Official Climate Week NYC events calendar

Climate resilience in the age of AI

Andrea Silverman
Chris Kennedy
Brenda Dix
Event by: NYU Urban Systems Lab, NYU Tandon Center for Urban Science + Progress, ICF
Event format
Hybrid
Event duration
1 hour 30 minutes
Language
English
Climate technologies are evolving rapidly, creating new opportunities for cities and communities to better understand climate risk, prioritize investments, and strengthen resilience to flooding, extreme heat, wildfire, and other hazards. Advances in AI, climate modeling, and decision-support can help turn growing volumes of climate data into more actionable information, but technology alone cannot deliver resilience. These approaches also raise important questions about accessibility, cost, social equity, and how effectively they reflect community knowledge and priorities. This Climate Week NYC event will highlight emerging approaches already being applied in practice: FloodNet, a network of hyperlocal flood sensors in NYC;ClimateIQ, an AI-powered climate risk platform supporting under-resourced cities;ICF and Fathom’s next-generation flood maps for the Washington DC metro area, and Transitions Research’s People's Urban Living Lab (PULL) based in India. Using these projects as examples, the panel will examine what it takes to translate emerging technologies into meaningful resilience at scale, including questions of trust, community knowledge, implementation barriers, and public-private collaboration. A reception will follow, with an opportunity to connect with Rebuild by Design’s Rainproof NYC program. Speakers Andrea Silverman, Associate Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, FloodNet Chris Kennedy, Associate Director, NYU Urban Systems Lab, ClimateIQ Brenda Dix, Senior Director, Climate Resilience, ICF Moderator, Representative from the NYU Tandon Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) This event will take place on the 1st Floor of 6 MetroTech Center in Brooklyn at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Maker Space, Room 116. Advance registration is required for campus access at NYU for external guests. Attendees who are not current students, faculty, or staff at NYU, including alumni, are asked to register using a personal email address. This event is co-sponsored by NYU’s Urban Systems Lab, NYU Tandon Center for Urban Science + Progress, and ICF.