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, Building 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: Building the next economy. As geopolitics and emerging technologies transform our world, the opportunity to build what comes next is the defining question of our time. Join entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators to share evidence of solutions underway and turn insights about opportunities and obstacles into a vision the world can rally around – and build together
In partnership with: TED Countdown & Ambition Loop
12:15 - 12:30: From Resilience 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: The Resilience Prescription: Preventative interventions as high-impact, investable solutions for climate-health adaptation. 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
This session marks the launch of a new report on how infrastructure organizations are responding to growing climate disruption and why many still struggle to turn resilience ambition into operational delivery. Co-hosted by Bentley Systems and CDRI, and with contributions from Verdantix (who conducted the survey), the discussion will explore the report’s core findings on climate risk, infrastructure continuity, digital fragmentation, investment barriers, and the shift from reactive to predictive resilience. The session will convene research, industry, and resilience perspectives to examine what must change for infrastructure systems to become more integrated, adaptive, and climate-ready.
Please note that registrations are for IN PERSON attendance only
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