Schedule

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US (PT) Germany (CEST) Japan (JPT)
April 18 April 19 April 19
17:00 2:00 9:00 Day 1

In-person locations:
UCLA: Young Research Library
USC: Ahmanson Lab (Leavey Library, 3rd floor) - map
MaptimeLA: 1 Gateway Plaza, Union Station Room (3rd floor) - map
Reitaku: iFloor Presentation Terrace (Asunaro Building)
FAU: Seminar-Rooms of the Institute of Geography in Erlangen-Tennenlohe (Wetterkreuz 15, ground floor)

Welcome USJapan
- Yoh (Japan) and Andy (Mexico/USA)!
17:15 2:15 9:15 Opening Keynote USJapan


- Céline Jacquin

I am a French geographer who has lived in Mexico City for half part of my life, as an urban studies researcher and open data and civic technology activist through OpenStreetMap and other citizen science projects focused on urban mobility, gender, and community building like Geochicas. I have participated in various open governance programs at the university, at the World Resources Institute, and in two federal scientific institutions in Mexico (CONACyT and INEGI). I am involved as much as my time allows in diversity and inclusion activities within OSM. I have been a project manager for HOT in Latin America since 2021 and am now the Senior Manager of Community Programs for Latin America.

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18:00 3:00 10:00 Training Workshop USJapan
Mapping on Open Street Map
18:30 3:30 10:30 Mapping in-person, live Slack support USJapan
20:00 5:00 12:00 Live events conclude for Day 1! USJapan
April 19
3:30 12:30 19:30 Welcome! Germany
- Professor Walker, Professor Glasze
TBD TBD TBD Opening Keynote Germany


- Dr. Danijel Schorlemmer

I’m a seismologist working at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. My working fields include seismic networks, earthquake hazard and risk and the building of a global multi-hazard exposure model describing each building’s vulnerability to different hazards.
TBD TBD TBD Training Workshop Germany
4:45 13:45 20:45 Mapping in-person, live Slack support Germany
April 20 April 20
17:00 2:00 9:00 Day 2

In-person locations:
UCLA: Young Research Library
USC: Library for International and Public Affairs (LIPA) - map
Reitaku: iFloor Presentation Terrace (Asunaro Building)

Opening Remarks USJapan
17:10 2:10 9:10 Lightning Talk Marathon USJapan
Format: 3 minute presentations

Round 1:

  • Reitaku: Ichika Imajo "Abandoned schools, a new beginning?"
  • USC: Kelly Kwok
  • UCLA: Cerys Edwards "From Paper to Pixels: Mapping History"
  • Aoyama Gakuin: Wataru Yoshida "Define the world by mapping it. Become a Youth
    • Mapper!"
  • MaptimeLA: Omar Ureta
Round 2:

  • Reitaku: Kasumi Kanda and Yuki Nagumo "How Vietnam Changed Our Views"
  • USC: Boshen Shao "Persistent Impact of Historical Land Market Rigidity on
    • Adaptation to Climate Change through Consolidation with Remote Sensing"
  • UCLA: Theresa Cambe "Analyzing Effects of Turkey/Syria Earthquake Damage"
  • Metro LA: Nina Kin "Where's my bus?!"
Round 3:

  • USC: Eileen Chen "USC Urban Tree Initiative: Connecting scientific research with social impact"
  • Reitaku: Zark Saito "A Country With Everything But Peace"

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18:50 3:50 10:50 Day 2 Leaderboard Reveal and Wrap Up USJapan
April 20 April 21 April 21
17:00 2:00 9:00 Day 3

In-person locations:
UCLA: Young Research Library
USC: Library for International and Public Affairs (LIPA) - map
Reitaku: iFloor Presentation Terrace (Asunaro Building)

Opening Remarks USJapan
17:15 2:15 9:15 Closing Keynote USJapan


- Taichi Furuhashi

Taichi Furuhashi is passionate about mapping, connecting local communities with maps and sharing knowledge to empower people. As you know, Huge Earthquake and Tsunami destroyed a lot of cities and local communities in East Japan area in 2011. They are trying, how to make more resilient society with Mapping, Panorama/VR and Drone technology. Taichi is a professor of Aoyama Gakuin University and President of CrisisMappers Japan, NPO. Now he has started DRONEBIRD project with drones for Disaster Crisis Response.

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18:00 3:00 10:00 Big Reveal, Prizes, and Closing Remarks USJapan
April 21 April 22
9:00 18:00 1:00 Closing Remarks Germany