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  This great sketch is based entirely on a recent talk given by Galaxy Zoo’sBrooke Simmons when she was attending a meeting bringing together people with diverse expertise to talk about the future of humanitarian aid. The group included people from the tech sector, satellite imagery providers, larger organizations like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the United Nations, and local…

DAY 1: On June 24 and 25, 2013, PopTech, The Rockefeller Foundation, BAM, and partner organizations convened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for an in-depth discussion of these and other pressing questions, at a unique convening, entitled The City Resilient.

Five hundred invited participants drawn broadly from the forefront of community, corporate and governmental leadership, technology, design, urban planning, philanthropy, and many fields of innovation, including participants from across the region, other cities, the United States and the world. The focus of the summit was to explore the general dynamics of urban resilience, drawing on the lessons from Superstorm Sandy in New York, and from other disruptions in cities around the country and the world. 

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DAY 2: Alphachimp joined a diverse, multi-disciplinary crowd gathered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 25 for a daylong design charrette and intense brainstorming as part of PopTech's 'The City Resilient' event, made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation.

Around 100 technologists, community activists, landscape architects and other experts participated in the workshop, which included small group discussions and exercises designed to spark creative thinking around the concept of urban resilience.