Name
Ask the Experts, Part 1
Date & Time
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Location Name
Chesapeake D-F
Track
Updates
Description
This is your first of two opportunities to ask a panel of the industry's top technical minds about any NFPA standards. It can be challenging to keep up to date with dozens of applicable standards on a constant three-year update cycle. Our panel of experts wrote the books and will be on hand to discuss all your burning technical questions. They can help with questions ranging from understanding actual updates to decoding intent and the historical framework of the standards. This interactive seminar, the first of two offered at AFSA44, will help you find answers to questions that are otherwise hard to find. We challenge you to try and stump our experts!
Upon completion of this seminar, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the basic NFPA standard update process.
- Explain how to find answers in the codes and standards.
- Restate how to get help interpreting and applying codes and standards.
Speakers
Kerry Bell - UL Solutions
Louis Guerrazzi - Victaulic
Shaun Kramer - Viking Corp.
Melisa Rodriguez, P.E., SET - JCI
Weston C. Baker, Jr. - FM Global
Tracey Bellamy, P.E., CFPS, CWBSP - Telgian Engineering and Consulting
George Nicola, CFPS - The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc.
Louis Guerrazzi - Victaulic
Shaun Kramer - Viking Corp.
Melisa Rodriguez, P.E., SET - JCI
Weston C. Baker, Jr. - FM Global
Tracey Bellamy, P.E., CFPS, CWBSP - Telgian Engineering and Consulting
George Nicola, CFPS - The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc.







CEU
0.1
CPD
1
Contact Hours
1
ICC
ICC# 47604