Global Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Session 1

9:10am - 10:40am Pacific: Early Wildfire Detection, Home Hardening & Defensible Space demos, interviews and panel discussion part 1 [recorded]

Moderator: James Dudfield, Principle of SVT Group

Carsten Brinkschutle Co-founder of Dryad Networks - Dryad Networks Linkedin: “Dryad provides ultra-early fire detection as well as health & growth monitoring solutions for public and private forests. Using Dryad's large-scale IOT network, sensors can detect wildfires and provide valuable insights into the microclimate and growth of the forest.”

Jetfire Xin of Fire Terminator. Demonstration & panel participation. (pre-release youtube link)

Steve Wolf of Pyronemesis “After thirty years of blowing things up in Hollywood for stars including Tom Cruise, Steve Wolf, frequently featured on Discovery, has invented a new way to control wildfire. Using jet engines to drive retardant and suppressant laden mists into wooded areas, to prevent or extinguish fires in places inaccessible to planes and trucks, his patented technology is the basis of PyroNemesis, which is gearing up for the next fire season.”

Gilberto Desalvo of Delphire Inc. Delphire Linkedin “We help stop fires through actionable data delivered in real-time from dangerous or remote locations.”
Ivan O’Neill is the co-founder of Madronus Wildfire Defense. They make it easy for property owners to reduce wildfire risk, maintain insurance coverage, and qualify for premium discounts with a platform that scores a property’s wildfire risk, develops a tailored treatment plan, and offers a contractor network to get defensible space and home hardening work done quickly.

Edison Shih, of Ring Fire, "Early fire detection becomes effective with AI technology advancing to smoke image detection, where filtering and recognition functions on light reflections, shades, shapes, and textures etc, get well trained by sufficient datasets collected and cooked in optical spectroscopy domain knowledge."
Jhorman Perez, Fireflyting, "Fireflyting is a service for wildfire prevention through real-time risk assessment with UAVs and AI technology."

CrowdDoing Wildfire Prevention Derivatives colleagues will participate across sessions as co-hosts, offering questions in addition to questions from the audience: Claudia Brenner, CrowdDoing Prevention Derivatives Principal Investigator; Tobias Tenman, Mikhail Teverovskiy, CrowdDoing Wildfire Prevention Derivatives Lead Data Scientist; Yangbo Du, Goutam Sinha, CrowdDoing Wildfire Prevention Derivatives Grant-writing Lead & Chief Business Officer; Charlie Barron, Tom Watson, Aaron Hardiman, Bobby Fishkin

Systems Change reactions from Sarah Olsen, Bobby Fishkin, Saskia Verraes