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Events — East Coast (NYC Metro) and West Coast (Presidio, San Francisco)
Bi-Coastal Series
EMERGENZ Public Safety AI Initiative — 2026
The Public Safety AI Symposium
Signal &
Response
The Public Safety AI Symposium
A two-event series connecting public safety practitioners and the AI safety and technology community — before harmful deployments, bad procurement decisions, and unacknowledged risks define the field. The pre-series and field intelligence survey open the program and are accessible to any practitioner right now.
6h
Per event — keynote, moderated panels, structured breakouts, published outputs
Program Runtime
CE
Continuing education credits — NJ EMS, NJ Dispatcher, California Prehospital
Accredited via ATEC Partnership
$0
Free to attend for all public safety practitioners — pay-what-you-feel contribution optional
Open Access Model
Produced by EMERGENZ
501(c)(3) Nonprofit · EIN 93-4070519
EMERGENZ is the producing organization. CE partnership provided by Allied Training & Emergency Consulting (ATEC), federation member and 501(c)(3) · EIN 92-1932911. Supported by the EMERGENZ public safety federation.
Mission-aligned research and education
All published outputs are factual Summaries of Findings — educational and research documents, not advocacy. EMERGENZ's 501(c)(3) status is protected by design.
Transparency
Candid Platinum 2026 — earned by fewer than 1% of nonprofits nationally.
Where the Program Starts
Signal & Response begins before either event.
The pre-series and field intelligence survey are the program's foundation — not its appendix. Four free CE programs build the context practitioners need to get the most out of the symposium. Two anonymous surveys are collecting primary data on AI use in public safety right now, at both the provider and leadership level. Both are open to any practitioner today.
Pre-Series
5.0 CE Hours · Free
The Pre-Series
A primer webinar and three focused CE courses — AI in clinical decision support, adversarial AI and soft target threats, and biosecurity. Five hours of free, accredited education that builds the foundation for everything discussed at the symposium. The primer webinar is the place to start.
View the four programs →
Field Intelligence
Open Now · Anonymous
Field Intelligence Survey
What is actually happening with AI in public safety — and does leadership know? Two anonymous surveys, one for individual providers and one for agency leadership, collecting primary data that will open Signal & Response East Coast as the first research session. Ten questions. Five minutes. You're the source.
Take the survey →The Events
Two rooms. Two audiences.
One conversation that needs to happen.
Each event is purpose-built for its audience. Neither assumes a shared baseline. Both produce a publicly available Summary of Findings that extends impact beyond the room.
The Operator Perspective
NYC / NJ Metro · Federation Member Host Venue · Hybrid-Enabled
AI is not widely deployed in public safety yet — but it is already in personnel's pockets and arriving in procurement pipelines. This event is built for the full spectrum of public safety practitioners: frontline responders, supervisors, commanders, clinical leads, administrators, and hospital system partners. It gets operators ahead of both the risks that already exist and the decisions coming in the next 12–24 months.
The Technology Perspective
Canvas SF — Presidio, San Francisco · Hybrid-Enabled
Built for anyone who works on or touches a system that uses AI: researchers, engineers, product managers, data scientists, policy practitioners, governance specialists, ethics teams, and technology community members across disciplines. First responders are the featured voices. Technologists listen, learn, and leave with an operational reality they cannot get from a paper or a demo.
Why This Exists
The gap nobody is talking about — until something goes wrong.
AI adoption in public safety is nascent. Most agencies have no AI policy, no evaluation framework, and no practitioner voice in procurement. The researchers building AI safety frameworks have never ridden in an ambulance or staffed an EOC. The practitioners making life-critical decisions have never been invited into the AI safety conversation.
That gap has consequences. Several of them are already active. Signal & Response exists to bridge it before harmful deployments, bad procurement contracts, and unacknowledged liability crises define what AI in public safety looks like.
Shadow Use — Happening Now
Frontline personnel are using ChatGPT and similar consumer LLMs on personal accounts for operational tasks — creating HIPAA exposure, liability gaps, and data security risks that agencies don't know they have.
Adversarial AI — Active and Emerging
AI-generated ghost calls, deepfake command impersonation, AI-assisted targeting of responder infrastructure, and ransomware on CAD systems are documented and growing threat vectors.
Procurement Without Frameworks
Purpose-built public safety AI tools are entering the market now. Procurement decisions will be made in the next 12–24 months by administrators without evaluation standards or practitioner voice.
Absent from the Safety Conversation
EMS, fire, law enforcement, and emergency communications are among the earliest AI deployment targets — and almost entirely absent from AI safety research, red-teaming, and governance conversations.