The Seventh Global Summit sponsored by the Colorado State University is held at the Lory Student Cener, CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado USA from 21 to 23 July 2025.

At the Opening Ceremony, Prof. John van de Lindt, Host and Co-Director, Colorado State University greeted all participants. This was followed by Prof. Marion Underwood, Provost and Executive Vice-President, Colorado State University; Prof. Tomoharu Hori, Director, Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University; Prof. Paul Kovacs, Chair of the Board of Directors of GADRI; Prof. Hirokazu Tatano, Secretary-General of GADRI; and Dr. Genta Nakano, Associate Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University. A video message of greetings was received from Mr. Kamal Kishore, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).

After group photograph, the first plenary session on Convergence approaches in research and implementation was held. This session was featured by Prof. Therese McAllister, Deputy Chief, Materials and Structural Systems Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA who discussed about "Advancing Community and Regional Resilience: Addressing Infrastructure Impacts on Societal Recovery and Stability; Prof. John van de Lindt discussed about the Facets of Community Resilience Modeling: What Gaps Remain?; and Mr. Kit Miyamoto or Miyamoto International, USA covered the Global Earthquake Disaster Assessments and Reconstruction.

Soon after that, the group moved on the Panel Discussion Session I on Progress and challenges for the final years of implementation of the Sendai Framework in several or more countries. There were four group discussion sessions covering the four Priority Areas of the Sendai Framework Agenda.

After the poster and seeds and needs networking with institutions; and the oral presentations on advancing disaster risk reduction and resilience, the day was concluded with an enjoyable Opening Reception.