MONDAY
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Stop by our table to pick up a swag bag, physical copy of agenda, and ask questions!
Location: Oklahoma Station Prefunction
Disaster Victim Identification, or DVI, is the method used to identify victims of mass casualty incidents, either man-made or natural. A major disaster – such as an earthquake or terrorist attack – may result in the death of nationals from many different countries and damage or destroy a country’s emergency-response infrastructure. A coordinated international effort can speed up the recovery and identification of victims, enabling families to begin the healing process and societies to rebuild. In the event of a terrorist incident, DVI can also help to identify possible attackers. INTERPOL’s DVI activities are supported by a Working Group, made up of forensic and police experts who meet twice a year to discuss improvements to DVI procedures and standards. The Working Group publishes the Guide to Disaster Victim Identification which is the unique globally accepted standard for DVI protocols. First produced in 1984, it is updated every five years.
Presented by John Riemen, Lead Specialist, Dutch National Police
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
This presentation will provide insight into the challenges and benefits of leading teams that are motivated to provide outstanding results. Every team requires leadership regardless of their motivation and performance level. As leaders, we must recognize what our teams require to be successful and provide that support. Leading teams that are specialists in their field requires a unique approach. In this presentation you will hear examples of leadership successes and missteps. You will walk away with strategies to ensure that you are the leader that your team needs.
Presented by Bradley Donais, Unit Commander of Forensic Identification Services, Toronto Police Service
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Join us for a special first-timers happy hour at the OKC Tap House. This event is a chance for those attending the Users Conference for the first time to meet the Executive Users Board (EUB) and fellow newcomers. Take the opportunity to network and get acquainted with the IDEMIA community in a relaxed atmosphere. Following the happy hour, the welcome reception will take place in the same location (OKC Tap House). We hope to see you there!
The attire is casual. Drinks will be served.
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Location: OKC Tap House
The IDEMIA Public Security Justice and Public Safety Users Conference welcomes everyone to the opening night reception at the OKC Tap House located off the Omni Oklahoma City Hotel’s (conference hotel) main lobby and accessible from Robinson Avenue. This two-story sports-themed restaurant spans two levels of indoor and outdoor space, offering stunning views of Scissortail Park, while the downtown OKC energy fills the air. Guests are also welcome to participate in a competitive game of Skee-Ball, foosball, and many more fun games.
The attire for the opening night reception is casual. Dinner and drinks will be served. Dinner will be served buffet style.
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Location: OKC Tap House
TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Location: Oklahoma Station Prefunction
Presented by: Donnie Scott, CEO, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Lisa Voss, Chairwoman, IDEMIA Executive Users Board and Assistant Director, State Bureau of Identification, Delaware State Police; Attorney General Gentner Drummond, Chief Law Enforcement Officer for the State of Oklahoma
Location: Main Lecture Hall
The morning of April 19, 1995, was a typical Wednesday morning until a tremendous explosion rocked downtown Oklahoma City. Within minutes, FBI Special Agent Bomb Technician Barry Black was on scene with hundreds of first responders. The date was significant; just two years before Mr. Black had been deployed as a sniper at the Brach Davidian compound and witnessed flames, set from inside, engulf the complex. The OKBOMB investigation was Mr. Black’s focus from that day, through the trial and subsequent execution of Timothy McVeigh. We will discuss the case that brought justice to McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Presented by Barry Black, FBI Special Agent Master Bomb Technician (Retired)
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Amy Downs survived a bomb exploding in the building of the credit union where she was working, which killed 168 people, including 18 of her 33 co-workers. Today, she is President and an award-winning CEO of that same organization. Allegiance Credit Union has grown by 400% and is thriving. Drawing on her recently released book Hope Is A Verb, Amy is excited to share how you can respond to a crisis in a way that will make your organization come out of this even stronger than before you went in.
