Classes

Wildland Fire & Mobilization App & Update

3:30 - 5:00 pm
2025-Ed-Seminar-Tuesday, April 22
Location: Great Hall D
Speakers: Jeff Wainwright, Jen Pennington, Megan Durham, Kevin Haughton

Jen Pennington, Jeff Wainwright and Kevin Haughton will demonstrate the features found on the newly created Wildland Fire App. Megan Durham, a developer with Rhizome will also be on hand to ensure members are able to access the data from their mobile devices.

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About the Speakers

Jeff Wainwright

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Jen Pennington

Jen is the founder and creative director of The Rhizome Collaborative, a creative and digital agency specializing in impactful content, website development, and technical solutions for socially responsible organizations and eco-friendly businesses and gov agencies. Jen has been working with the State Council since 2015. Since then, her team has been responsible for the...

Megan Durham

Megan has been working in digital marketing and website design since the early days of the internet- back when she stumbled into making Angelfire fan websites and never managed to pull herself back out. For the last ten years she’s only dug deeper into the digital realm, and specializes in SEO and marketing consultation...

Kevin Haughton

     After 20 years working on an Incident Management Team, I have watched our region’s teams constantly operate short staffed and eventually fold.  As we move into the future and the Federal and State resources become scarcer there is an opportunity for us to take a larger role in All Risk/Wildland Fire Incident response....

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