POLICE TECH CONFERENCE + EXPO 3rd Annual
March 4–5, 2025 | Mississauga Convention Center, Toronto, ON
Canada’s Hub for Police Technology Innovation
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Cpl. Nicholas Cotton, MA, CIPT Federal Policing Investigator, Integrated National Security Enforcement Team
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
James Felton IT Manager Peel Regional Police
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
Cory Dayley Deputy Chief Calgary Police Service
Supt. Brian Miln Operational Support Winnipeg Police Service
Anthony Odoardi Deputy Chief Peel Regional Police
Don’t miss critically important content and networking that will drive the next phase of innovation in Canadian Law Enforcement! Key conversations will include:
ç Cybersecurity: How to Invest In and Support Your Cybersecurity Investigations Team
ç BWC and Video Redaction Software used for Court Evidence
ç DEMS Revolution: How Digital Evidence Management Systems are Benefitting Police
ç Transitioning to Cloud Storage and the Impact on Interdepartmental Coordination
ç How Artificial Intelligence is Used for Facial Recognition and Object Identification—from Vehicles and Hats to Faces and Tattoos
ç Drones as First Responders: Enhancing Emergency Response and Opportunities for AI Object Recognition
Take advantage of special pricing for law enforcement with rates starting at $278 per person for groups of 5 or more.
SPECIAL LAW ENFORCEMENT RATES
Discover the future of policing. Visit Canada’s most interactive national Police Conference and Expo. Explore cutting-edge technology and engage in dynamic discussions on emerging innovations.
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Stay current on emerging opportunities and initiatives for optimizing efficiency and public safety! Learn how new devices and services are being used by police departments around the world.
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Your Expo Technology Experiences
We are pleased to be organizing CI's 3rd Annual Police Tech Conference and Expo. With Canada's law enforcement agencies increasingly investing in technology to enhance public safety and operational efficiency, this is a tremendous opportunity to bring together the private and public sectors. By attending or sponsoring, you’ll expand your visibility and connect directly with Chiefs, Deputy Chiefs, and senior decision-makers driving these innovations. We look forward to working with you to create meaningful engagement that fosters impactful partnerships!
See demonstrations of the newest devices and services being used in police departments, and law enforcement agencies from across Canada.
We look forward to welcoming you in March!
Desiree Finhert
Conference Producer Police Tech Conference & Expo
Ken Glass
Senior Business Development Manager
Police Tech Conference & Expo
Who You Will Meet
Engage with Police Chiefs, Deputy Chiefs, Chief Information Officers, Directors of IT, IT Managers, Superintendents, Investigators, and leading vendors offering critical solutions for law enforcement across Canada.
Peers in Law Enforcement:
• Chiefs
• Deputy Chiefs
• Chief Information & Technology Officers
• Chief Innovation Officers
• Directors of Information Technology
• IT Managers
• Superintendents
• Sergeants
• Inspectors
• Crime Analysts
Conference Co-Chair
Solutions Providers in:
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cloud Storage & Migration
• Predictive Analytics & Data Visualization
• Response Management Systems
• Body Worn Cameras
• Cyber Security
• Automated License Plate Recognition
• Drones & UAVs
Cpl. Nicholas Cotton, MA, CIPT
Federal Policing Investigator, Integrated National Security Enforcement Team
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
James Felton
IT Manager
Peel Regional Police
CIO Insights From
Colin Stairs
Chief Information Officer (CIO) Toronto Police Service
Distinguished Faculty
Staff Sergeant Pierre Beauchesne
Investigative Services Division, Major Crimes Unit
Regina Police Service
Capt. Bas Böing
Chief Inspector National Police Force, Netherlands
Chris Clark
Director of Training, Law Enforcement Training Centre Enforcement Services, Lac La Biche County
Cory Dayley
Deputy Chief Calgary Police Service
Sgt. T. D. (Trenton) Entwistle
National Body-Worn Camera Program Manager, National Traffic Programs and Operational Technologies
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
David Goodis Partner
INQ Law
Adam Hassan
Principal Sales Engineer Axon
Jamie Hudson
Director, Real-Time and DFR Consulting Flock Safety
Harald Ludwig
Chairman Technical Forum
TCCA (The Critical Communications Association)
Supt. Brian Miln
Operational Support
Winnipeg Police Service
Scott Nokleby PhD.
