Climate resilience is not a crisis response posture. It is an operating condition. And the decisions that matter most for resilience are the ones that play out over decades: what infrastructure gets built and for whom, how capital is structured for commitments that outlast budget cycles, what happens to people and institutions when the emergency never ends, and why the signals leaders rely on have so little to do with what communities actually experience.
SidePorch is hosting a full-day executive convening during LA Climate Week 2026 in Santa Monica. The day brings together leaders from infrastructure, capital markets, performance science, public policy, insurance, philanthropy, and community organizing to work across both dimensions of the title: what resilience actually requires when the horizon is not months but generations, and what long-horizon thinking demands when many of the systems we inherit are designed for the past, not the future.
The morning features three moderated conversations pairing speakers who approach the same problem from fundamentally different vantage points, including voices from elite performance science, large-scale water and energy infrastructure, public opinion research, and the global insurance and reinsurance sector. Facilitated breakout sessions follow, designed to move from observation to application. The afternoon includes a fireside conversation on institutional innovation for complex, long-horizon challenges. The day closes with a capstone session introducing a new initiative built in partnership with RAND, designed to help leaders and communities make robust decisions when the future cannot be predicted.
This is not a day of prepared remarks and panel rotations. It is a day of genuine exchange among people working across sectors on problems that refuse to respect sectoral boundaries.
Designed for senior leaders, funders, policymakers, infrastructure developers, and practitioners navigating long-horizon complexity across climate, health, education, and economic resilience.
Registration Link: https://luma.com/56qc60na
