Plenary Speakers:
Professor Guan Heng Yeoh (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Plenary title: New Fire Protection Technologies for Bushfire Condition. | |
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Yong Wang (University of Manchester, UK) Keynote title: Bridging gaps of research and practice of fire resistance. | |
Professor Guo-Qiang LI (Tongji University, China) Keynote title: Challenging Issues on Fire-Resistance of Steel Buildings. | |
Professor Asif S Usmani (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Keynote title: The SureFire Project on Smart Firefighting in Dense Urban Environments. | |
Professor Pingan Song (University of Southern Queensland, Australia) Keynote title: Engineering bioinspired fire-retardant coatings for general fire protection. | |
Professor Jason J. Sharples (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) Keynote title: Modelling ember storms at the wildland-urban interface. | |
Professor LEE Wai Ming (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Keynote title: Recent Developments in Building Evacuation Models for Fire Emergencies. | |
Associate Professor Kate Nguyen (RMIT, Australia) Keynote title: Risk mitigation for combustible cladding in residential buildings | |
Dr Linus Lim ( Technical Director, Holmes Australia LP) Keynote title: The challenges of designing and building for fire resistance of structures in an ever-changing building environment | |
Mark Whybro AFSM (Chair of Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition Australia) Keynote title: When Seconds Matter: Home and Residential Fire Sprinklers |
Invited Speakers:
Professor Khalid Moinuddin (Victoria University, Australia) Invited title: Physical modelling of dynamic bushfire propagation leading to parameterization for operational modelling | |
Associate Professor Wei Li (Tsinghua University, China) Invited title: Structural performance of CFST structures after exposed to fire | |
Dr Maryam Ghodrat (University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia) Invited title: Effect of Terrian Characteristics on Wind Fire Interaction in Wildland Urban Interface | |
Assistant Professor Dr Anthony Chun Yin Yuen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Invited title: Computational Material Synthesis Approach for Characterising Flame-Retardant Mechanisms of Composite Polymers |