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Full Schedule

  • Sunday, August 21, 2022
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    IAFC Board of Directors Meeting
  • Monday, August 22, 2022
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    Convention Center Dining Options
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices Day 1 of 2
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Developing Inclusive Teams Workshop (Day 1 of 2)
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Fire Data Analysis Precon (Pre-registration required)
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    IAFC Board of Directors Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Wildland Fire Policy Committee Meeting
  • Tuesday, August 23, 2022
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    Convention Center Dining Options
  • 7:00 AM – 5:30 PM
    IAFC Store Open
  • 7:00 AM – 5:30 PM
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Terrorism & Homeland Security Committee Meeting
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Chief's Edge
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices Day 2 of 2
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Developing Inclusive Teams Workshop (Day 2 of 2)
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Respect Our House: Extinguish Bullying
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Technology Council Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Human Relations Committee Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Emergency Management Committee Meeting
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    NCTC Symposium
  • 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Wildland Fire Policy Committee Meeting
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    GPSS Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
    COVID-19 Vaccine & Booster Clinic
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    RECEPI Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Presenter Ready Room
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Elections Committee Meeting
  • 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM
    Division Secretaries Meeting
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Institution of Fire Engineers Meeting
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Urban Search & Rescue Committee Meeting
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Communications Committee Meeting
  • 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Hazmat Committee Meeting
  • 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Professional Development Committee Meeting
  • 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
    Constitution, Bylaws, and Resolutions Committee Meeting
  • 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
    Program Planning Committee Meeting
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
    First Timers' Meetup
  • Wednesday, August 24, 2022
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    Convention Center Dining Options
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Presenter Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM – 6:30 PM
    IAFC Store Open
  • 7:00 AM – 6:30 PM
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
    Opening General Session
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    State Fire Chief Association Coordination Meeting
  • 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
    COVID-19 Vaccine & Booster Clinic
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Collapse at Surfside, The Response and Lessons Learned
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Great Expectations: What We Expect From One Another
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Intoxicated Leadership: Thinking strategically vs reacting emotionally
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Managing Ourselves
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Overcoming the tyranny of the urgent: How to make meaningful progress in a world of constant emergencies
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Quality as a Leadership Strategy: Building a Better Fire Service
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Recognizing and Understanding Bias Thought, Behavior, Policy and Data
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    The Officer's Edge
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    United in Service: Encountering Sexism in the Fire Service...what about the brotHERhood
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Amazon Innovation and the Fire Service Change Leader
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Assessment of community risks using technical systems (REDCON) in the United Arab Emirates
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Could YOU Rescue YOU
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    ISO and Alternative Water, What is creditable and how to get this credit.
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Mining for Gems, A Guide to Creative Community Risk Reduction
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    No More Talk: An Agency’s Real-World Strategies and Solutions to Achieving the Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Goals their Community Expects
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Rescue Me: Strategies and Tactics for Employee Fires
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Successfully Transitioning from Firefighter to Company Officer
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    When the Wheels Come Off: Managing a Fire Department Fleet Crisis
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
    Division Lunches
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Combining And Consolidating: When Merging Fire Departments Is Appropriate
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Ethics or Cancel Culture - What's Really Going On in the Fire Service?
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Hospital Area Command: Fire Departments Helping Emergency Rooms
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Personnel Accountability Requires Personal Accountability: Company Officer Leadership in 2022
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Principled Leadership from The Road Less Traveled
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Promotional Pathway: Training, Education, and Experience Equal Succession Management
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Technology Track
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    The Company Officer as an Instructor
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Will Black Swans Become Extinct? The Future of the Unpredictable
  • 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
    Women Chiefs Council Meeting
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME...
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Combating the Great Resignation
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Gas overpressure event in City of Lawrence and towns of Andover and North Andover. Causing numerous fires and explosions throughout the three communities, Killing one man, injuring many.
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    GM & OnStar – Electric Vehicle Basics for First Responders
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Low-frequency/High-risk Events
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    The Catalyst: Understanding and Creating Effective Organizational Change
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Three Departments Into One - Making a Melting Pot of Shifts
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Traffic Incident Management Team - A Life Saving Team
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    United in Service: Foundations of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Federal and Military Fire Services Section Board Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Motorola Solutions Roundtable (Invite Only)
  • 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
    Tracks North America: Logistics Robotics
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    A Chief's Guide to Effective Negotiating
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Cancer: prevent it, detect it early, SURVIVE it!
