Agenda
Day 1
December 2, 2025
Registration Opens
Opening Remarks from the Co-Chairs
Discover how police services are now using AI for administrative work from transcription to reporting writing.
- Transcribes body-worn camera audio to draft reports, using the product Draft One from Axon and Microsoft, and Azure OpenAI
- Summarising case files and interview, and reporting writing using Microsoft Copilot
- Discussing how AI will be used across organizations, and by individual members
- Integration of technology and policy
- Safeguarding AI usage – what other checks and balances
- Determining how an AI-powered chatbot can assist an officer during a call for service – “Top three things I need to know”
- Assisting officers with employee administrative duties such as booking vacation time
- Crystal ball view of what is the future of AI in policing
This session will provide real-world takeaways on how integrating Body Worn Camera (BWC) footage into Digital Evidence Management Systems (DEMS) work, and how they can interface with the partners in government.
- Sharing BWC among officers versus camera’s having one operator – pros and cons
- Updating your BWC, docking systems, batteries – outdated parts and gear
- 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
- Overcoming the challenges of integration, including storage volume concerns
- Redaction, vetting and disclosure considerations
Exhibit Hall and Networking
Hear how Toronto Police Service is now training officers, while allow keeping officer’s eyes on the road! Find out how this service is using Artificial Intelligence software to summarize large text documents – including bulletins, case law and chief’s directors – and turning them into podcasts. This innovative training technique allows officers to keep up to date, while they drive on calls for service.
- Examining how the software is being utilized and implemented – what are the stages of changing the text into an audio format
- Determining what documents can appropriately be use for a podcast conversion, and why
- Analyzing the effectiveness of the training format – how well is this working for officers
- Calculating the cost savings of keeping officers on calls for service
Join this case study to hear how a hospital utilized public and private, data to recruit nursing staff. Discover how investing in new technology and processes was able to assist in closing the personnel gap. Examine the timelines and cost savings used during this case study.
DEMO
Networking Luncheon
DEMO
Hear how to process terabytes of data in minutes. This session will look at a series of cases studies whereby digital evidence was seized from a device, how the data was analyzed for changes and inconsistencies; specifically how to take years of text messages, from multiple cellphones and contrast the metadata.
- Analysing metadata from different sources to track consistencies – such as a recipient dropped from the thread
- Checking overlapping series of words to see whether the original messages have been changed from one message to the next
- Calculating the amount of data being processed in what timeframe, and how it compares to human processing time
This session will focus on the latest in Automated Licence Plate Readers (ALPR) and the integration with police vehicles.
- Integrating in-cameras and ALPR into your vehicle’s system
- Examining how different systems integrate together, from ALPR and cameras to the DEMS at the office
- Comparing the cellular solution versus an antenna versus a cloud connection
- Patching an Application Programming Interface (API) solution
- Evaluating 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 statistics on charge increase
DEMO
Exhibit Hall and Networking
Balancing community needs, politics, organizational structures, budgets while trying to bring innovation in a swiftly changing tech world is challenging. This session will discuss how police leaders are keeping their services on the cutting-edge of technology amid changing culture inside and outside the department.
- Top tips for non-tech savvy leaders – how to take your department into the future
- Communicating between leadership up and down the chain and outside of the department
- Determining what is best for the service
- Balancing the budget with department needs
- Determining what is best for public safety
- Perpetuating the tech integration plan amid leadership changes
Closing remarks from the Co-Chairs
Networking Reception
Day 2
December 3, 2025
Registration Opens
Opening Comments from the Co-Chairs
TRAINING SIMULATION
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Training: Ensuring Evidence-Based Standardized Training for Use-Of-Force and People in Crisis Calls
Using evidence-based research of people in crisis and interactions with police, the Wilfrid Laurier University’s Centre for Public Safety and Well-being is training police officers using live-active or virtual reality (VR) scenarios. This session will explore the wide range of training simulations available through VR and AR platform, how the training can be integrated into your operations and the real-world applications for team members.
