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Introduction remarks and moderated discussion led by:

• is the managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP. He helps lead an effort to provide best-in-class energy and infrastructure support to clients across the firm. He has broad experience in both public- and private-sector infrastructure development, resilience, and risk management. His expertise includes energy security and continuity planning and disaster risk reduction and recovery for communities and the private sector.

Speakers:

• , is a faculty member at MIT with appointments in Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering. She leads the Digital Structures research group, directs the Building Technology program, and serves as Associate Director of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium. Her research focuses on building structures through computational design and materials innovation.
• , serves as Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where his work includes leading cross-departmental wildfire resilience efforts, including the city's Wildfire Resilience Assistance Program and Community Wildfire Protection Plan implementation.
• Abbie Liel, is a Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at ��ñ����. Her research interests include seismic collapse performance prediction of structures, building code provisions for extreme loads such as earthquakes or snow, and life safety risks and economic losses associated with extreme loading. Her work has directly informed building code provisions.
• , is Director of Building Codes Administration for the state of Maryland. He is a professional engineer who works on making communities and infrastructure resilient to natural disasters. His work spans the development of guidelines, codes, standards, policies, and applied research programs in building science. He previously worked at the National Institute of Building Sciences, beginning as a project manager supporting the Building Seismic Safety Council and the Multihazard Mitigation Council, and later as a senior executive leading organization-wide initiatives.