Innovation Platform 2025

The Innovation Platform is a space where participants of the Global Platform showcase applications and technologies for new and innovative approaches to DRR, innovative educational activities and more.

The platform was first held at GP2019, building on the experiences learned and the needs to tackle local and global challenges.

The Innovation Platform exhibitor booths can be found on the 1st floor of the CICG building.

The Innovation objectives of the Global Platform:

• Create an environment that stimulates awareness-raising, behavior change and shared learning
• Provide opportunities for experiential learning
• Motivate the application of new knowledge and approaches in DRR, with the emphasis on the development and use of more effective products, processes, services, technologies, and business models
• Ensure inter-disciplinary cross-fertilization of ideas, and to reach out beyond the more specialized DRR community so that new partnerships can evolve
• Showcase new ways to develop cost-effective DRR interventions
• Suggest new ideas to implement and advance the Sendai Framework

Innovation Platform exhibitors and innovations:

• Swiss Innovations
  • Swiss Army Knife of DRR Innovation(s)
• Office of Civil Defense (Philippines)
  • Results-based Monitoring and Evaluation System (RBMES) for the Philippines' National DRRM Plan (NDRRMP) 2020-2030
• SEEDS
  • Hyper Local! Breaking down risk and resilience with culture and AI
• Plus Arts (NPO)
  • Iza Kaeru Caravan (IKC) Program
• UNOPS
  • Remote sensing and flood forecasting technologies to help plan response and recovery activities in Conflict-affected Countries
• Pacific Community
  • The Pacific at the crossway of scientific and traditional knowledge
• GEO
  • DRR Earth Intelligence for All
• Oxfam in Nepal
  • Empowering Women, Building Resilience in the transboundary river context
• People in Need
  • EWS 1294 – practical and cost efficient national EWS
• Easy Build
  • Climate Resilience Modular House
• IA Infinite Access
  • Infinite Access to Early Warnings for All
• COPE
  • Free Disaster Resilience Educational materials for children worldwide
• ICIMOD
  • Community Based Early Warning System (CBFEWS): Sustainable Practices for Community Resilience
• InSAR Norway
  • Norwegian Ground Motion Service: Space-Based Technology for Global Risk Management
• Save the Children
  • Feel Safe Immersive Virtual Reality Experience
• Contributions from Germany
  • Committed to a resilient future for all: Germany’s whole-of-government approach to DRR
• City Resilience Program
  • City Scan: Accessible Urban Resilience Insights While You Wait
• Climate Risk & Early Warning Systems Initiative
  • Leveraging technological advancements for people-centered early warnings
• IRDR & U-INSPIRE Alliance
  • Transformative, Actionable scientific solutions through Youth, Young Scientists, and Young Professionals' contribution for DRR
• Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Republic of Korea
  • Empowering youth capacity for resilience through DRR education: Korean School Safety Programme
• UN Women
  • From policy to practice, WRD drives gender-responsive DRR policies and tools, food banks, and resilient Pacific women leadership
• Climate Centre
  • Understanding complex systems through Art, Humour and Games
• Disability Inclusive DRR
  • From Promises to Practice: Disability Inclusive DRR and Climate Action
• National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience
  • E-Defense: The World’s Largest Three-Dimensional Full-Scale Earthquake Testing Facility

Agenda

04 - 06 Jun 2025