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
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
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
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.