DATE: September 18, 2025

TIME: 9:45 am - 10:30 am

LOCATION: Minneapolis Convention Center | Minneapolis MN

About the event

IFMA’s World Workplace is a powerfully engaging and deeply instructive experience that has helped facility management and related buildings professionals manage and master change for three decades. It is universally recognized as the original forum for advanced discussion and discovery on facility optimization in an ever-evolving business environment.

World Workplace focuses on how FMs at every career stage and facilities of every type can perform at the highest level. It is a springboard for professional success and organizational transformation. It not only keeps FMs a step ahead, it readies them to take the lead on policies and practices essential to adapting and thriving as a future-ready organization.

Beyond the Flames: Protecting Buildings & Occupants from Wildfire & WUI Risks

Cristi Bell-Huff, Ph.D.

Director of Partnerships and Outreach, UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights

Cristi Bell-Huff serves as the Director of Partnerships and Outreach at Chemical Insights Research Institute. She is responsible for driving the institute’s partnership strategy, identifying and cultivating relationships with key organizations to advance research initiatives. Additionally, Bell-Huff ensures the strategic tracking and dissemination of research materials to maximize their visibility and impact.

Bell-Huff previously served as a Lecturer and the Director of Faculty and Student Training in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has also been an engineering faculty member at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, an M.A. in Education from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Venue

Minneapolis Convention Center

1301 2nd Ave S

Minneapolis, MN 55404