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 again this year. 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!
The Public Safety Drone Conference provides the opportunity to take home valuable knowledge and make important peer connections. We respect that budgets are tight and are committed to providing a cost-effective training event.
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
The conference is closed to the general public. Registration is accepted from:
Schedule will be announced in mid-2021
Time | FLIR Training | PIX4D Training | |
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Sessions are repeated in PM to allow attendance of both trainings | |||
7-8AM | Check-In/Registration | ||
8-9:45 AM | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY THERMOGRAPHY BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY MAPPING USING PIX4D BY AERIAL METRICS | |
9:45AM-10AM | Coffee Break | ||
10-12PM | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY THERMOGRAPHY BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY MAPPING USING PIX4D BY AERIAL METRICS | |
12-1PM | Lunch | ||
1-2:45PM | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY THERMOGRAPHY BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY MAPPING USING PIX4D BY AERIAL METRICS | |
2:45-3PM | Coffee Break | ||
3-5PM | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY THERMOGRAPHY BY INFRARED TRAINING CENTER | INTRO TO PUBLIC SAFETY MAPPING USING PIX4D BY AERIAL METRICS | |
6-9PM | Welcome Reception, Osage Casino & Hotel |
Time | Topic | Presenter | Location |
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07:00-08:00 | Registration / Breakfast | Skyline Event Center | |
08:00-08:15 | Welcome/Introductions | Geoffrey Standing Bear, Principal Chief of the Osage Nation | 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 | ||
13:30-13:50 | The Importance of Partnerships | Stan Brown, Chief of Police, City of Claremore, OK | Skyline Event Center |
14:00-14:50 | UAS Employment in SAR/Tactical Manhunts | Mic Bonin, TCSO | Outdoor Demo Area |
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 |
18:00-19:00 | Nighttime CSI Demo | Tulsa Fire Dept., Broken Arrow CSI, Unmanned Vehicle Technologies | Skyway36 Droneport |
19:00-21:00 | Networking Reception | Skyline Event Center |
Time | Topic | Presenter | Location |
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07:00-08:00 | Registration / Breakfast | Skyline Event Center | |
08:00-08:30 | Day One Recap | Conference Host | Skyline Event Center |
08:30-09:50 | How OHP Utilizes Drones and Pix4D | Jared Sharp, OHP | 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 13:00-13:20 – XWorks demo @ Skyway36 building | ||
13:30-14:20 | I have a program. Now what? | Matt Varney, OBN | Skyline Event Center |
14:20-14:30 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
14:30-15:20 | Safety Considerations | Brandon-Dean Morris, SERTC | Skyline Event Center |
15:20-15:30 | Coffee & Networking Break | ||
15:30-16:30 | Automatic Deployment of Gunshot Detection using UAS | Brian Meier, XWorks Technologies, LLC. | Skyline Event Center |
16:30-16:50 | Closing Remarks and Awards | Conference Host | Skyline Event Center |
For Law Enforcement Officers licensed in the state of Oklahoma, the 2019 conference was 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.
Once our 2021 schedule is firm, we will once again request CLEET accreditation.
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. We will provide a certificate of attendance upon request.
Mic Bonin is a Professional Mantracker with over 22 years of MIL/LE experience in SAR Tracking, Investigative (Forensic) Tracking and Combat/Tactical Tracking Operations. Mic Bonin has over 10 years of experience in SWAT Operations, having served as both Entry Team Leader as the Sniper Section Team Leader. He now leads the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Tracking & Reconnaissance Unit (TTU). In addition to SAR, TTU is responsible for tactical manhunts and other specialized intelligence gathering missions where sUAS has proven highly effective.Mic Bonin has been recognized as a Subject Matter Expert and Master Tracker by the prestigious Scott Donelan Tracking School and Ty Cunningham’s Government Tracking Institute. He has trained all levels of Law Enforcement across multiple States, to include Federal, State, and Local levels. Mic Bonin also works with and trains select combat arms & special operation personnel within the Military and Intelligence Communities.
Over the past decade of his Law Enforcement career, Mic Bonin has successfully utilized his VT skills to capture felons, rescue children, save lives, and close numerous cases, being featured in the News and in publications for his tracking abilities. His SAR and Tactical Tracking successes and lessons are used around the world by Top Visual Tracking Instructors for training new Military & Law Enforcement Combat/Tactical Trackers.
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
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.
Jared Sharp is an Investigator for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and assigned to the Traffic Homicide Unit. He has been with OHP for 11 years where he has been assigned to field Troop YB, field Troop B, Emergency Response Team, and the Traffic Homicide Unit. Sharp is currently the Lead UAS pilot and assists with the UAS program for the Traffic Homicide Unit. Sharp is also a Drug Recognition Expert / Instructor, FAA licensed remote pilot, and Pix4D certified user.
Matt Varney has 17 years of law enforcement experience at the municipal and state level of government. Varney began his law enforcement career in 2002 with the Enid Police Department, where he held positions as a patrolman, narcotics detective and SWAT operator. In 2012, Varney joined the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN), where he held assignments in the Enforcement Division and Professional Standards Unit. Varney currently serves as an Agent in Charge (AIC) of a Diversion Unit with OBN. While at OBN, AIC Varney created, implemented, and manages the sUAS program. AIC Varney also is a firearms instructor and member of the OBN’s policy development committee.
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.
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The conference will be held at the Osage Hotel & Casino. Conference rates are available at the Osage Hotel by calling +1-877-246-8777 or online using the link below. All rooms include two breakfasts each day. Conference pricing is available using the promo code SKYWAY36.
Osage Hotel & Conference Center
951 West 36th Street North
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127
United States
The 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.
If you are a guest at the conference hotel, complimentary airport shuttle service is available.
Uber, Lyft, and traditional taxi services are readily available in Tulsa.