Hugo Neu Corporation Sustainability Seminar Series: Green Infrastructure, AI & Next-Generation Community Resilience

ABSTRACT

From rooftop rain gardens in residential neighborhoods to AI-assisted green infrastructure deployments across commercial corridors and municipal watersheds, the next generation of stormwater management is reshaping how communities build resilience. Greg Cannito, Co-Founder of RainPlan and Chairman of the Board at Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, has spent decades at the intersection of innovative infrastructure design, public-private partnership, and environmental technology.

RainPlan's Platform-as-a-Service model leverages AI to match property owners — residential and commercial — with fit-for-purpose green stormwater infrastructure solutions and available government incentive funding, unlocking private land as a powerful tool in watershed-scale resilience. Paired with Corvias Infrastructure Solutions' track record of large-scale community-based integrated green stormwater infrastructure partnerships with federal, state, and municipal governments, Greg brings a uniquely integrated perspective on how innovation, policy, and investment can converge to build more resilient communities, businesses, and neighborhoods.

This talk will explore where green stormwater infrastructure is headed — from the parcel scale to the watershed scale — and what next-generation resilience looks like for the communities, businesses, and residents navigating an era of intensifying climate challenges.

BIOGRAPHY

Greg Cannito is a leading social entrepreneur, Co-Founder of RainPlan, and Chairman of the Board of Corvias Infrastructure Solutions (CIS). He is widely recognized for developing some of the largest and most successful community-based public-private partnerships for sustainable green infrastructure in the United States, including landmark programs with federal, state, and municipal governments.

Greg co-founded RainPlan to extend the reach of green stormwater infrastructure to private property owners, deploying an AI-enabled, incentive-matching platform that identifies fit-for-purpose nature-based solutions for residential and commercial properties and connects owners with available public funding to implement them. His earlier work co-founding The Clean Water Partnership and his leadership at Corvias helped pioneer the CBP3 model for large-scale integrated green stormwater management.

Greg is a graduate of Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business and a veteran of the United States Marine Forces Reserve, where he served as a combat engineer.

Zoom Link:

https://stevens.zoom.us/j/95471394436

Website:

https://www.stevens.edu/sustainability-seminar-series

Jointly Sponsored by:

HUGO NEU Corporation
WSP
HDR
NOMADICS
Brown and Caldwell
H2M Architects and Engineers
Dewberry

Contact:

Dr. Dibs Sarkar