The Anthropocene represents an age of compounded challenges of global urban growth and climate change that threaten the earth system’s sustainability. Though cities are the locus for many sustainability solutions, they are also vulnerable to extreme events like floods, drought, and heat because of their location and concentration of people and infrastructure. Urbanization and climate change are thus on a collision course, and cities need solutions that are affordable and effective in delivering services, including protection from extreme events, while also providing additional synergistic benefits to human well-being. Most approaches to improving resilience are siloed. Technological innovations are the oft-touted solutions to increase the robustness of infrastructure. However, recent extreme events such as Hurricane Harvey (2017) in Houston, Texas, Hurricane Maria (2017) in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Hurricane Sandy (2012) in New York, New York highlight weaknesses and expose the fundamental interdependencies within urban systems. Extreme events often cause cascading and systemic impacts. Decision-makers, designers, engineers, and ecosystem managers need systemic solutions that converge across disciplines and knowledge systems. That is, solutions must converge across social-ecological- technological systems (SETS). This Symposium will discuss advances in developing a convergent urban systems science capable of providing cities with the knowledge and methods for building integrated SETS resilience strategies to extreme events that leverage big data, computational advances, and visualization of urban SETS. We will discuss how the convergence of SETS approaches will allow for transformative change in cities that increases resilience to extreme events and other challenges. Speakers will discuss and provide a basis for further urban ecology research a process that recognizes the relationships between institutions, infrastructure, and the environment, and deploys solutions that leverage aspects of each domain, acknowledging that the urban systems are a complex and dynamic system that should be managed as a single enterprise.