Keynote/Invited Speakers

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