Wednesday 7 February - 2007: Response in deltaic riverine regions
08.00-09.00 hrs	Registration
09.00-09.30 hrs	Welcome and opening Ms. M.H. Schultz van Haegen, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Watermanagement (The Netherlands) His Royal Highness The Prince of Orange
09.30-09.55 hrs	Key note: "Go with the flow" Ms. I. Bakker, Director General Space, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) (The Netherlands)
10.00-10.30 hrs	Coffee break
10.30-10.55 hrs	Key note: Climate change adaption and economics in delta's Mr. R.S.J. Tol, Researcher, Economic and Social Research Institute (Ireland)
11.00-12.30 hrs	Case 1: Room for Rivers Mr. T. Sprong, Project Director, space for Rivers (Netherlands) Mr. J.P.M. Dijkman, Flood management Engineer, Delft Hydraulics (Netherlands) Ms. J.M.P. Moons, Deputy Director Environment, Nature and Water, Province of Noord-Brabant (Netherlands) Mr. M. Menendez, Technical Coordinator, Cabinet of the General Secretary for the Territory and Biodiversity, Spanish Ministry of Environment (spain)
11.00-12.30 hrs	Case 2: Coastal Lake Development Mr. W. van Dieren, Managing Director, Instituut voor Milieu- en Systeemanalyse (IMSA) (The Netherlands) Mr. D. Sijmons, Landscape architect, H+N+S Landschapsarchitecten BV (Netherlands) Mr. S. Boeckhout, Associate Partner, Ecorys (Netherlands) Mr. J.W. Kamphuis, Professor, Queens University, faculty of apllied science civil engineering (Canada)
12.30-14.00 hrs	Lunch and visit Expo
14.00-15.30 hrs	Case 3: Emergency planning Mr. L.H. Roth, Deputy Director, American Society of Civil Engineers (United States) Mr E.H. Dykstra, Professor (visiting) of International Emergency Management. Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management (ICDRM) George Washington University (United States) Mr. L.J.M. Verdult, Secretary of Province, Province of Zeeland (The Netherlands)
14.00-15.30 hrs	Case 4: Delta Restoration: California Bay Delta Project Mr. K. Scarborough, Undersecretary of the California Resources Agency (USA) Mr. R.N. Light, Engineer (Sacramento District) US Army Corps of Engineers (United States) Mr. G. Bobker, Program Director, Bay Insitute (United States)
15.30-16.00 hrs	Coffee/tea break
16.00-17.00 hrs	Technical Sessions Watermonitoring Coastal Area's, Mr. L. van Swaemen, Eijkelkamp - Agrisearch equipment (The Netherlands) Management of Ecological Quality in Delta Areas, Mr. T.F. Klink, DHV B.V. (The Netherlands Coastal Water Management under Arid Conditions, Mr. A. Giesen, DHV B.V. (The Netherlands) Social medical consequences and long term effect of flood disasters, Mr. J.J.L.M. Bierens, VU medical centre (The Netherlands) The role of the local community in evacuation management, Mr. C.J. Windhouwer, Advies- en Ingenieursbureau Oranjewoud (The Netherlands) Learning Evacuation Management, Mr. B. Kolen, HKV Lijn in Water (The Netherlands) A proposal for a revised watersystem for the West part of the Netherlands, Mr. J.w. Kooijmans, Vereniging Deltametropool (The Netherlands) Eureka Build; A new innovation program for (water) construction, Mr. B.A.N. Koehorst, Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands)
17.00-18.00 hrs	Reception
Thursday 8 February - 2007: Urban dilemmas and new concepts - new technologies
08.00-09.00 hrs	Registration
09.00-09.20 hrs	Key notes: Dutch Safety Policies and Projects Mr M.E.P. Dierikx, Director General for Water Affairs, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Managment (The Netherlands)
09.20-09.40 hrs	Key note: Challenges of Urban flood management (UFM) in a changing environment Mr. C. Zevenbergen, Business Developement Director, Dura Vermeer Groep NV (Netherlands)
09.40-10.00 hrs	Key note: Flood Resiliency Mr. I. Douglas, Research Professor, University of Manchester Flood Research Group (United Kingdom)
10.00-10.30 hrs	Coffee break
10.30-11.00 hrs	Key note: Flood Insurance as an embedded policy Mr W. Kron, Head of Hydrological Risks Section, Munich Reinsurance Company (Germany)
