Thank you for attending Future Proofing New York: Planning for the New Normal.
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Welcome & Keynote
Welcome: Tom Prendergast, EVP and New York Metro Chief Executive, AECOM
Keynote: Meera Joshi, Deputy Mayor for Operations for New York City
Panel 1: How to Design and Build for Constant Change
Robert Freudenberg, Moderator, Vice President, Energy & Environment, RPA
Pippa Brashear, Resilience Principal & Partner, SCAPE Landscape Architecture
Gwen Dawson, Senior Vice President of Design & Construction, BPCA
Joshua DeFlorio, Chief of Resilience & Sustainability, PANYNJ
Benjamin Shepherd, Benchmarking Practice Director, Atelier Ten
Panel 2: From Vision to Action
Karen Appell, Moderator, Vice President & Climate Change Lead, New York Metro, AECOM
Laurian Farell, Deputy Commissioner for Coastal Resilience, NYC DEP
Douglas McPherson, Manager, ReAL Edgemere Community Land Trust
Cecil Scheib, Chief Sustainability Officer, New York University
Joy Sinderbrand, Senior Vice President for Capital Programs, NYCHA
Panel 3: The Challenges We Haven’t Met (Yet)
Grace Rauh, Moderator, Executive Director, 5BORO Institute
Victoria Cerullo, Director of Urban Engagement, The New York Climate Exchange
Anna Dyson, Director, Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture
Kate Johnson, Head of US Federal Affairs, C40 Cities
Timon McPhearson, Director, Urban Systems Lab & Professor of Urban Ecology, The New School
Closing Remarks
Maulin Mehta, New York Director, RPA
