Pre-Series
The Pre-Series
Before the symposium, build the foundation. Four free, CE-accredited programs — a primer webinar and three focused courses — delivered before the East Coast event. Complete the series and arrive at Signal & Response with 5.0 continuing education hours already earned.
Introduction
Arrive ready.
Signal & Response: The Public Safety AI Symposium brings together emergency medicine, fire, law enforcement, dispatch, and emergency management professionals to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping public safety operations. The pre-series is how you arrive ready.
All programs are free. All are eligible for CE credit through ATEC (NJ OEMS) and EMERGENZ (California EMSA Provider #127). Programs are delivered via Zoom.
The Series
Four programs. Five hours.
Webinar
The on-ramp to everything that follows.
This two-hour live webinar establishes the baseline every first responder needs before the deeper conversations begin. Not theory — a field-applicable orientation to what AI systems actually are, what shadow use means for individual providers and their agencies, what HIPAA and data privacy require at the practitioner level, and how to read an AI capability claim critically.
If you've used an AI tool at work — or thought about it — this is where to start.
1
A Harvard study published in April 2026 found that an AI reasoning model outperformed emergency physicians on triage diagnosis and treatment planning. What does that finding mean for prehospital care?
This course examines the evidence on AI clinical decision support in EMS — what the research shows, where the tools are already appearing in field workflows, and what the regulatory and accountability landscape looks like for providers who encounter them. The question isn't whether AI enters prehospital medicine. It's whether EMS is prepared to govern how it does.
2
The same AI capabilities reshaping what public safety agencies can do are reshaping what a motivated actor can do with a vehicle, a crowd, and a phone.
This course examines the dual-use reality of frontier AI in the context of soft target attacks and mass casualty preparedness. What AI enables on the threat side, what it enables on the mitigation side, and what individual providers and agency leadership should be doing differently at mass gathering events right now.
3
In April 2026, independent biosecurity researchers documented that a frontier AI model now scores above expert virologist performance on practical laboratory knowledge benchmarks. The barrier to biological threat development is lower today than it was twelve months ago.
EMS providers are day-zero contact in a biological event — before confirmed diagnosis, before pharmaceutical countermeasures, before situational awareness develops. This course examines what the AI capability shift means for the biosecurity threat environment, what COVID exposed about PPE supply chain readiness, and what has and has not been fixed since.
CE Credit
Accredited through ATEC and EMERGENZ.
CE Accreditation
All four programs are submitted for continuing education credit through ATEC (New Jersey Office of Emergency Medical Services) and EMERGENZ (California EMSA Provider #127). Certificates are issued via Certifier.io following attestation.
Providers seeking CE credit from other state EMS offices should verify acceptance with their state agency prior to participation. CE credit for law enforcement, fire, and emergency management disciplines varies by jurisdiction.
What Comes Next
The pre-series feeds into the symposium.
The pre-series feeds directly into Signal & Response: The Public Safety AI Symposium — two full-day hybrid events bringing together practitioners, researchers, technology developers, and policymakers to work through the questions the field is only beginning to ask.