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Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, United States May 12-14, 2025

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Thu May 15 8:30 AM — 9:30 AM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Resilience Summit Opening Session: Preventing the Next Palisades Disaster – Learning from Colorado Wildfires

2024 saw 27-billion-dollar disasters, costing over $180 billon dollars, and 2025 is already on track to exceed these numbers. Reflecting on recent events that have shaped our collective approach and urgency, the opening session will explore resilience and recovery from Colorado and beyond. Local and national experts will share lessons learned from major fires in recent years that have shaped the state’s approach to protecting communities and property from the rising threat of intensifying fires in urban and developed areas. Speakers will include experts in intergovernmental coordination, local disaster response and recovery, wildfire protection strategies, and fire-smart building and development.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 9:45 AM — 10:45 AM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Out of Harm’s Way: Practical Strategies for Managed Retreat

Communities nationwide are facing increasing flood risks, and traditional methods are proving inadequate against these challenges. The real estate and land use industry and local governments need to start exploring alternative adaptation strategies. Managed retreat is a proactive approach that involves forward-looking social, economic, policy, and land use planning. Join this session to learn practical ways to facilitate managed retreat through communication, policy, acquisition, and market-based tools, drawing on case studies and lessons learned from New York, the Gulf Coast, California, and Washington.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 9:45 AM — 10:45 AM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Insurance for Affordable Housing: How Resilient Construction can Improve Insurability and Preserve Housing Supply

Multifamily investors and developers are increasingly requiring, incentivizing, and building with climate resilient construction methods. These investments strengthen multifamily properties, making them better able to survive severe weather, and also help developers and owners secure affordable property insurance, which can keep rental costs down. Learn more about building resilient properties, current incentives and requirements issued by government funders, and the benefits and results experienced by a diverse set of multifamily housing developers and investors from areas of the country hardest hit by natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires.
 
Moderator/Organizer
Lindsay Brugger
 
Speakers
Molly McCabe, CEO and Founder, HaydenTanner
Anne Miller, Director, Colorado Resiliency Office
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions.
Thu May 15 9:45 AM — 10:45 AM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Resilience in Denver: Water, Equity, and Funding Strategies in the Mile-High City

Organizations across Denver are hard at work developing resilience strategies to deal with climate risks around water, heat, and more, as well as addressing legacies of environmental injustice. The South Platte River is planned to undergo a major transformation, funded by the Army Corps of Engineers; the city has a nationally innovative sales tax funding climate initiatives and expanding park space; and community organizations are building sociocultural and environmental resilience in Indigenous and Chicano/a/x communities, and developing international agreements on healing rivers. This session will showcase several major resilience initiatives happening across sectors in Denver and share strategies that can be replicated elsewhere. 
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 11:15 AM — 12:30 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Climate Risk Management: Three Approaches to Reducing Asset and Portfolio Climate Risk

Evaluating physical climate risks and scaling up resilience measures across a portfolio is a daunting task due to the complexity of climate impacts, diversity of asset types and designs, varying geographic exposures, and difficulties in determining the return on investment. However, factoring physical climate risk data and resilience measures into asset management plans and capital expenditure cycles is critical to protecting assets at scale, and multiple approaches have been developed to make this information an actionable part of operations. This session will explore several strategies developed for real estate developers, owners, and investment trusts that can be implemented across large, diverse portfolios, and include perspectives from risk assessment experts and real estate firms that have implemented these approaches.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 11:15 AM — 12:30 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Where Science Meets Design: Using Climate Projections in Portfolio and Land Use Planning

Current planning for real estate portfolios, governments, and campuses is informed by outdated, backward-looking weather data. A new process is emerging that brings the climate science, design and real estate communities together to use future-facing climate projections, providing sufficient detail to analyze the potential impacts of climate change on buildings, infrastructure, and communities. Using these projections can better meet the intended goals of building owners and stakeholders- including financial, decarbonization, and well-being-over the lifespan of each development. Join this session to explore how a collaborative team is developing and integrating higher quality climate data into planning processes for both private and public sector portfolios to thrive well into the future.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Resilience Summit Networking Lunch

Join your fellow Resilience Summit attendees for lunch, networking, and informal discussion.
 
