Five addresses across the two days, each followed by twenty minutes of questions from the floor. Keynote recordings are published to the delegate archive two weeks after the Forum.
Monsoon thresholds: what a decade of Asian rainfall records now tells us
Selvaraj leads the Regional Climate Observatory and has published extensively on monsoon variability and its consequences for agricultural planning across South and Southeast Asia. She chaired the 2024 regional assessment on adaptation thresholds.
After the easy megawatts: grid flexibility as a research problem
Sørensen's group models flexibility markets and storage economics for northern European grids. They have advised three national system operators on the integration of variable renewable capacity beyond sixty per cent of supply.
Who pays for the transition? Distributional evidence from twelve countries
Dlamini directs a comparative programme on the distributional effects of decarbonisation policy, with fieldwork in coal, mining and agricultural regions. Her 2026 monograph on transition compensation is widely cited in policy review.
Material stocks, not flows: rethinking the metrics of circularity
Watanabe works on national material stock accounting and the service life of buildings and infrastructure. He co-authored the open dataset on construction material stocks now used in more than forty national inventories.
The fifteen-minute city after the pilot phase: what the travel data shows
Ruiz Marchetti studies urban form and travel demand using municipal mobility data. Her laboratory's evaluation of superblock interventions has been replicated in six European cities.