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2026

Forward

Where leaders come together to shape the future of safety

August 18-20, 2026Atlanta, GA

Join public safety leaders, security professionals, and invited partners in Atlanta for three days of real cases, practical playbooks, and peer-led conversations.

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Law enforcement leaders, public safety professionals, private-sector security leaders, and invited partners

Learn from

Public safety leaders, security practitioners, Flock experts, and industry peers

Walk away with

Real-world playbooks, case studies, and implementation strategies you can apply immediately

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Why attend?

Flock Forward brings together public safety leaders, security professionals, Flock experts, and invited partners for three days of practical learning, peer connection, and real-world conversations about what’s working now.

1000+ attendees

Public safety, security, and operations leaders from across the country

3 days

Keynotes, working sessions, peer discussions, and hands-on learning

Compliance Experts

Connect with our team 1:1 and during programming to discuss how Flock supports trust, transparency, and regulatory compliance, and how to prepare for city council conversations

Practical takeaways

Ideas for investigations, deployment, connected response, and measurable impact

What to expect

Flock Forward brings together leaders from across the country to share real-world strategies, lessons learned, and case outcomes that are shaping the future of public safety. This year's agenda features keynotes, fireside chats, customer-led panels, and investigative case studies covering everything from deployment and operations to investigations, integrated response, and community impact. Explore some of the sessions below and start planning your experience.

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Day 01

Tue, Aug 18

Welcome Reception

Day 02

Wed, Aug 19

Breakfast

Keynote & Welcome

Measuring What Matters Fireside Chat

What does it actually mean to be a safer community?

For decades, public safety success has relied on a limited set of metrics to understand progress, communicate outcomes, and guide investment decisions. But as communities evolve, expectations around safety, transparency, accountability, and quality of life have evolved as well.

In this session, Flock will unveil a new approach to understanding community safety and explore what becomes possible when leaders can see a more complete picture of the outcomes that matter most.

Joined by civic leaders, attendees will hear how the right data supports decision-making across public safety and broader community priorities. Through real-world case studies, this conversation will explore how communities can use the right data to create benchmarks to understand where they are today, where they are improving, and where future investment can have the greatest impact.

Attendees will:

  • Learn how leaders use data to guide priorities and investments
  • Explore the connection between public safety and broader community outcomes
  • Build greater transparency and accountability with stakeholders
  • Understand how to turn insight into action across departments and agencies

Breakout Sessions

Deploy for Impact: Strategies That Drive Success

The work starts after signature. 

From deployment planning and user adoption to governance, training, and operational execution, the organizations seeing the strongest outcomes are the ones treating implementation as a strategic program, not just a technology rollout.

In this session, public and private sector leaders will share how they approached deployment with intention from day one, including how they aligned stakeholders, trained personnel, built operational trust, and accelerated measurable impact across their communities.

Attendees will hear practical lessons on rollout strategy, training, adoption, and scaling programs effectively across teams and workflows.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Accelerate time-to-value after deployment
  • Improve user adoption and operational buy-in
  • Build a more scalable and defensible program
  • Avoid common deployment and implementation pitfalls

From Game Day to Every Day: Rethinking Traffic

Traffic operations are no longer limited to congestion management or special event planning. Today’s agencies are using real-time intelligence, LPR technology, and connected workflows to support safer roadways, improve live response, accelerate investigations, and better manage large-scale city operations.

In this hybrid panel presentation, agencies will share how they are applying traffic technology across special events, live operational response, and investigations – and how those same workflows are evolving into broader citywide operational strategies.

Attendees will hear practical lessons on cross-agency coordination, traffic analytics, real-time visibility, and using traffic intelligence as a force multiplier beyond traditional traffic enforcement.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Improve traffic operations during major events
  • Expand traffic technology into broader public safety workflows
  • Support realtime response and investigations more effectively
  • Build smarter, more connected city operations

Lunch

Breakout Sessions

From Investigation to Conviction: After the Arrest

Technology is a critical part of solving a case. But if the evidence doesn’t hold up, what was the point?

As public safety technology becomes more sophisticated, agencies are increasingly being asked to navigate complex legal, operational, and policy questions around how evidence is collected, validated, and presented.

In this hybrid panel presentation, law enforcement leaders, researchers, and legal experts will explore what makes technology-derived evidence defensible in court, how agencies can avoid creating unnecessary liability, and what operational practices help ensure investigations lead to successful prosecutions.

Attendees will hear practical lessons on evidence development, constitutional considerations, policy design, prosecutorial expectations, and how agencies can operate confidently in areas where technology is evolving faster than legal precedent.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Strengthen the prosecutorial value of technology-derived evidence
  • Better understand legal and constitutional considerations
  • Build policies that support defensible investigations
  • Reduce operational and legal risk
  • Learn what prosecutors, researchers, and practitioners look for when evidence is challenged

Connected Response: Building an Integrated Response Strategy

Technology is most powerful when it works together.

