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26 - 29 August 2025 
Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre

AFAC25 Conference Program

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09:00
  1. Welcome
09:05
  1. Opening Address
09:25
  1. KEYNOTE | Planning for community-led relocation in an era of climate change: Lessons from research and practice
10:10
  1. KEYNOTE | Navigating disaster risk in an interconnected world
10:55
  1. Morning Tea
11:30
  1. Release the drones! How FRNSW drone swarm became a game changer at major fires
  2. Head and heart: An innovative approach to firefighter health
  3. Developing a bushfire spread database and Bayesian rate of spread model
  4. Pitchfest session 1 | Trigger, Twist and Test
11:55
  1. Transition
12:00
  1. Development of emergency management AI tool named 'EMBot'
  2. Workplace exposures of wildland firefighters in WA: Novel insights and real-world impact
  3. Optimising bushfire risk reduction: AI helps to balance trade-offs in risk reduction planning
  4. Pitchfest session 2 | Detect, Deploy and Drones
12:25
  1. Transition
12:30
  1. Mitigating fire through water management in the wildland-urban interface
  2. Neurodivergence in emergency management: Guidance for leaders
  3. Applied pyrogeography to achieve sustainable coexistence with fire the Wildland Urban Interface
  4. Pitchfest session 3 | Prepare, Practice and Protect
12:55
  1. Transition
13:00
  1. Lunch
14:00
  1. Bridging science and practice: NSW NPWS approach for enhanced research utilisation
  2. Tasmania Fire Service bushfire-ready challenge program
  3. Why fly? What has Australia's largest assessment of operational aerial suppression drop data found?
  4. Space based fire detection
14:25
  1. Transition
14:30
  1. Building community communication networks during disasters: Lessons from recent bushfires and floods
  2. Evacuation related travel behaviour in three bushfire-affected communities
  3. Natural hazards environmental monitoring data sharing
  4. AFAC Hackathon Challenge
14:55
  1. Transition
15:00
  1. The future of emergency management professionalisation: The role of the Australian practitioner
  2. Innovation the doorway to a sustainable volunteering workforce
  3. Assessing prescribed burning effectiveness and tradeoffs with >50 years of wildfire data
15:25
  1. Transition
15:30
  1. Afternoon Tea and Poster Viewing
16:15
  1. KEYNOTE PANEL | What is the future of seamless knowledge and practice?
17:00
  1. Conference Close
17:15
  1. AFAC25 Welcome and Awards Ceremony
18:00
  1. Welcome Function (in Exhibition Hall) - Sponsored by ISUZU Australia
08:30
  1. Opening Ceremony
09:25
  1. KEYNOTE | Walking Together - Leadership, Legacy, and Reconciliation
10:05
  1. Keynote | We can do a better job to stay safe and alive
10:45
  1. Morning Tea and Designated Poster Session
11:50
  1. From Local to Global Impact: Partnership between Fire Rescue Victoria-Samoa Fire and Emergency Services Authority
  2. Better data, better decisions, better outcome for communities - a national approach to understanding risk
  3. Taming Tomorrow's Infernos: A pragmatic approach to AI's future in bushfire management
  4. Innovating regional emergency telecommunications: Connecting the dots
  5. Leading change in fire and emergency services
  6. Welcome to the WAFA25 Conference | Fires of Change: 20 years of women shaping Australia's firefighting future
  7. Inaugural recovery programs for Aboriginal communities - Kimberley floods
  8. Assessing systemic community disaster resilience: Taking a measured approach to radical transformation
12:15
  1. Transition
12:20
  1. PANEL | Global Fire Service One Voice: World Fire Congress
  2. PANEL | Transforming emergency services: A look at our digital tomorrow
  3. Integrating prisoner rehabilitation with community safety: A fresh approach to mitigating bushfire risk
  4. Next generation computer aided dispatch: Leveraging cutting-edge technology in emergency communication services
  5. The challenges for responders confronting a technical (r)evolution
  6. Indigenous women stepping up: Empowering the next generation in Arnhem Land Fire Management
  7. Enhancing cultural knowledge and awareness in disaster recovery: A pathway to resilience
  8. Implications for strengthening urban resilience from understanding cities as complex adaptive systems
12:45
  1. Transition
12:50
  1. Assets of intergenerational significance: A practical mechanism to ensure environmental values are protected from bushfires
  2. Emergency WA: Revolutionising emergency information in Western Australia
