1. 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 –
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