Fifth Destination Earth User eXchange

10 June, 9:00 – 10:15

This session will explore the development of an AI Earth System Model (AI ESM) and the application of artificial intelligence across key impact sectors, leveraging AI-ready digital twin data alongside other European datasets. It will also highlight advancements in interactivity within DestinE, including through developments on the DestinE Platform. Presentations will demonstrate how AI is being harnessed to construct machine learning models for Earth system components and to develop innovative tools such as forecast-in-a-box. Furthermore, the session will examine how DestinE’s AI-ready datasets contribute to the EU’s AI factories, stimulating the creation of a new generation of AI-driven applications.

10 June, 10:45 – 12:00

This session focuses on AI solutions and enabling capabilities within the DestinE environment, highlighting how AI-related work is supported in practice. It covers the tools, services, and infrastructures that allow users and developers to access data, experiment with AI methods, operationalise workflows, and integrate AI components within DestinE.

10 June, 13:00 – 14:00 

This session explores how DestinE services can support solutions in different impact-sectors. In short interventions, speakers will illustrate how DestinE outputs are already informing solutions in their domains such as agriculture, health, and finance. The discussion will then look ahead to what additional capabilities, data connections, and partnerships are needed in the next phase to further connect the Digital Twins with sectoral models and services, strengthening DestinE’s contribution to impact assessment and decision-making across sectors.

10 June, 13:00 – 14:00 

This session will provide a platform for European Commission Directorates-General, including DG INTPA, DG CLIMA, DG ENER and others, to outline how Destination Earth can be leveraged across EU and international cooperation programmes. Discussions will highlight opportunities to use DestinE to support climate adaptation, energy transition, resilience and preparedness initiatives, including through global partnerships such as SEWA (Strengthening Early Warning in Africa), implemented under the EU’s Global Gateway strategy.

10 June, 14:05 – 15:05 

The session will discuss key achievements from recent developments in energy domain under DestinE’s, in the context of present and future challenges that the European energy sector is facing. Through a panel discussion bringing together experts from policy and industry, and with active participation from the audience, the session will highlight available capabilities while fostering a dialogue on the evolving needs and opportunities for of the European energy community.

10 June, 14:05 – 15:05 

A session exploring how DestinE can advance understanding and management of the water cycle beyond disaster risk applications. Discussions with users will explore how DestinE digital twins and AI-driven approaches support environmental monitoring, water resources management, and hydrological forecasting. The conversation will engage a wide array of communities to collect user needs, identify future water-related challenges and explore opportunities for developing new tools, services and applications building on DestinE capabilities to support environmental and water-related decision-making.

10 June, 15:35 – 16:35 

A session exploring how DestinE can enhance disaster risk management (DRM) by supporting preparedness, response and recovery across different hazards. Presentations will feature examples from ongoing DestinE projects and on-boarding activities, including past, present and future use cases, collaborations with operational systems, and will highlight how AI and machine learning demonstrators can improve early warning, preparedness planning and decision-support capabilities. The discussion will bring together DRM authorities, practitioners or researchers to identify opportunities for needs assessment, collaboration and co-development of future capabilities.

10 June, 15:35 – 16:35 

A session exploring how DestinE can support urban decision-making and public services, from day-to-day management to long-term planning. Presentations will showcase examples of how digital twins and AI applications can be used to assess heat exposure, air quality and combined urban risks, and to inform adaptation and sustainability strategies. The discussion will engage representatives from research institutes, local authorities or service providers to identify opportunities for collaboration and co-development of urban applications, surfacing concrete user requirements, trust/quality expectations, and integration needs.

10 June, 16:40 – 17:00

The European Commission and the three entities implementing DestinE will conclude the Forum, reflecting on outcomes and the way ahead. and a live reveal of the event illustration capturing the main discussions, achievements, and ideas from across the two days.

