Annual meetings for all GloFAS and GFM users are organised in order to present new developments, receive feedback on the service, and learn about users’ experience and own developments. These annual meetings are generally held as online meetings scheduled in the afternoon, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to be able to reach out to as many users worldwide as possible.

1^st CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting (2021)

The first CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting was held online in the afternoon of October 28^th 2021, as part of the 2021 CEMS Week. The number of participants was 117.

The main topics discussed during the first CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting were:

1. GloFAS new developments and highlights from the last year
2. Planned developments and upcoming major release of GloFAS
3. Announcement of the foreseen operational release of the GFM
4. Hydrological in-situ data collection
5. User stories

Highlights from the first CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting: the user stories:

• Anticipating flood events in Bangladesh using the GloFAS extended range flood forecast​ (Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre, Bangladesh)
• Flood forecasting to inform humanitarian response​ (World Food Programme)
• Development of Disaster Risk Financing Systems​ (Start Network)
• Flood Foresight: Flood forecasting for Disaster Risk Financing systems​ (JBA Consulting)
• GLOFAS for small scale hydropower​ (DXT Commodities)
• ARISTOTLE-eENHSP flood hazard service​ (ARISTOTLE-eENHSP consortium)
• How GloFAS and GFM complement each other: case study in Thailand and China (Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resource Monitoring)

The minutes of the meeting and all the presentations are available from CEMS week 2021: Floods sessions (EFAS, GloFAS & GFM). Specifically, the presentations of the user stories are available here.

2^st CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting (2023)

The second CEMS Global Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting will be held online in the afternoon of February 8^th and February 9^th 2023. Please visit the GloFAS homepage to find out more details.