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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 2025 proceedings
2025, Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

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
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

Lessons Management Forum 2024

Lessons management: where to from here?

Lessons Management Forum 2023
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

Lessons Management Forum 2023

Closing the loop: the challenges of change

Lessons Management Forum 2022
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

Lessons Management Forum 2022

What does success look like?

Lessons Management webinar series 2020
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

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
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

Lessons Management Forum 2019

Are we learning?

Lessons Management Forum 2018
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

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
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

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
Knowledge, Innovation and Research Utilisation Community of Practice

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

Knowledge Event Series

Operational response and lithium-ion batteries
Informed by knowledge, innovation and research

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
Informed by knowledge, innovation and research

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
Informed by knowledge, innovation and research

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
Informed by knowledge, innovation and research

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
Informed by knowledge, innovation and research

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
Informed by knowledge, innovation and research

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
Informed by knowledge, innovation and research

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.