
Alberta Fire Training Conference
Coast Hotel, Lethbridge
Friday October 21 & Saturday October 22, 2022
The Conference
Two Days of Exciting Stuff
Friday & Saturday
The Alberta Fire Training Conference is proud to bring together the best speakers and industry professionals to share their knowledge and experience within the fire service.
The sessions will expand your knowledge and provide practical and intellectual insight into emergency services. HOT training offered prior to the conference gives you hands-on experience with a real-life fire fighting scenario, while the trade show offers a glimpse at the wide range of technologies and services available for you to bring to your team.
Join us for two days of speakers, tradeshow and training where you'll learn to lead tomorrow's fire service.

Live HOT Training
Friday October 21, 2022
Hands-on Experience You Don't Want to Miss!
LOW SLOPE AWARENESS
Individuals will be introduced to low slope technical rescue equipment as well as various low slope practical scenarios. Training will include rope techniques to assist with problem solving along with an introduction/review of practical knots, improvised anchors, handlines, harnesses, simple belays, mechanical advantage and rappelling.
LPG FIRE TRAINING
This session is based on current NFPA standards consisting of classroom and live-fire exercises using a mobile live fire prop.
Keynotes 2022
EXCITING THINGS ARE COMING YOUR WAY
Stay tuned for information regarding our 2022 Conference!
Noteworthy Speakers
Friday and Saturday
Proud to bring inspirational speakers with a wealth of experience.
DANIEL SUNDAHL
Daniel was born in Alberta, Canada. Taking up a global residency as an English language teacher in Egypt, Mexico, Indonesia, and Japan, he is now a firefighter and paramedic for the City of Leduc. His love of photography began on his travels, and as his technique developed, he started to produce a blend of photography and graphic art, which he calls Photo Art. Most of the Daniel’s work involves emergency services photography. It involves an emotional connection to the artist as most of his pieces are based on actual emergency calls, he has attended as a paramedic and firefighter. He’s passionate about reducing the stigma of PTSD for first responders and he uses his art to raise awareness of occupational stress injuries worldwide. He is a published artist and writer and has two art books produced of his works. Articles of his work have been featured in Canadian Paramedicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine (JEMS), Fire Rescue Magazine in Greece and EMS World Magazine. His art is recognized worldwide, and he travels internationally speaking on his art and personal experiences with occupational stress injuries. He’s a prehospital doctor, a professional public speaker, photographer, and photo editor.
LAURA KING
Laura King is the NFPA’s new public-education representative for Canada, helping departments build fire- and life-safety programs. Laura was a journalist for more than 30 years and worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers across Canada; she was editor of Fire Fighting in Canada and Canadian Firefighter magazines for 10 years before moving to NFPA in September 2017. Laura is a former Canadian correspondent for The Deal, a business newspaper in New York, and was for many years a regular columnist for a U.S. legal magazine, The American Lawyer. Laura has an honours degree in journalism, political science and public administration from Carleton University, and a certificate in Introduction to Incident Management Systems; she is a certified Road to Mental Readiness instructor, and is NFPA 1035 certified as a fire-and-life-safety officer. Laura lives in Oakville, but she’s from Cape Breton, and comes from a family of fire-safety fanatics!
Thank you to our Past Sponsors
5th Alarm







Tactical Innovations Canada
4th Alarm

3rd Alarm
Ben's Office Supplies

2nd Alarm
Pahl's Auto


Interested in becoming a sponsor?
Tradeshow
Friday and Saturday
Friday October 21 - 4:00pm to 9:00pm
Saturday October 22 - 8:00am to 3:00pm
Support our conference and promote your business by displaying your booth at our 2022 event.

Banquet &
Silent Auction
Saturday at 1800 hours
Banquet Room, Coast Hotel
Keynote Speaker: TBA
The Venue
Coast Hotel, Lethbridge, AB
526 Mayor Magrath Drive S, Lethbridge, AB
Hotel Bookings
Coast Hotel, Lethbridge
The AFTC is proud to offer a special registration rate for our attendees at our venue, the Coast Hotel. Call to book your room and mention that you are an attendee of the Alberta Fire Training Conference in order to get your special rate.
403-327-5701
Pricing
The more you participate, the more you save! Coming soon - 2022 prices
READY TO REGISTER?
Then let's get started...BUT WAIT... REGISTRATION OPENS ON JULY 1



Contact Us
Conference Registration
Sponsorship
President
Nathan Cote
403-654-7438
firechief@mdtaber.ab.ca
Booth Contacts
Steve Munshaw
403-634-7675
fire.chief@taber.ca
or
Steve Swarbrick
403-223-6010
steve.swarbrick@taber.ca
Sponsorships
FIRST ALARM: $100 - $300
- listed in conference program
- featured in the PowerPoint Presentation
SECOND ALARM: $301 - $600
- listed in conference program
- featured in the PowerPoint Presentation
- promotional material included in delegates’ welcome bag
THIRD ALARM: $601 - $999
- listed in conference program
- featured in PowerPoint Presentation
- promotional material included in delegates' welcome bag
- logo listed and linked on AFTC website
- sponsorship reognition at coffee breaks
FOURTH ALARM: $1,000 - $2,000
- highlighted in conference program
- featured in PowerPoint Presentation
- promotional material included in delegates' welcome bag
- logo listed and linked on AFTC website
- sponsorship recognition at coffee breaks
FIFTH ALARM: $2,001 or greater
- highlighted in conference program
- featured in Powerpoint Presentation
- promotional material included in delegates' welcome bag
- logo listed and linked on AFTC website
- sponsorship recognition at lunch/banquet
- banner displayed at lunch/banquet