- Meeting expectations outline in the Community Safety and Policing Act (2024)
- De-escalation techniques when dealing with members of the public in potentially violent situations, and including physical and mental impairments
- Implementing standardize training across a police department
- Cost-savings relative to live-action scenario training
- Exploring a greater range of dexterity when controlling bomb-disposal robots
Three Ontario police departments launched AI-driven facial recognition systems in 2024 and 2025 for the purposes of criminal investigations. The systems are using images from existing mugshot databases and tattoo databases in accordance with the Identification of Criminals Act.
- Supporting criminal investigations by speeding-up mugshot searches and decreasing human error
- Increasing officer safety
- Examining workflow, workload and the effect on criminal cases
- 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
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Exhibit Hall and Networking
PANEL
Demonstrating and Achieving the Projected ROI: Lessons Learned and Ensuring the Budget is Spent Wisely
Building new construction. They are building new buildings, that will be dated by the time it is constructed. But if they spent a little bit more money they would be ‘future proof.’ How can you show long-term ROI?
- Determining what is the “want versus need” of adopting new tech, and the needs of the community versus the department
- Examining the threat of crime versus the police capability to combat crime
- Assessing 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
- Onboarding tech—legal, ethical, necessity, effectiveness and more factors to consider
This session will discuss how to find efficiency when analyzing large data sets for disclosure, including text and image documents, from multiple sources. Discover how large amounts of data be legally gathered, stored, vetted, shared and disclosed to crown and defence.
- Finding efficiencies with correlating data from siloed places
- How data-driven policing can lead to more effective policing
- When does analyzing large data sets lead to predictive analytics
- Integrating with other data locations, versus using centralized hub
DEMO
Networking Luncheon
Discover lessons learned and how to safeguard your organization against highly complex cyberattacks against police agencies and government departments. This presentation will explore recent attacks to prescribe a framework for cyber defence in an AI saturated future.
- Calculating the cost a cyberbreach, the cost of implementing safeguards, and the cost of not having a security plan
- Examining the hallmarks of an attack, what to watch for, and the latest in deep fake scenarios
- Preparing and executing a cyberattack plan – who does what and when?
- Safeguarding critical infrastructure and other systems against the increasingly sophisticated threat of adversarial artificial intelligence (AAI)
- Developing AI expertise and competence across our workforce
This session will give a status report on the Next-Generation 911 (NG911) national implementations strategy, and the ongoing efforts to bring police, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency Services onto an updated communication system by the extended deadline of March 2027.
- Implementing the new network infrastructure, what does the architecture look like, and how will it impact law enforcement
- Exploring different dispatch models and answering systems
- Centralizing dispatch centre and managing multiple bases
- Standardization of training
Networking Break
Hear how the London Police Service’s Arc Maps program enables frontline patrol officers with real-time insights through hot spots mapping.
- Increased officer engagement in hot spot areas of crime
- Decreased crime and harm within monitored areas
- Analyzing the data for trends in shootings, robberies, sexual assaults and other major crimes
- Boosting intelligence-led initiatives and using data analytics to improve accountability and prioritize resource allocation
- Optimize the use of resources and technology as a means of enhancing capability and capacity
This talk provides a high-level non-sensitive overview of the realities, challenges, and opportunities involved in modernizing large-scale public safety systems such as RTID from within. The focus is on the balance between operational stability and innovation, and how technical staff and leadership can work together to evolve these systems responsibly over time.
Drawing from personal experience within the RTID program, this talk reflects on the expectations vs. realties of bringing in modern practices into a highly regulated, risk-averse, and mission-critical environment. It highlights how leadership can play an active role in enabling innovation and modernization by fostering the conditions for safe experimentation, continuous learning and incremental progress, and how technical practitioners can navigate constraints thoughtfully, advocate for sustainable improvements, and build trust through delivery.