Across the country, organizations are combining drones, LPR, audio detection, real-time intelligence, 911 workflows, and RTCC operations to build faster, more coordinated responses to critical incidents and everyday public safety challenges.

In this session, agencies will share how they are integrating multiple technologies into unified operational workflows that improve visibility, accelerate decision-making, and expand what teams can accomplish.

Attendees will hear practical lessons on building connected response strategies, maximizing existing investments, and using technology as a force multiplier across dispatch, response, investigations, and citywide operations.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Build more connected response workflows
  • Better integrate DFR into daily operations
  • Maximize the value of existing technology investments
  • Improve coordination across teams and departments
  • Learn how organizations are creating force-multiplying operational ecosystems

Breakout Sessions

The Network You Know, the Partners You Don’t

You know the network of cameras that are shared with you. But do you know the partners?

Universities, major retailers, housing communities, and other organizations are often already connected to public safety agencies through shared technology and shared visibility. Yet many agencies know little about how these partners operate, what challenges they face, or how they’re contributing to safer communities.

In this session, panelists will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the organizations many agencies are already connected to. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the people behind the network and leave with new ideas for strengthening relationships, expanding collaboration, and creating greater value from the connections that may already exist.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Better understand the organizations already in your jurisdiction
  • Learn how universities, businesses, and housing providers approach safety
  • Identify partnership opportunities within your city or county
  • Discover new ways to create value from existing relationships and technology

The Camera in the Tree: Uncovering a Multi-State Burglary Plot Using LPR

It started with a camera hidden in a tree.

What appeared to be an unusual complaint quickly evolved into a complex, multi-state investigation involving surveillance, stalking, planned burglaries, digital evidence, and a suspect actively attempting to avoid detection.

In this case-study presentation, investigators from the Dublin Police Department will walk attendees through how a seemingly minor lead became the key to identifying a suspect, uncovering a sophisticated burglary operation, and preventing future crimes before they occurred.

Attendees will see how investigators combined LPR data, municipal camera systems, vehicle intelligence, travel pattern analysis, and traditional investigative techniques to move from incomplete information to actionable intelligence.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Work investigations with limited suspect information
  • Improve vehicle-based investigative workflows
  • Learn practical pattern-of-life investigative techniques
  • Better understand how LPR supports complex investigations
  • Move cases forward when traditional leads are limited

Breakout Sessions

Operational Excellence: Auditing, Policy, & Program Management

As communities deploy more technology, leaders are increasingly responsible for managing audits, maintaining policy alignment, overseeing user activity, configuring systems appropriately, and ensuring programs scale responsibly. Organizations running the strongest technology programs are not simply deploying tools. They are building repeatable processes, operational controls, and administrative safeguards that create consistency, reduce risk, and make oversight easier for program managers.

As technology ecosystems become more complex, agencies must balance policy, process, and platform design to ensure accountability can scale alongside adoption.

In this session, public safety leaders and subject matter experts will discuss how agencies audit usage, align policy with operational practice, and create management processes that stand up over time. Attendees will hear practical examples of what effective oversight looks like, how supervisors review program health, and how agencies identify gaps before they become larger operational challenges.

The session will conclude with the introduction of a new tool designed to help agencies automatically identify policy-to-configuration misalignment, making program management easier and more scalable.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Build stronger auditing workflows
  • Improve policy implementation and oversight
  • Strengthen security and access-control practices
  • Create more consistent technology governance processes
  • Reduce administrative burden on supervisors
  • Scale programs responsibly as technology adoption grows

The 12-Hour Breakthrough: Dismantling a $500,000 Multi-Jurisdictional Crime Spree

When criminals operate across jurisdictions, successful investigations depend on more than cameras. They depend on organizations sharing information, coordinating effectively, and leveraging a network built for collaboration.

In this case-study presentation, investigators from the Larimer County Sheriff's Office will walk attendees through a multi-jurisdictional property crime spree that spanned four jurisdictions, resulted in nearly $500,000 in losses, and was ultimately dismantled through coordinated investigative work and technology-enabled information sharing.

Attendees will see the investigation unfold step-by-step, including the timeline, technology workflows, multi-agency coordination efforts, and operational decisions that led to the recovery of vehicles, heavy equipment, trailers, firearms, and narcotics while clearing more than 23 cases.

Join this session if you’re looking to:

  • Improve cross-jurisdictional investigations
  • Better understand how network sharing impacts outcomes
  • Learn how agencies coordinate information across boundaries
  • Maximize the value of your LPR program
  • Build stronger investigative partnerships with neighboring agencies

Keynote with Special Guest Speaker

Evening Reception

Day 03

Thu, Aug 20

Breakfast

The Comeback Fireside Chat

What's at Stake Panel

Future of Flock: Feedback Lunch

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Pricing for Flock Forward is $350 per attendee and includes access to all sessions, meals, and experiences.

Three days

Atlanta, GA · August 18–20, 2026

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