From Ash to Action: An Industry Roundtable on Rebuilding After the L.A. Fires

Seminar Description:
Though it’s been over a year since the Palisades and Eaton fires devastated Southern California communities, the rebuild is ramping up — and the window to shape how it unfolds is closing. This panel brings together association leaders from building, landscape architecture, landscape maintenance, and arboriculture for a frank, birds-eye assessment of the recovery effort. Panelists will share progress updates within their disciplines, surface blind spots and cross-industry gaps, celebrate wins, and identify the knowledge and skills practitioners need most right now. Whether attendees design, install, or maintain, they will walk away with real-world insight and actionable guidance for navigating the rebuild and for building greater fire resilience into everything they do going forward.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the current progress, persistent bottlenecks, and cross-disciplinary gaps in the post-fire rebuild as reported by professionals in building, landscape architecture, landscape maintenance, and aboriculture.
2. Evaluate practice strategies and emerging best practices that design, installation, and maintenance professionals can apply immediately as rebuild activity accelerates.
3. Recognize opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration between building, landscape architecture, landscape maintenance, and aboriculture professionals to strengthen fire-resilient design, construction, and long-term maintenance both in preparation for and in response to future wildfire events.