Technology Demonstration Showcase
Tech Demo Showcase Schedule
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, from 9:45 - 10:45 and 15:00 - 16:15 EST
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, from 9:45 - 10:45 and 15:00 - 16:15 EST
The Technology Demonstration Showcase has exclusive hours, and no other sessions occur during this time.
| Host & Demonstration Title | Demonstration Description |
| Arriba Wireless
Beyond the Radio: A Rugged Communications Ecosystem for the Modern Responder |
Today’s first responders operate across increasingly complex communications environments where a single device or network may not meet every operational need. ARRIBA Wireless will demonstrate a rugged, Android-based mobile communications ecosystem designed to bring multiple mission-supporting capabilities into a flexible family of field-ready devices. The demonstration will explore how rugged smartphones and tablets can support capabilities such as broadband connectivity, push-to-talk communications, extended battery operation, satellite connectivity, and specialized imaging. Rather than proposing a replacement for existing land mobile radio or agency communications systems, ARRIBA is exploring how rugged mobile hardware can complement established communications infrastructure and give agencies additional options for field operations, extended incidents, remote environments, specialized teams, and evolving broadband applications. Attendees will be able to interact with multiple ARRIBA devices, compare specialized capabilities, and discuss the operational, interoperability, certification, security, and device-management requirements necessary for emerging hardware to serve the public safety community. The demonstration will also invite direct feedback from first responders and public-safety technology professionals to help inform ARRIBA's product development and future field-evaluation program. |
| ESChat, a JVCKENWOOD Company
FedRAMP Certified (NIST 800.53) mission critical broadband PTT communication |
Our demonstration will highlight FirstNet Certified, Cybersecure & Interoperable mission critical broadband Push-to-Talk (MCPTT). ‘ESChat for Government’ is a hardened version of our ESChat broadband communication, collaboration, and interoperability platform. It is a FedRAMP® Certified, GovRAMP™ Authorized solution and is also approved by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for U.S. military operational use. Attendees will also experience Viking Connect on the Kenwood Vx8000 Series Public Safety Radios. Viking Connect provides first responders seamless interoperability between LMR and broadband networks. automatically transitioning between LMR and Broadband based on signal conditions, and without user intervention. |
| Eventide Communications
Critical Insights AI for Better 911 Center Outcomes |
Participants will see how Critical Insights AI (CI AI) can deliver complete lifecycle support for your center. You will see CI AI
TRAIN - Prepare Staff for the Calls They Will Handle, with real world simulations |
| UR International, Inc.
GovTow, powered by UR International, provides a vehicle for digitally dispatching to tow companies through a cloud/App based system |
Participants will see how a dispatch is created by officer at the scene and/or by the dispatcher that is directed to a tow operator through GPS driven or Rotation Driven methods. There will also be demonstration of Private Property Impounds (PPI) / Repossession (Repo) tow reporting using an app by the tow operator and how these tows are reviewed and approved/denied by the Dispatcher. |
| MCM
Know What's Ready Before the Call Comes In: Radio and Equipment Readiness on One Platform with Motorola and L3Harris |
A live demo of the MCM Platform, the only readiness platform integrated with both Motorola and L3Harris radio systems. Mixed fleets leave radio data siloed and pieced together by hand. We’ll show both in one place – alongside consoles, tower sites, maintenance and inspection records, and dispatcher and technician certifications – with purpose-built AI flagging overdue inspections, repeat repairs, and lapsing certifications before they reach the field. |
| ThisGen 911
Step Into the Simulation: AI-Powered 9-1-1 Training in Action |
Participants will experience how ThisGen 911 uses artificial intelligence to support the 9-1-1 workforce from recruitment and hiring through training and ongoing development. Attendees can interact with realistic simulated emergency calls, lifelike callers, a simulated Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, and radio dispatch scenarios. They will also see artificial intelligence-powered tools designed to help agencies introduce candidates to the profession and strengthen the hiring process. The demonstration will show how simulation can help agencies identify, prepare, and develop 9-1-1 professionals through realistic, repeatable practice before those skills are needed during a real emergency. |
| AXON911
PSAP of the Future: A Connected Vision for Emergency Communications |
What could emergency communications look like when call takers, dispatchers, supervisors, and field responders share one connected platform? This workshop explores Axon’s Center of the Future vision through a scenario-based video and guided walkthrough of the platform concept. Attendees will follow an incident from the initial emergency call through dispatch and resolution, exploring how AI assisted translation, radio transcription, contextual insights, and shared situational awareness could support public safety professionals. The session offers a forward-looking look at how integrated technology could reduce information silos, streamline workflows, and keep people at the centre of emergency response. |
