June 24 – 25th, 2025 • SnapHQ • 3250 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA

An event to design how to finance resilient rebuilding

Los Angeles’s unprecedented Eaton and Palisades fires consumed nearly 40,000 acres of homes, businesses, and landmarks with an estimated economic loss of $250B. We recognize that most financial programs will only rebuild to the minimum standard without mitigating the significant wildfire risks in the region.

We are designing a program to help property owners rebuild to the evidence-based IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home Plus standard.

Join us June 24-25th for an event dedicated to the development of a funding strategy to make Los Angeles insurable and resilient. This includes the community leaders, policymakers, builders, investors, lenders and insurers required to drive innovative strategies for resilient rebuilding.

What will make this gathering unique is the wide spectrum of industries and a steadfast commitment to find financing to rebuild with resiliency.

June 24th: Dream Big for a Resilient Future

Join the community leaders, policymakers, builders, investors, lenders and insurers that recognize that…

  1. Wildfire risk is increasing

  2. We have an opportunity to do things differently

  3. There is a groundswell of momentum for how to rebuild with resiliency.

  • Abby Ross, CEO of The Resiliency Company

    • The State of the State: Increasing Risk & the Road Ahead

    • Why Adaptation is Required - Creating a sustainable insurance market

    • Lessons Learned from Recovering from Megafires

    • What's at Stake: Community Voices & Needs

  • +Matt Gonser, Chief Resilience Officer, Sustainability Office, Los Angeles County

    +Michael Bodaken, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, former Deputy Mayor of Housing for Los Angeles, former President of the National Housing Trust

    Moderated by Matt Posner, Head of Public Finance for The Resiliency Company.

    • How IBHS has created Wildfire Prepared Homes

    • Can we afford this? Headwaters Economics models the ROI

    • How do we preserve community and culture

    • What is needed for homeowner and community adoption?

  • Moderated by Dr. Carolyn Kousky, Insurance for Good

    • Ensuring Resilient Building Materials & Supply Chain with USGBC-CA

    • Preparing our Workforce for Resilient Rebuilding with USGBC-CA

    • Coordinating Recovery and Rebuilding with SBP USA

    • New models of insurance

    • How resilience can be streamed in the permitting and inspection processes with Alexis Pelosi

    • Preparing our Fire Community for Innovation with Chris Anthony, Advisor, Cal Fire Safe Council; Former Chief Deputy Director CAL FIRE

    • Rethinking Revenues, Risk and Resilience for government stakeholders with Ben McAdams of Putting Assets to Work & Sara Brown, Stifel Nicolaus

    • Catalytic Discussion Around Community-Centered Grants and Loan Funds: Building Relationships for Resilient Communities with Lily Bui of SoCal Grantmakers and Mikiyon Alexander of Momentus Securities

    • Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure with Pass Strategic Partners, Purpose Built Inc. & Assured Guaranty

    • Stabilizing the CA Insurance Market

    • Financing, funding and training a NextGen workforce with Resilience Investments

  • Building wildfire resilient communities requires reimagining. Join us for a showcase of proven, innovative solutions that span across the entire experience of design, build and ongoing maintenance.

June 25th: Design Workshops

Join us for a "roll-up your sleeves, get stuff done, design workshop day. We will be designing the mechanics of The Resilient LA Delta Fund and the required community financial systems required to support a resilient rebuild. Who should attend the two tracks:

    • Welcome & opening remarks

    • What is “The Resiliency Delta” and why we’re launching a fund

    • The Homeowner & Community Rebuilding Journey

    • Opportunities for the public sector

Fund Design Workshop

Who should attend: Lenders, philanthropists, insurers, community orgs that are key partners in the Resilient LA Delta Fund.

    • Programmatic Flow of Funds - How to ensure widespread access to home resiliency building

    • Consumer Education - Meeting Homeowners Along their Rebuild Journey to “Choose Resiliency”

    • Designing loan programs with blended capital - market-rate, concessionary, forgivable

  • Groups share out their findings to the broader group over lunch

  • Use the final hour to align on steering committee working groups and establish a roadmap for success.

    • Programmatic Flow of Funds - How to ensure widespread access to home resiliency building

    • Consumer Education - Meeting Homeowners Along their Rebuild Journey to “Choose Resiliency”

    • Designing loan programs with blended capital - market-rate, concessionary, forgivable

Financing Resilient Infrastructure In L.A. & Beyond

Who should attend: Public officials, investors, subject matter experts, and others focused on how to finance and build resilient infrastructure.

Event Details

Location

Hosted at Snap HQ in partnership with The Department of Angels

3250 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90405

 

Recommended Hotels

Hyatt Centric Delfina Santa Monica – 11-minute drive, $250/night
4-star hotel with modern amenities

FOUND Hotel Santa Monica – 9-minute drive, $170/nt
Budget-friendly option with clean, basic accommodations

Hotel MdR Marina del Rey – a DoubleTree by Hilton – 14-minute drive, $250/nt
4-star hotel with convenient access to both Santa Monica and Venice