Jeff retired as Chief of Police from the Irving Police Department in 2022 after a 35-year career in policing, the last five he served as the chief of police. He is currently the Executive Director of the Caruth Police Institute and a Senior Fellow with the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute.
He holds a master’s degree in criminal justice leadership from Sam Houston State University. He is a graduate of the 252nd Session of the FBI National Academy, the Senior Management Institute for Police, and the Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas Leadership Command College. He currently serves as the Chair for the Officer Safety and Wellness Section for the IACP.

Chief Daniel Thompson began his law enforcement career with the Milwaukee Police Department in 1991. During his time in patrol, he was selected for special assignments with the Gang Squad and Metro Drug Unit.
In 1999, he was promoted to Detective. As a Detective, he worked for five years in HIDTA (High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area). This task force is a federally funded group of Detectives and Officers from both federal and local agencies to target drug trafficking organizations. He was also selected to become a member of the Milwaukee Hazardous Devices Unit (Bomb Squad), which is a 24/7 365 day on-call commitment. Chief Daniel then worked in the Homicide Unit for approximately five years. He was a Task Force Agent assigned full-time to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in disrupting and dismantling international and domestic terrorist threats.
When he was promoted to Lieutenant, he was assigned to the Intelligence Fusion Division and became the Director for STAC (Southeastern Wisconsin Threat Analysis Center). In addition, he was assigned to the Homicide Unit as a Lieutenant. He was then promoted to Captain and led the Fusion Division in leveraging technology and partnerships with state, federal, and local agencies, as well as the private sector.
In 2019, Thompson was promoted to the Inspector of Police and oversaw operations of the City of Milwaukee. He was also assigned to manage and lead the team to host the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
On May 4th, 2020 Thompson was sworn in as Chief of Police for the City of Waukesha.
His personal and professional accomplishments include being a certified public manager Wisconsin Command College Class Six), and a certified professional manager. He also has a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership.

LtCol James J. Emerson USMC (Ret) is Vice President at the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).
Jim has more than 45 years of law enforcement and security experience with a 20-year focus on cybercrime investigation, computer forensics, and related criminal intelligence. He is an IADLEST National and International Certified Instructor and currently an instructor in the NW3C Digital Forensic Examiner Expert Witness Course. Jim is a member of the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) and currently the PI for a NIST Grant to develop Quality Management Standards for Digital Multimedia Evidence, has been the Chairman of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Computer Crime and Digital Evidence Committee for over twelve years, a member of the IACP Law Enforcement Information and Technology Section Board of Officers, Co-Chair of the IACP CJIS Security Policy Modernization Working Group, and is the 2022 IACP G. Thomas Steele award recipient for Excellence and Innovation in Law Enforcement Information Technology.

Stacey A. Wright is the Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence at CyberWA and teaches graduate cybersecurity and threat intelligence courses at the State University of New York. Her work includes co-chairing the IACP Cyber Security Working Group, membership on the Cybercrime and Digital Evidence Committee; the National Sheriff’s Association (NSA) Cybersecurity and Crime Work Group; the IJIS Institute Cyber Security Task Force and the National Academies of Science (NAS) Committee on Cybercrime Classification and Measurement.

Previously, Stacey worked at the Cybercrime Support Network (CSN) and was the Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence and then the Director of Partnerships for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) at the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Stacey began her intel career as a Cyber Intelligence Analyst for FBI Albany and her technical career as an Information Systems Specialist for the Cambridge, MA, Public Safety departments. She is a formally trained Intelligence Analyst with more than 20 years’ experience in cyber, published thought leader, CISSP, and a national speaker on cybercrime and cybersecurity. IACP CCDE & LEIT member.