| First Responder Network Authority
The Art of the Possible: FirstNet technologies to support public safety operations |
The FirstNet Authority will demonstrate LMR/Cellular interoperability, Mission Critical PTT (MCPTT) applications, in building coverage, and high-power user equipment (HPUE) that all provide the quality of service, priority, and preemption (QPP) only found on FirstNet. |
| GateKeeper Proximity
Experience GateKeeper: Fast, Secure Passwordless Access and MFA |
Participants will see how GateKeeper helps users securely access computers and websites without repeatedly typing passwords. The demonstration will show GateKeeper’s proximity-based multi-factor authentication (MFA), automatic computer locking, fast workstation login, and secure password management. Attendees will be able to interact with the GateKeeper token, see how users authenticate with a token and personal identification number (PIN), and learn how administrators can manage users, devices, access policies, and activity from the GateKeeper Hub. |
| Secure Headset Group The S D200 Wireless Base Demo: Unit overview and technical specifications |
Attendees will see a live demonstration of the SHG S D200 Wireless Base, including a hands-on product overview and review of its key features, functionality, and technical specifications. The demo will provide an opportunity to view the unit up close and learn about its capabilities and potential applications. |
| JUMA Communications LLC
Demonstrating USB-C Audio and PTT Integration for Mission-Critical Broadband |
JUMA Communications will demonstrate how professional USB-C remote speaker microphones integrate with Android devices and broadband push-to-talk (PTT) applications used in public safety communications.
Visitors will experience live two-way voice communications using physical PTT controls and USB audio, demonstrating how familiar radio-style operation can be achieved with broadband devices. The demonstration will highlight the importance of reliable compatibility between audio accessories, mobile devices and PTT applications, supporting the wider goal of interoperability across public safety communications. |
| Loris SOS, Inc.
Loris SOS: Phone-Free Emergency Alerts with Location and Floor Level |
Visitors will explore Loris SOS, a discreet wearable designed to send a person's name, location, and floor level directly to 911 through text messaging, without a phone or third-party monitoring center. Attendees will handle the device, explore interchangeable accessories such as scrunchies and keychains, and see its activation sequence and vibration feedback. A demonstration will show how an alert and location information reach a designated test recipient. The discussion will examine how wearable emergency alerts can support people who cannot safely reach or use a phone, and invite feedback from emergency communications professionals on the information dispatchers need. |
| NiCE Public Safety
911 Clarity Through AI-Assisted Staffing, Incident Insights, QA & AI Governance |
This demonstration shows how artificial intelligence (AI) and connected data bring clarity to four 911 blind spots common to every 911center: staffing, incident understanding, quality and AI accountability. Following one simulated incident, attendees will see how staffing and call demand shape the response, how connected records explain what happened and how that context supports fair quality reviews and scrutiny of AI decisions. The same findings guide staffing forecasts, scheduling, coaching and automation of routine calls, linking each improvement to the evidence behind it. Through discussion with presenters, attendees will explore how this connected view turns incident insights into operational improvements. |
| Softil Inc
Advancing TAK situational awareness capabilities with voice communications on- and off-network |
TAK/MCX Demonstration will present the integration of a number of critical communication capabilities for first responders. Firstly, the demo will present an essential integration between the Team Awareness Kit (TAK), a situational awareness tool used by hundreds of thousands of first responders in the USA and worldwide, and standards-based broadband communication tools (MCX), such as FirstNet Fusion. Secondly, the demo will present such a TAK/MCX integration in both on-network and off-network scenarios, utilizing the power of Qualcomm’s 5G sidelink, the technology readied by Qualcomm for mission-critical communications users worldwide to enable public safety to continue communicating even when a service provider network is not available. In this demo, attendees will be able to see a TAK/MCX integrated solution in operation, delivering map-based MCX dynamic group calls originated within the TAK environment, both on- and off-network, utilizing the power of Qualcomm’s 5G sidelink. |
| Zenext AI
Agentic AI for Human-Supervised Emergency Dispatch and Autonomous Police Vehicles |