Presented by Amy Downs, Allegiance Credit Union President, CEO, and Motivational Speaker
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Location: Oklahoma Prefunction
Join Former Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, John Katko, and IDEMIA Public Security North America CEO, Donnie Scott, for an engaging fireside chat as they delve into the intersection of artificial intelligence and policy. The discussion will focus on the recent White House Executive Order on AI and its ripple effects through government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security. With AI becoming increasingly integrated into our daily lives, this conversation will provide valuable insights into upcoming policies and practical strategies for interacting with and leveraging AI technologies. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of the evolving landscape and how they can navigate and influence AI’s role in their professional and personal spheres.
Presented by Representative John Katko, Former Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee and Senior Advisor at HillEast Group, Donnie Scott, CEO, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Main Lecture Hall
LiveScan solutions can improve the speed of capture and the quality of biometric capture. In the realm of law enforcement, the quality and efficiency of biometric data collection are paramount. The first 30 minutes of this session will provide you with valuable insights into harnessing LiveScan solutions to optimize law enforcement efforts by increasing their speed and safety. Following the presentation, we will open the floor to you! We want you to ask any questions in an open conversation on how IDEMIA can better support you in your law enforcement duties.
Join us to learn how the latest IDEMIA LiveScan technology is shaping the future of law enforcement and improving public safety.
Presented by Yasmine Guelmi, Product Owner, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Learn about IDEMIA’s image enhancement tools and capabilities to better visualize latent print images. IDEMIA’s MBIS solution continues to host a suite of basic and advanced tools to improve contrast between ridges and valleys, remove background noise, and highlight comparison features for you – the expert user. IDEMIA recommends using image enhancements to further increase our unmatched search accuracy and algorithms, this certificate class provides hands-on time to add these tools and capabilities to your own knowledge base and crime-solving tool-belt.
Instructed by Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Stephen Greene, Program Manager, Justice and Public Safety, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #1 (Five Moons 1 & 2)
Getting started with Face Expert, inclusive of case creation and management, uploading photos and videos, image cropping, image enhancement (including 3D pose correction), search submission together with demographic filtering, review of results, image comparison with side-by-side, annotations/charting and reports generation. Hands-on examples will include face and tattoo images and video. Attendees will become familiar with MBIS 5 Face Expert and will be able to perform basic tasks.
Instructed by Dr. Nicole Spaun, Senior Manager of Criminal Justice Education and Image Recognition, IDEMIA Public Security North America, Christine Schultz, Technical Training Specialist, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
The Justice and Public Safety business update features Sr. Vice President Casey Mayfield highlighting aspects of the past year that illustrates IDEMIA’s deep commitment to the mission of our criminal justice partners. She will review the significant progress made in the delivery and deployment of IDEMIA solutions and systems along with recent company changes to further enhance our business continuity across our customer base.
Presented by Casey Mayfield, Senior Vice President, Justice and Public Safety, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Main Lecture Hall
What makes a great training program and how do you create one? Attendees will learn how to build an impactful training program that will help personnel be successful. Topics include: the essential components of a training program for the Latent Print Unit and the steps to building a successful program.
Presented by Erin West, Co-Founder, Gap Science, Ashley Church, Co-Founder, Gap Science
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
Latent print examiners can increase accuracy by following IDEMIA best practice recommendations on search strategy. This hands-on workshop will cover the newest MBIS and MLE features for latent print searching by the recommended strategies, methods and practices used to effectively calibrate, resample, position, encode, and annotate latent prints for submission.
Instructed by Christine Schultz, Technical Training Specialist, IDEMIA Public North America; Bob Pixler, Technical Training Specialist, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #1 (Five Moons 1 & 2)
The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group has provided excellent best practices for performing facial comparisons in automated systems. We have designed Face Expert to provide you the tools to follow the full range of FISWG recommendations for both initial examinations and peer reviews. This workshop will allow you to practice using these best practices.
Instructed by Dr. Nicole Spaun, Senior Manager of Criminal Justice Education and Image Recognition, Criminal Justice Training Development, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
For years, examiners have been debating what is the right number of candidates to review on an AFIS candidate list. Is the risk of checking fewer candidates worth the reward in time savings? The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office conducted research over a period of years and will share our findings.
