2023 FiRe AGENDA

3:00PM

Registration

Location: Cove Terrace

Registration is open! Come check in, get your badge and conference materials.

4:00PM

Opening Reception

Location: Cove Terrace

Welcome to FiRe!

Come register, get your badge and conference materials, and meet your fellow participants on the Cove Terrace. Enjoy the view of Catalina Island, a sip of wine, and the brilliant, varied company of our 2023 attendees and speakers. It’s going to be quite a week.

6:00PM

Dinner

Location: Point Vicente Room

Join fellow participants for a multicourse dinner in the Point Vicente room, featuring an introductory talk by FiRe CEO and chair Mark Anderson and an evening keynote by Dennis Bushnell, outgoing chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center.

6:30PM

Welcome

Location: Point Vicente Room

Berit Anderson

Berit Anderson

COO, FiRe

A welcome and peek at the week ahead from Future in Review COO Berit Anderson.

6:40PM

Plan A vs. Planet B

Location: Point Vicente Room

Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson

Chair &CEO, FiRe

It is impossible to separate plans for global resilience from their timescales. Any solution must also have financial benefits to all parties. By including these considerations in a pattern-driven view of options, Mark will suggest a rather simple, if challenging, approach to quickly ending global warming.

7:00PM

Energy Breakthroughs & Profitable Solutions for the Climate Emergency

Location: Point Vicente Room

Dennis Bushnell

Dennis Bushnell

Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center

NASA Langley’s just-retired chief scientist and all-around climate systems savant will share five ways to profitably mitigate climate change at scale within the next 5 years.