Associate Dean, Academic –Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Ontario Tech University
Anthony Odoardi
Deputy Chief
Peel Regional Police
Cpl. François Picard-Blais
Cybercrime Unit, Digital Assets
Section, Toronto-West Detachment
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Christine Robson
I.T. Manager
Durham Regional Police Service
Victor Quan
Senior Project Manager
Vancouver Police Department
Will Spinks
Director, Business Development
MRF Geosystems Corporation
Detective Rob Williamson
Intelligence Operations
Durham Regional Police Service
Kash Yeung
Sr. Civilian Criminal Investigator (Acting), Cybercrime Unit, Toronto-West Detachment
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Day One
Tuesday, March 4
8:00 Registration Opens
8:45 Opening Comments from the Co-Chairs
James Felton IT Manager Peel Regional Police
Cpl. Nicholas Cotton, MA, CIPT
Federal Policing Investigator, Integrated National Security Enforcement Team
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
9:00 Inside Law Enforcement Partnerships with the Private Sector for Effective AI Adoption and Integration
Discover what is compelling police leaders to adopt certain AI and ML applications, and not others. Topics will include:
• The evolving use of AI in policing
• Sifting through large amounts of information
• How are departments using AI and ML in everyday situations such as writing policy, code and RFPs
10:00 DEMS Revolution:
Cory Dayley Deputy Chief
Calgary Police Service
Jamie Hudson
Director, Real-Time and DFR Consulting Flock Safety
How a Digital Evidence Management System Will Benefit Police
This session will provide real-world takeaways on how Digital Evidence Management Systems (DEMS) work, and how they can interface with partners in government. Discover how police services are managing the tsunami of evidence from collecting, storing, analyzing and sharing evidence to maximizing 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
• Overcoming the challenges of integration, including storage volume concerns
• Redaction, vetting and disclosure considerations
10:40 DEMO
Sgt. T. D. (Trenton) Entwistle
National Body-Worn Camera Program Manager, National Traffic Programs and Operational Technologies
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Christine Robson I.T. Manager
Durham Regional Police Service
10:45 Exhibit Hall and Networking
11:10 Cybersecurity: What It Now Takes to Support and Invest In Your Cybersecurity Investigations Team
• Building cyber resources and resiliency through new solutions and optimized integration
• Training your team to recognize and respond to threats
• How and why law enforcement agencies are attractive targets for attacks
• New prevention methods
11:50 Update on Mission Critical Networks: PSBN and More
This session will give an update on the status of the Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN) for Canada, and shifting law enforcement communication systems to a 5G telecommunication system for cellular networks.
• Addressing the operational, technical, legal and regulatory considerations associated with migration to mission critical broadband PTT, data & video (MCX)
• Analyzing how the international MCX open standards & certification evolution are supporting end-user functionality requirements, interoperability, and security across the end-to-end eco-system
Cpl. François Picard-Blais
Cybercrime Unit, Digital Assets Section, Toronto-West Detachment
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Kash Yeung
Sr. Civilian Criminal Investigator (Acting), Cybercrime Unit, Toronto-West Detachment
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Anthony Odoardi Deputy Chief
Peel Regional Police
James Felton IT Manager
Peel Regional Police
Harald Ludwig
Chairman Technical Forum
TCCA (The Critical Communications Association)
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
Cpl. Nicholas Cotton, MA, CIPT
Federal Policing Investigator, Integrated National Security Enforcement Team
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
3:20 DEMOS
3:30 Exhibit Hall and Networking
3:30–4:30 Hack-A-Thon
for Programmers and Developers
Join us on the exhibit floor where you will be invited to take part in a hands-on public safety problem — and program your way out!
• Bring your laptops
• Pick your programming language
• Work the problem together or separately
• Discuss opportunities and resources
3:50 CASE STUDY
Biometric Monitoring for People in Custody
This session will look at Regina Police Service’s groundbreaking initiative to implement biometric health monitoring technology in its detention facility—a first of its kind initiative in Saskatchewan.
• Onboarding continuous, real-time monitoring of vital health metrics, including heart rate and respiratory rate and providing immediate alerts to detention staff in the event of anomalies that may indicate medical distress
• Training officers for swift intervention, reducing the risk of fatality and ensuring timely medical assessments for detained individuals
Staff Sergeant Pierre Beauchesne Investigative Services Division, Major Crimes Unit Regina Police Service
4:30 The New Frontier of AI Threats and Opportunities: Examining the Adversarial Threat
• Determining the strategic direction for adopting AI: Cost-Benefit analysis
• What does responsible integration look like
• Examples of different policing frameworks and policies
• Analyzing the benefits to policing, the officers and the public
David Goodis Partner INQ Law
• Communicating real and perceived dangers to the public—how to know if the fear is just hype?