Presented by Brian Dew, Forensic Laboratory Manager, New Hanover County Sheriff's Office
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
IDEMIA’s flagship ABIS solution is the Multi-Biometric Identification System (MBIS) supporting scores of federal, state, and local agencies across North America. MBIS was the first ABIS deployed to the cloud, and dozens of agencies are now live with cloud systems. IDEMIA is looking to the future to continue this success with an evolution of MBIS to the next generation of ABIS. This presentation will discuss IDEMIA’s plan for implementing this new system, the new technology underlying the application, and the design process to ensure an excellent User Experience.
Presented by Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Kaustubh Deshpande, Vice President, Product Strategy, IDEMIA Public Security North America; James Haluska, Product Owner, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
Latent Print Units are evolving in their use of AFIS to increase accuracy and efficiency. For many years, latent print examiners only used AFIS to search large databases for unknown persons. Case AFIS searches a small set of individuals associated with the case to more quickly find correspondence or the lack of correspondence. This can eliminate hours of manually searching for a match, especially when the location and orientation of a latent print is unclear. TX DPS has recently completed a validation of stand-alone Case AFIS laptops and approved them for use in casework. The lecture will share validation results and discuss examiners’ initial impressions of IDEMIA technology.
Presented by Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Jack Flanders, Forensic Scientist, Texas Department of Public Safety
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Join experts from Microsoft and IDEMIA as they explore the transformative power of AI in public safety. This session will provide a concise introduction to AI and Generative AI, as well as highlight use cases for AFIS administrators and operators. Microsoft's platforms like CoPilot. Discover how Microsoft partners with the public safety community and see a live demo of Power BI with CoPilot. Learn about the application of AI in Multimodal Biometric Identification Systems (MBIS) and explore practical use cases.
Presented by Artour Karaguiozian, Vice President of Solution Delivery, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Tim Newton, Director, Government Strategy, Microsoft
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Join us for a casual cocktail hour, where anticipation builds before the opening of the IDEMIA Experience Center. Enjoy a nice drink amongst an atmosphere buzzing with networking opportunities and excitement for the cutting-edge innovations soon to be unveiled. It's the perfect prelude to an evening of discovery and collaboration with fellow industry leaders and innovators.
Location: Oklahoma Station Prefunction
Building and Retaining a High-Performing Team - Grab a cocktail and join us for an informal discussion on how to build and retain a high-performing team in today’s workplace. Share your thoughts and ideas on building a strong team culture essential to your agency’s success. Learn how your peers have addressed similar issues you’re facing and equip yourself with possible solutions to improve the effectiveness of your team. Come prepared to be heard.
Led by Marianne Lause, Vice President, PMO COE Leader, Justice and Public Safety, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Candy Copelin, Senior Program Director of Justice and Public Safety, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Michael Corsaro, Criminal Justice Sub-Business Line Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Amalia Annest, Sr. Director, PMO, Team Leader, Project Managers in the Justice & Public Safety Business Line, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
We are so excited to welcome everyone to the new IDEMIA Experience Center. We encourage you to take their time interacting with all of our products, solutions, and subject matter experts. We'll have deep dives into our cutting-edge solutions, discussions on product road maps, and most importantly, 1:1 access to the team members who spearhead the solutions evolutions.
The attire for the Experience Center Opening and Cocktail Reception is casual. Dinner and drinks will be served. Dinner will be served buffet style.
Location: Demo Room (Oklahoma Station 5, 6, 7, 8)
wednesDAY
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Location: Oklahoma Prefunction
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Mobile ID technology is rapidly transforming the way individuals verify their identities. In the U.S., the adoption of mobile IDs is gaining momentum, driven by security needs, technological advancements, changing consumer preferences, and convenience. With the terrible tragedies of September 11th and events that transpired in the days, months, and years after, we have gotten better, as a society, at identity document issuance and the security protocols for identity authentication. This session will provide an analysis of the current state of mobile ID in the U.S., exploring challenges and opportunities. From the emergence of Real ID and digital driver's licenses to the integration of biometric authentication, we will examine how tech-forward solutions are reshaping the identity verification processes and the future of personal identification for a safer society.
