The DestinE User eXchange provides a collaborative space to explore how DestinE platforms, data and digital twins are being used in practice. The programme focuses on real-world applications, user needs, and hands-on experiences, fostering dialogue between technology providers and users across sectors.
Through interactive sessions, demonstrations and discussions, participants can exchange feedback, identify challenges, and highlight opportunities to improve usability, accessibility and impact of DestinE services.
Why it matters for TerraDT
For TerraDT, the User eXchange is a crucial opportunity to engage directly with the communities that will ultimately benefit from its developments.
The event enables:
- User-driven insights: understanding how different stakeholders interact with digital twins and what is needed to support decision-making.
- Validation of use cases: testing TerraDT’s impact models and components against real user expectations and workflows.
- Stronger integration with DestinE: aligning TerraDT developments with platform capabilities, services and evolving user requirements.
TerraDT’s role
At the DestinE User eXchange, TerraDT contributes its expertise in high-resolution Earth system modelling and impact-oriented digital twin components. By engaging with users and other DestinE initiatives, the project helps ensure that its outputs are not only scientifically robust, but also usable, relevant, and impactful for real-world climate adaptation and resilience challenges.
Jenni Kontkanen
Jenni Kontkanen is the coordinator of the TerraDT project. She works at CSC as a Development Manager and her team’s supervisor. She leads CSC’s activities related to the digital twins and is involved in planning the utilization of the digital twins to support science and the society in the future. In addition, her daily work consists of administrative tasks as a supervisor and of ensuring the well-being at work and success of the members of her team.
Tero Aalto
After being the programme manager of the Nordic Cryosphere Digital Twin, Tero Aalto continues his work at CSC as Senior Coordinator focussing on Strategic European Engagement and Coordination. His current efforts focus on user and stakeholder engagement for Destination Earth, Climate DT and TerraDT.
Ana Oliveira
Ana Oliveira is an earth observation (EO) expert specializing in Machine Learning (ML)-based applications for climate change hazard mapping and impact assessment at CoLAB +ATLANTIC. She has a PhD degree from the MIT Portugal Program where she studied the interaction between air temperatures and the city, including the influence of regional wind flows, considering several coastal cities from southern Europe. In her PhD, she developed empirical models to estimate the atmospheric canopy layer and the land surface urban heat island (UHI) intensities in two Mediterranean cities, by using open science methods, EO and climate data. In TerraDT she contributes to the work being done on Urban Impact Models.