Waterfront Conference 2024

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Waterfront Conference 2024

5:00pm EDT

Pre-Event Floating Reception Pier 81, Manhattan

8:00am EDT

Waterfront Alliance Corporate Council Breakfast Room TBAJessica Grannis General Attendee Breakfast Events Hall (2nd Floor) WEDG Breakfast: South Battery Park City Resiliency Room TBA Waterfront Scholars Breakfast Room TBA

9:00am EDT

Opening Plenary Safra Hall (1st Floor)Jessica Grannis • Nick Angarone • Sonia Brubaker • Dr. Stephen Hammer • Suzanna Randall • Cortney Koenig Worrall

10:30am EDT

Break / Visit the Expo Events Hall Foyer (2nd Floor)

11:00am EDT

Maintenance as a Key Climate Resilience Strategy and Ongoing Commitment Room TBAAdam Ganser • Maggie Scott Greenfield • Jaclyn Rhoads • Caleb Stratton Resilience Hubs – Preparing Communities in the Wake of Poor Infrastructure Room TBAK. Baja • Dr. Estelle-Marie Montgomery • Michael Partis Harbor Deepening and Green Infrastructure – The Marriage You May Not Know About Room TBARobert Acker • Pippa Brashear • Paul Tumminello Accountability and Systems Change: An Enforced Circular Economy for Plastics Room TBANandini Checko • Danielle Holly • Melissa Miles • Kara Napolitano • Ann Tracy Restoration and Mitigation—The Challenges of Jurisdiction, Locations, and Historic Contamination Room TBABrian Craine • Terry Doss • Heather Gierloff • Robert Pirani

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Events Hall (2nd Floor) Lunch Program: Using WEDG to Your Advantage—Advocates, Design Teams, AgenciesJoseph Sutkowi

1:00pm EDT

Heather M. Morgan Climate Risk Adaptation Lecture Safra Hall (1st Floor)Laurian Farrell

1:40pm EDT

Break / Visit the Expo Events Hall Foyer (2nd Floor)

2:00pm EDT

Measuring Climate Resilience – Models and Methods Room TBAKate Boicourt • Carrie Grassi • Holly Neber Breaking Barriers to Ensure Green and Blue Career Pathways Room TBAPreston Anderson • Andrea Bonilla • Taj Ahmad Eldridge • Bryan Gray The Land Connection — Offshore Wind and Converter Stations are Coming Room TBALiz Grisaru • Anjuli Ramos-Busot Cloudburst Solutions for Communities – What Works Where, How, and Why? Room TBAKaren Appell • Melissa Enoch • Trine Stausgaard Munk The Blue Highway Has Arrived Room TBANatasha Avanessians • Paul Lipson • Diniece Mendes, EIT • Jennifer Sun Stormwater Utilities as a Key Solution to Resilience Funding Room TBALee Clark • Tyler Taba • Shino Tanikawa

2:50pm EDT

Break Events Hall Foyer (2nd Floor)

3:05pm EDT

Ports and Offshore Wind – Designing for Resilience Room TBA Changing the Narrative – The Role of Coalitions to Uproot the Spread of Misinformation Room TBAAria Cochran • Frederick Johnson • Julie Tighe • Marc Weiss Environmental Gentrification: Green Infrastructure in Environmental Justice Communities Room TBAMichael Brady • Bernadette Callahan • Dr. Melissa Checker • Yadiel Rivera-Díaz The Truck Congestion Crisis and Ports: A Crisis with Interrelated Solutions Room TBAKim Gaddy • Zach Miller • Mike Stamatis • Leslie Vasquez Delivering Climate Resilience Infrastructure at a Faster Pace with Better Results Room TBACarly Foster • Alison Landry • Dennis Reinknecht • Alexis Taylor Insurance Innovation for Climate Change Room TBATallant Burley • Max Clarke • Jenna Kirkpatrick Howard • Kate Stillwell

4:00pm EDT

Closing Plenary Safra Hall (1st Floor)Doug Parsons • Dianne Dillon-Ridgley • Tim O'Brien • Joseph Sutkowi

5:00pm EDT

Reception Events Hall (2nd Floor)