Presented by Donnie Scott, Chief Executive Officer, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Tim Roufa, Manager, Identity Management, AAMVA
Location: Main Lecture Hall
The preparation of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in France presents significant public safety challenges. This has prompted authorities to consider adopting innovative security measures to maintain public peace. This presentation offers a retrospective analysis of the security strategies planned for deployment during the games. As part of this review, we will assess the effectiveness of mobile biometric identification systems and AI-driven video analytics for post-event investigation, as part of the security measures implemented to safeguard the event. Real-world examples will illustrate the symbiotic relationship between the different technologies, highlighting their collective impact on threat detection and investigation. Beyond technological advancements, we will delve into the organizational structures and operational best practices that contribute to successful event security at large-scale events.
Presented by Bartosz Sulek, Sales Director Central Europe and Balkans, Justice & Public Safety, IDEMIA
Location: Main Lecture Hall
IDEMIA has been in the enrollment services business since 1994. Over that time, there have been significant technology advancements, both in overall information technology as well as in livescan technology. One thing that has not changed is IDEMIA’s position as the overwhelming market leader. This is due to our ongoing ability to our employees and our leadership. We have improved the technology associated with the enrollment process but have also developed very qualified teams to oversee all components of a successful applicant enrollment experience. This presentation will discuss the technology evolution along with the importance of each operational and support team.
Presented by Erik Wolle, Solutions Architect, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
When I started working in forensics, the idea of submitting latent prints from the crime scene directly into AFIS seemed like an unobtainable goal. The ask was simple: Why can’t we take a photo of a latent print from the crime scene with a scale and get a priority identification before the offender has disposed of evidence, covered their tracks, and left the state? Have you ever solved a homicide case within hours of the event occurring while detectives are still on scene? Upload your image, our IDEMIA MBIS will detect the ruler and calibrate, automatically find the latents, create a case folder in MBIS, auto encode and search each latent, and present the search candidate lists to your examiners to be manually verified on your homepage. Case solved. This certificate class demonstrates latent automation tools with the potential to reduce backlogs from years to days.
Instructed by Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #1 (Five Moons 1 & 2)
Best practices during tenprint Quality Control ensure higher search accuracy for both tenprint and latent print searching. This hands-on workshop will review the latest IDEMIA best practice recommendations for segmentation, sequence check, pattern classification, and minutiae editing.
Instructed by Christine Schultz, Technical Training Specialist, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Bob Pixler, Technical Training Specialist, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
We encourage attendees to stop in the IDEMIA Experience Center/Demo Room to interact with our products, solutions, and subject matter experts. This is your chance for 1:1 access to the team members who spearhead the evolution of our solutions.
Location: Demo Room (Oklahoma Station 5, 6, 7, 8)
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
CARES stands for “Civil Adjudication and Response Solution" and is IDEMIA’s next-generation cloud-based product that provides end-to-end fingerprint and background check processing. CARES has a powerful and configurable workflow engine that integrates with IDEMIA's Enrollment platform to submit fingerprint records to state and/or federal agencies. Once the responses have been received, CARES can be configured to fully automate and adjudicate based on those results, or those records can be placed in a pending state where an agency user can manually adjudicate and apply a final decision. Authorized agency users will have the ability to access the portal to search for and review an applicant's Criminal History Record Information for hiring & licensing decisions.
Presented by Anthony Treagar, Product Owner, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
As the adoption of mobile driver’s license continues to grow, the parties that consume traditional physical ID cards, such as law enforcement, have to be sure they are prepared to engage and validate individuals that present mobile drivers licenses. Come learn about what standards have been defined to ensure interoperability and what products are available to help you and your agency transition into the new era of digital identification.
Presented by Ross Krewenka, Product Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Location: Oklahoma Prefunction
New for this year. Grab your lunch and network with Casey Mayfield, Sr Vice President, and other woman leaders of IDEMIA to find community and hear insight on leading and succeeding as a woman in today’s workplace. Join your criminal justice colleagues and share stories of your journey as professionals and striving to find a sustainable work/life balance.
