Dates: 15 - 16 January 2025
Venue: Al Multaqa Ballroom, DWTC
Safe, smart communities for all – how technology and data is changing law enforcement
Technology is reshaping the criminal landscape, bringing into sharp focus the urgent need for global law enforcement to continually update its practices. From use of AI, synthetic media, drones, cyberattacks, fraud and more, tech-enabled crime is rising exponentially.
The Intersec Policing Conference offers participants the opportunity to hear from leading law enforcement agencies and learn how they are embracing technology, innovation and data to enhance operational and investigative efficiency.
The conference will discuss new approaches to policing, including AI, robotics, automation, data-led collaboration and information sharing, social media, cybersecurity, digital forensics, surveillance systems and more, to create safe, secure and smart cities for all.
This inaugural event will showcase policing best practices from around the world. Don’t miss your opportunity to network with senior-level international law enforcement officials and meet up to 1,200 exhibitors showcasing world-class technology.
Agenda
Wednesday, 15 January 2025
11.20 | Leadership Panel: Redefining digital law enforcement: future policing for safer, smarter communities for all
With much of today’s crime being cyber-enabled and powered by cross cutting verticals such as AI, Crypto, Drones - how will future policing methods be applied to financial, social, applied crime and cybercrimes themselves? This scene-setting discussion will explore what police heads see as the key future trends in crime and how law enforcement will embrace disruption to fight crime more smartly, efficiently and effectively.
11.50 | Panel: AI powered CrimeTech: Turning the tide towards law enforcement
We are deep into the era of AI-led crime. As a tool for crime, as the context for crime or as a target for criminal activity. From AI assisted cyberattacks, to driverless vehicles to tailored phishing, to disruption of systems - criminals continually test the boundaries of police investigative powers. In the first of a two-part discussion, we explore some of the emerging techniques criminals are using to support their enterprises, and the real work of law enforcement agencies (LEA) to shut them down.
12.20 | Panel: How AI and automation are transforming police investigations
Automation is transforming investigative workflows, helping to alleviate resource bottlenecks and crack cases faster. It can identify patterns, sift through information and automate leads. Any LEA not investing heavily is already being left behind. Its use will become even more predominant, as police enhance and develop their proactive investigative techniques. This panel will explore the current state of AI in law enforcement to help shut down criminal activity.
12.50 | Fireside chat: Facing reality? The challenges for law enforcement in deepfakes
As threat actors increasingly use disinformation and synthetic media content to misinform, impersonate and manipulate public, political and corporate stakeholders, deepfake technology is quickly gaining rank as one of the biggest threats faced by society today. This session exposes the impact of deepfake crime (such as proof of life issues, fraud etc.), and explores the real-life experiences of police work and legal process in detection and preventive measures.
14.10 | Fireside chat: Proactive and predictive policing: A crime reduction debate
Proponents argue that predictive policing helps map future crimes and perpetrators faster and better than more traditional methods, whilst critics raise concerns about transparency, bias, ethics and accountability. This debate sheds light on the state of proactive and predictive policing – the good, the bad and the unaddressed, as well the techniques that drive it.
14.30 | Panel: Fostering transparent, flexible cross border cooperation in cybercrime
Technology has empowered the generation of cross border and multiple border crime. Collaboration is key to foster knowledge sharing and clamp down on criminals faster and more efficiently. How can law enforcement and its partners work together to build greater flexibility in cross border cooperation between nations and what are the barriers to overcome such as legal, confidentiality and practically? This panel discussion will lay open the approaches to make formal and informal cooperation more flexible, faster and transparent.
15.00 | Panel: Harnessing data in external and transnational collaboration
Data analytics is a key tool in the law enforcement arsenal and central to transborder cooperation. For any agency, mapping trend development and criminal hot spots, they need actionable intelligence, based on good data governance. How should data be shared externally and across jurisdictions and what about issues around authenticity, reliability, access, permission, security and storage? Our data experts discuss how to get greater insights between forces, partners and jurisdictions.
