Event Agenda and Recordings

Day 1

Palm Beach County State of Resilience (Watch video)
Sara Baxter, Mayor, Palm Beach County 

State of South Florida Resilient Housing & Development (Watch video)
Ashon Nesbitt, Chief Executive Officer, Florida Housing Coalition 

What Does the Data Say? South Florida Climate Indicators (Watch video)
Dr. Jayantha Obeysekera, Director & Research Professor, Sea Level Solutions Center, Florida International University 

Creating Resilient Futures: Compact CROs in Dialogue (Watch video)
Panelist: Rhonda Haag, Chief Resilience Officer, Monroe County
Panelist: Loren Parra, Chief Resilience Officer, Miami-Dade County
Panelist: Dr. Jennifer Jurado, Chief Resilience Officer, Broward County
Panelist: Megan Houston, Director, Division of Built Environment Risk Reduction, Palm Beach County
Moderator: Lauren Evans, Local Consultant, Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact 

Innovation Showcase: Roots of Resilience – Local Government in Action (Watch video)
Presenter: Jennifer Baez, Environmental Program Supervisor, Palm Beach County ERM
Presenter: Stephanie Roche, Beach Manager, Broward County
Presenter: Jennifer Cheek, Resilience Coordinator, Miami-Dade County
Presenter: Amy Knowles, Chief Resilience Officer, Miami Beach
Moderator: Jodie Gless Eldridge, Director of Environmental Service, FPL

Integrated Solutions: Housing and Climate Resilience in Action (Watch video)
Panelist: Dr. Robin Bachin, Project Director, Miami Housing Solutions Lab
Panelist: Julie Klump, Vice President, Design and Building Performance, Preservation of Affordable Housing
Panelist: Sam Chesser, South Florida Vice President, Self-Help
Moderator: Jaime Lee Bradshaw, Chief Strategy Officer, Community Partners of South Florida

Routes to Resilience: Sustainable Transportation Designs and Systems (Watch video)
Panelist: Dr. Kim DeLaney, Director of Strategic Development & Policy, Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council
Panelist: Cathy Dos Santos, Executive Director, Miami Transit Alliance
Panelist: Coree Cuff Lonergan, CEO & General Manager, Broward County Transit
Moderator: Claudia Bilotto, Southeast Region Executive Senior Vice President, WSP

Keynote: We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate (Watch video)
Michael Grunwald, Author, Journalist, Podcaster, Speaker

Greetings from West Palm Beach Mayor (Watch video)
Keith A. James, Mayor, West Palm Beach

Day 2

Miami-Dade County State of Resilience (Watch video)
Dr. Danielle Levine Cava, Mayor, Miami-Dade County

Keynote: State of the Ocean (Watch video)
Dr. Steven Vollmer, Director, FAU School of Environment, Coastal, and Ocean Sustainability

Operationalizing Climate Resilience Across South Florida’s Counties (Watch video)
Panelist: Joseph Abruzzo, County Administrator, Palm Beach County
Panelist: Monica Cepero, County Administrator, Broward County
Panelist: Jimmy Morales, Chief Operations Officer, Miami-Dade County
Panelist: Rhonda Haag, Chief Resilience Officer, Monroe County
Moderator: Dr. Steven Vollmer, Director, FAU School of Environment, Coastal, and Ocean Sustainability

Innovation Showcase: Roots of Resilience – Non-Profit and Technology (Watch video)
Presenter: Anya Freeman, Founder & CEO, Kind Designs
Presenter: Yoca Arditi-Rocha, Executive Director, CLEO Institute
Presenter: Jessica Bruso, Green Stormwater Infrastructure Specialist, Ferguson Waterworks
Presenter: Dr. Meenakshi Chabba, Ecosystem and Resilience Scientist, The Everglades Foundation
Presenter: Karen Jernigan, Director, U.S. Market Transformation & Development, U.S. Green Building Council
Moderator: Thais Lopez Vogel, Esq., Co-Founder & Trustee, VoLo Foundation

Disaster Recovery and Management (Watch video)
Panelist: Bryan Koon, President & CEO, IEM International, Inc.
Panelist: CJ Reynolds, Director, Resilience and Recovery, Florida Housing Coalition
Panelist: Robert Garcia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service – Miami-South Florida
Moderator: Mary Blakeney, Director, Palm Beach County Division of Emergency Management, Public Safety Department

Broward County State of Resilience (Watch video)
Beam Furr, Mayor, Broward County

Keynote: Salty Urbanism: A Design Framework for Climate Adaptation and Sea Level Rise for Urban Areas in the Coastal Zone (Watch video) Jeffrey Huber, Professor & Author, FAU School of Architecture

Virtual Worlds, Real Solutions: The Power of Resiliency Tech (Watch video)
Panelist: Ashantae Green, Sustainability Manager, City of Jacksonville
Panelist: Dr. Serena Hoermann, Associate Director, FAU Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions
Panelist: Daniel Kleinman, Founder & CEO, Seaworthy Collective
Moderator: Gregg Weiss, County Commissioner, Palm Beach County – District 2