Resilience Hub at LCAW: Where evidence shapes investment
Event Description
The Resilience Hub returns to London Climate Action Week as a high-level convening bringing together business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and practitioners shaping how resilience is applied in practice. In a context of geopolitical instability, supply chain disruption, and increasing overlap between climate risk and fragile environments, resilience helps inform decisions on risk, continuity, and long-term security. This programme focuses on how those decisions are being made – and where they need to evolve based on the latest resilience evidence at hand.
During the day, sessions examine how resilience is reflected in corporate strategy, capital allocation, infrastructure and health systems, and financial flows. A flagship C-suite exchange will explore how businesses are navigating system dependencies and making decisions under real constraints. The Investor Forum will connect locally-led innovators with investors, corporate partners, and funders, creating direct pathways to scale through interactive pitches and targeted exchange, with a focus on solutions emerging from high-risk and climate-affected contexts.
This year, we are also excited to host a curated session, Winning the Next Economy, in collaboration with global climate initiative TED Countdown. Drawing on TED's approach to ideas and storytelling, the session will explore how rapid technological change and shifting global dynamics are reshaping the economy.
The Resilience Hub provides a space to connect evidence with action, linking resilience science, real economy leadership, and investment and policy agendas to support more aligned and effective responses to today’s risks in both stable and fragile settings.
Event Schedule
08:30 - 09:00: Welcome reception: tea, coffee, pastries and networking
09:00 - 10:30: Resilience that works: Aligning business, finance, and policy for transformative impact. A C-suite dialogue unpacking how emerging reporting standards and risk frameworks are reshaping corporate decision-making — and where they fall short in driving meaningful resilience outcomes. Combining peer exchange, expert sense-checks from resilience scientists, and direct dialogue with policymakers, the session tackles a core question: what does a new resilience economy look like, and what will it take to achieve it?
Hosted by: COP31 High Level Champion, Global Resilience Partnership, WBCSD & UNICEF
10:30 - 11.00: Mingle & coffee break
11:00 - 12:15: TED Countdown - Winning the next economy. As geopolitics and emerging technologies transform our world, anxiety about our economic future is at an all-time high. Join a TED curated session as we convene visionaries shaping tomorrow — entrepreneurs, innovators and investors — to turn fragmented insights about opportunities and obstacles into a coherent vision the world can rally around.
In partnership with: TED Countdown
12:15 - 12:30: Engineering Resilience: From Science to Infrastructure Decisions
A spotlight interview marking the launch of a new education module through a partnership between Global Resilience Partnership and Bentley Systems, translating resilience science into concrete capacity building tool for infrastructure professionals
12:30 - 13:30: Networking Lunch
13:30 - 14:30: Who pays for next wave of technological investments on health resilience to climate change? There is a potential to advance strong, monetisable business cases for climate-health programmes, and an annual investment opportunity of USD 100 bn across all sources of finance. This session focuses on identifying scalable financing mechanisms for climate and health adaptation solutions grounded in high -quality economic analysis.
Hosted by: Atlantic Council, NRDC
14:30 - 14:45: Coffee break & networking
14:45 - 16:15: Investor Forum: Connecting innovators and investors for climate action. A high-energy Investor Forum where locally-led resilience innovations meet the capital and partnerships needed to scale — spotlighting what it takes to move solutions from promising pilots to investable opportunities in today’s risk landscape. This session combines interactive Dragon’s Den pitch format, insightful panels, and networking opportunities to connect innovators with investors and partners.
Hosted by: Global Resilience Partnership
16:15 - 16:30: Coffee break & networking
16:30 - 17:30: Going Digital for Infrastructure Resilience
Digital readiness is emerging as a critical factor in how infrastructure systems respond to climate risk and maintain performance over time. Yet across the sector, there remains a gap between ambition and execution.
This session offers a reality check on where asset owners and operators stand today, where they aim to be, and what is holding progress back. Join us for first insights from a new survey that surfaces the key gaps, challenges, and tensions shaping this transition.
Hosted by: Bentley Systems, Verdantix, CDRI
Please note that registrations are for IN PERSON attendance only
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