Full Schedule

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT

Registration Open

Location: 2100 Lobby

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices Short Course

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc

Speaker: – Team Rubicon

Speaker: – Teton Wildfire Mitgation Team, LLC

Pre-Con

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Assessing Structure Ignition Potential from Wildfire Training Course

Location: 2101

Speaker: – Wildfire Preparedness Servi

Pre-Con

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT

Registration Open

Location: 2100 Lobby

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices Short Course

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc

Speaker: – Team Rubicon

Speaker: – Teton Wildfire Mitgation Team, LLC

Pre-Con

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Assessing Structure Ignition Potential from Wildfire Training Course

Location: 2101

Speaker: – Wildfire Preparedness Servi

Pre-Con

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Evacuation Management for the Fire Service

Location: 2103C

Speaker: – Golden Fire Department

Speaker: – Larimer County Sheriffs Office

Pre-Con

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Wildland-Urban Interface Risk Assessment & Mitigation for the Fire Service

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – SFPE Foundation

Speaker: – Code Red Consultants

Pre-Con

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT

Registration Open

Location: 2100 Lobby

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

Fire Data Analysis Working Group

Location: 2102A

Pre-Con

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

Structure-to-Structure Fire Spread and Vulnerability Modeling; a Physics-Driven Approach to Resiliency and Insurability in the WUI

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – WUI FIRE Institute, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Speaker: – Colorado State Universtiy

Pre-Con

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

Wildland Fire Assessment Program

Location: 2101

Speaker: – National Volunteer Fire Council

Pre-Con

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT

Palisades Fire Lessons: How Technology Streamlined Mutual Aid & Information Sharing

Location: 2104B

Speaker: – Tablet Command

Speaker:

Bonus Track

Sponsored By

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM CT

What's New in the WUI? An update from the National Fire Protection Association

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – National Fire Protection Association

Speaker: – NFPA

Pre-Con

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT

NFFF New Title, New Horizon Report Out

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – National Fallen Firefighters Foundation

Pre-Con

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CT

The Next Big Disaster...Are You Prepared?

Location: 2104A

Speaker: – Western Fire Chiefs Association

Speaker: – First Responder Network Authority

Speaker:

Speaker: – FirstNet Built with AT&T

Speaker: – FirstNet. Built with AT&T

Bonus Track

Sponsored By

3:00 PM – 3:20 PM CT

Welcome Remarks

Location: 2103AB

General Session

3:20 PM – 3:30 PM CT

That One Call

Location: 2103AB

Speaker: – FirstNet Built with AT&T

General Session

Sponsored By

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CT

Perspectives and Opportunities in Addressing WUI Fires

Location: 2103AB

Moderator: – Vail Fire and Emergency Services

Panelist: – Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Panelist: – Kansas Forest Service

Panelist: – Fire District #1 of Johnson County (KS)

Panelist: – Wildland Fire Leadership Council

General Session

Sponsored By

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM CT

Reception in the Exhibit Hall

Location: Exhibit Hall A

Sponsored By

5:45 PM – 6:45 PM CT

Listening to firefighters, the WUI

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – National Fallen Firefighters Foundation

Speaker:

Bonus Track

6:45 AM – 7:45 AM CT

INVITE ONLY: First Responder Network Authority Breakfast

Location: 2204

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM CT

Registration Open

Location: 2100 Lobby

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM CT

Los Angeles Area Megafires

Location: 2103AB

Moderator: – International Association of Fire Chiefs

Panelist: – Angeles National Forest

Panelist: – County of Los Angeles Fire Department

Panelist: – Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation

General Session

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT

“It’s Complicated”: Understanding the Wildfire-Insurance Crisis in the West

Location: 2104A

Speaker: – Headwaters Economics

Speaker: – Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)

Speaker: – Verisk

Speaker: – National Fire Protection Association

Fire Adapted Communities

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT

The Future of Wildfires

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – Western Fire Chiefs Association

Speaker: – Moore Foundation

Policy/Tools

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM CT

Wildfire vs. Urban Conflagration - Different Fires, Different Tactics: A Case Study

