Bennie Thompson, Chairman of Homeland Security Committee, and Alex Sink, Florida Chief Financial Officer, were keynote speakers of the Forum. See Chairman Thompson's reason for attending here >

	Speakers
	The following Speakers attended the Forum.  Click on each presentation to view. Speaker Company Presentations Debra Ballen Institute for Business and Home Safety Subsidies and Economic Sustainability: A Clear Case for Mitigation Warner Chang Institute for Business and Home Safety Fortified … for safer living® Leslie Chapman-Henderson Federal Alliance for Safe Homes David Conrad National Wildlife Federation Responding to Global Warming and Developing Adaptation Solutions: Andrew Fahlund American Rivers Changing Climate Adaptation: Reforming Flood Management Robert Hartwig Insurance Information Institute Economic Sustainability & the Financing of Catastrophe Risk Eli Lehrer Competitive Enterprise Institute How Free Market and Environmental Groups can Work together on Building and Planning Nanette Lockwood Solutia Inc. Increasing Hurricane Resistance with Building Codes Pat Maroney Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Center Subsidies in the Property Insurance Market Peter Mitchell Salter Mitchell a focus on behavior change Frank Nutter Reinsurance Association of America Sarah Owen Gledhill Florida Wildlife Federation Florida Coastal Land Use Policies Catharine Cyr Ransom The Accord Group Acronyms for Adaptation Julie Rochman Institute for Business and Home Safety Mitigation Technologies Lew Rothstein University of Rhode Island/WeatherPredict Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies Jeanne Salvatore Insurance Information Institute Mainstreaming Mitigation through Communications and Education Tofigh Shirazi Intercontinental United Investors, Inc. Amanda Staudt National Wildlife Federation Recent Science and Policy Implications Craig Tillman Weather Predict Consulting Inc. Catastrophe Modeling, Managing Complexity Tami Torres My Safe Florida Home Protect Property and Save Money on Insurance Larry Twisdale Applied Research Associates, Inc. Paul VanderMarck Risk Management Solutions Hurricane Risk Quantification & Implications for Public Policy Peter J. Vickery Applied Research Associates, Inc. Mitigation Technologies