Technical Online Sessions, 10-11 June 2026

Preliminary programme

The technical on-line sessions will take place the 10 and 11 June 2026. These sessions will consist of interactive group discussions and will be organized online. Participation to this event will be upon invitation.

1. Objectives, expected outcomes of the online sessions
The technical sessions will last two days and will consist of one introductory session focusing on satellite Data ac-cess and training (Session #1) and 3 Working groups sessions :
• Session #2 Meteosat Third Generation in Africa, PUMA stations deployment, 
• Session #3 Climate monitoring, Climate Station deployment,
• Session #4 Strenghtening Early Warning System (SEWA) with focus on AMSAF (African Meteorological Sat-ellite Application Facility).

These sessions will allow experts from African NMHSs to exchange on these topics at technical level. Sessions will follow a similar scheme (but might differ slightly from each other): 

Duration of a each Session: 02 hours 
30’ of introduction, including one to three keynote presentation(s) in plenary
60’ in splinter room (4 to 6 groups of 20 to 25 participants each per splinter room)
30’ of reporting per session (~5’ per group)

Because the participants of these sessions will not be the same than during the Plenary, some of the themes dis-cussed above will also be presented during the Plenary sessions. Furthermore reports from the interactive sessions will be given during the introductory session or during each thematic session of the Plenary 5-9 October, 2026).