Zenext AI will demonstrate how multiple specialized artificial intelligence agents coordinate emergency response decisions involving autonomous police vehicles. Visitors will explore a simulated emergency operations dashboard, introduce competing incidents, and observe how the system evaluates incident priority, vehicle readiness, charging, routes, and officer availability. The demonstration will illustrate why the nearest vehicle is not always the safest choice and how a human dispatcher can review, approve, or override the proposed response. Participants will learn how coordinated decision support can improve situational awareness, resource allocation, and accountability. |
| APCO International
Meridian: Building and Delivering 9-1-1 Protocols for Call-Assist Tools |
Visitors will see Meridian, APCO International's new platform for managing emergency call-handling protocols for Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD), Fire Service and Law Enforcement. They will watch a protocol card (guidecard) being written, reviewed and approved with an electronic signature. They will also see how the same protocols become eBooks and printed guidecards, so a center always has a backup on hand. Visitors can try the editor, see built-in quality checks, and ask how their emergency communications center (ECC) could use Meridian. |
| Catalyst Communications Technologies Inc
Establishing unified operational awareness across MCX, LMR and TAK ecosystems |
Participants will experience an interactive mission critical command and control environment bringing together Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Mission Critical Services (MCX), Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and Tactical Awareness Kit (TAK) technologies/systems, forming a cohesive system-of-system. As participants will learn, effective control and monitoring of these disparate ecosystems does not need to be complicated to setup, use or manage. Demonstrations will include cross-system voice communication with integrated location and user status awareness (normal, offline, emergency). Additionally, location information including geofences can be shared between systems with the ability to create dynamic, geographically defined talk groups. |
| Dejero
TITAN Mobile and TITAN Command routers, powered by Smart Blending Technology |
Dejero will demonstrate its TITAN Mobile and TITAN Command routers, powered by Smart Blending Technology, which combines multiple internet connections to support public safety operations. Visitors will interact with the routers, help simulate a network outage, and watch how data traffic continues over remaining connections. Participants will learn about Central Pierce Fire & Rescue (CPFR)’s fleet connectivity approach and how blending cellular, satellite, and wired connections can augment land mobile radio (LMR) systems, supporting voice and data communications between field crews and dispatch when coverage is limited. |
| Sensagrate
Real-Time Collision and Wrong Way Driving Detection |
Visitors at the Sensagrate table will see live demonstrations of our SensaVision computer vision AI software detecting wrong-way drivers and collisions in real-time on roadways. With access to thousands of real-time camera feeds across the US, attendees will learn how existing cameras paired with AI can assist in delivering real-event incident alerts, with analytics, live camera feed access, and Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates to responding agencies into their CAD and RTCC systems. Participants can interact with our application to trigger simulated incidents to activate and approve event alerts, and explore how our data and analytics provides enhanced situational awareness and effective scene management, accelerating emergency dispatch, response and scene clearance. |
| Beacon 911 Foundation
GateTracker: A Guided Path to Valid FCC Next Generation 911 Requests |
Beacon 911 Foundation is a nonprofit formed by three firms to invest in the people who shape 911 technology through education,mentorship, and scholarships. Like a lighthouse, technology serves best when skilled people use it well. Visitors will try GateTracker, a tool from founding firm Ground Truth Advisors, that guides a 911 authority to a valid Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Next Generation 911 (NG911) request. Using fictional data, they will see the 12 readiness gates and watch artificial intelligence (AI) draft vendor questions. A person approves every change. |
| Harrow Defense
PYLON: Body-Worn Node That Puts Each Responder’s Position and Vitals on TAK |
Harrow Defense will show PYLON, a small body-worn node that shares each responder’s location and wearable sensor data with the rest of the team. Visitors can handle prototype units, pair a commercial heart rate strap, and watch positions, heart rate, and temperature, humidity and pressure appear live on a tablet running the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), a map app used by many public safety teams. The units form a Bluetooth mesh, so data hops from wearer to wearer to reach the tablet without a cell network. Staff will walk through measured range (about 190 meters direct, line of sight) and how the next board revision extends it. |
| FirstNet, Built with AT&T
FirstNet Fusion |
Participants will see how FirstNet Fusion brings mission-critical push-to-talk, location, secure messaging, video, and dispatch tools into one experience. They will use supported mobile devices to join a talkgroup and exchange messages. |
