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Conference Close
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Lunch and Poster Viewing
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Karuk Women's Training Exchange
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KEYNOTE | Nazir Afzal OBE (Former Crown Prosecutor, London Fire Brigade Culture Review Author)
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Morning Tea
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Transition
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Wahine Toa (Women paving the way) - gender equity in frontline leadership development
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Conference Close
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Sustainable respectful cultures - ensuring voice to support safety
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Transition
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KEYNOTE | Dr Jen Beverly (Assistant Professor, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta) 1
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Morning Tea and Poster Viewing
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Presidents Welcome
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Tonga 2022 Tsunami deployment: combining hazmat, advanced GIS and RPAS capabilities within FRNSW
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Opening Ceremony
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Lunch and Poster Viewing
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Transition
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PANEL | Women in fire and emergency leadership (TBC)
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Transition
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National Joint Common Operating Picture
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FFMVic inclusion and safety training
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From blazing fires to battling blizzards: a firefighter’s perspective of breaking barriers
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KEYNOTE | Volvo Group Australia
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Transition
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Afternoon Tea and Poster Viewing
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Closing Panel Discussion | Why aren’t we spending more on disaster resilience
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Transition
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Transition
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Addressing gender imbalance in emergency management - a volunteer management perspective
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KEYNOTE | Tonya Hoover (Deputy Administrator, US Fire Administration, FEMA)
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Transition
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Transition
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Welcome drinks in exhibition
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KEYNOTE | Oliver Costello Director, (Jagun Alliance Aboriginal Corporation, and Board Member, Natural Hazards Research Australia)
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Transition
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KEYNOTE | Jerry Greyson (Rescue Pilot, Drone Educator, Keynote Speaker, Web3 and Crypto Native, NFT Artist)
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Transition
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Transition
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AFAC23 Welcome and Awards Ceremony
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Transition
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Opening Address / Welcome
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Over mentored and under sponsored - getting women a seat at the table
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Managing career transition across professional stages
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Transition
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Transition
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Closing Ceremony
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Morning Tea and Poster Viewing
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Networking for professional and personal development
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Lunch and Exhibition Opening
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Imposter syndrome, fact or fiction?
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SAFER: a tool to compute bushfire evacuation hotspots at scale
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PANEL | How technology advances are improving fuel flammability and fire detection
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Community relocation and managed retreat: lessons from Grantham and across the globe
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Closing Panel Discussion | Why aren’t we spending more on disaster resilience
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Rapid initial attack on bushfires by aircraft: are there any benefits?
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Developing and keeping volunteer leaders for the future
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Local government enabling disaster resilience: the seesaw
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Maximising a biosecurity response through an all agency approach
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Embedding UAVs/drones into emergency response
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Developing women volunteers: creating a future talent pipeline
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Supporting emergency management volunteer to 'do' community engagement
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Using social media to effectively engage with communities
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Self-organising community groups: the good, the bad, and the complex
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The current and future state of telephony-based warnings within Australia
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Quantification of effective fire suppression profiles in first attack
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Innovating emergency messaging: increasing access and exploring new platforms
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Implementing a cross-agency medical co-responder program with a volunteer fire service workforce
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Community perceptions of bushfire maps across Australia and where to next
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Fighting fires from space: a global approach to fire detection and monitoring
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Applied innovation, technology and data insights: using Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) for post-disaster recovery
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How does strengthening multiculturalism within our emergency services strengthen our overall response to disaster?
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Embedding humanity in building sustainable resilience to disaster in Australia: toward a new research agenda
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INVITED SPEAKER | Policy to improve First Nations inclusion in emergency management
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Closing Panel Discussion | Why aren’t we spending more on disaster resilience
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Learning together: inclusive emergency management policy and practices that leave nobody behind
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Using post-event research to identify policy-related research findings: insights from the 2022 eastern Australia floods
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Diversity and inclusion and Indigenous recruitment
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Fitness for role: a national approach to operations fitness for state and territory emergency services
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The benefits of soft skills training in supporting a sustainable volunteer workforce
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TBC
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Screening and digital early intervention to prevent mental injury in Fire and Rescue NSW firefighters
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Case study: incorporating Aboriginal cultural knowledge into bushfire management for Aboriginal communities
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You don't have to be a psychologist to create psychological safety in the workplace
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Investigating firefighter exposure to multiple chemicals and reproduction
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The future of volunteering: strengthening the connection between young people and the community
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Caring for Country and community: creating culturally safe burn training for desert ranger groups
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Interpretation of seasonal fire outlooks
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Positive experience and shared values
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Emerging leaders: driving change through a youth-centric approach
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Empowering localised capacity development and resilience with the Solomon Islands Fire Service and community
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Australian Fire Danger Ratings System: first year review
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Preventing the dark ages in our digital age
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There's a storm brewing
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Innovation in the emergency services
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Do computers have the answers we need?
