Grants and Contributions:

This Project will contribute to allowing more people to attend the conference and promotes diversity by allowing more people to attend who may not be able to attend otherwise. This Project encourages Indigenous perspectives by supporting Indigenous Elders participation and by weaving Indigenous perspectives throughout the entire program. This Project will support production assistance to create a high quality hybrid in person and online event.

The purpose is to increase the resiliency of Canadian communities to the risks and impacts of natural disasters, and to undertake and implement risk reduction analyses and actions. To ensure that wildfire response agencies are integrated with each other in order to implement an effective wildland fire response program, and, to increase the wildfire knowledge of agencies, communities and individuals, in order to create a culture of wildfire safety and to empower the public to understand risk.