Program for plenary sessions of the Fifth World Landslide Forum

The Fifth World Landslide Forum (WLF5) will be organized at the National Kyoto International Conference Center (KICC) in Kyoto, Japan, on 2–6 November 2021. As the COVID-19 situation is still unpredictable in many countries, the Forum will be organized in a hybrid mode. Oral presentations will be conducted through onsite, online/virtual, or prerecorded modes.

The WLF5 secretariat asked all oral presentation speakers to provide their preferences for the presentation mode by 31 March 2021. However, the speakers may switch the presentation mode by 15 September 2021. Then the updated presentation program will be made by the end of September 2021. The oral presentation program based on the replies from oral presenters by 31 March 2021 was reported and published in the June issue of Landslides (Sassa 2021a). A total of 479 speakers from 52 countries/regions have registered—125 from Japan, 56 from China, 53 from Italy, 21 from the USA, 14 from India, 13 from the UK, 12 from Indonesia and Chinese Taipei, and 11 from the Czech Republic and Norway. Currently, 240 speakers will be onsite speakers with an additional 159 and 80 online and undecided speakers, respectively. A list of names, offices, and titles of those oral speakers is to be published in the July issue of Landslides (Sassa 2021b).

The organizing committee has made the program of plenary sessions of WLF5 based on the information obtained by 5 June 2021. Plenary sessions will also be organized in a hybrid mode (onsite, online/virtual, or prerecorded modes). Since the COVID-19 vaccination was recently accelerated in Japan, the state of COVID-19 in November 2021 will be much clearer by 15 September 2021. We hope that the number of participants who will have finished both doses of the vaccination will have increased by the opening of WLF5 in November 2021.

The program for the plenary sessions of WLF5 as of 5 June 2021 is presented in the following table. Because the conference is in a hybrid mode, times are provided in three time zones: Japan Standard Time: JST, Central European Time: CET, and Pacific Daylight time: PDT as the reference for presentation mode (onsite, online/virtual, or prerecorded modes). Registration of oral speakers was closed. However, the registration for electronic poster presentation and nonspeakers remains open.

Call for poster presentation and nonspeaker participants

• 1) Call for electronic poster (e-poster) presentations:

• Authors of e-posters can choose (1) 3-min oral presentation, (2) no talk, or (3) nonattendance.

• Deadline of submission: 10 August 2021

• Notice of acceptance: 10 September 2021

• Deadline for registration fee payment: 31 July 2021

• Registration fee for e-posters: 36,000 JPY

• Additional registration fee for authors of one-page abstract, full-color books, e-proceedings:15,000 JPY

• Registration fee includes vol. 1 of full-color e-books, e-proceedings, e-posters, abstract volume, and participation in all sessions onsite or online.

• For any e-posters that are not accepted, 100% of the paid registration fee will be refunded.

• 2) Call for nonspeaker participation:

• Registration fee for nonspeakers by 31 July 2021: 26,000 JPY

• Registration fee for nonspeakers after 1 August 2021: 31,000 JPY

• Nonspeakers may attend all sessions online or onsite.

• Nonspeakers will receive vol. 1 of full-color e-books, e-proceedings, e-posters, and abstract volume and can participate in all sessions onsite or online.

• 3) Registration website: https://wlf5.iplhq.org/registration/

• The deadline for online registration is 7:59 PDT, 15:59 CET, and 23:59 JST on 31 October 2021

• Please send your inquiries by logging in to “My Page” and clicking on the “Inquiry” button, or send an email to the JTB Coop. Western Japan MICE Branch, WLF5 Desk: t_abe724@jtb.com.

The WLF5 organizing committee sincerely invites readers of Landslides to participate onsite or online in the coming the Fifth World Landslide Forum in Kyoto, Japan, as well as to join the high-level panel discussion, “Review of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 and the way forward,” which is to be expected to launch the ICL Open Access Book Series for KLC2020.

