Event proceedings
AFAC stages events and conferences so that those involved in the emergency management profession have access to knowledge, insights and learning.
Learn more about our past events.
Lessons Management Forum
Lessons Management Forum 2026 proceedings
The Lessons Management Forum 2026 was a hybrid event held in Brisbane, Queensland and online.
Lessons Management Forum 2025 proceedings
The Lessons Management Forum 2025 was a hybrid event held in Wellington, New Zealand and online.
Lessons Management Forum 2024
Lessons Management Forum 2023
Closing the loop: the challenges of change
Lessons Management Forum 2022
What does success look like?
Lessons Management webinar series 2020
The Lessons Management webinar series continues to build upon the current expertise and understanding from across the practice.
Lessons Management Forum 2019
Are we learning?
Lessons Management Forum 2018
Presenters shared their own experience on lessons identified from major hazards and events and insights into lessons learnt.
Lessons Management Forum 2017
Presenters shared case studies on how they learned lessons from recent major hazards and provided insights on process capabilities.
Lessons Management Forum 2016
The potential for using lessons management as a whole-of-emergency management learning approach, encompassing all preparedness, prevention, response and recovery, was also discussed.
Stewart & Heaton Events
Collaborative pathways: enhancing community outcomes together - Masterclass Proceedings
Celebrating world community engagement day, the Queensland Fire Department sponsored by Stewart & Heaton Clothing Company shared their experiences on collaborating with partner stakeholders and vulnerable communities to co-design inclusive grassroots community engagement strategies with our diverse communities.
Thriving in Emergency Services
This forum showcases the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, WA (DFES) Thrive at Work and SMART Work Design programs undertaken to improve their workforce’s mental health.
Wellbeing: the Tasmanian Context
Stewart & Heaton Masterclass is an annual AFAC Knowledge Event delivered as part of the Stewart & Heaton Leading Practice in Mental Health Award. The 2022 Masterclass was hosted by the Tasmanian Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management.
Stewart and Heaton Webinar series
With an emphasis on workplace resilience and leaders by influence, this event is a component of the Leading Practice in Mental Health Award.
Healthy Ageing, Healthy Retirement Masterclass for first responders
Recognising the continued need to address mental health and wellbeing issues facing fire and emergency service personnel across Australasia, AFAC hosted the Healthy Ageing, Healthy Retirement Masterclass.
Knowledge Event Series
AFAC and CFA webinar proceedings: The limits of suppression: What we’ve learnt from 5 years of bush and grass fire suppression research in Victoria
View the webinar recording and download the slides from the The limits of suppression: What we’ve learnt from 5 years of bush and grass fire suppression research in Victoria webinar hosted by AFAC and CFA on 17 June 2026.
Operational response and lithium-ion batteries
AFAC, with the support of Motorola Solutions Foundation, presented a Knowledge Event Series across nine locations in Australia and New Zealand in October 2022.
Leading under pressure
One of the key functions of AFAC is to collaborate and share knowledge. This is the aim of the Knowledge Event Series, held annually across nine locations in Australia and New Zealand, supported by the Motorola Solutions Foundation.
Sharing resources in response to multi-hazard events: perspectives from Texas, USA
To learn from the lessons of previous deployments and understand how resource sharing arrangement can be maintained into the future, AFAC and Motorola have teamed up to deliver the 2019 Knowledge Event Series on the topic ‘sharing resources in response to multi-hazard events: perspectives from Texas, USA’.
Cascading events in California, 2017–18
The 2018 Motorola Solutions Knowledge Event Series explored the series of cascading natural hazard events that took place in California throughout 2017–18.
Practical lessons learned from the evolving fire and emergency services sector in the UK: a contemporary perspective on leadership
AFAC and Motorola Solutions present a professional development opportunity to learn about leadership and collaboration between sectors from an international perspective.
Lessons learnt from the Paris Terror Attacks
Throughout May and June, the AFAC Knowledge Event Series: Lessons learnt from the Paris Terror Attacks was held in eight locations across Australia and in New Zealand.
The challenges of a multi-storey high rise residential fire
With the support of Motorola Solutions, AFAC is pleased to present this seminar exploring the challenges of a multi-storey high rise residential fire based on learnings from a structure fire that occurred in Docklands, VIC.