Advancing AI Innovation Through Cross-Functional Collaboration (4)

AltaML builds artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions to business problems. We work with organisations, bringing together their data and domain expertise with our AI expertise, to develop AI solutions that are deployed in their operations. We also commercialize AI-enabled products business via industry-specific ventures, yielding scalability from our investment in the first solution.
Wildfire workforce planning is under growing pressure due to increasingly severe and unpredictable fire seasons, rising burnout risk among frontline staff, and escalating overtime costs. In response, Marley will work alongside the Government of Alberta (GoA) to address these challenges through two core workstreams.
The first focuses on Duty Officer assignment optimization analyzing current scheduling practices, workload distribution, and assignment patterns to identify inefficiencies and develop smarter, more equitable approaches to rostering Duty Officers across fire seasons.
The second involves building predictive models and agentic AI tools that give leaders better foresight into workforce demand. This includes forecasting overtime requirements based on fire weather patterns and historical deployment data, flagging burnout and fatigue risk before it escalates, and surfacing actionable scheduling recommendations through intelligent decision-support agents that leaders can interact with directly.
Together, these workstreams aim to optimize pre-suppression overtime spending, support the health and sustainability of the wildfire workforce, and improve the quality of workforce planning decisions equipping GoA leaders with the insights and tools needed to plan proactively rather than react under pressure.

Faculty Supervisor:

Milana Trifkovic

Student:

Partner:

AltaML

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

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