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?

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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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