DATE: Wednesday, April 15
LOCATION: The Conrad Hotel, Washington, DC
PROGRAMMING: 1:30 - 4:00 PM
The world is entering an age of overlapping shocks, where climate volatility, geopolitical fragmentation, technological disruption, and public-health threats increasingly converge. Building resilience is no longer about restoring the status quo — it requires redesigning the systems that underpin global stability, from power grids and ports to digital networks and financial safety nets.
Governments and companies are rethinking risk, investing in redundancy, and exploring new models for protecting infrastructure that is both aging and indispensable. As insurance markets strain and supply chains grow more complex, innovative tools such as catastrophe bonds, adaptive logistics, and resilience-focused industrial policy are gaining prominence.
Societies must also cultivate institutional trust and community capacity to respond quickly when crises strike. The question now is how to construct systems capable not only of absorbing disruption but of emerging stronger from it — a new blueprint for resilience in a more turbulent century