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Accelerating the adoption of innovative technologies to improve bushfire resilience, response, and recovery
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Challenges and opportunities for innovation and technology adoption
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Managing fire for ecosystem resilience
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Ecological assessment of the 2020 K'gari bushfire: building on knowledge past, present and future
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INVITED SPEAKER | Lithium-ion batteries
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INVITED SPEAKER | Caring for land
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Make recovery exercises part of your exercise management program
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Hydrogen Framework
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Protecting cultural assets
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System for evaluating seasonal bushfire risk in the Northern Territory
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PANEL | Re-framing vulnerability: community recovery and resilience in Australia through an intersectional gender transformative lens
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Voice, footprints and empowerment: Red Cross First National Recovery Program
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Authenticity in Indigenous community liaison in the disaster context: a Northern Rivers case study
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Next generation hazard reduction: building resilience by protecting and restoring high-value natural assets
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A partnership that recognises and acknowledges cultural land management, supported by contemporary science and technology
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Victorian risk based approach to bushfire management: recent improvements and priorities for the future
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Closing Panel Discussion | Why aren’t we spending more on disaster resilience
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PANEL | Connecting emergency managers with First Nations Country, culture and practices
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PANEL | Lessons from the Northern Rivers: building effective partnerships between community and emergency management
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Navigating cultural burns, ecological burns and hazard reduction burns
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Creativity, recovery and resilience: Creative processes that empower individuals and communities to participate in their own recovery
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CALD community-led disaster resilience project
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Hard place/good place: enabling recovery for young people
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Insuring a resilient Australia
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Indigenous healing and disaster recovery: dialogue with cascading benefits for resilience
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Local self-determination, collective support: adapting collective impact models for disaster resilience, response and recovery
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Closing Panel Discussion | Why aren’t we spending more on disaster resilience
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PANEL | The Australian Government’s role in putting downward pressure on hazard insurance premiums
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People at risk in emergencies: a collaborative approach
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What does it take to build resilience investment capabilities in Australia - reflections and lessons from the Enabling Resilience Investment initiative
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PANEL | Community perspective on resilience reimagined
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The Now-Future-How Model for strengthening community resilience
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Rethinking investment: people and processes, not products and things
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Disability inclusive disaster risk reduction: latest practices from the Pacific
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Imagining a resilient Fitzroy Crossing: reflections on the Fitzroy Crossing floods January 2023 from a Traditional Owner perspective
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Community led recovery - three years on in Mallacoota and District
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PANEL | Building disaster resilience into the school curriculum: effective how to approaches from educational practitioners
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Building a habit - reframing disaster preparedness in Queensland
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Closing Panel Discussion | Why aren’t we spending more on disaster resilience
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That which connects us: First Nations leadership in bushfire recovery on Yuin Country, Mogo, NSW
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Disaster resilience and the ocean account
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What if people with disability were leading inclusive DRR?
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Resilience reimagined: the creation of Cobargo Bushfire Resilience Centre
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Insuring nature based defences: the role of the insurance sector in promoting nature-based solutions involving coastal wetlands in Australia
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Improving inclusion of people with disability, older people and their family friend carers in disaster planning and response
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Harnessing strength of community for neighbourhood scale risk understanding and locally led resilience: The Douglas Shire Community Resilience Scorecard Project
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Nature-based solutions to take off the heat-designing resilience into Sydney's new urban area
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A conflicted landscape: convergence of new wildfire building regulations
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PANEL | New energy technology fire safety risks
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PANEL | Regulatory challenges and opportunities: navigating the complex landscapes of building codes and sustainability
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INVITED SPEAKER | Presentation title TBC
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The charging conundrum: electric vehicles in existing buildings
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INVITED SPEAKER | Presentation title TBC
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Safety of Alternate and Renewable Energy Technologies (SARET) research update
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INVITED SPEAKER | Presentation title TBC
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Collaborative reporting for safety structures: fire safety case studies from the UK
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Development of a novel battery fire testing apparatus
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IFE Keynote | Presentation title TBC
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Revisiting the role of quantifiable terms to communicate fire safety strategy
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Buildings in Bushfire Prone Regions: A Review of the Australian Nation Construction Code Requirements
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Presentation title TBC
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Shaping the software infrastructure for smart fire fighting in SureFire
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The future of fire ecology science for bushfire management
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Teamwork makes the dream work: a community-centred approach to fire prevention among adolescents
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Spark Operational: development to implementation of Australia's next generation bushfire behaviour simulator
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Applying the Bureau's flood scenarios product to emergency response coordination
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TBC
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10-minute presentations
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From zero to hero: a community led initiative
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Managing the impacts of smoke from bushfire and burns using smoke forecast modelling tools
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Lessons from a thirteen year study of individual and household bushfire preparedness and decision-making in Victoria
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How to win friends and influence people: using archetypes to reduce community risk
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Meeting communities where they are: community bushfire archetypes to enable tailored preparedness and response
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Intelligence driven flood warnings to support community action in NSW
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Heatwave impact forecasting: adding value to forecasts
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Case study: implementing best practice burning at Flinders Swamp, Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island)
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Closing Panel Discussion | Why aren’t we spending more on disaster resilience
AFAC Keynote Speakers
Douglas D’Antoine
Recovery Executive Officer
Shire of Derby West Kimberley
Douglas D’Antoine is Bardi and Jawi from country 200km north of Broome, Western Australia. He resides in Broome and has a somewhat unique albeit unsophisticated position as to the advancement of Aboriginality that is overwhelmingly supported by the Fitzroy Valley 2023 ‘lived experience’.
