AWE+ 2025 Collaborative
Wildfire & Beyond – Building an Adaptable and Resilient World
The AWE+2025 Collaborative will carry forward and reinforce the objectives of AWE+, a DRI global initiative formed in 2024 to strengthen collaborative efforts in building an Adaptable World Environment against weather extremes such as wildfire, heatwaves, flooding, and droughts. AWE+2025 will build upon conversations started at the August 2024 AWE+ summit where DRI brought together stakeholders of various disciplinary backgrounds to consider matters of resilience and recovery in light of the devastating impacts of wildfires occurring with increasing intensity across the United States and Canada.
We invite 2024 participants to continue the conversation
and welcome interested persons new to the AWE+ experience to join right in.
2025 Agenda
Continental Breakfast
Opening Remarks — Introduction to AWE+2025
Session One — Moving the Resilience Needle on Wildfire: Facing the Inevitable
Break
Session Two — Wildfire Resilience: The Los Angeles Fires as a Case for Urgent Change and Adaptation
Luncheon
Session Three — Drilling Down on Cascading Impacts of Fire: Air Quality and Soil Toxicity, Hydrology, and Human Ecosystems
Session Four — Drilling Down on Synergistic Effects: Wildfire Smoke and Extreme Heat
Break
Concluding Remarks — A Glimpse of a Future Awe+ Summit: Potential Next Big Weather Imperatives
President’s Cocktail Reception and DRI Demonstrations
Additional details will be available soon.