Program

7:15am – 8:15am

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Breakfast

7:15am – 7:00pm

Trade Show Open

8:00am - 8:25am

CFSA Welcome - Guest Speaker

Michael Tibollo, MPP Vaughan and Associate Attorney General

8:30am - 9:30am

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Session 1 
Adopting Fluorine-Free Foam Systems

Philip Novac, National Foam

9:30am - 10:00am

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Break

10:00am - 11:30am

Session 2 - Keynote Speaker
Wildland Urban Interface Fire Research 

John Adam Gales, PhD., P.Eng., York University

11:35am - 12:20pm

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CAN/ULC S536 & S537 

Tim Renaud, Honeywell 

12:20pm - 12:45pm

Scholarship Awards

12:20pm - 1:45pm

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Lunch

1:45pm - 2:30pm

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Session 3 
Changing Fire Alarm Systems in Existing Buildings - The Like For Like Lie

Paul Latreille, Jensen Hughes

2:30pm - 3:15pm

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Session 4 
FM Property Loss Prevention 7-112: Mitigating Risks in Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturing and Storage

Neil Chaudhuri, P.Eng, FM 

3:15pm - 3:45pm

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Break 

3:45pm - 4:30pm

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Session 5 
Fire Protection Water Supplies - Is A Flow Test Enough?

Craig Sider, P.E., Harrington Group, Inc.

4:30pm - 5:15pm

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Session 6 
Key Updates in the 2019 NFPA 13 Editions: What You Need to Know

Shawn Mahoney, P.E., National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

5:00pm - 7:00pm 

Reception in Trade Show 

7:30am – 4:00pm

Trade Show Opens

7:30am - 8:20am

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Breakfast on Trade Show Floor

8:00am - 8:30am

CFSA Annual General Meeting

8:30am - 9:30am

Session 7
Update from the Office of the Fire Marshal 

Carrie Clark, Deputy Fire Marshall, Province of Ontario

9:30am - 10:00am

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Break 

10:00am - 11:00am

Session 8 
Beyond Standard Codes: Alternative Design Solutions for Warehouses and Industrial Buildings

Leslie Sims, P.Eng., Arencon

11:00am - 11:45am

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Enhancing Inspection Processes: Exploring Strategic Approaches

Paul Amendola, Tap Report

11:45am - 1:15pm

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Lunch  

1:15pm - 2:15pm

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Session 9 
Alternative Solutions and Alternate Measures: How Engineering and Life Safety Discovered the Secret Sauce to Make the Seemingly Impossible, Possible

Judith Myddelton, LRI Engineering
Farzan Ikhlas, LRI Engineering

2:15pm - 3:00pm

Session 10 
Advancing the Use of Mass Timber in Provincial Codes

Vusal Ibrahim, M.A.Sc., E.I.T., Canadian Wood Council

3:00pm - 3:20pm

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Break

3:20pm - 4:20pm

Session 11 
Continuity and Integrity of Fire Separations - Firestop Systems

Donald F. Falconer, P.Eng., Falconer Engineering
John Sharpe, Pro-Firestop Inc.
 

4:20pm - 4:35pm 

Closing