Prior to the devastating Fitzroy Valley floods cause by ex-tropical cyclone Ellie in January 2023 (Floods), Douglas was a native title lawyer and then became the deputy CEO at the Kimberley Land Council, a corporate oil and gas lawyer at Woodside and then BP (upstream), roustabout and wool presser, and a police officer.
At the time of the Floods, he was the CEO for Bunuba Dawangarri Aboriginal Corporation that holds native title on trust for the Bunuba language group. By way of context, Nyikina, Gooniyandi, Walmajarri and Wangkatjungka are the four other language groups in the Fitzroy Valley.
Since the Floods, Douglas was the community advocate for those directly impacted by the Floods opposite the Prime Minister, Premier and many other
government dignitaries, then became the Executive Officer to the Fitzroy Valley Flood Recovery Working Group (Working Group) and is now the Recovery Executive Officer with the Shire of Derby West Kimberley.
Douglas’ presentation focusses on the nationally unprecedented nature in which the agencies associated with Floods engaged the Fitzroy Valley community, and particularly the five language groups within the Fitzroy Valley through the Working Group.
He will explain how that engagement, that is being recognised nationally as best practice, laid the foundations for the strong and effective governance of the flood recovery efforts that, by way of outcomes, includes the reduction of crime in Fitzroy Crossing and the Fitzroy Valley.
Dr Lori Moore-Merrell, DrPH, MPH
U.S. Fire Administrator
FEMA
Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell was appointed by President Joseph Biden as the U.S. Fire Administrator on October 25, 2021.
Prior to her appointment, Lori served nearly 3 years as the President and CEO of the International Public Safety Data Institute (IPSDI),
which she founded after retiring from a 26-year tenure as a senior
executive in the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF). She
began her fire service career in 1987 as a fire department paramedic in the City of Memphis Fire Department, Memphis Tennessee.
Lori is a Doctor of Public Health and data scientist, whose work has changed fire and EMS deployment throughout the world. As the principal investigator and senior project manager, she oversaw the development of landmark reports and other tools to improve residential and high-rise fireground operations, community risk assessment, fire and EMS resource deployment, and “Big
Data Analytics”. Her work continues to influence executive decision-making across the fire service.
Dr Catriona Wallace
Author | Speaker | Adjunct Professor
Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance
Dr Catriona Wallace has been recognised by the Australian Financial Review as the Most Influential Woman in Business & Entrepreneurship.
Catriona is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse and is an Adjunct Professor, keynote speaker and Founder of the Responsible Metaverse Alliance. Catriona is also the co-author of the book Checkmate Humanity: the how and why of Responsible AI.
As the founder of one of the first Artificial Intelligence companies to list on the Australian Securities Exchange, Catriona has truly lived the life of an entrepreneur and CEO in the emerging technologies field.
Indeed, Flamingo AI was the second only woman-led (CEO & Chair) business ever to list on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Current Work:
Based on her extensive experience in AI and emerging technology Catriona delivers keynote speeches globally on topics including Artificial Intelligence, Web3 and the Metaverse, Digital Transformation, Responsible Technology, the Future of Work and Diversity and Inclusion.
Catriona's experience as one of the rare women leaders in advanced technology means that she is ideally suited to present on these important and topical subjects and does so in a way that is highly accessible, informative, non-technical, engaging and inclusive.
This unique skill set has also seen Catriona invited to Co-Chair Sir Richard Branson's B Team's AI Coalition and be a Director of the Garvan Institute, Gradient Institute and to Chair an AI VC Fund, Boab AI. Catriona has been achieved Advance Australia's highest award in Technology & Innovation for Australians working abroad and has been recognised by Onalytica as one of the top AI speakers and Metaverse commentators, globally. Catriona was inducted into the Royal Institution of Australia acknowledging her
as one of the country's most pre-eminent scientists.
With a burning passion for and deep knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and emerging tech such as the Metaverse, Catriona believes that sharing knowledge about the responsible use of technology and is her true path and purpose.
Brendan Moon AM
Coordinator General
National Emergency Management Agency
Brendan Moon AM commenced as the first CoordinatorGeneral of the National Emergency Management Agency in October 2022. Brendan brings with him extensive expertise and experience in disaster response, recovery, preparedness and risk
reduction. He spent 10 years with the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA), starting as the General Manager, Operations in 2011 until his appointment as Chief
Executive Officer in 2016. While with QRA, Brendan led recovery operations and state-wide reconstruction and recovery efforts for all significant natural disasters in Queensland since late 2015 until 2022.
Brendan is a regular contributor to national and international dialogue on disaster risk and
resilience and has addressed the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction’s Asian Ministerial Conferences on multiple occasions. He is a passionate advocate for cooperation and collaboration across international, national, state and local agencies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
Brendan is a graduate of the University of Queensland.