On July 1, 2022, Rex R. Ingram was appointed as the 36th Chief of the Caldwell Police Department.
Chief Ingram comes to the City of Caldwell from the Los Angeles Police Department where he proudly served his community for nearly 17 years. Most recently, Chief Ingram served as a Lieutenant Watch Commander where he proudly worked in several different areas of Los Angeles, including the San Fernando Valley, Koreatown, and Hollywood. As a supervisor during his time with the LAPD, he held various operational, administrative, training, and command positions, including patrol sergeant, parole compliance unit OIC, Vice unit OIC, Bureau training coordinator, assistant watch commander, and human trafficking task force commander. Chief Ingram is passionate about active community collaboration and has been appointed to serve on several notable executive boards. He is an active member of Idaho Chiefs' of Police Association (ICOPA), where he serves as the 2023/2024 Vice President and will be the 2024/2025 President of the Association. Chief Ingram was also selected by the Office of Highway Safety (OHS) and appointed to as a Traffic Safety Commissioner on the Idaho Traffic Safety Commission for the Great State of Idaho. Additionally, Chief Ingram proudly serves on the Boys and Girls Club of Canyon County Executive Board, the Idaho Youth Ranch Board Advancement Committee, the Saint Alphonsus Foundation Board, and the West Valley Medical Center Executive Board of Trustees, the City-County Narcotics Unit (CCNU) Executive Board of Directors, on the Treasure Valley Metro Violent Crime Taskforce Executive Board of Directors, and the Canyon County 911 Executive Board of Directors. Chief Ingram is a member of many professional organizations and associations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), the Police Executive Research Forum, the Latin American Law Enforcement Association (LALEY), the Western States Sheriff's Association (WSSA) and ICOPA.

Dr. Jeff Rojek is currently a tenured associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 research articles and reports covering topics that include police officer decision-making and performance, use of force, traffic stops, officer involved vehicle collisions, tactical units, officer misconduct review, public perceptions of the police, police involvement in research, and police-researcher relationships. His articles appear in the leading criminology and criminal justice journals including Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Policing, and Police Quarterly. He is also the senior author on Developing and Maintaining Police-Researcher Partnerships to Facilitate Research Use: A Comparative Analysis (New York, NY; Springer, 2015). He has received $10 million in research funding from federal, state and local agencies a principal or co-principal investigator to examine topics that include police practitioner-researcher partnerships, intelligence led-policing, violent crime, law enforcement response to disasters, officer-involved traffic collisions, officer safety, body worn cameras, and officer decision-making. Prior to his academic career, Dr .Rojek was an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Andi Baughn is the Statewide Interoperability Coordinator (SWIC) and Director of Training and Outreach for the Integrated Public Safety Commission. She strongly believes that 911 centers/ECC’s are the keystone for effective First Responder communications. Andi proudly served as a frontline dispatcher, trainer, and supervisor in a 911 center for over 17 years before transitioning to State government. She oversees the Training and Outreach staff with the goal of making the land mobile radio system more understandable and user friendly for all Indiana First Responders. Andi is a COML instructor and enjoys providing COMU training and awareness as well as participating in statewide exercises. She’s looking forward to using her front-line experience to continue building Indiana’s interoperability and strengthening relationships with local, state and national partners.

Patrick leads the Patrick Doyle Consulting firm, which provides expert advice to law enforcement agencies and justice technology companies on a wide array of police challenges including data sharing, digital evidence management, operational assessments, biometrics and records management. Prior to consulting, Patrick was the Justice Practice Director for a global IT company and has implemented dozens of large technology projects around the world including many in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. He is also the vice chairman of the International Association of Chiefs (IACP) of Police Criminal Justice Information Systems Committee. Additionally, Patrick leads the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute Law Enforcement Imaging Technology Task Force.
Patrick has directed numerous research projects into police technologies including facial recognition, license plate readers, Cloud usage and data management practices. He is a retired New Jersey State Trooper, and was the Senior Watch Officer at one of the largest government “all threats” intelligence centers in the world. He served in dozens of significant command level liaison positions with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service and New York City Police Department throughout his 26-year career in law enforcement.

Wayne Salzgaber is the Vice President of Americas for Grabba Technologies Group and is responsible for leading and scaling operations in the US and the Americas Region. He has an extensive career in law enforcement and homeland security, with more than three decades of service with the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury in addition to the U.S. Coast Guard. Wayne served in several key domestic and international law enforcement, investigative and military leadership positions during his distinguished public service career with over a decade as a member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service (SES). Prior to his retirement from federal service in 2022, Wayne served as the Director of the Current Operations Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He was also appointed by the U.S. Attorney General to serve as the 14th Director of INTERPOL Washington, the United States National Central Bureau, at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

