Kyle Spencer

Biography: Kyle Spencer is the Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Norfolk and spent the previous four years as the Deputy Resilience Officer. For the last 15 years, he has been working to make Norfolk a more resilient city as a consultant and a technology leader before working in the Resilience Office. Kyle’s primary focus is implementing the City’s Resilience Strategy by managing complex water management, environmental, urban planning, and smart cities projects. While with the City, Kyle has been collaborating with regional partners on resilience innovations to support research projects with universities and developing business solutions in the resilience sector by turning Norfolk into a coastal community laboratory. Kyle is a certified GIS Professional, and Certified Floodplain Manager.