Building Resilient Cities – November 28th– Paris Plenary session 9:30-10:00 Welcome Coffee 10:00 -10:15 Welcome & Introductory remarks Jad Ariss (AXA Group Head of Public Affairs & Corporate Responsibility) Philippe Derieux (Head of P&C New Business Models, AXA Global P&C) 10:15 – 10:30 Keynote Speech – Cities & Sustainability: overview of the challenges Rob Kunzig (Senior Environment Editor, National Geographic Magazine) 10:30 – 10:45 Keynote Speech - Estimating Cities’ growth & their exposure to risk Deborah Balk (AXA Research Fund fellow, City University of New York) 10.45 – 11:00 Keynote Speech - Cities in the sustainable development agenda Esteban Leon (Chief Technical Advisor of the City Resilience Profiling Programme at UN-HABITAT) 11:00 -11:15 Keynote Speech – Durban business case: building a resilient city Jo Douwes (Deputy Chief Resilient Officer of Durban) 11:15-11:30 Coffee break 11.30 – 12. 15 Panel Discussion : Systemic Risk: what is at stake for cities ? Facilitator : Rob Kunzig (Senior Environment Editor, National Geographic Magazine) Panelists : Philippe Derieux (Head of P&C New Business Models, AXA Global P&C) Deborah Balk (AXA Research Fund fellow, City University of New York) Esteban Leon (Chief Technical Advisor of the City Resilience Profiling Programme at UN-HABITAT) Jo Douwes (Deputy Chief Resilient Officer of Durban) 12:15 – 12:30 Acknowledgement Remarks Raphaël Gusdorf (COO AXA Research Fund) 12:30 – 13:30 Networking Lunch Informal Networking 13:30 – 15:00 Open discussion 1 : Cities’ exposure to floods Academic leader : Cédric Rebolho AXA leader: Marco Brettschnider Open discussion 2 : Cities’ exposure to earthquakes Iunio Iervolino Fabio Petruzzelli Open discussion 3 : Combining demographics & resilience for cities Leaders : Deborah Balk Esteban Leon Jo Douwes Workshop : Private workshop AXA & Suez