Resilience 365 Conference 2026

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General Registration: $150 per person. This includes breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks for both days.

Students & UM Affiliates: Attend for free! Please email us at resilience@miami.edu to receive your 100% discount code.
  
We are hosting our second annual two-day Resilience 365 Conference on March 17-18, 2026 during Miami Climate Week to bring together thought leadersresearchers, and practitioners to catalyze action related to three primary themes:

Cards

Built & Natural Infrastructure

  • Materials innovations for climate-smart design
  • Nature-based solutions & hybrid coastal protections
  • Improving access to resilient housing

Resilience Finance

  • Leading-edge public financing
  • Innovative structures to capture the resilience dividend
  • Policy levers & data gap analysis to drive systems change

Climate & Health

  • Health impacts of heat & air quality
  • Community-based solutions
  • Disaster response & implications for building resilience

Agenda

Day 1: March 17, 2026

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Day 2: March 18, 2026

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Speakers (Partial List)

AaronDemayo

Aaron DeMayo

Future Vision Studios

Architectural Designer and Urban Planner
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Aida Curtis

Curtis + Rogers Design Studio, Inc.

Principal and Founder

Alec Bogdanoff

Brizaga

Co-Founder & Principal

Alexander Meeks

Milken Institute

Director

Amanda Mullan

National Academy of Public Administration

Director of Strategic Initiatives
Amy Clement

Amy Clement

University of Miami

Professor
Amy Knowles

Amy Knowles

City of Miami Beach

Cheif Resilience Officer
Andrew Baker

Andrew Baker

University of Miami

Professor 

Andrew MacCalla

Collective Energy Company, LLC

Co-Founder and CEO
Andrew Salkin

Andrew Salkin

Resilient Cities Catalyst

Founding Principal

Annie Lord

Miami Homes for All

Executive Director 

Anthony Townsend

Cornell Tech Urban Tech Hub

Senior Research Associate

Anjali Saxena

UM Miller School of Medicine

Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives and Programs
Arnab Ghosh

Arnab Ghosh

Weill Cornell Medicine

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Brian Strong

City and County of San Francisco

Chief Resilience Officer and Director

Brett Bibeau

Miami River Commission

Managing Director

Carlos Martín

Resources for the Future

Vice President for Research and Policy
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CJ Reynolds

Florida Housing Coalition

Director of Resilience & Recovery

Daniella Levine Cava

Miami-Dade County

Mayor

Duneia McManus

University of Miami

Post Doctoral Associate 

edgar westerhof

Edgar Westerhof

Arcadis

Vice President - US Director for Climate Adaptation

Eileen Higgins

City of Miami

Mayor 

Emily Becker

UM Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)

Deputy Director
Elizabeth Greig

Elizabeth Greig

University of Miami, Global Institute

Co-Director
Enrique Villamor

Enrique Villamor

Florida International University

Professor & Director 
Esber Andiroglu

Esber Andiroglu

University of Miami

Professor of Practice, Director of Murphy Construction Program, Coordinator for Engineering & Technology Education Outreach Program 

Eulois Cleckley

Friends of the Underline

CEO
Francesca de Quesada Covey

Francesca de Quesada Covey

Knight Foundation

VP of Community Impact
Frances Colon

Frances Colón

Center for American Progress

Climate, Environment, and Science Policy and Advocacy Expert

Gianna Van Winkle

Florida Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.

Emergency Manager & Community Health Advocate

Illya Azaroff

The American Institute of Architects

President
Jainey Bavishi

Jainey Bavishi

University of Miami Climate Resilience Institute

Senior Resilience Fellow

James Carras

Harvard Kennedy School

Lecturer 

James Murley

Miami-Dade County

former Chief Resilience Officer
Jane Gilbert

Jane Gilbert

Climate Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council

Chief Heat Ambassador

Jennifer Jurado

Broward County

Chief Resilience Officer/Deputy Dept. Director
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Jennifer Mandeville

Washington University, St. Louis.

