Lightning talks presented by researchers from around the country that highlights the challenges they experienced with stakeholder engagement in FEWS projects and lessons learned from engagement. This presentation highlights important lessons and challenges related to the researchers specific FEWs project including seeing a strong interest in opportunities to learn from integrated models, developing scenarios that address stakeholder interests and can be investigated with existing suite of models, linking scales of interest and the C-FEWS integrated modeling system, and reducing complexity of models and outputs