National Disaster Resilience Conference

Join us for the (NDRC2025), where we will provide the latest insights and information to connect you with practical knowledge on how to build, buy, rebuild, and sell resilient, insurable homes that protect families and ensure your community can bounce back swiftly when disasters strike.

This year’s program will showcase best practices in construction innovation, public policy, and private market programs from expert presenters spanning academia, elected officials, financial services, home builders, leaders, public officials, researchers, scientists, and stakeholders committed to disaster resilience. Each section of NDRC2025 will include a “What’s Next?” session, offering in-person attendees a roundtable opportunity to engage with and synthesize the dynamic information and networking for implementation.

Info: How homeowners can have it all: homes that are durable, resilient, energy
efficient, affordable, and modern. This kickoff keynote will outline the mission for NDRC2025 and lay the groundwork for attendee engagement as they help hone the vision for the Dream Home of the Future. The NDRC2025 committee will announce the vision and priorities articulated during the conference in a post-conference national announcement.

Info: Hear from leading weather and engineering experts as they share case studies, analysis, scenarios, and a dialogue about why high wind construction methods are beneficial inland, well beyond the coasts.

Info: This presentation will cover two new studies from the University of Alabama. The first investigates the actual cost of building codes, and the second reflects the cost savings and value of homes built to the FORTIFIED beyond-code standard, even when tested by Hurricane Sally. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from and engage in a dialogue with the principal investigator who is presenting these critical insights that validate the case for affordable resilience.

Info: This panel will feature visionary homebuilders from KB Home who are constructing Dixon Trail. The first-ever residential development in California meets the IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home standard and is delivering a true “DREAM” neighborhood for homeowners in harm’s way.

Info: While resilience aims to withstand shocks, antifragile design goes a step further—gaining strength, adaptability, and function through disruption. Drawing from concepts in ecology, materials science, and architecture, this presentation explores innovative material strategies that allow buildings and communities to thrive amid uncertainty. From dynamic systems to self-healing materials, antifragile design offers a bold new framework for confronting the intensifying challenges of disaster risk.

Info: Florida Emergency Management Director Guthrie will address the evolving landscape of disaster resilience in Florida and policy trends nationwide, drawing on his extensive experience leading state-wide preparedness and response efforts. He will highlight best practices, innovative strategies, and partnerships that are helping protect Floridians and promote speedy recovery during hurricanes, floods, and other natural hazards.

Info: This panel will share insights about how they are driving resilience through policy leadership, including building codes and/or mitigation grant programs. Their efforts are not only fostering stable state economies but also providing solutions to insurance marketplace challenges.

Info: This session will focus on the rise and shift in influencer voices in today’s marketplace, with some surprising insights into demographic trends to help attendees explore new ways to grow the U.S. culture of resilience through best practices in earned media, social platforms, and evolving digital tools, including AI.

Info: Insured losses resulting from lightning damage can exceed $4 billion annually, with a total economic impact exceeding $30 billion annually. This presentation will explore the new and emerging technology used to detect lightning strikes, the codes and standards that can be adopted to protect buildings and structures, and other publicly available guidance resources.

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