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Day 1 Welcome

Room Location: Grand Ballroom

Help us kick-off 5x5 in 2025! We’ll make sure you know where you’re going and what is in store.

Honor guard and City of Bellevue welcome

Room Location: Grand Ballroom

The Bellevue Police Department Honor Guard and King County Firefighters Pipes & Drums will present colors to open 5x5 followed by a warm welcome from Interim Fire Chief Dave Tait […]

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Lessons learned from the D.C. plane crash response

Room Location: Grand Ballroom

Join Deputy Chief Thomas Chenworth, District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department and Chief David Povlitz, Arlington County Fire Department in Virginia as they share lessons learned from their agencies’ […]

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The cellular space race continues!

Room Location: Auditorium

Last year at 5x5, we shared the beginnings of the space race in the cellular world in the form of a new and promising technology — satellite-to-device services. Come join […]

Innovating mission critical solutions

Room Location: Regency ABC

Get to know the details of Mission Critical Service certification and conformance compliance based on the 3GPP standard. Our audience will receive firsthand information related to the official certification process […]

Novel UIs and helpful AIs in XR

Room Location: Regency EFG

A panel of extended reality (XR) researchers will discuss how immersive technologies could shape the future of public safety training and operations. Panelists will share cutting-edge work that reimagines interaction […]

Speed networking: Increase your connections with 5x5 stakeholders

Room Location: Cedar Ballroom A

Start off the summit by increasing your connections within the public safety innovation community. Attendees will participate in a series of short, one-on-one conversations with other 5x5 stakeholders. We will […]

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CYA - Covering your assets

Room Location: Regency ABC

This session will emphasize the importance of using regionally available Compact Rapid Deployables (CRDs) during incidents and events. It will focus on effective planning strategies, the development of policies and […]

Drones in crisis: UAS in disaster preparedness and response

Room Location: Auditorium

The Marshall Fire in Boulder, Colorado consumed over 1,000 homes in Boulder County. The more recent crisis in Los Angeles, California consumed over 12,000 homes and businesses. These use cases […]

Augmented reality user interfaces for first responders

Room Location: Regency EFG

This session brings together researchers from Iowa State and Carnegie Mellon University to report on their work for augmented reality user interfaces for public safety. Iowa State is testing modular […]

Help me help you: Tech deployment edition

Room Location: Cedar Ballroom A

As broadband technologies transform public safety, understanding the challenges agencies face in their attempts to deploy these technologies is critical. This interactive deep-dive session invites participants to share their experiences, […]

Public safety use of broadband LTE technology to augment LMR

Room Location: Cedar Ballroom B

Ready for use cases, best practices, and key learning around LMR/LTE interoperability? Our discussion will highlight the growing recognition among public safety agencies for augmenting LMR systems with mission critical […]

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NIST cybersecurity research influences on public safety

Room Location: Auditorium

The NIST Information Technology Laboratory is a world leader in cybersecurity best practices and guidance. This session will digest some of the most recent research publications from the lab and […]

Beyond the blueprint: Leveraging indoor mapping for public safety

Room Location: Cedar Ballroom A

In emergencies, every second counts — but how do responders navigate complex indoor environments when maps are inaccurate, outdated, or difficult to access? This campfire session brings together public safety […]

Communication resilience in isolated communities

Room Location: Regency EFG

Join us to learn about solutions and strategies for communities to remain self-reliant and resilient when operating in austere or isolated conditions. Sometimes isolation is due to geography – think […]

Your nervous system, your lifeline

Room Location: Cedar Ballroom B

What does resilience mean to you? What tools do you maintain in your emotional disaster preparedness kit? What has worked for you in the past to help regulate your nervous […]

Mission critical voice insights and lessons for the future

Room Location: Regency ABC

Next-generation public safety communications must be reliable, seamless, and built for real-world challenges. This session will dive into key insights from the past year’s discussions with public safety stakeholders, covering […]

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5x5 Interact!: Hands on with public safety solutions kickoff

Room Location: Cedar Ballroom B

Get ready to experience emerging technologies like never before! In this interactive kickoff session, participants will receive instructions for a fun and engaging scavenger hunt designed to provide hands-on engagement […]

The FirstNet identity: Finding our signal in the noise

Room Location: Cedar Ballroom A

What makes FirstNet unique in the world of public safety communications? This deep-dive session invites stakeholders to weigh in on how FirstNet can best differentiate itself in terms of service, […]

Technology Demos

Room Location: Evergreen Ballroom

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