Welcome coffee
9:40 - 10:00 Erehal

After coffee, we move to room 'Delvaux' for:

The Sun in STEREO : 10y

10:00-10:20

The human interest story on the spacecraft STEREO with Pierre Rochus and Barbara Thompson.
Your host: Andrei Zhukov

The art of Space weather forecasting

10:20-11:25

• Satellites - by Petra Vanlommel
• Sunspots - by Olivier Lemaitre
• Space Weather@B.USOC - by Carla Jacobs
• SW Forecast in practice - by Elke D'Huys

Space Weather Impacts: Socio-Economic costs and benefits of mitigation

11:25-11:50

Why we worry about space weather? How can we deal with it?

* We start with a 5min introduction by Antti Pulkkinen.
* An elevator pitch by all the panel members: Antti Pulkkinen, Mark Gibbs, Edward Oughton and Alan Thomson
* Rocket round: only yes/no answers by the panel members.
* Q&A and panel discussion - we expand the discussion on the yes/no answers. The audience has also the possibility to fire questions.

Space Casino

11:50-12:00 by K.D. Leka

Results from the ESWW12 casino bets: how many X-flares will occur between Nov 27 2015 and the start of ESWW13?