• How can police operations catch up to AI
• How to secure buy-in for more budget and resources
• Keeping ahead of criminal exploitation of AI
• Combatting AI bias
5:30 Closing Remarks from the Co-Chairs
Networking Reception
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Day Two
Wednesday, March 5
7:30 Registration Opens
8:00 Opening Comments from the Co-Chairs
8:05 EARLY RISER SESSION
Combatting Recruitment and Retention Challenges: New Staffing and Scheduling Solutions
During this interactive session, delegates are invited to join a small group discussion table of their choice to discover new, proven solutions and best practices. We will also 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 feedback and a 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
9:00 Keynote Panel: Tech Integration Risk Analysis
With new tech comes new risk. This session will explore the risk of adopting new technology, and the risk of not keeping pace with the tech savvy criminal.
• Evaluating the reputation risk of adopting or not adopting new technology — What does the public demand of their police service and law enforcement?
• Weighing the risk of operational disruptions, and how new tech can create new governance and compliance risks
• Ensuring a redundancy system in the event of single-point failure
9:40 DEMOS
9:45 Exhibit Hall and Networking
Adam
Hassan Principal Sales Engineer Axon
Harald Ludwig ChairmanTechnical Forum TCCA (The Critical Communications Association)
10:00 Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence for Police Training to Advance Discussions about Implicit (Racial) Bias
Hear results from the Netherlands National Police Force’s 360-degree Virtual Reality training program which immerse participants in reality-based police scenarios, with the intended to prevent ethnic profiling. Winner of the Europol Excellence Award in Innovation in 2023, this training program incorporates Large Language Models (LLM) and voice cloning for training in a number of spoken languages, deep fake and facial augmentation to be effective.
Capt. Bas Böing Chief Inspector National Police Force, Netherlands
• Examining the VR technology from the participant’s operational choices, possible solutions, impacts, the sense of agency, evaluating the choices/ outcomes in the training models
• Identifying the advantages of training with VR, equipment numbers and how many officers can be trained, timelines
• Using Large Language Models (LLM) and voice cloning for training in a number of spoken languages
• Using facial augmentation and “deep fake” technology in models to research implicit bias
• Overcoming barriers to training, reform and where there is resistance
• Discussing the European Union’s stance on combating racial profiling
• Partnering with other police departments, including in Belgium, Germany, Spain and the United States
10:40 Drones as First Responders: Enhancing Emergency Response and Opportunities for AI Object Recognition
Join this session to gain insights on 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.
• How to align tech with applicable regulations
• Using drones on top of buildings for automated dispatch while keeping the pilot in the office
• Leveraging partnerships
• Deciding what data is collected, and which opportunities for AI learning and object recognition should be pursued
How E-Ticketing is Changing Policing
Detective Rob Williamson Intelligence Operations Durham Regional Police Service
Scott Nokleby PhD. Associate Dean, Academic – Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Ontario Tech University
• Evaluating
• Background checks
• Reviewing
1:20 Budget and Buy-In: Balancing Wants vs. Needs in a Tech Tsunami and Justifying the Expense
• 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
Colin Stairs Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Toronto Police Service
• 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
2:00 CASE STUDY
Virtual Reporting and Incident Response: Benefiting the Officer, the Public and the Bottom Line
This session will examine the pros and cons of a virtual crime reporting platform, as well as a virtual police response. How do virtual police services benefit the public and how do 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
• Measuring the benefits of an accommodated officer program
• Weighing operational options, including virtual crime scene tours
• Combatting nuisance reporting
Supt. Brian Miln
Operational Support
Winnipeg Police Service
Staff Sergeant Pierre Beauchesne Investigative Services Division, Major Crimes Unit
Regina Police Service
• Determining what real-time report writing looks like and how it can be used
• Examining hardware and software options
• Analyzing opportunities for officer efficiency, and fact checking the transcript
• Using “Key Words” as filter, searching and saving functions
• Exploring opportunities for streamlining workflow processes
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3:30 CASE STUDY
BWC and Video Redaction Software for Court Evidence: Inside the Vancouver Police Department’s BWC Pilot Project and The National BWC Rollout
Hear the results of the Vancouver Police Department’s six-month Body Warn Camera (BWC) Pilot Project, including how resources are being allocated and where efficiencies were found.
• Analyzing the work of the VPD’s Continuous Process Improvement team and implementation of Lean Principals to analyze processes and determine where resources are required
Quan Senior Project Manager Vancouver Police Department
• Weighing resource management: Who does the redaction and transcription—civilian or uniform?
• Finding efficiencies with redaction software and overcoming challenges
• What camera footage is accepted by the crown as evidence
4:15
Remarks from the Conference Co-Chairs
Upcoming Events LAW
May 14–15, 2025 Toronto,
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