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BRW VI March Program
BRW VI March Program
MARCH 25 | WEDNESDAY
Film Screening: Cant Stop the Water
Discussion with director, Rebecca Ferris, and documentary participants
from Isle de Jean Charles: Chief Albert Naquin and Brunet family
Location Indywood Cinema
628 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117
6pm Registration and Happy Hour
630pm Screening
730pm Introduction by LT. Gen Russel Honor
Q&A with Director Rebecca Ferris, Chief Albert Naquin
and the Brunet family
MARCH 26 | THURSDAY
Ten Years Strong Building Deeper Connections in the
Community: Resilient Merchants Walk and Learn in Mid-City
This evening discussion invites three prominent Mid-City business
owners to discuss how they have made positive changes to their
continuity planning and resilience collaborations. Attendees will meet at
the Gulf Coast Bank for an introduction and happy hour to begin our
talk. We will walk to Angelo Brocatos Italian Ice Cream and Pastry,
where we will discuss how this staple of New Orleans weathered the
destruction of Hurricane Katrina to reopen less than one month later,
and helped Mid-City bounce back. Finally, we will complete our tour at
Masseys and discuss the Lafitte Greenway and its anticipated positive
effect on the business. We invite community members, organizers,
business owners, and small business resilience experts to join us as we
walk and talk.
MARCH 27 | FRIDAY
Resilient Nonprofit Tour
This tour will feature stops at local community organizations and
engage leaders openly regarding their role in the community, their
sustainable programming, and their impact on the Greater New Orleans
area.
Location Meeting location will be communicated to participants
9am Shuttle pick up in downtown New Orleans
1 Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement
and Development (www.sustainthenine.org)
2 Global Green Holy Cross Project
(www.globalgreen.org/articles/global/68)
3 Common Ground Relief Wetlands Restoration
(www.commongroundrelief.org/wetlands)
4 St. Bernard Project (www.stbernardproject.org)
230pm Drop off in Central Business District
Please join us for a happy hour and discussion
immediately following the tour!
MARCH 28 | SATURDAY
All Day Workshop
Location Arlene Meraux River Observation Center
5124 E St. Bernard Hwy, Violet, LA 70092
8am Registration Opens
Coffee and Breakfast
Resilience Photo Gallery and Community Exhibitors
840am Introduction: Executive Committee | batteur room
Lauren Butner
Kali Rapp Roy
Jeana Wiser
850am Icebreaker Session: Defining Resilience | batteur room
930am Keynote Speakers | batteur room
Jeff Hebert, Chief Resilience Officer, City of New Orleans
1015am How Will Our Plans Work Together? | batteur room
This panel will feature discussions about the key
environmental/development plans that are currently
being implemented for the region. It will explore ways to
create bridges among the plans and invites key
responsible officials to discuss how to ensure an
integrated and fluid system of resilience for our region.
This panel will highlight important aspects of the plans
including key players and communication of change to
their constituents.
Keven Lovetro, Chief of Flood Risk Management Section,
New Orleans Branch, US Army Corps of Engineers
Robert Rivers, Executive Director, New Orleans City
Planning Commission
Dale Thayer, Director of Community Development, St.
Bernard Parish
David Waggonner, Architect, Waggonner & Ball
Architects: Urban Water Plan
Moderator: Grasshopper Mendoza, Co-Founder, Horizon
Initiative Water Committee
1115am Break
1130am Concurrent Sessions I
Weather the Storm: Building Strong Networks through
Resource Collaboration | second flood classroom
This panel invites players from networks of different
scales to share their lessons learned and best practices to
build better communication and resistance to hazards.
MARCH 31 | TUESDAY
BRW Presents: Water Competition Showcase
Featuring panelists from: Changing Course Competition, Water
Challenge, Tulane University Dead Zone Prize
In New Orleans and the Louisiana Coast, we are seeing an increase in
the challenges to antiquated processes of how we work with our
greatest challenge: water. This panel brings together the
representatives from the Changing Course design competition, the
Water Challenge, and the upcoming Tulane University Dead Zone Prize
competition, each in their various developing stages, to demonstrate
the importance of entrepreneurship in addressing our regions water
issues and the type of entrepreneurs they seek to encourage to develop
sustainable solutions to their goals.
The overarching goal of the panel is to educate potential entrepreneurs,
stakeholders, and those generally interested in water solutions to
understand better what goes into creating these prize contests, the
organizations expectations, and their potential goals for each
competition depending on the stage of development.
Please register here: http://www.gopropeller.org/events/1011
Location Propeller
4035 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70125
6pm Registration and Happy Hour
715pm Presentations
Richard Aubry, Professor of Practice of Business and
Sociology; Assistant Provost for Civic Engagement
and Social Entrepreneurship, Tulane University
Andrea Chen, Executive Director, Propeller; The Water
Challenge
Steve Cochran, Director, Mississippi River Delta
Campaign; Environmental Defense Fund
Moderator: Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on
Water Resources Law & Policy
8pm Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A