The IAWF is one of the partners in the Aerial Firefighting Conference which will be held October 21-22, 2008 in Athens, Greece. Numerous vendors and users of wildland fire aircraft are already committed to participating.

This is the first aerial firefighting conference in many years and should be very worthwhile for those involved in managing or using wildland fire aircraft. It will address both the global issues and aerial technologies and techniques necessary to attack both low-populated forest and agricultural wildfires and the highly-populated urban and high-rise environments. This conference will bring together the worlds experts and focus on aerial firefighting technologies and operations, including the cooperation and collaboration experiences and lessons learned in ground-to-air firefighting management.