DAY ONE: April 14

• 8:15 - 8:30 am -Welcome and Logistics

• 8:30 - 10:00 am: Session 1

 Pivoting the Challenges and Opportunities of Land Modeling Across Multiple Perspectives

Short Description: This session explores how different groups are using modeling and data in the LULUCF sectors to respond to evolving policy, environmental, and technological landscapes. Speakers will reflect on what has changed in land modeling approaches, priorities, and applications—and what has remained consistent despite these shifts. Through brief perspectives and discussion, the session will examine how actors are pivoting to address new challenges and opportunities, while building on established methods and collaborations. The conversation will highlight lessons learned, emerging needs, and key questions for the broader technical and research community.

• 10:00 - 10:15 am: BREAK (onsite cafeteria available)

• 10:15 - 12:00 pm: Session 2

 Natural Disturbances: Dynamics, Data, and Modeling

Short Description: This session focuses on understanding the drivers and impacts of natural disturbances and post-disturbance recovery, highlighting advances in data, remeasurement, remote sensing, and modeling methods to represent changing landscape dynamics.

• 12:00 – 1:00 pm: LUNCH (onsite cafeteria available)

• 1:00-2:30 pm: Session 2 Continued

 Natural Disturbances: Resilience, Management, and Integrated Systems

Short Description: This session examines how management strategies and integrated modeling frameworks—including carbon, water, and life-cycle approaches—can improve representation of resilience, feedbacks, and risk in forest and agricultural systems under climate change.

• 2:30-2:45 pm: BREAK (onsite cafeteria available)

• 5:00 pm – Informal dinner, return to hotel on the shuttle

DAY TWO: April 15

• 8:15 - 8:30 am -Welcome to Day2

• 8:30 - 10:00 am: Session 3

 State of the art modeling, Part 1: A.I and other new technologies

Short Description: This session explores how artificial intelligence and emerging modeling technologies—integrated with satellite imagery and economic models—are advancing the representation of land use, carbon, biodiversity, water, and other interconnected environmental outcomes, while highlighting best practices and limitations.

• 10:00 - 10:15 am: BREAK (onsite cafeteria available)

• 10:15 - 11:45 pm: Session 4

 State-of-the-art modeling Part 2: model comparisons and integration

Short Description: This session examines model intercomparison efforts and integration across economic, biophysical, and life-cycle frameworks to improve transparency, consistency, and collaboration in land, agriculture, and climate modeling.

• 11:45 – 12:45 pm: LUNCH (onsite cafeteria available)

• 12:45 - 2:15 pm: Special Session: Selected Topic

• 2:15-2:30 pm: BREAK

• 2:30 - 4:00 am: Session 5

 Land-based Solutions: Part 1 Current practices, modeling tools, and insights from country experiences

Short Description: This session reviews current land-based mitigation practices, modeling tools, and country-level experiences, examining how markets, policy incentives, and accounting frameworks shape carbon outcomes, co-benefits, and trade-offs across forests and agriculture.

• 4:00 - 5:15 am: Session 5

 Lands-based Solutions: Part 2 Land-Based Activities Across Scales: From Policy to Practice—Delivering Environmental and Community Benefits

Short Description: This session will explore how land-based activities across forestry and agriculture are assessed and implemented at different governance levels, from state to national scales. The discussion will examine how forests, croplands, and other managed landscapes can deliver benefits beyond carbon sequestration, including ecosystem integrity, biodiversity, soil and water outcomes, and rural livelihoods.

• 5:15-7:30 pm Reception and dinner at Duke Farms, return to hotel on the shuttle

DAY THREE: April 16

• 8:00 - 8:15 am -Welcome to Day3

• 8:15 - 9:45 am: Session 6

 Innovations in bioenergy and the bioeconomy

Short Description: This session explores how emerging and traditional bioenergy and bioeconomy pathways—including data center growth, novel forest and agricultural commodities, and carbon removal technologies—are shaping land and resource demand, with insights from modeling, life-cycle analysis, and policy perspectives.

• 9:45 - 10:00 am: BREAK (onsite cafeteria available)

• 10:00 - 11:00 pm: Session 7

 Bringing it all together

• 11:00 – 12:00 pm: Wrap-up