15.30 | Presentation: Data driven law enforcement - leveraging police data to drive insight
As data becomes an increasingly strategic issue for police and law enforcement, how can proper data management strategies help drive actionable insight for internal day to day consumption. How can advanced data analytics and AI spell out golden nuggets of intelligence.
15.45 | Presentation: Pivoting in open-source intelligence investigations
The art of pivoting in open-source intelligence. How open-source tools provide real-time information that can accelerate investigations and why this can be a key pillar for law enforcement.
16.00 | Panel: Influencing the influencers – forging safe, powerful social media citizen sleuths
The art of pivoting in open-source intelligence. How open-source tools provide real-time information that can accelerate investigations and why this can be a key pillar for law enforcement.
Thursday, 16 January 2025
11.05 | Fireside chat: Police CISO panel: Protecting the protectors
Cybersecurity is a major challenge for all organisations, and even more so for law enforcement. This power panel of law enforcement CISOs talk data security, AI, cloud and other pain points. How they are securing/masking sensitive data, mitigating risk around employee AI use and managing cloud usage and migration.
11.25 | Panel: The future of work and police entrepreneurship
What digital skills will LEA officers require for future crime investigations, and how are the police ensuring new recruits and veteran officers have those skills? Should specific training be mandatory throughout a police officer's career and can this help foster an entrepreneurial approach to continued learning and the embracement of tech? This session looks at the future of police work from a skills and entrepreneurship perspective, the skills and approaches required to beat future crime.
11.55 | Fireside chat: Fostering police innovation
Busy police forces are focused on solving crime today, giving little bandwidth to consider future technology innovation. Yet who knows what law enforcement needs better than serving police officers? Police want innovation but don't have the time, money or know where to start. This panel will discuss how to fast track technology innovation, by bringing together law enforcement, universities, the private sector and startups.
12.15 | Panel: Quantum-led crimes: Harvest now, decrypt later - criminals are preparing for the next game changer
Criminals are preparing for a qubit future and society should fear their foresight! The advent of quantum computing promises to compromise the foundations of cybersecurity, allowing criminals to decrypt and exploit swathes of sensitive data. Quantum resilience can help combat this threat, but if law enforcement is not ready, criminals will have a significant advantage. This lively discussion delves into the impact of quantum technologies on law enforcement, assesses what can be done today and how the police can exploit the technology to ensure a safe and secure transition into the quantum revolution.
12.45 | Presentation: Surveillance super detection and innovation
Surveillance is at our every turn, so how can it be updated to embrace new technologies such as AI? And how can these updates be made more socially acceptable? Can technologies such as homomorphic encryption introduce change to surveillance techniques, bringing a balance between privacy and leaving criminals nowhere to hide. And what developments in data protection and encryption will ensure it is less intrusive and gains broad public support?
13.00 | Fireside chat: The future of road safety: Embracing technology and real-time analysis
As mobility and transport rapidly evolves – a change that will accelerate with autonomous vehicles - road safety will need a tech makeover to ensure police have the tools, knowledge and policies to keep our communities flowing. Is real-time analysis a game-changer for urban mobility, using data analytics, AI algorithms and monitoring technology to predict and prevent accidents? This talk will explore how road safety is changing from a policing point of view – and the technology, monitoring and policies needed for law enforcement to manage incidents effectively and ensure our safety.
14.20 | Panel: Drones and safe communities: How today’s drone operations can be expanded to tackle tomorrow’s threats
Police forces are using drones in increasingly innovative ways to support the air needs of law enforcement and keep the public safe, from tracking offenders to next generation DFR. As technology advances, drones will be capable of autonomous flight and performing complex tasks with minimal human intervention. Equally, they will be used for drone-enabled crimes to deliver drugs, firearms and money, with more advanced crimes expected as the technology matures. Explore how safe, efficient and sustainable drone and counter drone operations being deployed by police, how drone forensics systems using AI can analyse flight paths, spot patterns and decrypt pilot data to meet emerging and evolving threats.
