What are the best ways to respond to wildfires in the field, and how do fire agencies across EU member states use tools to collaborate effectively? This session will see the Catalan Fire Service discuss their experiences and the tools that they employ in the hopes of establishing more efficient incident response, aerial firefighting coordination, deployment, equipment and vehicle logistics and best practices.
This session will take a look at how the EUโs fire monitoring weather service, Copernicus, works with wildfire agencies and other stakeholders to help better detect and respond to wildfires across the continent.
This session will take a deep dive into the Forest Serviceโs Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) program, which uses geospatial land fire data layers to identify polygons of risk for future fires, which are then targeted for controlled vegetation burns and prescribed fires. This session will help attendees gain a full picture of the geospatial tools available for managing our nationโs forests to help reduce and detect potential wildfires.
Daniel Goosen, Senior Architect at Level Up, will share tips on how your organization can Become Cloud Native using automation. Daniel will share strategies and tips learned over the last decade spent leading in larger scale automation and cloud environments that help you better prepare your organization. We know that in many ways, and in ways totally unprecedented for recent generations, we are all not just witnessing, but are actually living, the daily headlines. We know that means that things are changing for you and for your organization. And we know youโre being asked to do more with less right now. This session will highlight important features and third-party integrations of Ansible and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (aka Tower), which you may not be using yet, but which we believe can help accelerate your organization's infrastructure automation adoption curve and create an even bigger impact for both your team and your internal IT customers alike. In addition, Daniel will share use cases relevant to your organization that will help accelerate your journey and better serve citizens.
The Montecito Fire Department participated in fire response during the 2017, 2018 and 2019 wildfire season will engage in a discussion on their experiences, what worked, what didnโt and ways for continuing collaboration across various state and federal agencies on wildfire suppression and emergency response. A special focus will be on the deadly debris flows that followed the 2018 fire season and how to respond effectively to similar combined natural disasters in the future.
The safety of firefighters and emergency personnel during wildfires is paramount. This session will would intend to explore the ideas and tools needed for managing risk Challenges ranging from COVID-19 pandemic to the increased frequency of megafires will serve as a loadstar to explore some of the doctrine and fundamentals surrounding risk management.
The wildland-urban interface is often the area where wildfires do the most damage to human life and property, and as such has been of particular focus to wildfire agencies and the utilities industry. This session will discuss the latest strategies, tools and technology available for effective risk management and risk reporting in hopes of spurring better planning and coordination among stakeholders in the wildland-urban interface.