Shalini Vajjhala, Executive Director of PRE Collective, sets the stage for the conference by highlighting how creative predevelopment and governance models can help build regional resilience. Her presentation draws on her experiences as a former federal official and design firm CEO to highlight examples from across the country of innovative approaches to governance as inspiration for expanding regional collaboration across the Bay Area.

Presentation on Senate Bill 272, a new state mandate that requires all coastal and bay jurisdictions to create Sea Level Rise adaptation plans that the San Francsico Bay Conservation and Development Commission must approve, followed by audience questions and answers

Panel Discussion highlights how local governments around the region are collaborating on solutions to address environmental challenges and ways local governments’ innovative governance structures are responding to regional issues that cannot be addressed by individual jurisdictions, followed by audience Q&A session