Note: You will get your lunch from the buffet and take it to the room where the Women’s Luncheon is taking place.
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
Good communication is essential for a successful and productive forensic unit, and yet training for forensic professionals to improve their communication skills is often overlooked. Implementing communication training could have a great impact on reducing the majority of issues within the unit, such as decreased performance, errors in casework, personality conflicts, missed deadlines, and confusion amongst team members. Attendees will learn the best communication pathway, how to change your approach with different DISC behavioral styles, and how to improve your non-verbal communication skills.
Presented by Erin West, Co-Founder, Gap Science, Ashley Church, Co-Founder, Gap Science
Location: Main Lecture Hall
In late 2020 the Wisconsin State Crime Labs added MBIS Latent Elimination (integrated IDEMIA Case AFIS) capability to their case workflow. Since that time we've been tracking usage, successes, and the occasional failure to see what impact this has had on unit quality. In this session we will go over how we implemented MBISLE, the notable reduction in errors we've seen, and what we've learned about when LP examiners miss but MBISLE catches. MBIS Latent Elimination has proven to be an effective and efficient way to reduce errors and give examiners confidence and the tools they need to be successful.
Presented by Adrianna Bast, Fingerprint & Footwear Examiner – Advanced, Division of Forensic Science’s Wisconsin State Crime Laboratories; Karley Hujet, Latent Prints & Footwear Unit Technical Leader, Wisconsin State Crime Laboratories
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Proactive monitoring of the health of your system and database: In this session, learn useful troubleshooting techniques including monitoring disk space, queues, and your PostgreSQL or Oracle database as well as utilizing key log files and utilities as well as running Central View Reports and learn some useful SQLPlus database queries.
Instructed by Mark Roberg, Sustaining Engineer, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #1 (Five Moons 1 & 2)
Challenges to forensic evidence are becoming more common in the courtroom, and the expert witness must be able to answer difficult and technical questions. Are you prepared to answer questions regarding the search algorithm, match scores, ABIS workflows, or the risk of errors? Deborah Shandles brings her experience as an attorney, and Eric Ray brings his experience as a fingerprint examiner. This class will discuss admissibility, disclosure, documentation, and other aspects of ABIS in the courtroom.
Instructed by Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Deborah Shandles, Former Assistant District Attorney for Wake County, North Carolina
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
The Facial Recognition (FR) community has unique challenges compared to other traditional forensic practices such as fingerprint and DNA. This presentation will be as much discussion as lecture. First, we will provide an overview of MBIS Face Expert (FE) initiatives. As part of our ongoing evolution of products, and based on customer feedback, we worked with our User Interface (UX) team to evaluate FE from a user perspective. This presentation will also explore the results of the review and next steps for FE. Secondly, to address those unique needs of the FR community, we will have a Community of Practice discussion; bringing experts together, whether they use FE or another FR system, to discuss current best practices, challenges, hot topics, and ways forward.
Presented by Dr. Nicole Spaun, Senior Manager of Criminal Justice Education and Image Recognition, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
This presentation will provide information on the current biometric services from the FBI CJIS Division that are offered to law enforcement across the nation. Enabling as many biometric modalities as possible to be submitted to the national repository, the Next Generation Identification (NGI) System provides for the increased ability to make an identification or investigative success. The presentation will focus on utilizing the NGI System Iris enrollment and search features to aid in validating exactly who is in front of you throughout the Criminal Justice Process. Also focused upon will be the great strides made in the utilization of the NGI System to help our law enforcement partners solve active and cold cases with some being upward of decades unresolved. Actual events provided by law enforcement that represent successful usage of the biometric services will also be presented.
Presented by Krista Koch, Program Manager, Biometric Identification and Analysis Unit (BIAU), FBI
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Many agencies have used a form of the term “AFIS Quality” in determining which impressions to search. This term has been used since the inception of AFIS. This lecture will look at the historical uses of the term and whether it is relevant in casework today.
