Rebuilding with Resilience Summit: Lessons into Action
Turning Lessons into Action: Building the Future of Resilient Recovery
In June 2025, the first Rebuilding with Resilience Summit convening brought together an unprecedented mix of fire survivors, community leaders, philanthropy, insurers, builders, capital providers, and government leaders to explore what resilient rebuilding could look like in practice.
Over the past year, that work has evolved from ideas into action. Across Los Angeles, partners are testing new approaches to rebuilding that reduce wildfire risk, improve insurability, and make resilience more financially viable for communities recovering from disaster.
Building practices are shifting towards fire resilience as a baseline. Insurance conversations are evolving to better recognize the value of resilient homes and communities. New financing approaches are helping close gaps that have historically made resilient rebuilding inaccessible for many families.
At the same time, significant barriers remain. Challenges across insurance, permitting, financing, policy, and construction continue to slow progress and limit the ability to rebuild at the scale needed.
That is why this year’s convening theme is Lessons into Action.
The focus of the 2026 gathering is not just on sharing ideas, but on advancing implementation, strengthening partnerships, and aligning around the practical next steps and commitments needed to accelerate resilient rebuilding across Los Angeles and beyond.
This year’s Rebuilding with Resilience Summit is designed as a working session focused on one central question:
How does rebuilding with resilience become the norm?
Rather than simply discussing challenges, this convening will bring together the people actively shaping the rebuild to identify solutions, strengthen collaboration, and align around the practical steps needed to accelerate resilient recovery across Los Angeles and beyond.
A Working Convening for Action
The Rebuilding with Resilience Summit will bring together builders, community leaders, advocates, local governments, financing partners, insurers, and resilience practitioners for a day focused on collaboration, strategy, and implementation.
Participants will engage in facilitated working sessions designed to:
Inspire: Share lessons learned, emerging pilots, momentum, and the barriers still limiting progress.
Collaborate: Facilitated breakouts and cross-sector working sessions focused on solving practical challenges tied to rebuilding, insurance, financing, and implementation.
Commit: Align around actionable next steps, partnerships, and pathways to continue advancing resilient rebuilding.
Focus Areas
The day will focus on how different stakeholders can help make resilient rebuilding more accessible, scalable, and community-informed, including:
How builders, contractors, architects, and implementation partners can integrate resilience into rebuilding practices
How community organizations, neighborhood leaders, HOAs, survivor networks, and local governments can strengthen community-driven recovery
How financing partners and investors can support resilient rebuilding pathways
How insurance, policy, codes, and standards can better enable resilient outcomes
How Los Angeles can create a model for other communities facing wildfire and climate-driven disasters
The recently released Rebuilding with Resilience Manual will serve as a foundation for discussion, helping guide conversations around practical strategies, implementation challenges, and opportunities to strengthen community-centered rebuilding.
From Conversation to Coordination
The Summit will move participants from sector-specific discussions into cross-sector collaboration, creating space to identify shared priorities, address barriers, and develop actionable strategies for advancing resilience as the guiding principle of the rebuilding process.
Who Should Attend
This convening is designed for leaders and practitioners working at the intersection of recovery, resilience, housing, finance, and community rebuilding, including:
Builders, developers, architects, and engineers
Community organizations and disaster recovery groups
Local, regional, and state government leaders
Insurance and reinsurance executives
Investors, lenders, and philanthropic organizations
Researchers, policy leaders, and resilience practitioners
Participation
We are convening partners who are ready to:
Share expertise and lessons learned
Help shape actionable cross-sector solutions
Advance pilots, financing tools, and policy strategies
Collaborate on long-term implementation efforts
Define what resilient rebuilding looks like in practice
About the Hosts
The Resiliency Company
The Resiliency Company, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit, works to make resilience the standard in how communities design, finance, and rebuild systems. The organization focuses on aligning policy, capital, and implementation to help communities withstand and recover from climate-driven disasters.
Department of Angels
Department of Angels was founded in the immediate aftermath of the January 2025 Los Angeles fires to support fire-impacted communities in leading their own recovery with the resources, expertise, and partnerships needed to thrive.
Registration Details
Note: Credit card details are required, but you won't be charged until registration is approved.
We want to keep this event as accessible as possible. Ticket prices are set strictly to cover minimal operational costs, including materials and food.
Questions?
Please reach out to us at ResilientLA [@] resiliency.com