WIGOS Vision update group physical meeting (28-29 April 2025)

Summary report of the meeting is available here.

Success metrics for the meeting:

(1) Introduce the team members in-person and establish cordial team relationships
(2) Gain awareness about progress made by Sub-groups and seek feedback from other members
(3) Achieve a deep-dive group discussions about the different topics covered by the SGs
(4) Develop a good engagement plan, to be executed by the team members in the next few months
(5) At the end of the workshop, achieve an ”SFD” version of the vision document
(6) Understand next steps (and account for specific feedbacks/recommendations).

Draft Agenda in Geneva time, UTC + 2 hours

(Annotated Agenda for printing) [ppt template]

Day 1 – 28 April 2025 (Monday)
8:00-8:30	Gathering starts at 8:00; meeting starts at 8:30
8:30-9:10	Opening and Welcoming remarks	WMO Sec.
	Welcome from team co-chairs	Co-chairs
	Introduction	All
9:10-9:30	Setting the Stage	Sid/Jitsuko
9:30-10:00	Lessons Learned from Previous WIGOS Vision	John Eyre
10:00-10:20	Break
10:20-13:00	Foresight Exercise: The future landscape in 2050	All
	Defining Earth System in the context of WMO	Jitsuko
	Outcome of WMO leadership foresight exercise	Albert
	Outcome of the WIGOS 2050 vision foresight survey	Jitsuko/Sid
	Outcome of the Communities Survey	Jitsuko/Sid
	CGMS position paper to respond to the Vision update	Sean
	Breakout Groups Discussion	All
	Discuss the breakout groups outputs, 10’ each+20’ Discussion	All
13:00-14:15	Group photo Lunch Break
14:15-15:55	Other Special Topics (with influence on WIGOS vision in 2050 timeframe)
	Citizen Data Trends and Integration in the global Earth Obs. Systems in the next decades	Amy Chen
	Trends in Non-traditional Earth Obs. Systems. Part 1: IoT	Jonathan Taylor
	Trends in Non-traditional Earth Obs. Systems. Part 2: IoA	Diego Ellis Soto
	Commercial EO Data. Future Trends and Thoughts	Melissa Martin
	Impact of AI evolution on WMO-relevant Applications and Consequences on Global Observing Systems	Tony McNally
15:55-16:15	Break
16:15-17:00	Discussing Guiding Principles
	Reviewing the “Observing Network Design Principles”. Described in the WIGOS 2040 Vision (Annex; Appendix 2.1 of the Manual on WIGOS).	Sid/Shannon
	Group Discussion: should we adopt them in the WIGOS 2050 vision drafting, modify them, suggest new ones	All
	Reviewing the “The role of integration in WIGOS”, from the WIGOS 2040 Vision (section 1.5).	Mary-Jane
	Group Discussion: should we adopt in the WIGOS 2050 vision drafting, modify it, suggest new ones.	All
17:00	Adjourn
19:00-	Social No-host Dinner, place TBD
Day 2 – 29 April 2025 (Tuesday)
8:30	Meeting starts at 8:30
8:30-10:45	Presenting Sub-Groups Pre-F2F Findings and Group Discussions
	SG 1: Framing the Context and Skeleton Structure Group Discussion	Sid/Shannon
	SG 2: Space component Evolution Group Discussion	Stephan
	SG 3: Surface component Evolution Group Discussion	Jianxia
	SG 4: Technology Evolution Group Discussion	June
	SG 5: Requirements and Applications Evolution Group Discussion	Tony
	SG 6: Concept of integration (surface and space) Group Discussion	Mary-Jane
10:45-11:15	Break
11:15-12:30	Consolidation Exercise [working document]	All
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:00	Review Exercise and Discussions (Zero-Order Draft):	All, facilitated by co-chairs
15:00-15:30	Break
15:30-16:10	Final Sub-Group Discussions
	SG 7: Risks and recommendations to achieve vision Group Discussion	Sid/Jitsuko All
	SG 8: Communities Interfacing/Engagement Plan Group Discussion	Lihang All
16:10-16:30	Next Steps	Sid/Jitsuko
	Next steps in the timeline: Maturing the discussion about the WIGOS 2050 vision
	Discuss the distinction between the WIGOS vision (succinct document) and the potential peer-review publication to provide rationale, findings, and basis for the vision.
	Describe roles and responsibilities for editing, reviewing, collecting feedbacks
	Describe mode of operation leading us to WIGOS 2050 Vision workshop
16:30	Meeting Adjourn