9:00–17:00 on 3 November 2021 (JST) Place: Room A of the National Kyoto International Conference Center
17:00–18:00 PDT 2 November 1:00–2:00 CET 3 November 9:00–10:00 JST 3 November	Opening greetings from ICL, ICL supporting organizations and host organizations Chairs: Kyoji Sassa (WLF5 Forum Chair) and Qunli Han (Co-Chair of Global Promotion Committee of IPL/Executive Director of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk) Opening address from WLF5 organizers • Nicola Casagli (President of the ICL, the primary organizer) Greetings from United Nations organizations • David Malone (Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations/Rector of the United Nations University) • Mami Mizutori (United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction) • Wilkie Mette (Director of the Forestry Division, Food and Agriculture Organization) • Representatives from UN organizations (UNESCO, WMO) within the KLC2020 signatory organizations Greetings from scientific organizations • José M.P. Vieira (President(-elect) of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations: WFEO) • John Ludden(President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics: IUGG) • Kathryn Whaler (President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics: IUGG) • Representatives from scientific organizations (ISC) within the KLC2020 signatory organizations Welcome messages from host organizations • Hiroaki Tsunakawa, Director for Sabo Planning Coordination, Ministry of Land Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan • Akira Murakami, Executive Vice-President of Kyoto University
18:00–19:50 PDT 2 November 2:00–3:50 CET 3 November 10:00–11:50 JST 3 November	High-level panel discussion “Review of KLC2020 and the way forward” Opening greetings from Forum Chairs • Peter Bobrowsky (Geological Survey of Canada, Canada) and Kaoru Takara (Kyoto University, Japan) Chairs: Matjaž Mikoš (Co-Chair, Global Promotion Committee of IPL/Chair of WLF4, Ljubljana, 2017) Kazuo Konagai (Chair of Science Committee of the KLC2020 Secretariat, Kyoto, Japan) • Opening Speeches from chairs Keynote speech • Kyoji Sassa (Secretary-General of KLC2020 Secretariat): Review of KLC2020 and a new Open Access Book Series for KLC2020 Speech from 8–10 panelists from KLC2020 signatory organizations ICL supporting organizations: • Paola Albrito (Chief of Branch, Intergovernmental processes, Interagency cooperation and Partnerships, UNDRR) • Soichiro Yasukawa (Program Specialist on Disaster Risk Reduction, UNESCO) • Hiroshi Kitazato (Treasure of IUGS, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan) ICL full members: • Binod Tiwari (Vice President for America, California State University – Fullerton, USA) • Paola Reichenbach (Director of Research, IRPI, Italian National Research Council, Italy) • Maneesha Ramesh (Dean, School for Sustainable Development and International Programs, Amrita University, India) ICL supporter: • Hiroaki Tauchi (General manager, International Geohazard Management Department, Nippon Koei, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) Discussion (panelists and floor) Concluding remarks • Sálvano Briceño (First Chairperson of the Global Promotion Committee of IPL (2007-2014), Former Director of UNISDR (2001–2011) Launching declaration of the ICL Open Access Book Series for KLC2020
11:50–12:00 JST 3 November	Break
12:00–12:20 JST 3 November	Joint photo of the KLC2020 signatory organizations
12:00–12:30 JST 3 November	Lunch (Room Sakura)
21:30–23:30 PDT 2 November 5:30–7:30 CET 3 November 13:30–15:30 JST 3 November	Forum lectures/forum speech Chairs: Željko Arbanas (Vice President for Europe, University of Rijeka, Croatia) and Veronica Tofani (Vice President for WLF6, University of Florence, Italy) Forum lectures • Fausto Guzzetti (General Director of Office III, Department of Civil Protection, Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italy): on the prediction of landslides and their consequence • Charles NG (Chair Professor and Dean of Graduate School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China): interaction mechanisms between debris flow and multiple barriers Forum speech • Dwikorita Karnawati (Head of Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics of the Republic of Indonesia): Promotion of intergovernmental network of ICL-KLC2020
23:45 PDT 2 Nov. –1:00 PDT 3 Nov. 7:45–9:45 CET 3 November 15:45–17:00 JST 3 November	Recognition and awards ceremony World Centres of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction (WCoEs) 2020–2023 Bestow the Varnes Medals IPL Awards for Success (2017–2020)
18:30–21:00 JST	Welcome reception (Room Sakura)
13:30–17:00 6 November 2021 (JST) Place: Room 510 of the National Kyoto International Conference Center
21:30–23:30 PDT 5 November 5:30–7:30 CET 6 November 13:30–15:30 JST 6 November	Forum lectures and award lectures Chairs: Vít Vilímek (Vice President for Mission (KLC2020), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) and Fawu Wang (Professor, Tongji University, China) Forum lectures • Michel Jaboyedoff (Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland): Improving the rockfall failure hazard assessment. • Brian Collins (Research civil engineer, US Geological Survey, USA): progress and lessons learned from responses to catastrophic landslides Award lectures • Claudio Margottini (ISPRA - Dpt. Geological Survey of Italy) Fukuoka IPL Award lecture • Beena Ajmera (Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University, USA) Oldrich Hungr Award lecture
23:30 PDT 5 Nov. –1:00 PDT 6 Nov. 7:30–9:00 CET 6 November 15:30–17:00 JST 6 November	Closing ceremony Masters of ceremonies: Alexander Strom (Chief expert, Geodynamic Research Center LLC., Russia) and Ryosuke Uzuoka (Vice Director, DPRI, Kyoto University, Japan) • Speech by ICL President Nicola Casagli (2021.1.1–2023.12.31) • Introduction of new ICL officers by ICL President • Certificates to new ICL members (2017-2021) by ICL President • Acknowledgement to WLF5 financial support organizations and sponsors by Forum Chair • Welcome to 6th WLF (WLF6 Forum Chair, Nicola Casagli)