​New England’s coast is one connected system — salt marsh and offshore grid, working waterfront and open beach, fishing co-op and port authority — but it’s governed, funded, and managed in fragments. Coast is a one-day summit bringing the implementers and practitioners who shape our coastline into the same conversation, to see it as one system and start working from the same picture.

​The day opens with Local Lightning — rapid-fire presentations from practitioners doing real work up and down the coast — followed by Policy & Practice Roundtables, off-the-record small-group conversations on the region’s hardest coastal questions. At midday, our Lights from Afar panel brings in outside voices with proven approaches from other coasts and systems. The afternoon is built around hands-on workshop sessions — more details on those to come closer to the event.

​Coast is a curated gathering — implementers, practitioners, and decision-makers from across the region, working from the same picture of what a connected, thriving coast actually requires.