Business Guide to GP2025
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This Business Guide aims to capture the sessions that have a particular focus on the private sector during the GP2025, but please refer to the official program on the GP2025 website. For more information, please click here to get the Business Guide.
The GP2025 is organized over three days, 4-6 June, and two Preparatory Days on 2-3 June, providing an opportunity for partners and stakeholders to organize additional programming.
Please note that the information below is subject to change and will be updated when needed.
Webinars and other events leading up to GP2025
10 April
14:00–15:30 | Online | WRRC Webinar: Driving Resilience: The Critical Role of Private Sector’s Readiness for Recovery | IRP
The recording is available here: https://youtu.be/KmmqHynBHjw
Preparatory days (2-3 June 2025)
- Third Stakeholder Forum on DRR
- Global EW4ALL Multi-stakeholder Forum
- World Resilient Recovery Conference
2 June
13:30 – 14:30 | CICG Plenary A & Online | Third Stakeholder Forum on DRR: Innovative Financing and Private Sector Leadership in Disaster Risk Reduction
15:15 – 16:15 | WMO Salle Obasi & Online | Global EW4ALL Multi-stakeholder Forum: Thematic Session: Effective Governance Models to Support Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
16:45 – 18:00 | WMO Salle Obasi & Online | Global EW4ALL Multi-stakeholder Forum: Thematic Session: Harnessing innovation: Advancing multi-hazard early warning systems through science, technology and local knowledge
3 June
10:00 – 11:30 | CCV Room Montreux | Strengthening SME Resilience Through ARISE Networks
10:50 –12:00 | CCV Geneva Room & Online | World Resilient Recovery Conference (WRRC): Thematic Session: Rebuilding Resilient Communities: Housing Reconstruction and Critical Infrastructure Readiness
12:10–13:20 | CCV Geneva Room & Online | World Resilient Recovery Conference (WRRC): Thematic Session: Driving Resilience: The Critical Role of Private Sector’s Readiness for Recovery
Official programme days (4-6 June 2025)
4 June
12:15 –13:45 | CCV Room Vevey | Learning Lab: The Resilience Maturity Assessment (REMA) tool
16:00 –17:30 | CICG Plenary C & Online | Thematic Session: Infrastructure for a resilient, inclusive and sustainable future
17:25–17:40 | CICG Ignite Stage | The Corporate Chief Resilience Officers (CCRO) network
5 June
9:00 – 10:30 | CICG Plenary A & Online | High-Level Dialogue: What will it take to scale DRR financing at the national and local levels?
11:00 – 12:30 | CICG Plenary A & Online | Thematic Session: Development and adoption of technologies to accelerate disaster risk reduction
12:45 –14:15 | CCV Room Montreux | Learning Lab: Play the Game: Unlocking Resilience Through DRR Financing
12:45 –14:15 | CICG Room 1 | Learning Lab: Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience: A Comprehensive Approach to DRR
13:00 –14:30 | CICG Plenary EF | Learning Lab: How to risk proof and protect real estate assets against disaster and climate risks
14:30 – 17:00 | CICG Amphitheatre D & Online | Multi-Stakeholder Plenary: Investments in reducing risk and building resilience to accelerate progress in sustainable development
16:30 – 18:00 | CICG Plenary B & Online | Thematic Session: Integrating DRR into the global financial system
6 June
12:45 – 14:15 | CICG Room 1 | Learning Lab: Resilience financing: How governments and the financial system can invest in a sustainable future
14:00–15:30 | CICG Plenary B & Online | Thematic Session: Driving private sector resilience to scale investments in disaster risk reduction
About GP2025
The 8th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025) will be hosted on 2-6 June in Geneva, Switzerland. Bringing together governments, the UN system and all stakeholders, including the private sector, the GP2025 provides a platform for participants take stock of progress against the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, share new knowledge, exchange best practice and discuss the latest developments and trends in reducing disaster risk.
Registration
Please remember to register to the event by 2 May:
Should you receive invitations to specific sessions that are hosted outside of the event venue (CICG), please make sure to check if separate registration is required