| FirstNet, Built with AT&T
DefendEye Overwatch |
Participants will see how the portable DefendEye Overwatch drone solution can rapidly provide an aerial view of an incident without permanent infrastructure. The demonstration will show a quick launch workflow, a live or prerecorded video feed, and how authorized field and command users can view the same information on mobile devices or monitors. Participants will learn how connected drones can improve situational awareness, support coordination, and reduce the need to place personnel in uncertain areas. |
| FirstNet, Built with AT&T
Helix |
Participants will see a purpose-built, radio-centric device that brings mission-critical push to-talk to a familiar public safety form factor. The demonstration will show group communications over FirstNet, interaction with FirstNet Fusion, and how the device is designed to support land mobile radio interoperability, mutual aid, and direct-mode or talkaround backup. Participants will learn how Helix can provide a practical path from separate radio and broadband tools toward a more unified communications experience. |
| FirstNet, Built with AT&T
MegaConnect |
Participants will see how the Sonim MegaConnect mobile hotspot uses FirstNet MegaRange high-power technology to extend connectivity in remote locations and through signal-blocking materials such as concrete, glass, and metal. They will connect phones, tablets, or a laptop to the hotspot and view device status and network performance. Participants will learn how the compact, rugged hotspot can support up to 64 connected devices and help teams upload video, drone footage, and other critical data from the field. |
| FirstNet, Built with AT&T
MegaReach Accessory |
Participants will see how the Parsec MegaReach Dock enhances the Sonim MegaConnect hotspot with integrated high-gain antennas, improved cooling, and sustained performance for extended operations. The demonstration will compare the portable hotspot alone with the hotspot seated in the dock while connected devices exchange data. Participants will learn how the accessory can increase MegaConnect transmit power from up to six times to up to twelve times that of standard devices on FirstNet Band 14 and support demanding field or command-post use. |
| FirstNet, Built with AT&T
Sonim XP Pro Thermal |
Participants will see how the Sonim XP Pro Thermal combines a rugged FirstNet Ready smartphone with a built-in FLIR Lepton 3.5 radiometric thermal sensor. They will use the device to view heat patterns, identify temperature differences and capture thermal images. The demonstration will also highlight the glove-friendly touchscreen, programmable pushto-talk button, loud dual speakers, and rugged design. |
| ARCortex
Drone-Fed Situational Awareness: AR Common Operating Picture for Commanders |
Visitors will wear commercially available augmented reality (AR) eyewear and see a, multi users, shared 3D Common Operating Picture (COP), from their own point of view, on a table in front of them. They will watch a simulated drone fly over the scene, drag and drop markers from the drone's view onto the map, where they also appear in the real-world view. A drone pilot can add virtual annotations that other participants see as well. Our staff will explain how this can improve situational awareness and coordination between responders, and will welcome feedback from public safety attendees. |
| BadVR
Augmented Reality Operations Center for Public Safety |
Through hands-on demonstrations, participants will experience spatial user interfaces for first responders, including a holographic common operating picture that unifies maps, sensor feeds, personnel locations, and asset analytics. Real-world scenario playbacks will highlight novel approaches to situational awareness and information sharing, offering insight into how emerging AR/VR technologies can help monitor unfolding events and coordinate resources across agencies. |
| NIST PSCR
NIST PSCR's Research on Situational Awareness & Mission Critical Comms |
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) division demonstrates tools for situational awareness and mission-critical communications. Observe a lidar backpack mapping an indoor space in real-time and hear how machine learning detects critical public safety objects. Try on an augmented reality (AR) headset projecting these annotated 3D maps to learn how they can aid pre-incident planning and real-time operations. Dive into a virtual reality (VR) simulation highlighting a digital twin environment used to test enhanced user interfaces (UIs) for first responders. Finally, evaluate Quality of Experience (QoE) audio clips and provide feedback on other background noise to be tested. |
| SpyDar Sensors Inc
Advanced UAS for Medical Evacuation and Disaster Response |
Visitors will see technology currently being advanced under a Phase II government research program and how the company is extending it toward high-impact public-safety and disaster-response missions. The demonstration will feature the company’s proprietary M-DAR (Multi-Ducted Angled Rotors) enclosed propulsion technology, designed to reduce exposed-propeller hazards near patients and responders. Participants will learn how the system could help move injured people, deliver critical medical supplies and emergency equipment, and support rescue operations when roads, flooding, debris, or difficult terrain block traditional access. |