14.50 | Presentation: Law enforcement and the dark side of the web
The dark web is a hidden part of the internet accessible through specialised browsers. Risks associated with the dark web include cybercrime, illegal marketplaces, and data breaches. This presentation will provide insights into the challenges law enforcement faces in monitoring and regulating this space, how LEAs are conducting investigations to combat dark web-related crime, and the importance of cybersecurity measures to protect against dark web threats.
14.50 | Presentation: Technology nexus in trafficking and modern slavery
Many countries lack systems, frameworks or regulations to recognise people trafficking. Often, modern slavery employs invisible control mechanisms on vulnerable people, making investigation and prosecution difficult. How does law enforcement keep pace with changes to technology-based exploitation, such as catfishing, online grooming, snapchat, encrypted chat platforms, and many more? This panel looks at how technology can be used to identify and stop the many different forms of modern slavery including supply chain visibility and traceability.
15.20 | Panel: We live in a borderless financial world - tackling fraud and money laundering
Most financial crime/fraud has as cyber element. Criminals continually evolve their methods to exploit weak spots in financial systems, commit cross border crime or identify weaknesses in a country's legislation. The growth of virtual or unregulated currencies will make financial crimes and money laundering even more common. Split into a three-part focus on different aspects of financial crime, this panel will discuss approaches to minimise financial crime and, methods to counter money laundering.
15.50 | Fireside chat: The fight against rising scams – can they ever be fully stopped?
In our second focus on financial crime, we look at the evolving nature and aggressive increase in scams, and ask if they can ever be stopped through international collaboration and cooperation of big tech.
16.10 | Fireside chat: Combatting virtual assets-based money laundering and crypto-enabled crime
With an increasing number of criminals using virtual assets to hide money and enable crime, this session looks at the evolving risk around digital currencies and smart strategies to counter crypto offenders from regulatory developments and leaps forward in effective public private partnerships.
Key themes
- Redefining digital law enforcement: future policing for safer, smarter communities for all
- How AI and automation are transforming police investigations
- Facing reality? Law enforcement and deepfakes
- Fostering transparent, flexible cross-border cooperation in cybercrime
- Harnessing data in external and transnational collaboration
- Data driven law enforcement - leveraging police data to drive insight
- Influencing the influencers – forging safe, powerful social media citizen sleuths
- The future of work and police entrepreneurship
- Quantum-led crimes: Harvest now, decrypt later - criminals are preparing for the name game changer
- Drones and safe communities: How today’s drone operations can be expanded to tackle tomorrow’s threats
- The fight against rising scams – can they ever be fully stopped?
- Combatting virtual assets-based money laundering and crypto-enabled crime
Who should attend?
- Law Enforcement & Police
- Command & Control Teams
- Cybercrime Professionals
- Community Safety Specialists
- Innovation & Technology
- Investigations & Forensics
Reasons to Attend
- The Intersec Policing Conference is a pivotal component of the larger Intersec event taking place in Dubai. With over 50,000 attendees, it offers a unique platform to create new business relationships and deepen your professional knowledge and expertise
- Attend keynotes, presentations and panel discussions that enhance your skills and knowledge, and contribute to your professional development
- Meet and network with peers from the law enforcement community, and learn how they are embracing technology-driven initiatives that help reduce crime and promote community safety.
- Hear how international leaders in law enforcement and smart policing methods are creating safer cities, through proactive policing methods to protect against new threats
- Optimise investment decisions through greater insights into new technologies and the advanced techniques being used today to proactively beat criminal activities
- Keep up with the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities for technology use in policing
ADVANCING EFFECTIVE POLICING THROUGH INNOVATION
Showcasing the convergence of future policing technology and effective policing strategies, IPS highlights the latest equipment and solutions tailored for modern-day challenges faced by the law enforcement bodies. Serving as the nexus for international sellers to connect with regional buyers from GCC police forces, enabling collaboration and exchange on a global scale.
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