The increasing availability of large amounts of data and its analysis with intelligent software and AI opens up the possibility of planning fire protection concepts more comprehensively and designing them more accurately and realistically. In this expert interview, you will learn how historical fire data can help to better assess future risks, create simulations and scenarios based on real events and thus develop innovative and effective fire protection strategies. Among other things, you will gain insights into the importance of data in fire safety planning, the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the development of data-based fire safety concepts, and much more.