Monday, May 3, 2021

Time	Event	Speaker
Opening Remarks
8:00am	The Climate Modeling Alliance Download PDF (2.8 MB)	Tapio Schneider (Caltech, NASA-JPL); Dan McCleese (Caltech); Raffaele Ferrari (MIT)
Risk Management
8:15am	Evolving the National Weather Service to Build a Weather Ready Nation Download PDF (1.1 MB)	Louis Uccellini (NOAA)
8:25am	Climate Risk Management in Catastrophe Modeling	Kelly Hereid (Liberty Mutual Insurance)
8:35am	The Missing Link between Climate Models and Catastrophe Models	Dag Lohmann (KatRisk LLC)
8:45am	Stakeholder-Relevant Climate Modeling for Regional Risk Assessment	Naomi Goldenson (UCLA)
8:55am	Information Needs for Iterative Climate Risk Management	Robert Lempert (RAND Corp)
9:05am	Recent Advances in ML-Based Hydrology and Flood Forecasting	Sella Nevo (Google)
Designing Resilience
9:25am	Data, Incentives, and Climate Resilience: A View from the Moonshot Factory	Sarah Russell (X, The Moonshot Factory)
9:35am	Lessons from COVID for Climate Resilience	Alice Hill (Council on Foreign Relations)
9:45am	Using Climate Models to Inform Resilient Project Designs: Insights from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico & Beyond	Francis Wiese and Rich Andrachek (Stantec)
9:55am	Where Does Climate Mitigation End and Adaptation Begin?	Steve Hamburg (Environmental Defense Fund)
10:05am	Unleashing Nature for Climate Resilient Communities	Sydney Chamberlin and Alyssa Mann (The Nature Conservancy)
10:15am	Break
10:25am	Breakout Sessions
11:30am	Plenary Discussion

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Time	Event	Speaker
Built Environment and Urban Planning
8:00am	Pathways Towards a Net Zero Building Stock in a Warming Climate	Christoph Reinhart (MIT)
8:10am	Planning for Urban Health and Resilience in an Era of Climate Change and Pandemic	Sean Quinn (HOK)
8:20am	10 Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Coastal Adaptation Projects	Matthijs Bouw (One Architecture)
8:30am	Design of Drainage Systems Impacted by Continuously Rising River/Ocean Levels	William Pisano (Woodwell Climate Research Center)
8:40am	TBA	Megan Ryerson (University of Pennsylvania)
Markets and Policies
8:50am	Operationalizing Physical Climate Risk in Policy and Investment Decisions: Challenges and Opportunities in Translating Science to Action	Nuin-Tara Key (CA Governor's Office of Research and Planning)
9:00am	Rising to the Resilience Challenge: Can We Get There from Here?	Felicia Marcus (Water Policy Group)
9:10am	Adapting to Climate Change within Programmatic Structures	Michael Anderson (California Department of Water Resources)
9:20am	Lessons Learned and Outstanding Challenges in Using Climate Science to Inform Societal Decisions	Philip Duffy (Woodwell Climate Research Center)
9:30am	Water Markets and Water Risk: Information Needs for a More Variable Future	Andrew Ayres (Public Policy Institute of California)
9:40am	Break
9:50am	Breakout Sessions
11:30am	Plenary Discussions

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Time	Event	Speaker
Decision Support Tools
8:00am	Using Climate Information to Adapt to Agriculture in the Sahel	Ousmane Ndiaye (National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Senegal)
8:10am	Cal-Adapt: Linking Climate Science with Practitioner Need	Nancy Thomas (UC Berkeley)
8:20am	Atmospheric Rivers and the Development of Situational Awareness Tools to Support Decision Making Related to Weather and Water Extreme	Marty Ralph (UCSD)
8:30am	Governing Increased Heat Exposure through Better Policies and Data	JR DeShazo
8:40am	Usable Sea-Level Rise Projections	Robert Kopp (Rutgers University)
8:50am	Progress and Plans for the Planetary Computer	Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño (Microsoft)
9:00am	Crossing the Last Mile in Decision-Support Research: Visualizing Robust Adaptation for Policymakers	Mark Alan Hughes (University of Pennsylvania)
9:10am	Break
9:20am	Breakout Sessions
11:20am	Plenary Discussion
Closing Remarks
11:50am	The Creation of an Actionable Climate Model, a Work in Progress…	Charlie Trimble (Caltech Board of Trustees)