11.00-12.30 hrs	Case 5: The Urban Dilemma in the Delta (Haarlemmermeer) Mr R. Barker, BACA Architects (United Kingdom) Mr. V.H.M. Kuypers, City Ecologist, Alterra (The Netherlands) Mr. N. Ohle, Research Associate, HPA port Authority Hamburg (Germany)
11.00-12.30 hrs	Case 6: Adaption of the Dutch delta to a changing climate Mr. J. Osinga, Director and Vision and Design, Program Adaption Space and Climate (ARK) (The Netherlands) Mr. P. Vellinga, Director Climate Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) Mr H.J. de Vriend, Director Science & Technology, Delft Hydraulics (Netherlands)
12.30-14.00 hrs	Lunch and visit Expo
14.00-15.30 hrs	Case 7: Urban Flood Management (Hamburg-London-Dordrecht) Mr. S. van Herk, Project Leader, LmW (Spain) Mr. P.F. Borrows, Regional Flood Defence Manager, Environment Agency (United Kingdom) Ms. H. Goltermann, City of Hamburg (Germany) Mr. D.A. van Steensel, Alderman, City of Dordrecht (Netherlands)
14.00-15.30 hrs	Case 8: New Technologies Mr. B. Polak, Program Manager WaterINNovatiebron (WINN), Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands) Mr. J.W.A. van Ens, Director of Science, LOFAR (Netherlands) Mr. K. van Ruiten, National Insitute of Coastal and Marine Management, Coast & Wadden Sea Division, Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands) Mr. A. Zijderveld, National Insitute of Coastal and Marine Management, Coast& Wadden Sea Division, Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands)
15.30-16.00 hrs	Coffee/tea break
16.00-17.00 hrs	Technical Sessions (Speakers to be announced) Corporate social responsibility and sustainability in hydraulic engineering, Mr. R. van der Arend, DHV BV (The Netherlands) Benefits of opportunity mapping in complex decision making processes in flood risk prevention and flood risk management, Mr. M. de Vriend, Haskoning BV (The Netherlands) Comcoast; Development and testing of overtopping resistant dikes, Dr. J.W. van der Meer, WaterInnovation Program Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands) Implementation of mobile flood defense systems, Mr, J.P. Arends, Jirlumar BV (The Netherlands) Geotube and Geocontainer as alternative ro rock, to build bunds and cores for dikes and dams, Mr. E.L.F. Zengerink, Ten Cate (The Netherlands) Vertical Mixed-in-place Walls; preventing embankement failures, Mr. G. Koeboer, Bauer (Germany) Flood management and provisional safety measures, RPS/BCC (The Netherlands) Higher sea level, lower dykes, and still keeping our feet dry, Mr. Zijlstra, Haskoning (The Netherlands)
19.00-22.00 hrs	Dinner cruise Amsterdam Canals (Optional)
Thursday 8 February - 2007: Special Session on urban flood management Organised by: European co-operation in the field of scientific and technical research
11.00 - 12.30 hrs	COST Session A: Lessons learnt from flood hazards
	Current and perspective flood flow consequeces of land use changes in Sluzew Creek catchment (suburb of Warsaw) Kazimierz Banasik, Faculty of Engineering and Environmental Science, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland Flooding & coastal erosion - The case of Cancun (Mexico) J. Javier Diez & M. D. Esteban, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain The consequences of a future eustatic sea-level rise on the delta of the River Acheloos (Ionian Sea) Niki Evelpidou, University of Athens, Greece Urban Flood in Gdansk (Poland) at 2001 Piotr Kowalik, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Scale problems in flooding estimates Daniel Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne La Vallee, France
11.00 - 12.30 hrs	COST Session B: Flood Impact Assessment and Sustainable Mitigation Measures
	Flood Hazard Maps in Baden-Württemberg Markus Moser, Ministerium für Umwelt und Verkehr Baden-Württemberg, Germany Groundwater Management - a Part of Integrated Flood Risk Management in Urban Areas Thomas Sommer, K. Eulitz, Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum e.V., Germany Sustainable Drainage and Conveyance Systems JT Tourbier and Iain White, Dresden University of Technology, Germany and University of Manchester, UK An integrative Teaching and Learning Programme for the Implementation of Flood Resilience Planning in Europe JT Tourbier and Richard Ashley, Dresden University of Technology, Germany and University of Sheffield, UK
