What's Innovating on the Frontlines: The FireTech Podcast about?
Welcome to the FireTech Podcast! This mini podcast delivers insights from innovators on the frontlines of the wildfire crisis in America. Host Shefali Lakhina asks how innovation unfolds in public agencies tasked with wildfire preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. She speaks with fire captains and operators from across the country to understand innovation cycles and early adopter perspectives on FireTech. Episodes offer a deep dive into agency and user experiences with co-developing and deploying technology on the frontlines. The mini podcast aims to spotlight what the innovation cycle looks like for boots on the ground and what kind of FireTech is useful, usable, and actually used on the frontlines.
