids
Day 1 · 2:00 pm
Grids in a Heatwave
Day 1 · 2:45 pm
Storage for Cold, Dark Weeks
Day 1 · 3:30 pm
The Energy Cost of Fresh Water
Day 2 · 2:00 pm
Hardening Distribution Networks
Day 2 · 2:45 pm
Forecasting Demand in a Warmer Climate
Day 2 · 3:30 pm
Community Energy and Resilience
Day 3 · Thursday 10 June
Field visits and priorities
Field visits across Rotterdam (40 places each), two hands-on workshops, then the closing plenary and awards. The summit closes at 15:15.
8:30 am
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9:00 am
Foyer
9:00 am
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12:00 pm
Off-site
Field Visit: Water Squares and Green Roofs
A walking tour of Rotterdam water squares, green roofs and rain gardens, guided by the city team. 40 places.
Field visit
9:00 am
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12:00 pm
Off-site
Field Visit: Floating Neighbourhoods and the Storm Barrier
By boat to a floating housing district and the storm surge barrier. 40 places.
Field visit
9:00 am
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11:30 am
Room A
Workshop: Open Climate Data, Hands-On
Find, download and analyse open satellite and projection data for your own region. Bring a laptop. 30 places.
Workshop
9:00 am
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11:30 am
Room B
Workshop: Writing for Decision-Makers
Turn a paper into a two-page brief a minister will read. Bring a recent abstract. 24 places.
Workshop
12:00 pm
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1:30 pm
Foyer
1:30 pm
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2:30 pm
Plenary Hall
Closing Plenary: Priorities for 2030
The four keynote speakers return to set out one priority each for the next five years.
Panel · Plenary
2:30 pm
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3:00 pm
Plenary Hall
Awards: Best Poster and Early-Career Prize
The poster prizes and the Northwind early-career research prize.
Plenary
3:00 pm
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3:15 pm
Plenary Hall
Registration is open
Join us in Rotterdam
8–10 June 2027 at Havenlab. Early-bird rates until 15 March: Student €195, Institutional €495, Full €895 (excl. VAT).