First Conference of The Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (ODTP)

10-11 November 2025

Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Govt. of India
Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

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Hosted by INCOIS and co-organised with the UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Resilience Section, the First Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme Conference marks a significant milestone to co-design solutions to build disaster-ready coastal communities.

Bringing the event to INCOIS, alongside the broader International Tsunami Symposium, underscores a strong commitment to advancing tsunami resilience and coastal safety under the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.  

The first ODTP Conference offers an important opportunity to unite the TEWS and coastal resilience communities within the framework of Ocean Decade Challenge 6 and the ODTP, with a strong emphasis on coastal hazards, particularly tsunamis.

  • Propose strategies to enhance/accelerate and energize endorsed and future actions to contribute to the ODTP and OD challenge 6
  • Foster collaboration, strengthen connections, and co-design strategic pathways forward.

    • The event will:

  • Provide an overview of the ODTP endorsed actions and their progress
  • Showcase how ODTP actions contribute to OD challenge 6 on increasing community resilience to ocean hazards/risks
  • Share knowledge and experiences among ODTP endorsed actions
  • Identify gaps, challenges, priorities and opportunities to implement the ODTP-RDI Plan
  • Propose strategies to enhance/accelerate and energize endorsed and future actions to contribute to the ODTP and OD challenge 6
  • Propose new actions, and way forward, especially in support for SIDS and LDCs
  • Identify how to enhance coordination, collaboration, cooperation, partnerships among ODTP actions and other similar initiatives


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Conference Structure & Session Themes

The First ODTP Conference will focus on the ODTP two High Level Objectives (HLO) among the five key pillars of the ODTP Research Development and Implementation Plan:

  • To develop the warning systems capability to issue actionable and timely (<10 min) tsunami warnings for tsunamis from all identified sources to 100% of coasts at risk.
  • 100% of communities at risk be prepared and resilient to tsunamis by 2030 through programmes like the IOC-UNESCO Tsunami Ready Recognition Programme (TRRP).

For further more details, please visit https://tsunami.ioc.unesco.org/en/odtp/conference

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