TechTalk: Battling the New Era of Fire Risk w/ Tony Overstead (Flame Security International)

Investor-focused fireside with a founder deploying fire-resistant coatings in extreme environments, real climate adaptation tech and where the commercial opportunity sits.

Tony Overstead has spent a decade engineering fire protection systems for extreme environments, and he'll walk through the commercial logic of why wildfire risk is accelerating faster than our infrastructure can adapt. Expect a practical conversation on where passive protection systems create defensible margins against catastrophic loss, and which sectors represent the highest-value deployment opportunities. This is investor-focused territory, so the emphasis stays on scalability, regulatory pathways, and the economic case for climate adaptation tech rather than pure climate science. You'll get insight into how advanced coatings and materials are moving from niche to necessary infrastructure across energy, defence, and the built environment. Networking follows the fireside chat.