George W. Vit is a full time police Sergeant in New Jersey with almost 20 years of experience in law enforcement. He earned a B.S. in Management of Telecommunication from New Jersey Institute of Technology before being deployed. He continued to serve the public by becoming a police officer. After completing an MBA in Management of Technology, he continued to participate in various committees including a technology committee, awards committee, and training committee. He has also received numerous awards including saving a 12 year old boy, a letter of commendation for felony arrests, and others. Most recently, Sgt. Vit was assigned to the support services bureau to carry out training and technology initiatives, which included body worn cameras and related grant funding and policy.
Sgt. Vit continues to serve on many committees dedicated to technology in law enforcement in professional organizations such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police where he was elected to the Law Enforcement and Information Technology Board (LEIT) and serves on the CJIS committee and several working groups.

Catherine Miller has worked over 30 years with public safety technology including the last 13 years with the Montgomery County, MD Police Department as Program Manager of the National Capital Region Law Enforcement Information Exchange Program (NCR-LInX).  She leads this high-profile information sharing system working closely with the program sponsor, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), 14 other LInX Regions, and the FBI's National Data Exchange Program (N-DEx). Catherine has led the technical development, architecture establishment, testing, and system enhancement development for NCR-LInX including the first LInX to LInX connection with the Hampton Roads, Virginia LInX Program that expanded to all LInX Regions being connected.  She helped lead the piloting, development, testing, and implementation of advanced analytical tools with LInX to support more complex investigations like the East Coast Serial Rapist Investigation. Catherine played a major role in the development of the Federal LInX Program (FED-LInX) to include federal law enforcement agencies such as the United States Marshals Service and United States Capitol Police.  She is currently a Board member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Law Enforcement Information and Technology Section (IACP LEIT) and serves on the IACP CJIS Committee, IACP Policy Center License Plate Reader (LPR) Working Group, and the IACP Policy Center Facial Recognition (FR) Working Group.  She also serves on the IJIS Institute CJIS Advisory Committee – Data Modeling Working Group, Law Enforcement Advisory Committee, Law Enforcement Imaging Technology Task Force (LEITTF) and is currently the Chair of the Records Management Systems (RMS) Standards Task Force working with both IACP and the IJIS Institute on updating criminal justice records management systems standards.  Catherine holds a Bachelors in Mathematics with Computer Science and a Masters in Technology Management.  

Sergeant John Peterson has over 20 years of law enforcement experience and has spent the
last 10 years as a member of the Taunton Police Department in Massachusetts. He is assigned
as the Administrative Sergeant where he works with the command staff on special projects,
professional standards and accreditation. He has implemented and administrates the
departments CAD/RMS system, the body-worn camera program, and is the administrator for
the department’s emergency radio network. He also works with the chief of police on budgeting
and procurement, is responsible for the departments CJIS management, oversees the
departments drone program, and is the training coordinator for the Southeastern
Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (SEMLEC). Sergeant Peterson has formally held the
positions of detective, FTO, and SRO. He is committed to the training of officers and the
implementation of new technology into law enforcement. Sergeant Peterson has a Masters
degree in Law Enforcement from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has been a
member of the IACP CJIS Committee since 2023 and LEIT Section Board since 2024

Tanya Stauffer has led justice and public safety projects for Innova Solutions for nearly 25 years. The breadth of her experience spans information sharing, digital evidence management, identity and access management, criminal history solutions, offender registry applications, victim notification solutions, electronic disposition reporting, and integration with records management solutions among other business challenges. Tanya served on the IJIS Institute Board of Directors for 6 years, served on the IJIS Institute Corrections Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Law Enforcement Imaging Technology Task Force and the RMS Functional Standards Task Force. Prior to her time with Innova Solutions, Tanya spent 10 years supporting federal and state client needs for AT&T and NCR Corporation. She holds a Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor’s Degree from James Madison University.

