2014 Annual Meeting // News // Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative // University of Notre Dame

Highlights from the Annual Meeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kTc0AbGPQ

ND-GAIN's Annual Meeting was the premier gathering of domestic and international adaptation leaders. The event was held at the non-partisan Wilson Center, and attended by thought leaders from the private, public and non-profit sectors. ND-GAIN released its latest advancements and acknowledge the ND-GAIN Corporate Adaptation Prize winners.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Registration & Breakfast

9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Opening Remarks: Welcome

Joyce Cofee, Managing Director, ND Global Adaptation Initiative
Blair Ruble, Vice President of Programs, Wilson Center; Director, Urban Sustainability Laboratory; and Senior Advisor, Kennan Institute

9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Opening Plenary: Global Business Adaptation Excellence

Moderator: Sam Miller, Director, Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Rob Baker, Chief Operating Officer, Ushahidi
Jennifer Crozier, Vice President, IBM Global Citizenship Initiatives
Murray Starkel, Managing Director, Ecosystem Investment Partners
Jeffery Williams, Senior Manager, Climate Consulting Entergy Corporation

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Press Event: ND-GAIN 2014 Release

Joyce Coffee, Managing Director, ND Global Adaptation Initiative
Jessica Hellmann, Climate Change Adaptation Lead, Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative, ND-GAIN Research Director
Nitesh Chawla, Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA), University of Notre Dame, ND-GAIN Index Director

12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch: Acknowledge Corporate Adaptation Prize Winners

Novartis International AG, for creating Social Ventures and for its Healthy Family initiative
Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), for its projects in three urban coastal areas with economic importance for fisheries and tourism and affected by coastal erosion

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Panel Session: Business Continuity: Preparing to Avoid Disaster

Moderator: Juan Jose Daboub, Former Managing Director of the World Bank and Founding CEO of GAIN. Chairman and CEO of The Daboub Partnership.
Emilie Mazzacurati, Founder and CEO, Four Twenty Seven
Gary Lawrence, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, AECOM Technology Corporation
Nancy Gillis, Senior Manager, Sustainable Supply Chain, Procurement and Supplier Management, EY
Steven Rone Wilson, Multilateral Investment Fund, Inter-American Development Bank

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Panel Session: Climate-Driven Migration: Averting Humanitarian Crisis

Moderator: Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
BGen Stephen A. Cheney USMC(Ret), Chief Executive Officer, The American Security Project
Roger-Mark De Souza, Director of Population, Environmental Security and Resilience, Wilson Center
Steve Bowen, Associate Director and Meteorologist, Aon Benfield
Jefferson Shriver, Senior Technical Advisor for Market Linkage and Value Chain Development, Catholic Relief Services
Kit Batten, Global Climate Change Coordinator, USAID

4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Panel Session: Measuring Adaption: Risk and Opportunity to Inform Development Decision Making

Moderator: Jennifer Haverkamp, Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development
Tom Downing, Chief Executive Officer, Global Climate Adaptation Partnership
Anand Patwardan, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Loren Labovitch, Director, Emerging Market Growth and Partnerships, MWH Global
Conor Riffle, Director, Cities and Data Product Innovation, CDP

5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Reception: Keynote Address

Anne Thompson, Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent, NBC News