MABAS Wisconsin Conference September 25th to the 27th, 2025
at the Holiday Inn Stevens Point, 1001 Amber Avenue.
Link for Holiday Ill Reservations Stevens Point
Rates $98 Single Occupancy $120 Double Occupancy - Group Name MABAS


2025 MABAS WI Conference Agenda

To register for the conference go here
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2025 MABAS WI Conference - September 25th to the 27th in conjunction with WEMA.
Vendor Information below

Agenda for the 2025 MABAS Wisconsin Conference coming soon

September 25: Thursday
1000- 1200 hours—multi-State meeting -Breakout room TBD
1500 hours-- Registration opens
1600 hours-- Training Team Meeting --Wisconsin Room
1630 hours—MABAS-Wi E-Board meeting --Wisconsin Room
1830 hours-- Division Presidents/Regional meetings begin—Chief Ripp
1900 hours-- Registration closes for the day.

September 26: Friday
0700 hours-- Training Team Meeting-- Wisconsin Room (breakfast on your own)
                    ** Note Amber Grill opens at 0630?
700 hours-- Registration reopens.
0800 hours-- Conference Opens—Chief Ripp
0805 hours—Stevens Point/Plover Honor Guard/Pledge of allegiance
0810 hours-- Comments from WEM Administrator—Greg Engle
0830 hours-- Badger RED update

0845 hours—First break with vendors
0900 hours—MABAS-WI Annual Meeting—Chief Ripp
                      --Presentation of Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award—President Ripp
1000 hours—General Session #1—Krista Thompson-Tech Rescue/Grain Bin Rescue
1200 hours—Lunch—
1230 hours-- Visit with vendors
1300 hours—Keynote presentation—WI-TF1 Recent Deployments/Lessons Learned
1500 hours—Break with vendors
1515 hours—Breakout Sessions—
                            Dispatcher-Back to basics.
                            Fire-New State Contracts-MABAS Ill.& Chief Ripp
1700 hours—Conference ends for the day
1730 hours—Hors d’oeuvres and social hour- Vendor Area

September 27:Saturday
0700 hours—Training Team Meeting --Wisconsin Room (breakfast on your own)
                     ** Note Amber Grill opens at 0630?
0700 hours—Registration reopens
0730 hours—Vendors reopen
0800 hours—Conference reopens—Chief Ripp
0810 hours—General Session#2—Justin MacDonald-Fire Chief Village of Ephraim
                            Mutual Aid on a Peninsula
Discussion on how our County utilizes Mutual Aid from one direction along with
review of several Strike Team responses to our County and how long our wait is for the
resources to arrive.  Discussion on how we utilized MABAS within our County and the challenges
we have.

0940 hours—Break with vendors
1000 hours—General Session #3—Todd Messer-Brooklyn Park MN. PTSD
1130 hours—1200—Open Mic/Suggestion box –Chief Ripp

End of Conference
1230—Conference Team Debrief

2025 MABAS Wisconsin Annual Conference VENDOR INFORMATION

2025 Conference Vendor Document Download in Adobe PDF

To All Vendors,

On behalf of MABAS-WI we would like to extend an invitation to you to attend the 2025 MABAS-WI Conference on Sept 25th through Sept 27th , 2025 in Stevens Point at the Holiday Inn & Convention Center, 1001 Amber Ave. We will be combining our efforts with the Wisconsin Emergency Management Assocation or WEMA by holding our two conferences back-to-back to allow any vendors that wish to attend both at a discounted rate. Information for attending both conferences is in the vendor packet and registration form that is attached. We are also seeking one or two vendors to help sponsor a hospitability night and room on Friday night at the conference grounds, if you're interested please contact me. Any further questions please let me know, I hope that you will all consider attending both conferences, we will have many great attendees from around the state and from states around as we welcome other MABAS states representatives to the multi-state meeting Thursday morning and throughout the conference. Thank you for your consideration and support! Respectfully!

Quentin Popp

MABAS-WI Treasurer

715-829-3550

treasurer@mabaswisconsin.org