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Federal & Military Fire Services Section Annual Meeting
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Firefighters Under Fire: The Tucson Experience
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    The Acting Company Officer: Setting our future Fire Officers & Department up for Success
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    The Effect of Yoga on Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress and Heart Rate Variability in Firefighters
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Top Drone
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    United In Service: "We Are Family - Gender and Sexual Diversity in the Fire Service"
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Vision Casting For Your New Fire Station
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Winter Storm Uri: Emergency Operations During Cascading Events
  • 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    The Zone Tasting Bar
  • 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
    Essential Personnel: People Analytics in Public Safety
  • 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM
    3AM: Enhancing Emergency Readiness
  • 5:00 PM – 5:20 PM
    Public Safety Drone Demonstration
  • 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Welcome Reception
  • 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM
    Hypha: Enabling Connectivity at Network Edge And Beyond
  • 6:00 PM – 6:20 PM
    JHB Group: Hands-On Fire Safety Education
  • 6:30 PM – 6:50 PM
    GTI Energy: Virtual Reality (VR) Training for First Responders
  • 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
    NFFF Night at the Fire Museum
  • Thursday, August 25, 2022
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    Convention Center Dining Options
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Presenter Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
    IAFC Store Open
  • 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM
    Registration Open
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
    General Session
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
    WFI Team Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
    EMS Technology Solutions: Elevating your Field Operations
  • 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
    IAFC Business Meeting
  • 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
    COVID-19 Vaccine & Booster Clinic
  • 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM
    First Due: Evolution of the Fire RMS - Past, Present, & Future
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    Begin with Who, not What, How, or Why for Health and Wellness
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    Communication is the Key!
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    Firefighting Foams Powering Responsible Change
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    It Happened to Us, The Anatomy of a Near Miss!
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    Mobile Integrated Healthcare: A Transformation in the Response Paradigm
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    National Fire Service Study on the Wellness-Fitness Initiative and current Best Practices
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    The Challenges of Building an Accessible Behavioral Health Program in Modern Fire Departments
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    What if You're Not the Prototypical Fire Officer?
  • 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
    Your Black Swan Is Someone Else’s Gray Rhino
  • 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
    Executive Fire Officers Section Annual Meeting
  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
    Esri: A Geospatial Approach to Fire EMS Operations
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    COS Succession Management Meeting
  • 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Emergency Medical Services Section Board Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
    Public Safety Drone Demonstration
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
    Tablet Command: Imagine the Possible - Common Operating Picture and Situational Awareness for All
  • 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM
    Tesla: Safety by Design
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Company Officers Section Annual Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
    Fire & Life Safety Section Lunch
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    Safety, Health, & Survival Section Annual Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    The Zone Tasting Bar
  • 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM
    Genasys: Reducing Evacuation Times from Hours to Minutes
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM
    Interra: Risk, Response & Resiliency - Where Tech Meets the Fire Service
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Fire & Life Safety Section Annual Meeting
  • 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM
    Deccan: Leveraging Data for Actionable Operational Intelligence
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    But Does It Work? Effective Firehouse Harassment Prevention Training and Techniques
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Did you say dad bod or desk bod? How to lead from the front with your physical fitness
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Executive Decision-Making: How You Decide is More Important than What You Decide
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Human Trafficking: Recognizing the Tales
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Incident Command and Accountability on the Incident Scene
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    Overview of Tesla ESS Products for the Fire Service
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    PulsePoint Verified Responder
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    RIT Operations: Officer Impact and Development
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
    United in Service: Supporting the Fire Service, Fighting Racism
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
    Volunteer & Combination Officers Section Annual Meeting
  • 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM
    iPlanTables: Transition to Digital Plan Review
  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
    LIVE DEMO: Experience Remote Drone Software Technology For Fire, Rescue, EMS
  • 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
    Prepared: How Live Video on 911 Calls Can Help You Fight Fires
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Active Shooter Planning & Response: When Your Kid Is In There
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Assessing Fire Planning Zones and Their Impact
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Burnout: How to Keep Firefighters in an Optimal Performance Zone
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Company Level Fire Inspections – Compliancy through Education
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    How to Support Firefighter Families to Increase Wellness & Retention Efforts
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    It All Starts Here – Facts & Fallacies of 911 Dispatch and How It Impacts Your Fire Rescue Services
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Moving the Cultural Needle In the Fire Station: An Officer's Guide to a Better Work Environment
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    Technology Track
  • 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM
    The “Privilege” of Leadership and What’s In YOUR Backpack
  • 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM
    CalTopo: Real Time Shared Mapping for the Rapidly Expanding Incient
  • 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM
    Public Safety Drone Demonstration
  • 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    President's Council Meeting
  • 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
    Industrial Section Meeting
  • 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM
    Fire & Life Safety Section Executive Board Meeting
  • 3:20 PM – 3:30 PM
    Technology Track
  • 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM
    My Sidewalk: Leveraging Community Data to Assess Community Risk Reduction
  • 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
    Streetwise: Technology After the Bell Goes Off
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    A Guide to Fire Service Digital Transformation
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Company Officer: Stuck in the Middle
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Hiring for diversity: Retooling the fire service hiring process
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    HURRICANE IDA: A Quick Look at Some BIG Lessons
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Incident Command Considerations for Special Operations Events
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Keep Your Cheese on the Cracker, Self-Care for Chiefs
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Lessons, Learnings and Leadership from the Fireground 360
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Recruiting Generation Z: Everything we know so far
  • 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Rodeo Roundup Reception
  • Friday, August 26, 2022
  • 7:00 AM – 8:30 AM
    Diversity Breakfast
  • 7:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Presenter Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Registration Open
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
    Convention Center Dining Options
  • 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    IAFC Store Open
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
    General Session
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM
    Additive at Scale: 3D Printing and The Future for the Fire Services
  • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Metro Chiefs Section Annual Meeting
  • 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Emotional Intelligence and Return on Empathy (ROE)
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    GM & OnStar – Electric Vehicle Basics for First Responders
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Investing in Your Greatest Asset, Your People!
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Organizational Reboot: Managing Massive Organizational Change in the Contemporary Fire Service Environment
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Surveys and Polls: Understanding Effective Design, Implementation and Interpretation
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Survivorship Bias - The Missing Bullet Holes
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    The US Army's New Senior Leader Selection Model: A Consideration for the Fire Service
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Training Officer's Toolbox, brought to you by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Who Wants to Present at FRI?
  • 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    Wildland-Urban Interface: Are You Ready to Manage the Reality?
  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM
    SimsUShare: Anatomy of a Modern Simulation Training Program
  • 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM
    First In Software: Responder360
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
    MCM Technology: Protect Your First Responders by Ensuring Their Mission Critical Equipment is Ready When They Need It
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Connecting with Your Community During a Non-Contact Era
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Creating a Psychologically Healthy Fire Department: Recognize, Mitigate, and Support Behavioral Health for Your Members
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Diversity, Diversity, Diversity: Fire Service Diversity Fatigue
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    How to Align Daily Behaviors with Priorities in Life for Sustainable Success with Work, Home and Wellness
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Leading Change
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    The National Fire Academy, One of the Nation's Best Kept Secrets
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    U.S. Fire Administration Research and Applied Technology Program
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Utilizing Data To Justify Organizational Growth
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Wicked Future Problems the Fire Service is About to Face Head On
  • 12:00 PM – 12:20 PM
    AngelTrack: Fire & EMS CyberSecurity in a CyberWorld
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    Metro Chiefs Lunch (Invite Only)
  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    The Zone Tasting Bar
  • 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM
    Spill Bully & Intelligent Nano Fiber: Effective Spill Control
  • 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
    PPE Software- Tracking Your Efforts to Comply with NFPA 1851
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM
    PSTrax: Asset Management Made Simple
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM
    Public Safety Drone Demonstration
  • 1:30 PM – 1:50 PM
    Squishy Robotics: Rapidly Deployable Sensors for Initial Assessment
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    42 & 1/2 Things You Should Do In Your Department
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Australia’s Most Devastating Fire and Flood Campaign
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Back To Pen and Paper: Is Your Department Ready for a Cyber-Attack?
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Fighting Fire in Sprinklered Buildings
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Intoxicated Leadership: Thinking strategically vs reacting emotionally
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Investigating the Personnel Fire Without Getting Burned
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Lessons Learned - IC Decisions at a LODD
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Program Planning Committee Meeting (Invite Only)
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Propane Education Program
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Reimagine Your Organization
  • 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Emergency Medical Services Section Annual Meeting
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
    Building a Leadership Development Program
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
    Death by PowerPoint: Training and the Generational Gap
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
    How Bullying Affects Your Health, Safety and Survival
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
    Landing a Fire Chief's Job
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
    Leveraging the Unexpected Benefits of Community Risk Reduction
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
    Opportunities for Fire Chiefs to Improve the Behavioral Health of Firefighters through Initiatives Designed to Reduce the Impact of Impaired Sleep
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
    Surviving The Job