Separate ticket required. This event is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this event and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 1:30 PM — 2:15 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Resilient by Regulation: How Texas’s New Rules are Preparing Mixed-Use Campuses for Bigger Storms

As volatile rain and storm events increase, cities and counties across the US are rethinking how to develop projects that are flood-resilient while maximizing economic value. Even in Texas, a state known for development-friendly regulations, new projects face increasing stormwater detention requirements to help the broader community remain resilient. Join this panel to dive deep into two example projects in the Gulf Coast area of Texas that demonstrate how developers can use these regulations and solutions to their advantage, protecting assets and occupants while adding value. Successful outcomes, transferable strategies, and community impacts will be highlighted.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 1:30 PM — 2:15 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

From Crisis to Opportunity: Affordable Housing as a Climate Solution in US and Canada, Through Better P3s

What if the homes we build today could do more than provide shelter? What if they could reduce emissions, promote health and wellness, foster social cohesion, and strengthen the fabric of our communities? As we face the rising cost of housing and the harsh realities of a changing climate, the conversation around housing has shifted. Drawing on real-life examples from across Canada and the U.S., this session brings together leaders in rethinking housing to share stories of communities already taking bold action, where innovative designs, low carbon building materials, renewable energy, smart construction and community co-benefits are creating homes that are sustainable, resilient, and affordable. We'll look at how affordable housing requires collaboration and scalable, repeatable solutions for success at the pace we need, and how public-private partnerships are accelerating action.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 1:30 PM — 2:15 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Financing Resilience at the State and Local Level: Innovations from Massachusetts and Boston

Massachusetts is at the forefront of climate resilience planning, finance, and implementation. Leaders in state and local resilience, environmental, and emergency management departments will share new and emerging actions in Boston and Massachusetts related to the development and implementation of a statewide financing investment strategy for climate resiliency. Join this session to hear case studies and best practice examples of how Boston is promoting climate resilient development through public-private partnerships, and new state action to define coastal resilience districts, elevate extreme heat preparedness, and fund resilient disaster recovery.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 2:30 PM — 3:15 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Climate Change in the Bay and Beyond: How Coastal Resilience Policies are Reshaping Infrastructure and Planning in Two California Cities

This session will look at two climate adaptation efforts in the Bay Area that use a risk-informed approach to craft resilience and adaptation solutions to meet an increasingly imminent need among coastal jurisdictions at the city and county level. At the same time, emerging policies, like California Senate Bill 272, which requires all coastal cities to develop a Shoreline Adaptation Plan, are elevating and advancing the resilience conversation by providing detailed guidance and new funding opportunities for local governments to perform adaptation planning. The session will detail new technology, methods, and science that local governments are deploying to assess risk and to right-size resilience strategies for public infrastructure, providing a roadmap for other jurisdictions to follow.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 2:30 PM — 3:15 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Co-benefits For Cash: Lessons in Designing and Funding Resilient Buildings from the Canadian Health System

Major opportunities exist for large portfolio owners to save on long-term costs by investing proactively in climate resilience. In this session, a panel of climate risk and resilience professionals will illustrate this point through a case study on how health authorities in British Columbia have made progress in designing critical facilities for future climate conditions. Through championship at the highest level, the health authorities have developed climate resilience guidelines and a set of tools to support project owners in implementing them. The result has been a streamlined and cost-effective approach to designing resilient healthcare facilities and accessing capital for resilience strategies by emphasizing the multiple benefits they provide in achieving other organizational goals. Panelists will discuss how a similar approach can be applied in the US context and benefit other large portfolio owners beyond the healthcare sector.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions
Thu May 15 3:30 PM — 4:00 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Resilience Summit Closing Keynote: The Cost of Change and a Path Forward

We are halfway through the so-called “Decade of Action” on climate. Climate risks are rising, as are the costs of damage and adaptation; though pressing challenges remain, real estate is responding, as are governments and the community sector. The question remains – as our window of adaptation narrows, who will pay, and how? The Resilience Summit closing keynote address will examine the future of adaptation finance, investment, and funding in a changed landscape.
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions