Program – Advancing Wildfire Resilient Landscapes Implementation

The program

Tentative agenda (contents and timing may be updated)

Day 1

09:00 – 09:20	Opening, welcome Representative of European Commission Salvador Illa (or delegated representative), Government of Catalonia Representative of “la Caixa” Foundation Marc Palahí, CEO at CBA Antoni Trasobares, CEO at CTFC
09:20 – 10:00	SETTING THE SCENE Towards a nature-based economy – Marc Palahí, CBA The WRLN & the FIRE-RES programme – Antoni Trasobares, CTFC & CBA
10:15 – 11:30	ADVANCING WILDFIRE RESILIENCE Keynote: Addressing Integrated Wildfire Risk Management – Phillip SeLegue CAL FIRE, USA Panellists: Characterizing Extreme Wildfire Events – Marc Castellnou, Catalan Firefighter analyst (TBC) Multifunctional landscape design with local communities – José Borges, University of Lisboa Integrated Fire Management – Tiago Oliveira, University of Lisboa Governance – Val Charlton, Landworks
11:30 – 12:00	COFFEE
12:00 – 13:30	FINANCING IMPLEMENTATION: Creating robust public-private partnerships Moderator & co-note: Justin Adams, CBA Co-notes – panellists: Public funds – Juli Fernández, Government of Catalonia Philanthropy – Representative of “la Caixa” Foundation Rewarding of Environmental Services – Elena Górriz, CTFC Incorporating risk – Rowan Douglas, Honorary Practice Fellow, Insurance and Resilience, Imperial College London
13:30 – 15:00	LUNCH
15:00 – 19:00	THE 2026 GAVARRES WILDFIRE: Field visit Interventions by: David Meya, Government of Catalonia Edgar Nebot, sub-inspector at Catalan Fire and Rescue Service Joan Botey, forest owner Forest owner – TBC
	FREE TIME
20:30 – end	DINNER

Day 2

09:00 – 10:00	GOVERNANCE FOR WILDFIRE RESILIENCE Keynote: Eduard Plana, CTFC Catherine Gamper (TBC), OECD Representative of DG ECHO, European Commission Representative of Firewise community, Australia (TBC)
10:00 – 11:30	Living Labs perspectives – short presentations Moderator: Val Charlton, Landworks Catalonia (Mario Beltran), Canada (Aranya Iyer), Valencia (Maria González), Portugal (José Borges), Bulgaria (Georgi Kostov), Sardinia (Sara Maltoni), South Africa (Ross Kettles), Asturias (Juan Majada) and Chile (Rodrigo Mahaluf).
11:30 – 12:00	COFFEE
12:00 – 13:30	INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESILIENT LANDSCAPES Keynote: Joaquín Ramírez, CEO Technosylva Earth Observation – Pere Roca, Airbus WUI modelling – Jenifer Beverly, University of Alberta Wildfire and smoke behaviour – Jean-Baptiste Filippi, CNRS (TBC) Wildfire health impact monitoring – Mar Viana, IDAEA-CSIC Integrated management systems – Phillip SeLegue, CAL FIRE, USA
13:30 – 14:00	NEXT STEPS and CLOSING REMARKS
14:00 – 15:00	LUNCH