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Unmanned and Autonomous Systems are the future of the industry. Why? Drones significantly improve your effectiveness while keeping you out of harm’s way. Departments all around the world see the benefits already. If you want to start or grow your personal or department’s capability, be sure to join us in November. CLEET-accredited training. Learn from the industry’s top professionals. Attend hands-on demonstrations. Develop your support network. All in a single location where you can fly right next door to the conference hall!
Attend
- Presentations
- Demonstrations
- Industry Panels
- Networking Events
Meet
- Industry Leaders
- Leading Industry Vendors
- FAA Experts
- Experienced Colleagues
The integration of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) has significantly increased the safety of law enforcement personnel and the efficiency in which investigations are completed. Conferences such as this promote networking and idea-sharing between industry leaders and real-world sUAS operators.
Matt Varney, Agent In Charge/sUAS Program Manager, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics
Automated systems help us save lives by increasing operational efficiency in day-to-day rescue operations. A conference like this, here in the heartland, presents a great opportunity to collaborate with other safety officials to deploy even more efficiently.
Gabriel Graveline, Firefighter & Paramedic / Oklahoma Task Force 1 Robotics Team Leader, Tulsa Fire Department
Public safety uses for drone technology continue to grow. I am learning about them as I start a drone program for my department. This conference will provide valuable information to help me build and operate an effective sUAS program. I also look forward to the networking opportunities and the chance to meet and collaborate with more experienced operators.
Mason Goode, Police Officer/UAS Program Coordinator, Osage Nation Police Department
Public Safety Drone Conference 2019 Schedule
| Time | FLIR Training | PIX4D Training |
|---|---|---|
| 7-8AM | Check-In/Registration | |
| 8-9:45 AM | FLIR THERMOGRAPHY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | PIX4D FOR FIRE & RESCUE BY AERIAL METRICS |
| 9:45AM-10AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10-12PM | FLIR THERMOGRAPHY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | PIX4D FOR FIRE & RESCUE BY AERIAL METRICS |
| 12-1PM | Lunch | |
| 1-2:45PM | FLIR THERMOGRAPHY FOR FIRE & RESCUE BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | PIX4D FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT BY AERIAL METRICS |
| 2:45-3PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3-5PM | FLIR THERMOGRAPHY FOR FIRE & RESCUE BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | PIX4D FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT BY AERIAL METRICS |
| 6-9PM | Welcome Reception, Osage Casino & Hotel | |
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00-08:00 | Registration / Breakfast | Ballroom | |
| 08:00-08:15 | Welcome/Introductions | Skyline Event Center | |
| 08:15-08:50 | Keynote: Adapt, Adopt, Avail | Aaron Crawford, the Insider Agency | Skyline Event Center |
| 08:50-09:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Intro to UAS in Public Safety | Tony Hallet, Unmanned Response | Skyline Event Center |
| 09:50-10:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 10:00-10:50 | Getting Started as an FAA-certified Remote Pilot | Michael O’Shea, FAA | Skyline Event Center |
| 10:50-11:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 11:00-11:50 | Augmenting ICS: Coordinating a Multi-jurisdictional Response | Jackie Smithson, Broken Arrow PD | Skyline Event Center |
| 11:50-13:30 | Lunch & Networking Break / Demo Announcements | ||
| 13:30-13:50 | Practical Demonstration | Tactical Tracking Unit, TCSO | Outdoor |
| 13:50-14:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 14:00-14:50 | TBC | Mic Bonin, TCSO | Skyline Event Center |
| 14:50-15:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 15:00-15:50 | UAS Indoor Tactical Deployment & Platform Selection | Tim Martin, LACRTC | Skyline Event Center |
| 15:50-16:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 16:00-16:50 | Special Governmental Interest Process / Air Traffic Security | Michael Sheldon, FAA | Skyline Event Center |
| 18:00-21:00 | Networking Event | Ballroom | |
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00-08:00 | Registration / Breakfast | Ballroom | |
| 08:00-08:30 | Day One Recap | Conference Host | Skyline Event Center |
| 08:30-09:50 | Legal and Policy issues involving Counter-UAS technology | Joe Mazel, FBI | Skyline Event Center |
| 09:50-10:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 10:00-10:50 | Taylorville Tornado Response | Chad Sperry, WIU GIS Center | Skyline Event Center |
| 10:50-11:00 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 11:00-11:50 | Georgia’s UAS Response during Hurricane Michael | Jason Ritter & Donald Strength, GEMA | Skyline Event Center |
| 11:50-13:30 | Lunch & Networking Break / Demo Announcements | ||
| 13:30-14:20 | A Deeper Dive | Matt Varney, OBN | Skyline Event Center |
| 14:20-14:30 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 14:30-15:20 | TBC | Brandon-Dean Morris, SERTC | Skyline Event Center |
| 15:20-15:30 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
| 15:30-16:30 | TBC | FEMA | Skyline Event Center |
| 16:30-16:50 | Closing Remarks and Awards | Conference Host | Skyline Event Center |
CLEET Accreditation
For Law Enforcement Officers licensed in the state of Oklahoma, this conference has been accredited by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training for up to 24 hours of mandatory Continuing Education Credit. Course accreditation numbers are available upon request.
