^{Date Published: 08 Sep 2008 10:30am}

The 2008 AFAC Bushfire CRC Conference has been a great success with approximately 1100 delegates and 100 trade exhibitors attending the four day workshop and seminar program.

The theme of this year’s conference was Fire: environment and society and included the Bushfire CRC’s International Research Conference.

The conference program featured a wide range of international, Australasian and local speakers who presented on issues that stimulated, informed and entertained.

This included presentations on fire fighting techniques, incident management, community safety, climate change, fuel management, demographics and its effects on volunteerism and firefighter health and safety.

This year also saw the inclusion of thematic sessions which were a series of interactive workshops that provided delegates an opportunity to participate in open forums on a range of topics.

The AFAC Knowledge Web was also launched at the Conference with the Knowledge Web exhibitor stand receiving lots of traffic and positive feedback throughout the conference.

The conference received wide coverage from State and National ABC Radio including coverage on a dedicated ABC website.  You can visit the ABC site to read a wide range of interviews from the conference.

The papers and presentations from the conference will be posted on the Knowledge Web over the coming months.