Annual Meeting Archive
SCDRP Annual Meetings are about
Building Relationships
SCDRP Annual Meetings are different. SCDRP’s flagship event is not your typical conference. SCDRP Annual Meetings are unique and distinguished convenings marked by the attendance of diverse, multi-sectoral professionals representing the private, academic, non-profit, and public sectors from a broad geographic region stretching across the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean. Spend two days with us and enjoy close networking with top organizations working to make a difference in the disaster resilience, recovery, and adaptation disciplines. SCDRP Annual Meetings are unmatched opportunities to connect, learn, and network with professionals from a broad geographic region stretching across the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean!
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SCDRP Annual Meetings are intentionally small. During our gatherings, we all share in the entire experience, high-level speakers remain accessible to all, and there is time and space for collective learning and collaborative development of ideas into future action plans. To ensure this, we cap our meetings at 125 attendees, and we have sold out for the last 3 years!
SCDRP Annual Meetings are relevant by design. Throughout the planning process, we listen to our Partners and create the meeting agenda with them in mind. We incorporate timely issues and pressing topics that are important to our Partners and the organizations and communities that they represent. We cross geographic and political boundaries to bring together the brightest, most innovative leaders in the natural hazard resilience, climate adaptation, and disaster recovery fields in the U.S. Southeast and Caribbean. As we select speakers and topics and design educational field trips and networking events, we adhere to a deep commitment to our core values of collaboration, learning, equity, and support. This commitment reveals itself through honest sharing, storytelling, eye-opening insights, laughter, thoughtful questions, cell phones full of new contacts, joyfulreunions, high-fives, and hugs!
Explore Past Annual Meetings Below
2025 Meeting
The 2025 SCDRP 9th Annual Meeting was held in Wilmington, North Carolina. The theme of the meeting was "Cultivating Climate-Resilient Communities: Advances in Communication and Collaboration.” The 9th Annual meeting had the highest attendance in SCDRP history.
2024 Meeting
The SCDRP 2024 Annual Meeting was held in Savannah, Georgia. The theme of the meeting was "Moving the Needle Toward Equitable Community Resilience to Natural Hazards.” The 8th Annual meeting had the second highest attendance in SCDRP history.
2023 Meeting
The SCDRP 2023 Annual Meeting was held in Miami, Florida. The theme of the meeting was "Responding to the Urgency: Working Together to Build Effective Inclusive Resilience.”
2022 Meeting
The SCDRP Annual Winter Meeting, 2022 was held virtually. The theme of the meeting was "Unique Communities, Shared Challenges: Addressing Resilience, Equitably".
2021 Meeting
The SCDRP Annual Winter Meeting, 2021 was held virtually. The theme of the meeting was "The Future of Resilience in the Southeast & Caribbean".
2020 Meeting
At the Annual Meeting, January 28-29, 2020 in Jacksonville, FL, we connected with resilience and recovery professionals and academics in the region to strengthen multi-sector partnerships to achieve success in improving disaster recovery, developing resilience strategies, and discuss lessons learned from recent events.
2019 Meeting
At the January 23-24, 2019 meeting in Savannah, Georgia, SDRP hosted discussions about local efforts to build disaster recovery capacity and innovative ideas in recovery and resilience. The workshop concluded with the development of a brief on top priorities for disaster recovery in the Southeast.
2018 Meeting
At the June 19-20, 2018 meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida, SCDRP convened leaders from the public and private sectors to focus on resilient disaster recovery. The theme of this meeting was Resilient Disaster Recovery: Building Back Better in the Public and Private Sectors.
2017 Meeting
At the June 15-16, 2017 meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, SCDRP invited its core partners and leaders engaged in the North Carolina Hurricane Matthew recovery to meet one another, share progress on relevant projects, and discuss next steps for the Partnership. This meeting also featured a field trip to post-disaster buyout sites in Eastern North Carolina, led by our own Joe Stanton of North Carolina Emergency Management.