Regarding any law enforcement concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices as might be taught, promoted, or otherwise espoused in outside schools or seminars, there is no intent, expressed or implied, that ‘accreditation’ indicates, or in any way conveys ‘CLEET approval’ of such concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices, unless such approval is explicitly stated by CLEET.
Attendees from other states may seek reciprocal accreditation through their respective state’s training accreditation authority.
Conference Pricing
Cost-effective training for all emergency responders under one price. Choose a day pass or a full conference pass below.
Day Pass
$99WEDNESDAY ONLY
Day Pass
$99THURSDAY ONLY
Full Pass
$1983-DAY PASS
Vendor
$500PREMIUM BOOTH
Vendor
$250STANDARD BOOTH
Speakers
Aaron Crawford
The Insider Agency
- BioA certified security professional with over 25 years of experience in the security industry, Aaron Crawford eats, sleeps and continually drinks from the security fire hose. This passion for security lead him to form the Insider Security Agency. His fascination with Social Engineering led him to form the World Championship of Social Engineering. A global Social Engineering capture the flag contest that allows participants to learn and safely practice Social Engineering, within the world’s largest Social Engineering sandbox. Alongside with his work on social engineering he can also be found serving as the founder of the Skeleton Crew scholarship for DefCon.
Jackie Smithson
Broken Arrow PD
- BioJackie Smithson is a Crime Scene Investigator for the Broken Arrow (OK) Police Department. He has been with Broken Arrow Police Department for 20 years where he has been assigned to the Uniform Patrol Division, Traffic Specialist Unit and the Crime Scene Unit. Additionally, he is currently the lead UAS pilot and coordinator for the UAS program for the police department along with being a member of the agency’s Type III Incident Support Team.As a Crime Scene Investigator for Broken Arrow Police Department, Smithson has operated in many capacities from training new officers and crime scene investigators to operating the agency’s ASCLD/LAB accredited laboratory until it was closed in 2014. Additionally, Smithson is an ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) Technical Assessor in the forensic disciplines of latent prints, serial number restoration and crime scene investigation. Smithson served as the Membership Chairman of the Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction and served on the State of Oklahoma Forensic Science Improvement Task Force. He is a past Chairman of the Board of the Oklahoma Division of the International Association for Identification. Smithson a Certified Crime Scene Investigator though the International Association for Identification. He is also the co-author of Chapter 9.4 Drones in the book Crime Scene Photography, 3rd Edition, by Edward Robinson.
Tony Hallet
Unmanned Response, LLC.
- BioTony Hallett is an entrepreneur, researcher, and writer.
After serving in law enforcement, industrial security, and
emergency medical services (EMS) for fifteen years, Hallett
served as the assistant director of the Western Pennsylvania
Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh, a research and
technology transfer center co-owned by the University of
Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. He left the
universities in 1987 to co-found a computer networking
company. After being bought out by his partner a year later,
Hallett launched the first of five companies over the next
thirty years, four of which focused on the integration of
technology into public safety operations. In the 1990s,
Hallett served as the director of research of the Ielase
Institute of Forensic Psychology and authored a book on
great American entrepreneurs. Hallett is CEO of Unmanned Response LLC, a Pennsylvania-based company that is owned, operated, and
staffed by veteran first responders and private industry
professionals. The company integrates unmanned ground,
maritime, and aerial robotic technologies (drones and remote
sensors) into the workplaces and classrooms of public
agencies, private companies, and educational institutions.