10 June, 13:00 – 14:00 / 14:05 – 15:05

This training provides a practical introduction to Edge services and the HDA (Harmonised Data Access) service. The training session covers the end-to-end journey from the navigating the platform to accessing and using Edge computing services. The session will cover how HDA provides unified data discovery, access, and retrieval mechanisms to support a wide variety of applications. Participants will obtain knowledge on available services that enable the development of new DestinE applications and services at the edge of data.By the end of the training, attendees will: 

• Understand the core principles and benefits of Edge Services 

• Learn how HDA provides harmonised data access across diverse sources 

• See how Edge and HDA services complement each other 

This training is suitable for all DestinE users, including non-experts. 

10 June, 13:00 – 14:00 / 15:35 – 16:35

This training introduces DEFAIR, the Destination Earth Framework for Preparing AI Ready Data. Participants will learn how to process Earth observation datasets, such as those available through the Destination Earth Data Lake (DEDL) with a focus on data from EUMETSAT, into AI-ready data. The session will cover key preprocessing steps including reading, reprojection, spatial filtering and variable selection, using DEFAIR’s modular Python framework with dedicated readers and transformation components. Participants will explore how to apply transformation chains and generate structured data cubes that can be directly used for AI/ML model development. The training will also demonstrate how to export processed outputs in formats such as NetCDF and Zarr. Designed for researchers and developers, the session combines practical examples with hands on demonstrations using notebook environments and S3 based data access within DEDL. By the end, users will understand how to integrate DEFAIR into their own workflows and streamline the preparation of Earth observation data for AI applications.

10 June, 14:05 – 15:05 / 15:35 – 16:35

This training will present the different ways to access ECMWF’s Climate DT data through the DestinE Platform’s services.  It will first introduce Insula Code service, allowing users to interface with different data access services of the platform via Jupyter notebooks (Polytope, HDA, DestinE Streamer, Earth Data Hub, etc.). In a second part, in a hands-on exercise, participants will be able to develop and test their own code for accessing Climate DT data in Zarr format through the Earth Data Hub service. 

10 June, 14:05 – 15:05 / 15:35 – 16:35

Unlock the potential of Destination Earth’s high-resolution data using Earthkit, ECMWF’s open-source Python toolkit. This hands-on course guides you through the complete data lifecycle—from accessing massive Digital Twin datasets to performing complex processing and creating publication-ready visualisations. You will learn how Earthkit abstracts data complexity, enabling efficient handling of high-resolution outputs, climate aggregations, and interactive mapping within a unified Python environment. Whether you are analysing extreme weather events or computing climatologies, this session provides the essential workflows to integrate DestinE data into your scientific research or user application development. 

10 June, 13:00 – 14:00 / 15:35 – 16:35

Earth Observation service developers often face a fundamental challenge: bridging the “grand distance” between data capabilities and the concrete needs of users who may not be aware of what DestinE data could bring to their activities. This 1-hour session introduces the co-design methodology developed by Mines Paris – PSL  for Destination Earth, now augmented with a generative AI web application. The toolkit guides service developers through a structured 4-phase process: approaching users, co-design diagnosis, workshop sessions, and outcomes. Come discover how to move from latent user demand to resilient, scalable services and how generative AI can be used to support this journey.

10 June, 13:00 – 14:00 / 14:05 – 15:05

Discover the machinery powering interaction with Destination Earth. This course explores the advanced interfaces designed to make petabyte-scale Digital Twin data accessible and actionable, targeting users more familiar with GIS data types. We introduce Polytope to bring complex weather and climate data in reach of such users, with efficient data slicing and fusion. We will also introduce Aviso, an event-driven notification system on data availability. You will learn to move beyond bulk downloads by requesting specific features or datacubes via standard OGC APIs, handling web-friendly formats like CoverageJSON, H3, and polygon selections of data combined with automating processing chains. This session is useful for users building applications with weather and climate information, including automated pipelines, or web services on top of DestinE infrastructure.