Extreme weather events as manifestations of the influence of climate stressors, environmental and infrastructure degradation, socioeconomic inequities, and population growth and migration are increasing the potential for natural disasters. These events are complex, dynamic, multi-variate, and non-linear, and operate across natural, constructed, and human systems and include a high degree of uncertainty in predictability. This drives the imperative that shared knowledge and mutual understanding of processes, relationships, and challenges must be part of the transdisciplinary collaborative research and partnership framework aimed at a better understanding of these phenomena while considering the human and social elements that are necessary to reduce vulnerabilities and build resilience to increasing disaster risk. To optimize the effectiveness of these partnerships toward informing solutions, it will be necessary to facilitate convergence of social, disaster, natural, computational, and engineering sciences. Partnerships bring together a diversity of perspectives that can frame and guide research and operations across the weather, water, climate enterprise to address complex problems and find methodologies and solutions that can be employed to manage the consequences of natural disasters. As an essential component of this framework, partners must accept the shared responsibility of ensuring that the next generation of professionals entering the workforce experiences an immersive education that is inherently transdisciplinary in science and engineering, as well as in practice. Institutions that are intentional in developing programs with convergent curricular frameworks, which includes an ethos of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice, are likely to be at the vanguard of new and innovative approaches to solving some of the most complex problems associated with vulnerability and improving resilience. This set of invited presentations will focus on the value of partnerships in developing convergence research frameworks and, in turn, how convergence strengthens the relationship and cooperation between partners.