  3. A new era of global fire monitoring
  4. From tradition to transformation: Building gender diversity in Senior Duty Officer Teams
  5. Our Community, Our Voice: a gendered and culturally diverse lens on an urban disaster
  6. The power of connection: Quantifying social capital's role in disaster resilience and recovery
13:20
  1. Lunch and Poster Viewing
14:20
  1. INVITED SPEAKER (live streamed) | From the eye of the storm - Leadership practices in emergency management
  2. Advancing electric vehicle safety training for emergency responders through collaborative synergy
  3. Fire Planning for Country – Putting People and Protocols First
  4. The multi-hazard emergency management agency
  5. Metropolitan Fire Chiefs and the Global Fire Service
  6. PANEL | Ahead of the fire front: Women driving change in firefighting
  7. Empowering resilience: Advancing inclusive emergency planning with Disability Inclusive Emergency Planning (DIEP) forums
  8. Community consultation to inform disaster recovery planning and contribute to community healing
14:45
  1. Transition
14:50
  1. INVITED SPEAKER | Strategic leadership in emergency response: SCDF's experience
  2. Driving change: FRV's zero emissions operational fleet and the ZEON initiative
  3. Prescribed burning for cultural outcomes: Recording and protecting cultural heritage through collaborative fire management
  4. The radioactive capsule
  5. What do we mean by holistic design? Case study of an international airport
  6. PANEL | From global frameworks to national strategy: A discussion about the role of government policy in reducing disaster risk and building resilience in Australia
  7. Interagency conflict in disaster recovery: Understanding what drives it so we can navigate it better
15:15
  1. Transition
15:20
  1. Crisis appreciation and strategic planning
  2. Exercise Bright Spark - Phase 2 - Operation Destroy Kona
  3. A journey to partnership - Cultural burning in the Shire of York
  4. Regional and remote rescue - Beyond the technical: A discussion of the ingenuity, enterprise and relationships required to effect successful outcomes in rescue in Australia's largest fire district
  5. Who is in charge? A practical critique of responses to aviation incidents and the challenges for firefighters
  6. Empowering Change: Western Australia's first female Level 3 Incident Controller
  7. Insights into temporary accommodation - Developing a trauma-informed methodology to capture lived experiences of post-disaster housing recovery
15:45
  1. Transition
15:50
  1. Afternoon Tea and Poster Viewing
16:30
  1. The remarkable world of Australian aerial fire fighting
  2. Servicing WA's coastline - the evolution of WA's Marine Rescue Service
  3. New AIIMS: What's changed, what do you need to know?
  4. ESF's Residential Wellbeing Program - a new approach to early intervention
  5. Fire safety considerations for the upgrading of existing road tunnels - A case study
  6. A case study in inclusion: Challenging perceptions and uniting veterans for a revitalised RSL NSW
  7. PANEL | I spy with my DEI something beginning with ... Bringing feminism and intersectionality to the discussion
  8. Disaster justice: Enabling collaborative approaches to place-based disaster resilience in the community sector
16:55
  1. Transition
17:00
  1. WA Air Operations
  2. Enhancing emergency response capabilities; Marine rescue scenario training
  3. Developing incident command mastery: a collaborative approach
  4. Rethinking resilience: Transforming workplace conditions to prevent mental ill-health
  5. Water mist fire suppression systems in Australian infrastructure
  6. Targeted community risk reduction: Prioritizing vulnerable areas for maximum impact
  7. Why is social work under-recognised within the disaster sector? How do we change this?
17:30
  1. Conference Close
08:30
  1. KEYNOTE | Grenfell Tower fire: Avoiding disaster - Learning from the public inquiry
09:15
  1. PANEL | Local to global: how are we capitalising on connections and collaboration to build a safe future together?
10:00
  1. Morning Tea and Poster Viewing
11:10
  1. INVITED SPEAKER | Unprecedented rainfall and floods in Hong Kong in 2023
  2. From compliance to connection: The positive duty as a catalyst for cultural change
  3. Right help, right time: Integrating informal volunteering into emergency management
  4. Lessons from WA Parks and Wildlife fire management in the north-west Kimberley
  5. The importance of fire engineering for community resilience
  6. Investigating challenges and health concerns of female firefighters: A review