Todd Thompson is the Vice President of Strategic Development for Caliber Public Safety. Todd is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and market adoption of Caliber Public Safety's industry-leading hosted Online RMS and Cloud based solutions.Todd has served public safety for more than 30 years. He has a degree in Criminal Justice Sciences. Todd began his career in McLean County, IL as a deputy sheriff before transitioning to private industry where he has served as a software trainer, project manager, business analyst, and business executive. While serving at McLean County Todd assumed the role of Criminal Justice domain expert and liaison to help conceptualize and carry out one of the nation?s first integrated justice systems.Todd is a ?boots on the ground? visionary, committed to improving public safety through the development of Cloud and other innovative technologies that promote data sharing and compliance to National and State standards. His efforts have driven adoption of Caliber?s Public Safety Cloud RMS by more than 280 public safety and private security organizations in the US, ranging in size from one officer to several thousand. Cloud technology is a game changer for public safety by providing an architecture that encourages regional coordination and shared resources to improve public safety outcomes.Todd believes that homeland security collaboration within the US is best served when thought leaders from private and public sectors unite to develop and deploy innovative technologies and programs that allow all levels of the justice, public safety, and homeland security communities to capture and share mission critical information affordably, securely, and effectively. Todd is a member of the IJIS CJIS Advisory Committee, participating in the UCR and RMS Standards working groups.

Dr. Melissa Winesburg, Ph.D., holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Winesburg serves as Director of Programs for the IJIS Institute leading efforts related to NIBRS implementation nationally, RMS standards development usage and promulgation and supporting initiatives relating to justice reform nationally. Previously, she held the position of Law Enforcement Practice Director at Optimum Technology, Inc., an information technology corporation located in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Winesburg managed and led the strategic development and growth of the company?s law enforcement practice in the areas of product development, customer relations and partnerships. Her leadership and expertise expanded law enforcement business operations from one to fourteen states. Ms. Winesburg also led the development of three major products including: SWIFTPROTECT (Records Management System), SWIFTREPOSITORY (NIBRS Repository), and SWIFTCONNECT (Law Enforcement Search Engine). Dr. Winesburg has more than 20 years of experience in law enforcement and criminal justice information systems. She began her career by developing the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Program and leading the implementation of a standardized records management system for local law enforcement for the State of Ohio.

Ofc. Noel A. Castillo has worked in the law enforcement/correctional field for the past twenty-five years. As a police officer with a sound academic background, he has conducted and assisted with research in the areas of body worn cameras, officer wellness, use of force and juvenile issues. Noel has received awards for his work as a Hostage Negotiator, Training Officer and for the implementation of community outreach programs. Noel has a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Florida International University, Master of Public Administration from Barry University, and a PhD in Criminal Justice from Nova Southeastern University. He is a US Army veteran.

Captain Brandon Moore is approaching his 21st year in law enforcement. Beginning his career as a police explorer with the Indianapolis Police Department, he then took an internship opportunity with the Franklin Township Fire Department. After graduating from the Indiana Fire Academy and moving to Charleston, SC to attend college, he joined the Charleston County Vol. Fire & Rescue Squad. Upon graduating college Captain Moore joined the North Charleston Police Department where he served until marrying his wife and taking a move to Asheville.
Captain Moore currently serves as the Asheville Police Department's Patrol Division Commander, supervising the Patrol Division and Specialty units.

Captain Moore is a NC Certified Instructor, teaching CPR, CIT and Patrol Techniques and has served as a Field Training Officer, Drug Suppression Unit Commander, Hazmat Technician, UAV Pilot, and Crisis Negotiator. He is also currently serving as the UAV Commander- leading one of the largest UAV units in the southeast.

Captain Moore attended undergraduate school at Charleston Southern University, and completed his MPA at Western Carolina University.

Captain Moore has been married to his wife for 18 years and has two amazing children.

Douglas Oeser is the Director of Data Accountability & Crime Analysis at the Asheville Police Department in Asheville, North Carolina. He leads a multidisciplinary team that supports public safety through strategic crime analysis, real-time intelligence, and innovative use of data and technology. Douglas began his career as an All-Source Intelligence Analyst with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, where he developed a strong foundation in operational intelligence and analytical rigor. After completing his service, he earned a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Sociology, with a concentration in Criminology and a minor in Statistics. Since joining the Asheville Police Department in 2017, Douglas has helped shape the agency’s approach to data-driven policing. Promoted to his current role in 2021, he has overseen the integration of geographic information systems (GIS), network and spatial analysis, and advanced visualization tools to support both tactical and strategic decision-making. A licensed UAS pilot, Douglas specializes in the coordination of unmanned aerial systems for crime scene documentation, search and rescue, and disaster response. His work bridges the fields of law enforcement, geospatial analysis, and emerging technology, with a focus on practical applications that enhance public safety operations.