14.00 - 15.30 hrs	Integrative Flood Risk Management in urban catchments
	Integrated Urban Drainage: Setting the context for Integrated Urban Drainage Modelling in the United Kingdom John Blanksby, Adrian Saul and Richard Ashley, University of Sheffield, UK Urban Flood Management in Cyprus – Case Study in Nicosia Urban Area Antonis Tomazis, Niki Evelpidou, University of Athens, Greece Towards a better knowledge and management of flood risks in urban area: the RIVES project Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak, A. Paquier, Cemagref, France The new EU-Flood Policy and its consequences for Urban Flood Management Erik Pasche, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
14.00 - 15.30 hrs	Lessons learnt from flood hazards
	Current and perspective flood flow consequeces of land use changes in Sluzew Creek catchment (suburb of Warsaw) Kazimierz Banasik, Faculty of Engineering and Environmental Science, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland Flooding & coastal erosion. The case of Cancun (Mex) J. Javier Diez & M. D. Esteban, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain The consequences of a future eustatic sea-level rise on the delta of the River Acheloos (Ionian Sea). Niki Evelpidou, University of Athens, Greece Urban Flood in Gdansk (Poland) at 2001 Piotr Kowalik, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Scale problems in flooding estimates Daniel Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne La Vallee, France
Friday 9 February-2007: Cities in deltas and exploiting the opportunities of coasts
08.00-09.00 hrs	Registration
09.00-09.20 hrs	Key note: Innovative Deltaic and Coastal Developments: Shanghai Mr. W. Haoyun, Deputy Director, Taihu Basin Authority (China)
09.20-09.40 hrs	Key note: Eco-engineering, sustainable solutions for marine and inland water constructions Mr. H. Postma, General Manager Dredging Department, Royal Boskalis Westminster NV (Netherlands)
09.40-10.00 hrs	Key note: The economics of square meters versus cubic meters; reclamation pays Mr. M.H. Lindo, and Mr. A.G.M. Groothuizen, Van Oord NV (Netherlands)
10.00-10.30 hrs	Coffee break
10.30-11.00 hrs	Key note: Extreme developments in Dubai (Dubai) Mr. S.A. Saeed, Limitless - Integrated real estate development (United Arabic Emirates)
11.00-12.30 hrs	Case 9: Protecting New Orleans for the future Mr. L.E. Link, Project Director Interagencey Performence Evaluation Task Force (IPET) (United States) Mr. P.T.M. Dircke, Water Program Director, Arcadis Euroconsult (The Netherlands) Mr. C. Anderson, Project Manager, US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District (United States)
11.00-12.30 hrs	Case 10: DUAL: A New Approach to Solving Land Shortages in Coastal Cities Mr. G.B. Lamoree, Water Program Director, Manager Land & Water Department, Arcadis Euroconsult (The Netherlands) Mr. D.M. Simango, Mayor of Beira (Mozambique) Mr. M.C.A. Zuidgeest, Port Consultant, Royal Haskonig - Maritieme (The Netherlands)
12.30-14.00 hrs	Lunch and visit Expo
14.00-15.30 hrs	Case 11: Tianjin Coastal Development Mr. James Wu, Program Manager, TEDA Ocean Group (China) Ms. N. Wang, Project Coordinator DHV Shanghai (China)
14.00-15.30 hrs	Case 12: Dutch Coastal Development: Extension of the Port of Rotterdam (Maasvlakte 2), integrated coastal zone development Mr. T. Vellinga, Director Environment, Safety & Spatial Planning (Netherlands) Mr. P.W. Sandee, Tender Strategy, Port of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Mrs. A.A. Stokman, Senior Policiy Advisor Water, Province of Noord Holland (The Netherlands) Mr. J.J.M. Mathijssen, Project manager Weak Chains Zeeland (The Netherlands) Mr. K.J.A. Oome, Specialist Integrated Waterpolicy, Province of Zuid-Holland (The Netherlands)
15.30-18.00 hrs	Closing event and reception