Location: 2104B

Speaker: – West Metro Fire Rescue

Operations

11:00 AM – 11:10 AM CT

Beyond Detection: The Expanding Role of AI-Enabled Wildfire Cameras

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – Pano AI

Bonus Track

Sponsored By

11:15 AM – 11:25 AM CT

FireDome - Wildfire Resiliency-as-a-Service

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – FireDome

Bonus Track

Sponsored By

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

Big Blue River valley collaborative effort

Location: 2104A

Speaker: – Kansas Forest Service

Fire Adapted Communities

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

Utilizing Technology to Combat Wildfires

Location: 2104B

Speaker: – Contra Costa County Fire Protection District

Operations

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

Wildfirecast: Wildland Fire Communication and the Future

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – Wildfirecast: Wildland Fire Communication and the Future

Speaker: – University of Montana

Speaker: – Oregon State University

Speaker:

Policy/Tools

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT

Lunch with Exhibitors

Location: Exhibit Hall A

Sponsored By

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CT

THE RACE TO KEEP PACE- A state’s perspective: Oregon’s wildfire evolution and the race to keep social, policy and legislative pace with the conditions on the ground

Location: 2103AB

Speaker: – Oregon State Fire Marshal

Speaker: – State of Oregon - Office of the Governor

General Session

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM CT

Implementing the "Living CWPP" in North Carolina

Location: 2104A

Speaker: – North Carolina Forest Service

Speaker: – Timmons Group

Fire Adapted Communities

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM CT

International Fire Department Exchange Perspectives

Location: 2102A

Bonus Track

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM CT

Responding to the Interface: Tactics & Strategies

Location: 2104B

Speaker: – Colorado Springs FD, IAFF Local 5

Speaker: – L2881

Speaker: – IAFF Local 975

Operations

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM CT

Telling Our Stories-First Responder and Practitioner Mental Health Challenges and Solutions

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – Boulder Fire-Rescue

Speaker: – WA Dept of Natural Resources

Fire Adapted Communities

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT

Ground Applied Long Term Fire Retardant

Location: 2104B

Speaker: – High River Protective Services

Speaker: – Allied Disaster Defense

Operations

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT

Including Wildfire Smoke Mitigation in Your FAC Work

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network

Speaker: – COPE Northern Sonoma County

Speaker: – City of Flagstaff Fire Department

Policy/Tools

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM CT

Wildfire Prepared Communities in action: How the Botania community in Chile survived a wildfire without a single structure lost.

Location: 2104A

Speaker: – WUI FIRE Institute, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Speaker: – Western Fire Chiefs Association

Speaker: – Wuuii, Inc.

Fire Adapted Communities

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM CT

Registration Open

Location: 2100 Lobby

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CT

"Who are you and what are you doing on my scene?" Assessing insurance resources for access on wildfire incidents

Location: 2104B

Speaker: – Wildfire Defense Systems, Inc.

Operations

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CT

IAFC Wildfire Programs

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – San Juan County Fire Department

Speaker:

Bonus Track

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CT

Mitigation Solutions and Challenges From Frontline Communities: A Panel discussion from the Frontlines of the Wildfire Crisis

Location: 2104A

Speaker:

Speaker: – Coalitions and Collaboratives

Speaker: – North Carolina Forest Service

Speaker: – Trees, Water & People

Fire Adapted Communities

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM CT

Wildfire Decision-Making Framework - WUI Command in the Age of AI

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – Earth Fire Alliance

Speaker: – Western Fire Chiefs Association/Research Staff

Speaker: – Western Fire Chiefs Association/Obsidian

Policy/Tools

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT

A quantitative assessment model of WUI fire resilience

Location: 2102A

Speaker: – Oklahoma State University

Speaker: – Oklahoma State Univeristy

Bonus Track

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT

Hazardous Materials in the Wildland Fire Interface and Other Incidents

Location: 2104B

Speaker: – Ventura County Fire Department

Operations & Suppression

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT

So you want to harden homes? Lessons learned for effective implementation.

Location: 2104A

Speaker: – County of Sonoma, Permit Sonoma Fire Prevention Division

Speaker: – Napa County

Fire Adapted Communities

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM CT

Wildfire Policy in 2025: From States to Washington, D.C.

Location: 2102B

Speaker: – Alliance for Wildfire Resilience

Policy/Tools

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT

THE AIRPORT FIRE: When Catastrophic Wildfire Collides with Operational Excellence Built Upon Relationships, IMTs, Experienced Ground Crews, and Cutting-Edge Air Operations

Location: 2103AB

Speaker: – Orange County Fire Authority

General Session