Theme:   Covid-19: International Response, Adaptation & Recovery

Covid: International Response, Adaptation,

& Recovery: Digging into the Data

Join us to kick off ResCon 2021 with a look back at COVID pandemic lessons learned and how local and international leadership fared in the public eye. Learn findings gathered over the course of the pandemic from The University of Manchester and Pew Research, along with an introduction of a proposed international framework for resilience, recovery, and renewal post pandemic. Designed with buy-in from on the ground resilience and risk management professionals, this framework details how to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on communities, and address these by planning transactional recovery activities and transformational renewal initiatives. This timely and insightful discussion will be followed by a Q & A with opportunities for audience participation and digging into findings, analysis and the resilience framework.

• Global Attitudes Team, Pew Research
• The University of Manchester, UK
  

Covid-19: What’s Next?

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Theme:  Vulnerable & Underserved Populations

ResCon CRO Panel

Chief resilience officers are at the forefront of risk assessment, response, and recovery – playing a strategic role in addressing challenges and stressors. Now, faced with unprecedented circumstances, CRO’s are often tasked with playing a transformative role well beyond the reaches of past programs. Join us for ResCon’s annual CRO panel featuring an interactive discussion with Benjamin I. Duncan II, CRO, South Carolina, and Charles Sutcliffe, CRO, Louisiana, on climate change resilience with a focus on serving vulnerable populations, strategy and policy formation, and a continued vision for the future.

• Ben Duncan, South Carolina
• Charles Sutcliffe, Louisiana
• Moderator: Carl Amritt, NGA

BRIC & Beyond: A Fireside Chat

This session will include an overview of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program to include information on the FY20 BRIC selections and the FY21 BRIC Notice of Funding Opportunity and application period.  Discussion will also look at the priorities of the BRIC program including climate and equity.  There will also be time for a question and answer session.

• H. Camille Crain, BRIC Section Chief, FEMA
• Moderator: Michelle Woods, NGA

Theme:  Climate Change Resilience

Climate Change Resilience

• Governor John Bel Edwards (D-LA)
• Moderator: Bill McBride, Executive Director, NGA

CRO’s, Climate Change, and Collaboration

An increasing number of states across the country – through executive action or legislation – are creating Chief Resilience Officer (CRO) positions as a singular point of contact for planning and collaborating across government and outside of government. One of the main tools available for states to remain resilient with ever-growing threats of climate change is using their state Resilience office effectively. The first part of this session will lay out a governance roadmap with recommendations for governors and legislators who are interested in adding a CRO position. The second half will allow attendees to explore how to avail themselves of CROs and how collaboration can be a key tool in achieving resilience.

• The Environmental Defense Fund
• ECOS

Theme:  Cybersecurity & Infrastructure

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure

As occurrences of data breaches and ransom ware attacks increase, it has never been more important to discuss the imperative need for building cybersecurity and critical infrastructure resilience in in today’s hybrid threat environment. Join the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Deputy Director Nitin Nataranjan to explore Cyber attack prevention, risk management, infrastructure protection, and supply chain security among other current priorities. This session will be divided into 3 parts consisting of a discussion of the pillar’s of CISA’s structural work, a fireside chat with NGA Policy Analyst for Homeland Security and Public Safety John Guerriero, followed by an audience participatory Q & A.

• Nitin Natarajan, Deputy Director, CISA
• Moderator: John Guerriero, Policy Analyst for Homeland Security and Public Safety, NGA

Infrastructure

• Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)