PART ONE

Conference Introductions

Kristi McKenney, Executive Director, Port of Oakland; Joel Whitehead, Rear Admiral (USCG Ret), Executive Vice President, International Propeller Club; Mike Jacob, President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association; Scott Humphrey, Executive Director, Marine Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Region

PART TWO

Port of Rotterdam

Joost de Nooijer, Port Resilience Director, “Port of Rotterdam’s Climate Change Objectives”

PART THREE

Singapore’s Investments in Adaptation

Storms, Flooding & Sea Level Defense Conference 2025 Matthijs Bos, Professional Flood Risk International, Haskoning (Netherlands)

PART FOUR

California Ports’ Adaptation Progress in 2025

Kristine Zortman, Executive Director, Port of Redwood City; Brad Benson, Waterfront Resilience Program Director, Port of San Francisco; Colleen Liang, Environmental Programs and Planning, Port of Oakland; Adrienne Newbold, Assistant Chief Harbor Engineer, Port of Los Angeles

PART FIVE

Reports from the Mississippi River & Arctic Passage

Debra Calhoun, Senior Vice President, Waterways Council, Inc. “Status of Inland Waterways, Lock & Dam Repairs & U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Funding Projections”; Emily Parker, Senior Route Analyst, Storm Geo; Sean M. Duffy, Sr., Executive Director, Big River Coalition, “Challenges on the Mississippi River in 2025”

PART SIX

Dr. Noel Hacegaba, Chief Operating Officer, Port of Long Beach, “Navigating the Head Winds Challenging Implementation of Zero-Emission Marine Fuels”

PART SEVEN

San Francisco Bay Coastal Adaptation

Jessica Fain, Director of Planning, Bay Conservation Development Commission (BCDC); Summer Bundy, Director of Project Management, San Mateo County Sea Level Rise and Resiliency District, known as OneShoreline; Colleen Corrigan, Sustainability and Resilience Policy Manager, San Francisco Bay Area Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR), “Financing Local Climate Adaptation in the Face of Federal Funding Cuts”; Megan Brotherton, Mitigation and Resilience Planner, Black & Veatch; Emma Koeze, Director, Coastal Quest