Thursday, April 3, 2025
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Time |
Accreditation 101 |
Advanced Accreditation |
Credentialing |
Community Risk Reduction |
Health and Safety |
Innovation Through Technology |
Leadership and Management |
8:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. |
Registration and Information Desk Open
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8:30 to 9:30 |
Why do you Respond the Way you do? (Randy Reeder) |
Look in the Mirror Before Facing the Future (Justin Brooks and Elyse Jonker) |
Credentialing Unstructured – CEMSO |
Measuring What Matters: Designing a New CRR-Focused Insurance Rating Methodology (Matt Hinds-Aldrich and Sara Wood) |
Well-Lead Organizations, Well-Run Incidents, Well-Grounded Lives: The Key to Healthy and Well Employees (John Oates) |
Low-Cost, Low-Code Solutions for Data Analysis and Business Process Improvement (Jessica LeBland and John Morrison) |
Leadership Through Upstream Thinking (Kristopher Blume) |
9:30 – 9:45 |
Break |
9:45 – 10:45 |
Are you sure you want to do this? Civilians in the Fire Service (Bryan Norris) |
Outlier Analysis – Are we really measuring what we think we are? (Blake Boyd) |
Credentialing Unstructured – CTO |
Performative CRR: Bridging the Gap Between Outputs and Outcomes (Landon Churchill and Karen Berard-Reed) |
UPSIDE: Building Better After Trauma (Jason Corthell) |
Innovation through Technology; Planning for Success (Dan Munsey and Adam Panos) |
Hiring for Diversity: Retooling the Fire Service Hiring Process (Michael Cunningham and Bill Johnson) |
10:45 – 11:00 |
Break |
11:00 – 12:00 pm |
The Art of Herding Cats (Advanced) (Meredith Walker and Kevin Sims) |
Inheriting Legacy Accreditation Work: Sustaining Accreditation Through Strategic Management and Planning (Mary Kupchenko-Hill and Christopher Koch) |
Credentialing Unstructured – FM |
A Call to Fire Service Leaders to Adopt a Proactive, Community Risk Reduction Mindset (Kelly Hanink) |
Self-Command: A New Model for Firefighter Behavioral Health (Jessica Ward) |
Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Transform Emergency Services (Scott Ramey) |
Empowering for Organizational Success (Don Lombardi and Michael Mulcahy) |
12:00 – 1:15 |
Lunch
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1:15 – 2:15 |
Understanding the Vulnerability Assessment Program (David Wiklanski) |
Accreditation and Department Culture: The Journey of Change (Jake Rhoades) |
Credentialing Unstructured – FO |
Maintaining Momentum in Wildfire Risk Management after Community Tragedy (Holger Durre and Conrad Jackson) |
How Do We Avoid the Edge? (John Sullivan and Carl Niedner) |
“Data-Driven” Leads to Great Decisions – Or Does It? (Michael Calderazzo) |
Bad Leaders, Inherited Teams, and the Wrong People in the Right Positions (Calen Maningas) |
2:15 – 2:30 |
Break
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2:30 – 3:30 |
Preparing for a CFAI Site Visit (Richard Merrell) |
The Firefighter Rescue Survey: The Future of Data Collection (Jonah Smith) |
Credentialing Unstructured – FESA |
Community Risk Reduction, Planning, and Preparedness with NFPA 3000 (Thomas Breyer and Jonathan Oates) |
The Chief’s Guide to Stress Zones: Effective Management Strategies (Michael Cunningham and Bita Shahidi) |
Leveraging Multiple Data Sources to Maximize Potential (Jessica Handoko) |
Diversity of Fire Service Leadership Styles (Khalilah Yancey and Gary Menard) |
3:30 – 3:45 |
Break
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3:45 – 4:30 |
A Journey in Accreditation (Don Lombardi) |
Letting Real Data Objectively Measure Risk – Still Alarms are High Risk? (Michele Bischoff and Jonathan Lund) |
Credentialing Unstructured – PIO |
Assessing Motor Vehicle Collision Risk (Leonard Chan) |
Health and Wellness in the Fire Service (Willie Williams) |
Drones in Public Safety (Wayne Bailey) |
Normalization of Deviance (Grant Tinker) |