Testbed Planning Meeting 01/12/2023

01 December 2023 10:00 – 12:00 GMT / 12:00 – 14:00 SAT

Comprehensive Testbed Planning Meeting to incorporate discussion following the CoProduction and CoDesign workshops.

The aim of this meeting is to bring together all the discussions and conclusions from various meetings and working groups into a single plan.
To prepare for this meeting we will need:
– A near-final draft of the ops plan, including the work of the different groups (e.g. SOPs etc)
– Presentations from each group ( 10 mins each)
– Presentation from each country regarding how it will go in their country.

Schedule

10:00 GMT / 12:00 SAST

Introduction
Hellen Msemo/ Doug Parker

 

Ops Plan Draft
Simon Ageet; Hellen Msemo

10:20 GMT / 12:20 SAST

Country Presentations – What will the testbed look like in each Country?

10 minutes each

Zambia

Felix; Willem; Simon

10:30 GMT / 12:30 SAST

Mozambique

Junior; Gilda Monjane

10:40 GMT / 12:40 SAST

South Africa

Nico Kroese; Miriam Murambadoro

10:50 GMT / 12:50 SAST

Group Presentations
Co-Production/ User Engagement

Katharine Vincent; Willem Colenbrander; Marita Monjane; Gilda Monjane

11:00 GMT / 13:00 SAST

Testbed SOPs:

Synoptic – Nico Kroese

Nowcasting – Morne Gijben

11:20 GMT/ 13:20 SAST

Forecast Evaluation

Stephanie Landman

11:30 GMT / 13:30 SAST

Comms

Nomie Mbuli; Absolum Mfumadi

 

11:40 GMT / 13:40 SAST

Logistics

Denise Groves; Jabulani Khumalo

11:50 GMT / 13:50 SAST

IT, data, hardware, platforms

Alex Roberts; tbc

Management and sharing of outputs