Unmanned Response is also active in two research collaboratives:
(1) detection, interception, and forensic analysis of drones used
for crime and terrorism, and (2) the use of drone and sensor technology
for search & rescue and search & recovery operations.
Matt Varney
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics
Brandon-Dean Morris
SERTC
- Bio
Prior to joining SERTC in 2014, Mr. Morris spent the better part of two decades as a private rescue and response contractor. He has played a part in numerous large-scale incidents such as the M/V Kuroshima oil spill, Deepwater Horizon response, Hurricane Katrina, and Magnablend industrial fire. Mr. Morris is currently an OSHA Outreach Trainer for the University of Texas at Arlington, a BLS instructor for the Red Cross and holds numerous specialty certifications such as Hazmat Specialist, Transportation Specialist, Confined Space and Vertical Rescue Technician, Radiation Safety Officer, and Rescue Diver. He is currently TTCI’s chief pilot and Project Coordinator for SERTC.
Joseph W. Mazel
Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Bio
Joe Mazel serves as the Chief of the FBI’s Operational Technology Law Unit, and in that position, leads the development of legal and policy advice to senior executive managers and agents in the FBI concerning the use and worldwide deployment of applied scientific and technological investigative capabilities to support the collection of evidence and intelligence in criminal and national security investigations. Joe has supported the integration and deployment of unmanned aircraft within the FBI and the Department of Justice for a number of years as a member of the Department of Justice’s Unmanned Aircraft Working Group, and was a principal contributor to the Department’s Policy on the Use of UAS. Joe also is one of the leaders of efforts with respect to counter-UAS. Joe is a member of the National Security Council’s Policy Coordinating Committees on Counter-Drone and Aviation Security, and was a key leader in drafting and obtaining the passage of the Preventing Emerging Threats Act of 2018, which provided both the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security with counter-UAS authority. Joe continues as a key leader in writing and implementing the Administration’s C-UAS and aviation security policies. Joe serves as the chair of the Interagency Legal Working Group on countering Unmanned Aerial Systems, which includes representatives of DOJ, DOD and DHS, where he has drafted requirements documents for industry and the FAA to facilitate C-UAS operations, and consulted the FAA with respect to its UAS rulemaking and legislative initiatives.Prior to the FBI, Joe was a civilian legal advisor to the Department of Defense’s Office of Military Commissions, served on active duty with the United State Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps where he deployed in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, and served as an assistant district attorney with the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office in New York, NY.
Joe is a licenses private pilot and has received the Bronze Star Medal, the Federal Bar Association’s Younger Federal Lawyer Award in 2005, and the United States Army’s General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award in 2001. He received his Juris Doctor from the Pace University School of Law in White Plains, NY, and his Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and New Jersey, the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Jason Ritter
Georgia Emergency Management Agency
- BioJason Ritter has a 20-year career in public safety, primarily law enforcement and emergency management that began at the Troup County sheriff’s office in 1999. He is currently employed by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security in the field operations division and is the UAS Program Manager for the agency. Jason is responsible for a 25-county area in west central Georgia. He is also a reserve deputy for the Troup County Sheriff’s Office working primarily as a law enforcement instructor in the training division.Jason also is the Director of Safety and Security and middle school pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Lagrange, GA, where he resides with his wife Amber and daughter Brice.
Don Strength
Georgia Emergency Management Agency
- BioDon Strength has a 23-year career in Public Safety, primarily Fire Services and Emergency Management that began in East Alabama 1996. He is currently employed by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security in the Field Operations Division. Don is responsible for a 24-county area in Northeast Georgia and is also the Assistant UAS Program Manager for the agency.Don resides in Cleveland, GA with his wife Traci and a multitude of wild animals.