Presented by Brian Dew, Forensic Laboratory Manager, New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
NOTE: This session is a lecture taking place in a training room. This is not a certificate class.
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
We encourage attendees to stop in the IDEMIA Experience Center/Demo Room to interact with our products, solutions, and subject matter experts. This is your chance for 1:1 access to the team members who spearhead the evolution of our solutions.
Location: Demo Room (Oklahoma Station 5, 6, 7, 8)
For over a decade, the latent print field has seen publications, presentations, and research into latent print likelihood ratio models. However, there has been no model widely available for an agency to test or use in their own casework using their own tenprint database as the background dataset. An AFIS-based Likelihood Ratio model using Approximate Bayesian Computation is now being tested and will soon be available as an optional feature of an AFIS upgrade. This lecture will discuss the statistical basis for this system, use-cases for the technology, and results of prototype testing.
Presented by Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
While we have traditionally focused on the capture of good quality fingerprints. What happens when we can’t capture fingerprints? Does your agency have the capabilities of collecting good quality footprints? In this presentation, I will discuss the importance of capturing alternative friction ridge skin for amputees, the statistics of limb loss, and how the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension uses palm and foot prints to update criminal histories. I will also provide a step by step process we send to agencies for the capture of alternative friction ridge skin and examples of amputee palm and foot prints.
Presented by Nicole Holt, Lead Fingerprint Technician, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Location: Main Lecture Hall
This session will cover the changes to the CJIS Security Policy in versions 5.9.3 and 5.9.4, and potentially 5.9.5. This seminar will consist of a presentation and Q&A period. Following these, Larry will be available afterward for any more questions you would like to ask 1:1.
Presented by Larry Coffee, Senior CJIS Security Analyst, Diverse Computing
Location: Training Room #1 (Five Moons 1 & 2)
NOTE: This session is a lecture taking place in a training room. This is not a certificate class.
Walk through best practices in capturing fingers, palms, and interdigital areas on a TPE4 device. These will be one-hour sessions with a maximum of 10 attendees per session.
Instructed by Dwayne Wilson, Field Services Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Mistletoe
The inked fingerprint card with ten rolled impressions and ten flat impressions is quickly heading towards extinction. When capturing known prints for background checks or for other non-arrest purposes, there is increased interest in making the process simpler and easier, and this has led agencies to consider only capturing the flat impressions or for some forward-looking ones, using a contactless device in this scenario. But if agencies make this change, how will it affect the accuracy of latent print searches? This session debates these points and presents research into the accuracy of latent prints searched against these different types of known print images.
Presented by Kaustubh Deshpande, Vice President, Product Management, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Main Lecture Hall
This session will explore IDEMIA Connect, IDEMIA’s customer support portal. We will cover the features available to you from obtaining a login, to Creating a Support case, viewing cases, running reports, creating custom views, and exploring the contents of our expanding Knowledge Base.
Presented by Karen Gullotti, Senior KM, Training & Documentation Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Artificial Intelligence is a buzzword we are seeing everywhere. Popular free and low cost AI tools have both risk and reward. In this session learn how we can utilize some of these tools to interact with our data in innovative ways, build a solution to a problem and maybe even overcome a challenge or two along the way.
NOTE: This session is a lecture taking place in a training room. This is NOT a certificate class.
Presented by Tim Lott, Director, Cybercrime Training, SEARCH
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
Join us at The Jones Assembly for a night full of live music and great food. The Jones Assembly is a 20,000-square-foot Oklahoma City "must" destination for food, spirits, and live music, located on the west end of downtown on historic Film Row. We will have a private concert by Oklahoma's own The Jason Young Band, made up of Jason Young on vocals, Chandler Austin on Drums, Mike Myers on Bass, David Short on Fiddle, Harmonica, Lap Steel and Brandon Brackett on Lead Guitar. The Jason Young Band has Released 5 singles to Texas Radio “Long Way Home” - “The Moment” - “Under My Skin” - “Vinyl”- “POOR” all charted in the Texas Radio Top 30. Since 2017 The single “Long Way Home” was used in the movie An Evergreen Christmas (IMDB Credited). Their single "Crank It Up" was used in the Amazon movie Shut Up Anthony, (IMDB Credited).
