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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, PANYNY
- 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, Hear of US Federal Affairs, C40 Cities
- Timon McPhearson, Director, Urban Systems Lab & Professor of Urban Ecology, The New School
Closing Remarks & Nature Based Tool
- Maulin Mehta, New York Director, RPA
- Robert Spencer, Global Lead, ESG Advisory, AECOM