Senior Network Manager
Jen Posner

Jen Posner

University of Miami Climate Resilience Institute

Director
Joanna Lombard

Joanna Lombard

University of Miami

ACSA Distinguished Professor

Joel Samuels

University of Miami

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

Josh Sorin

Centre Public Impact

Global Director, Climate Action

Judith Rodin

University of Pennsylvania

President Emerita
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Katharine Mach

University of Miami

Professor & Chair, Environmental Science and Policy
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Kathie Dello

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

Assistant Secretary

Katherine Dafforn

University of Massachusetts

Director of Stone Living Lab, Distinguished Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston, Co-founder of Living Seawalls

Kilan Ashad-Bishop

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Assistant Professor

Laura Foote

YIMBY Action

Founder
Lauren Alexander Augustine

Lauren Alexander Augustine

Gulf Research Program

Executive Director

Laurie Schoeman

Partners for the Common Good

Chief Investment and Impact Officer
Loren Parra

Loren Parra

Miami-Dade County

DERM Director & Chief Resilience Officer
marcelo suarez orozco

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Chancellor
marybeth arcodia

Marybeth Arcodia

University of Miami Rosenstiel/IDSC

Assistant Professor

Matthijs Bouw

One Architecture

Architect & Urbanist
Mike Beck

Michael Beck

Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, UC Santa Cruz

Director
michael berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz

University of Miami Climate Resilience Institute

Executive Director

Nimay Mahajan

University of Miami

Meteorology & Mathematics Student

Nkosi Muse

Harvard University

Environmental Fellow

Paula Pagniez

Howden Group Holdings

Executive Director

Paul Nelson

Resilient Cities Catalyst

Founding Principal
Prannoy Suraneni

Prannoy Suraneni

University of Miami

Associate Professor

Prithi Trivedi

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Special Initiatives Director

Will Downs

University of Miami

Ph.D. Student 

Raonel Rodriguez

Miami-Dade County

Project Manager

Roland Samimy

Village of Key Biscayne

Chief Resilience Officer

Sadek Wahba

I Squared Capital

Chairman & Managing Partner

Shaun Donovan

Enterprise Community Partners

CEO
sonia chao

Sonia Chao

University of Miami

Associate Dean of Research & CoRe Lab Director

Stephen Hammer

Global Climate Policy & Finance

Founding CEO
Steve Davis

Stephen Davis

The Everglades Foundation

Chief Science Officer

Stuart Yasgur

Economic Architecture

President

Susanne Torriente

Jacobs

Global Principal for City Resilience
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Theresia Phoa

University of Miami

Graduate Research Assistant

Tiffany Troxler

Florida International University

Associate Professor & Director of Science

Tucker Van Aken

Systemiq

Senior Director
Tom Klein updated

Tom Klein

University of Miami Center for Urban and Community Design

Director

Victoria Salinas

Duke University

Climate Leader in Residence

Whit Remer

Arcadis

Resilience Lead
Yoca Arditi-Rocha

Yoca Arditi-Rocha

The CLEO Institute

CEO

Logistics

The conference will take place from March 17-18 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (both days) at the Lakeside Village Expo Center, in addition to a few surrounding buildings. 

Address below:

University of Miami Lakeside Village Expo Center

1280 Stanford Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146

Full size map here.

Public Transit

  • Metrorail: The University Metrorail station stops directly at the University of Miami. More information on times and fares at the Miami-Dade County Metrorail website.
  • Metro-Bus: The routes connecting you to campus are Route 48Route 56Route 57, and Route 500. Find the most convenient route at the Miami-Dade County Metro-Bus Schedules
  • Tri-Rail: You can connect to the University of Miami from Tri-Rail at the Metrorail Transfer station. From there, you can take the Metrorail Green Line to the University Metrorail station or the Civic Center Metrorail station. More information on times and fares at the Tri-Rail website.

Ridesharing Services

Uber and Lyft are available. Please note, you will need access to the internet on your cellphone and will need to register accounts with these companies in order to request a driver. Set the destination to Lakeside Village Expo Center.

Biking/Walking

If you are close enough to the University, we encourage you to walk or bike! The Underline path is a biking and walking path that runs parallel to US 1 for several miles under the Miami Metrorail from Brickell to Coral Gables. There are also sidewalks and bike lanes around the main roads leading to the University in addition to bike racks at multiple locations on campus.

Metered parking is available at the Pavia Garage (pink garage) adjacent to the Lakeside Expo Center. Please note, the lot is metered via Pay-by-Phone.

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