

Making California More Fire Resilient at Scale: De-Risking the Grid, Land, and Capital
California’s wildfire crisis is no longer just an environmental challenge — it is a systemic risk impacting the power grid, insurance markets, housing affordability, and the broader economy.
As wildfire frequency and severity increase across diverse ecosystems, the state must shift from reactive disaster response to proactive risk management.
Topics for discussion include:
What does a fire resilient California look like in 5-7 years?
How can we keep a community from burning down if there is fire in the area? What are the key risks and bottlenecks associated with each risk?
How do we tell the ROI story about risk mitigated, lives and communities saved, and loss prevented to different key audiences?
What are the key skills that we'll need to keep California and the rest of the world safe from wildfire over the long term?
Panelists:
Meredith Fowlie, Professor, Agriculture and Resource Economics and Director, Haas Energy Institute, UC Berkeley
Aren Page, CEO and Founder, GridIQ
Nancy Watkins, Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman US
Allison Wolff, CEO, Vibrant Planet
Moderator:
Paula Reinman, Principal, Impactful
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