Agenda
Day 1
March 4, 2025
Registration Opens
Opening Comments from the Co-Chairs
Industry Law Enforcement Partnerships for Effective AI Adoption and Integration
This session will provide an overview of how Digital Evidence Management Systems (DEMS) work, and how it can interface with the partners in Justice.
- Managing the tsunami of evidence from collecting, storing, analyzing and sharing evidence – exploring the functionality of DEMS
- Ensuring evidence can be shared, and not locked in silos
- Examining the benefits of a DEMS system to the police service, and to law enforcement partners, such as Crown counsel
- Opportunities for automating the process
- Examining the challenges of integration, including storage volume concerns
- Redaction, vetting, disclosure
DEMO
Exhibit Hall and Networking
- Building cyber resources and resiliency through tech and integration
- Training your team to recognize and respond to threats
- Examining how and why law enforcement agencies are attractive targets for attacks, and prevention methods
DEMO
Networking Luncheon
- Exploring use cases for predictive analytics such as pattern recognition for crime hot spots, or search and rescue
- Discuss how AI can be used, and how analysis examine data, create reports, and use dashboards and automated crime zone maps
- Gleaning crime trends and how police resources can be better allocated to respond
- Upgrading to cloud storage, identifying and overcoming challenges
- Storing large sums of data, and layered datasets
- Analysing the security gaps of cloud storage and the potential increased security of stored evidence
- Tracking chain of custody for evidence
- Determining the capability of cloud storage for large files, and general capacity
- Anticipating administration concerns with implementation
- Opportunities for breaking down silos between departments
DEMO
Hackers Welcome! Join us on the exhibit floor where hackers will be invited to take part in a hands-on public safety problem – and program their way out!
- Bring your laptops
- Pick your computer language
- Work the problem together or separately
- Discuss opportunities and resources
AI Policing
How Artificial Intelligence is Used for Facial Recognition and Object Identification – from Vehicles and Hats to Faces and Tattoos
- Using facial recognition functions for mug shots, operations, efficiencies and effectiveness, and how it can benefit casework
- Comparing current operations with the potential of AI identification functions
- Examining the implementation opportunities, integration into existing systems, and how it will impact current systems
- Deciphering how AI evidence will be acceptable to crown and counsel as acceptable in court, and the possible effect on case closure
The New Frontier of AI Threats: Examining the Adversarial Threat and the Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence
- Exploring the strategic direction police departments should take to adopt AI
- Exploring the integration of AI in policing and what does responsible integration look like
- Examining different policing frameworks and policies
- Analysing the benefits to policing, the officer and the public
- Communicating real and perceived dangers to the public – is the fear just hype?
- How can police operations catch up to AI – how to use for investigations and forensics.
- How to get the funding
- How do you get integrated capability?
- Keeping ahead of criminals, what’s tech is being used in crime and how can it be combatted
- Combatting AI bias
Closing remarks from the Co-Chairs Networking Reception
Day 2
March 5, 2025
Registration Opens
Opening Comments from the Co-Chairs
Early Riser Roundtables Discussions
Combatting Recruitment and Retention Challenges – Staffing and Scheduling Solutions
Your opportunity to drive the conversation! During this interactive session, delegates are invited to join a small group discussion table of their choice to unpack real-world instances of staffing and training challenges from a variety of perspectives. Delegates are encouraged to bring their experiences to the table for a facilitate constructive conversation. Delegates will have the option to rotate tables at intervals.
Table One: Top challenges for uniformed officers
Table Two: Top challenges for analysts
With new tech comes risk. This session will explore the risk of adopting new technology, and the risk of not keeping pace with the tech savvy criminal.
- Exploring reputation risk of adopting or not adopting new technology – what does the public demand of their police service and law enforcement
- Examining operational disruption and how new tech creates governance and compliance risk
- Ensuring a redundancy system in the event of single-point failure
DEMOS
Exhibit Hall and Networking
- Determining what real-time report writing looks like and how it can be used in the real world
- Examining hardware and software options
- Analyzing opportunities for officer efficiency, and fact checking the transcript
- Discussing “Key Words” as a filter, searching and saving functions
- Exploring opportunities for streamlining workflow processes.
Drones as First Responders: Enhancing Emergency Response and Opportunities for AI Object Recognition
Join this session to gain insights to the Provincial Drone Solution 2025 research project, in partnership with Ontario Tech University, Oshawa Fire, Durham Emergency Medical Services, Toronto Police Service and Ontario Power Generation.
- Using drones on top of buildings for automated dispatch while keeping the pilot in the office
- Leveraging partnerships
- Analyzing what data is collected, and opportunities for AI learning and object recognition
- Exploring the accuracy of licence plate reading, vehicle make and model, and provincial registration
- Background checks on vehicles involved in crimes, including drivers without a licence or insurance, or outstanding warrants, and unregistered vehicles
- Reviewing statics on charge increase
DEMOS
Networking Luncheon
- Determining what is the “want versus need” of adopting new tech, and determining the needs of the community versus the needs of the department
- Examining the threat of crime versus the police capability to combat crime
- Navigating around the different kinds of technology from the old, the new, and emerging
- Budgeting for a tech upgrade today, which may be out-of-date by implementation
- Explaining technology throughout the organization. What is the use of the technology, and do we know if there are secondary uses
- Onboard tech – legal, ethical, necessity, effectiveness
This session will examine the pros and cons of virtual crime reporting platform as well as a virtual police response. How does virtual police services benefit the public and how does they benefit police and the officer?
- Delineating which types of crime received the correct response from a virtual reporting system, such as Break and Enters
- Itemizing the benefits to citizens, including faster response times, convenience and positive police-public interactions
- Examining the benefits of an accommodated officer program
- Exploring operational options including virtual crime scene tours
- Combating nuisance reporting
Networking Break
Hear about the automated digital messaging system used to track and communicate with parolee check-ins. This follows the 2023 bail reform process to ensure those charged with offenses are appearing in court and abiding by parole conditions. This session will also review the Bail Compliance Dashboard used as an interactive dashboard that helps officers track and manage all firearm and gang related offenders on bail.
- Reviewing the changes in the Bail Reform process and establishing the need tech upgrade
- Converting paper records to digital,
- Creating swifter response time when a parolee misses check-in
- Examining challenges that were overcome and how
- Analysing efficiencies gained by the department, the officer and the offender
- Integrating interagency and “regionalization
This session will give a high-level overview of the national Body Worn Camera (BWC) rollout as well as a specific look at overcoming redaction challenges.
- Update on BWC footage storage, management and disclosure
- Finding efficiencies with video redaction software
- Examining what camera footage is accepted by the crown as evidence.