The attire for this evening activity is casual. Dinner and drinks will be served and transportation to and from the hotel is provided. Dinner will be served buffet style.
Location: The Jones Assembly
thursDAY
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Location: Oklahoma Prefunction
Each year, IDEMIA presents multiple awards to acknowledge the very best in their fields. Join us to find out who won the Leave your Print Legacy Award, The Biometric Breakthrough of the Year, and the customer-nominated IDEMIA Employee Valued Service Award.
Presented by Kenneth Blue, CJIS System Officer, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
Location: Main Lecture Hall
The adoption of AI in our society has become mainstream and ubiquitous in our everyday life. The concepts of AI have been used within IDEMIA for years. We know our customers have the responsibility to report if they use AI and what does it do? Understanding this need from our customers, this session will cover the different categories of AI, policy and governance updates within the United States and Europe, our approach to building algorithms, and how we are looking to further leverage the capabilities of AI.
Presented by Evan Bays, Vice President of Justice Operations, Engineering, and R&D, IDEMIA National Security Solutions
Location: Main Lecture Hall
This 1-hr session is designed to give attendees an opportunity to hear how the Louisiana State Police Crime Lab and the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office became the first state to stand up a statewide Rapid DNA program. Delivered in a Q&A style format, hear how these agencies successfully collaborated and integrated Rapid DNA technology into a booking station operation.
Presented by Wyatt Pettengill, Senior Director of Product Management, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Philip Simmers, CODIS Unit Manager, Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory, LTC Lance Landry, Warden and Lead Rapid DNA Operator, Livingston Parish Detention Center
NOTE: This session is a lecture taking place in a training room. This is NOT a certificate class.
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming justice and public safety operations. Join this session to gain insights into AI/ML solutions, including generative AI use cases, while addressing cybersecurity, governance, and ethical AI practices. Discover how AWS integrates AI across law enforcement, emergency response, and corrections, leveraging robust security features.
Presented by Ryan Reynolds, Justice, Public Safety, and Transportation Leader, Amazon Web Services (AWS); Doug Gartner, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS); Kirk Copen, Senior Director of Solutions, IDEMIA National Security Solutions
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
In 2023, the Volusia Sheriff’s Office in Daytona Beach, FL became the first law enforcement agency to go live with an ABIS built on cloud-native technology that searches latent prints through local, state, and federal databases from a single encoding. The new system has increased Latent Print Unit efficiency and increased case output. This discussion will include a timeline of implementation and conversation on the capabilities, tools, and design of IDEMIA STORM ABIS.
Presented by Kaustubh Deshpande, Vice President, Product Strategy, IDEMIA Public Security North America, Lindsay Jones, Latent Print Unit Supervisor, Certified Latent Print Examiner, Volusia Sheriff's Office
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Learn about IDEMIA’s image enhancement tools and capabilities to better visualize latent print images. IDEMIA’s MBIS solution continues to host a suite of basic and advanced tools to improve contrast between ridges and valleys, remove background noise, and highlight comparison features for you – the expert user. IDEMIA recommends using image enhancements to further increase our unmatched search accuracy and algorithms, this certificate class provides hands-on time to add these tools and capabilities to your own knowledge base and crime-solving tool-belt.
Instructed by Eric Ray, Technical Project Leader, IDEMIA Public Security North America; Stephen Greene, Program Manager, Justice and Public Safety, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #1 (Five Moons 1 & 2)
We encourage attendees to stop in the IDEMIA Experience Center/Demo Room to interact with our products, solutions, and subject matter experts. This is your chance for 1:1 access to the team members who spearhead the evolution of our solutions.