Tim Martin
Huntington Beach PD
- BioTimothy Martin is currently a Police Captain with over 25 years of experience in Law Enforcement. He is the UAS program manager for the Huntington Beach Police Department and holds a Part 107 License. His experience includes tactical deployments, indoor FPV flying, nighttime operations, and UAS Training.Tim is also the Director of Training for the Los Angeles County Regional Training Center where he has expertise teaching UAS program management, basic flight skills, tactical and indoor flying, night operations, and counter drone techniques. Tim is on the advisory board for DRONERESPONDERS Public Safety UAS Alliance and he has presented at conferences on UAS subject matter.
Chad Sperry
WIU GIS Center
- BioChad Sperry serves as the Director of the WIU GIS Center. Chad received his BS in Agriculture from WIU and his MS in Forestry from Purdue University. Chad has experience in the private sector, having served as the GIS Department head for Klingner and Assoc. in Quincy, IL and the government sector, serving as a Geographer for the US Army Corps of Engineers in Rock Island.
Michael O'Shea
FAA
- BioMichael O’Shea is a Program Manager for the FAA’s UAS Integration Office’s, Safety & Integration Division where he serves as liaison, facilitator and resource for both public and civil unmanned aircraft integration efforts.Before joining the UAS Integration Office, Mr. O’Shea was a program manager in the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Science and Technology where he managed the law enforcement aviation technologies program. As part of his duties at DOJ Mr. O’Shea sat on the Small UAS and Remote Tracking/ID Aviation Rule Making Committees. Prior to working at DOJ, Mr. O’Shea spent almost 15 years as a uniformed law enforcement officer.Mr. O’Shea is a graduate of Baker University with a degree in Business and Marketing. Mr. O’Shea holds a FAA Light-Sport Pilot Certificate (Fixed Wing, Gyroplanes and Powered Parachutes) and a Remote Pilot Certificate.
David Lee
Infrared Training Center
- Bio
Dave Lee teaches Level I Thermography, Level 1 sUAS Thermography, and Level 1 sUAS Public Safety Thermography. He is also involved with curriculum development for ITC’s sUAS courses and was the creator and host of the FLIR DELTA video series on drone thermography. Dave has trained over 4,500 airplane and helicopter crews on the tactical employment of airborne thermal imaging systems for militaries, coast guards, federal and local law enforcement agencies all around the US and in 33 foreign countries. A skilled technical communicator, he has also published over 400 articles in magazines, trade publications and academic journals, and served as adjunct faculty at numerous colleges and universities. Before joining ITC Dave was an airline pilot and flight instructor for Private, Instrument, Commercial, and Multi-Engine flight students.
David Lee
Instructor, Level III Thermographer
FAA part 107 Remote Pilot
FAA Airline Transport Pilot
Sponsorship Levels
To register your interest in sponsoring the Public Safety Drone Conference, please call 918-595-7200 or send us a message via our contact form.
Platinum
$10,000
Gold
$7,500
Silver
$5,000
Bronze
$2,500
Other Sponsorship Opportunities
Dinner Reception Sponsor
$2000
Demonstration Sponsor
$1000
Lanyard & Badge Sponsor
$750
Refreshments Area Sponsor
$500
Where To Stay?
The conference will be held in the Skyline Event Center at the Osage Hotel & Casino. Conference rates are available at the Osage Hotel by calling +1-877-246-8777 and using the promo code SKYWAY36. Online booking is available via the link below.
Location
Osage Hotel & Conference Center
951 West 36th Street North
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127
United States
Travel
The 2019 Public Safety Drone Conference will be hosted at the Osage Hotel & Conference Center and neighboring Skyway 36 DronePort.
The venue is approx. 4 miles north of downtown Tulsa and 5 miles west of Tulsa International Airport.
Uber, Lyft, and traditional taxi services are readily available in Tulsa.
Directions
Conference Sponsors
Tulsa Community College
Osage Nation
Respondair
ArdentMC
Tulsa Regional Chamber
Osage Hotel & Casino
Skyway36
Osage Nation PD
Contact Form
Please use the contact form below to get in touch.
For Purchase Orders and telephone registration, please call Tulsa Community College at +1 918-595-7200.