  7. Empowering young leaders: Building system-wide resilience through the Youth in Emergencies Development Program
  8. Embedding resilience: A local government perspective on radical transformation
11:35
  1. Transition
11:40
  1. Enhancement of flood rescue in NSW
  2. Women in fire: A gender diversity initiative for the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
  3. Amplifying the volunteer voice: Shaping our organisation with insights from the frontline
  4. Results from 37 years of fire management at Millstream Chichester National Park
  5. Wild Fire Panel | Firestorm - The Palisades and Eaton Fires
  6. Project Inspire - Safe, functional and better fitting PPC
  7. PANEL | Engaging young people in disaster resilience: Transformative approaches for a safer future
  8. Radical transformation in local government: The pursuit of resilience through decision-making
12:05
  1. Transition
12:10
  1. NSW tsunami inundation modelling project
  2. Disrupting the pipeline (Beyond the cupcakes) - building gender diversity in emergency management
  3. Disrupting traditional hierarchical structures in SACFS Brigades
  4. Benefits of landscape scale fuel management through prescribed burning to reduce bushfire threat
  5. Managing menstruation while deployed operationally: Experiences from the Australian emergency management sector
  6. From little (local) things, big things grow: a whole-of-town approach to bushfire and emergency preparedness
12:35
  1. Transition
12:40
  1. Lunch and Poster Viewing
13:50
  1. Beyond barriers: How partnerships are driving inclusive emergency information
  2. Observations and Learnings from the LA Fires Delegation 2025
  3. Indigenous communities at risk? Sharing our approach to developing a national strategy in Aotearoa
  4. Handing over the baton - An end-to-end approach to emergency management, preparation, and recovery
  5. Firefighter cancer and health checks in the wake of the 2025 LA wildfires
  6. Advancing gender equality and sustainability in WA's emergency services volunteering
  7. Addressing and understanding heat vulnerability: The importance of a cross-sector approach
  8. Severe weather in a changing climate
14:15
  1. Transition
14:20
  1. AFAC Hackathon Challenge
  2. Enhancing emergency communications with First Nations groups through two-way interpreter learning
  3. RFS Reflects – our Reconciliation journey
  4. Empowering locally informed recovery in Northern Australia: A Queensland perspective
  5. Emergency response operations in mining
  6. Fit for the future: Global perspectives on building inclusive fire services
  7. PANEL | Collaborating for ambitious heatwave resilience and adaptation
  8. UNHaRMED: Developing disaster risk reduction strategies through partnerships, workshops and integrated modelling of future risks
14:45
  1. Transition
14:50
  1. New voices new ideas: Empowering young people through mentorship at DFES
  2. Building on a diverse workforce using novel funding, increasing fire management capacity in remote communities
  3. 2022/2023 River Murray Flood Recovery: Harnessing connectivity to drive innovative outcomes for impacted communities
  4. Future wildfires, flooding and escape; simulations to support decision makers
  5. Fire Rescue Victoria's Women's Support Unit - Attracting, retaining and promoting women
  6. From insight to action: Co-designing technology-enabled community resilience in a changing climate
15:15
  1. Transition
15:30
  1. KEYNOTE | Any ordinary day: Blindsides, resilience, and what happens after the worst day of your life
  2. Tailoring training to meet evolving risks: A data-driven approach
  3. KEYNOTE | Progress with purpose: Fear, failure and the fire inside
  4. WORKSHOP | Restoring Mana through radical transformation: Navigating disaster recovery with Haut? Waka
  5. The power of connection: Embracing transformation through the interdependencies of people, animals, and the environment
16:00
  1. When experience is not the answer: The challenge of anticipating the worst case scenario
  2. The nature-led community resilience toolkit: Including people and nature in emergency management
16:25
  1. Transition
16:30
  1. Closing Ceremony

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AFAC25 Resilience Lane Partner Sponsor & ADRC25 Industry Partner Sponsor

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AFAC25 Gala Dinner Sponsor & AFAC25 Conference Delegate Satchel Sponsor

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AFAC25 CAFÉ Naming Sponsor

AFAC25 EMSINA PDP Sponsor

 

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