Location: Demo Room (Oklahoma Station 5, 6, 7, 8)
With an ever-increasing need for in-person identity proofing and verification, State and federal requirements are taking shape, necessitating robust, reliable, security compliant, easy-to deploy solutions that can adapt to agency and customer needs – our SMART-E solution addresses these needs. SMART-E is a next-generational proctored, remote biometric capture and identity proofing solution that enables identity proofing through remote supervision driven by video and audio sessions – an industry game changer! Come learn more about our solution and how it can better serve you and your customers!
Presented by Stephen Gregg, Vice President of Software Engineering, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
By utilizing the power of IDEMIA’s industry-leading algorithms, Augmented Vision (AV) allows analysts and investigators to quickly process large amounts of video and image data to identify key suspects, evidence, and more. By ingesting security camera footage, CCTV, witness/bystander videos, and other data, AV automatically recognizes, records, and classifies persons and objects of interest. Faces, license plates, vehicles, and other key datapoints are extracted from background noise to better direct and focus investigative resources. By taking a step away from manually combing through video footage, a single analyst and workstation can easily process a case that could otherwise require hundreds of man-hours. With a focus on ease-of-use, and the implementation of valuable tools identified and requested by our customers, Augmented Vision seeks to improve the way we use video data and biometrics to solve cases.
Presented by Henry Pietrewicz, Solutions Engineer, IDEMIA National Security Solutions
Location: Main Lecture Hall
Location: Oklahoma Prefunction
This session will focus on post investigative image identification with the assistance of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). It’s important to point out that FRT, by itself, does not produce Probable Cause to arrest. The technology does, however, provide a valuable lead as the first step in an image identification process. Any image identification process that includes FRT should put policy before the technology. This session will provide “appropriate use” guidelines, best practices and policy recommendations. The session will also discuss what to look for in a FRT vendor, address bias concerns, and discuss training opportunities.
Presented by Joe Courtesis, Former Commander of the Central Investigations Division, NYPD
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
IDEMIA has changed the game! Come and see the future of fingerprint comparison. Gone are the days of having to plot your features and conduct your analysis 3 or 4 times in different programs, including Photoshop and multiple ABIS solutions. Encode once and search everywhere. Does your ABIS follow the ACE process? Perform your analysis once, have your ABIS solution help you to document what you are seeing in an impression, build your case documentation and court presentation chart along the way for EVERY comparison. Can your ABIS help you support the decisions, conclusions, and opinions you render every day? This certificate class demonstrates tools to make your job easier. Come and experience our game-changing Graphical User Interface (GUI) built by examiners, for examiners.
Instructed by Stephen Greene, Program Manager, Justice and Public Safety, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #1 (Five Moons 1 & 2)
For those working with Facial Recognition, difficult cases abound. Challenges include images that are low quality; images that are manipulated; faces featuring non-ideal pose, illumination, or expression (PIE); people who have altered their faces; or just the natural changes to faces due to weight-changes or aging. This workshop will present material on the causes and effects for some of these challenges and provide hands-on comparisons as practice in dealing with these issues.
Instructed by Dr. Nicole Spaun, Senior Manager of Criminal Justice Education and Image Recognition, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Training Room #2 (Five Moons 6 & 7)
The need to quickly and safely identify subjects in the field has never been more important for law enforcement officers. Identifications in the field allow officers to make informed decisions and reduce operational inefficiencies by eliminating the need to transport subjects to a location for fingerprinting. Come learn how IDEMIA's IDent v2.0 mobile fingerprint capture device and Mobile Biometric Check mobile app are redefining the mobile identification.
Presented by Ross Krewenka, Product Manager, IDEMIA Public Security North America
Location: Lecture Room II (Pinon)
Join us to commemorate the end to another fantastic conference! Dining, dancing, fun and games and of course, live music will all tie into a Prohibition, Route 66-themed evening. Our closing banquets never have a lack of things so do, so be sure to bring your a-game, dancing shoes and appetites.
The attire for the Banque Dinner is cocktail and prohibition/route 66-themed optional. We just want you to have fun! Dinner and drinks will be served. Dinner will be sit-down style.
Location: Main Lecture Hall