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Senator Becker Presents: Fight Fire with Tech; Bay Area Innovations to Combat Wildfires

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VIDEO. Presented Tuesday, June 29th @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm by Zoom.

The biggest technological advances in 20 years for fire analysis and suppression.

 

 

The RAIN system: Drones that autonomously detect and contain wildfire ignitions. The picture shows the drone dropping water on a fire. Watch the whole video.

 

Presenters

Jessica Morse, Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildfire Resilience at the California Natural Resources Agency.

Jonathan Cox, Deputy Chief of CalFire for San Mateo County.

David Buckley, COO of Technosylva.”A Milestone of Technological Integration. The leading provider of wildfire incident management and risk analysis in California and state agencies across the U.S..”

Charlie Crocker, Co-founder of Zone Haven Evacuation Management Platform.

Sonja Kastner, expert in AI and internet for climate resilience and Co-founder of Pano AI
Max Brodie the CEO and Co-Founder of RAIN, in Palo Alto. Technology to detect a fire with 10 seconds of ignition ~ “All fires start small”.
Sudarshan Sridharan, Founder of Fion Technologies, in Burlingame. Provide active fire monitoring and prediction software for businesses and government. “Detect fires when they start. Stop them before they spread. Fion’s machine learning model packages highly accurate fire prediction & detection, spread prediction and destruction estimation into custom dashboards for fire departments, forestry services, financial institutions and insurance companies.

Senator Josh Becker

 

Dear Friends:

Here in the Bay Area, there are countless efforts underway to develop technology driven solutions to better respond to and reduce the risk of devastating wildfires. Representing this district, I feel like I have an opportunity and a responsibility to help promising technologies connect with our state and local leaders that are fighting wildfires.

Please join me along with Jessica Morse, Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildfire Resilience at California Natural Resources Agency and Jonathan Cox, Deputy Chief of CAL FIRE, San Mateo Division. In addition, representatives from the tech community will be joining us to discuss innovative technologies, tools, and strategies to prevent, mitigate, and combat wildfires.

State Senator Josh Becker Invites You To

An Online Town Hall:

“Fight Fire with Tech: Bay Area Innovations to Combat Wildfires”

Tuesday, June 29th

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Please click here to RSVP

To RSVP, submit a question, or tell us about an initiative, startup, or other organization focused on wildfire technology, please click the link above. The event is open to the public and will livestream at sd13.senate.ca.gov.

Sincerely,

Josh Becker
State Senator, 13th District

 

 

California State Senator Senator Josh Becker – District 13
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