What does it take to bring enterprise-grade security solutions to environments that never stop moving? Explore how Verkada is engineering solutions for one of physical security’s most complex challenges: securing vehicles at scale. Learn how we're approaching the problem, what it took to build it, and where we’re taking it next.

What happens when AI becomes part of the design process itself? Join John Russell, VP of Design, for an inside look at how Verkada’s design team combines cutting edge AI tools with direct customer collaboration to build faster, design smarter, and shape the next generation of Verkada products.

Since debuting at VerkadaOne 2025, the AL54 Wireless Lock has transformed how organizations bring traditional lock-and-key doors online. Join our product team to learn how we designed these locks to scale reliably across large environments, and how the latest innovations in our wireless lock portfolio are enabling even cleaner, faster installations. We’ll also explore how expanded door coverage enables organizations to build more sophisticated emergency response protocols aligned with industry best practices.

What if your alarm system could analyze and respond to an event the way a security professional would? Learn how we're adding an agentic intelligence layer to Verkada Alarms that uses contextual clues to act accordingly - such as flagging alarms raised by a person of interest, skipping the entry delay for anomalous activity, and recognizing known patterns like overnight deliveries or custodial staff to de-escalate before a false alarm fires.

Every time a user clicks, scrolls, or searches in Verkada Command, they’re backed by a cloud infrastructure purpose-built for speed, resilience, and scale. In this session, go behind the scenes to see how Verkada’s backend systems are architected to support tens of thousands of organizations, millions of devices, and billions of events—without missing a beat.

Get the inside perspective on how Verkada intercoms have streamlined the entry experience, making it easier than ever to manage visitors at the door. Hear from our product leaders on how they transformed the entryway into a proactive layer of security -- and stay for an exclusive first look at how we’re evolving to solve even more complex entry challenges.
 

Go beyond the basics by learning how to leverage 10 of the most powerful or underutilized features in Verkada Command. This session will help get you the most out of your deployment by exploring some hidden gems and best-practice setups that can enhance your investigations, strengthen security, and streamline your overall experience.

Public universities and community colleges operate under unique scrutiny: students, faculty, and community members all have opinions about camera placement, data retention, and AI analytics on campus. This session features higher ed leaders who've deployed comprehensive security programs while maintaining community trust — through transparency initiatives, student advisory boards, public data policies, and the communication frameworks that turn potential opposition into informed support.

How do you transition one of the largest school districts in North America from legacy on-prem systems to cloud-managed security — one school at a time — without disrupting operations or breaking the budget? This session features the district security leader who walked every school through the transition, sharing the prioritization framework, the stakeholder communication playbook, and the moment centralized visibility changed how they thought about district-wide safety.

The most dangerous moment for first responders is arrival — when they don't yet understand the scene. Real-time camera sharing gives responding officers and firefighters live situational awareness before they reach the location. This session features joint presentations from security teams and first responder agencies that established real-time video sharing protocols, covering the technology, the legal frameworks, and the outcomes.

Billions in school safety funding is available but underutilized — districts don't know what qualifies or how to write compelling applications. This session maps the current and upcoming grant landscape heading into 2027: federal programs (COPS, SVPP), state-level funding, and private foundations. Includes grant writing strategies, eligible technology categories, and case studies from districts that successfully funded comprehensive security upgrades. Also relevant for partners helping clients access funding.

Can AI predict when and where security incidents will occur? Pattern-based threat analysis aims to identify trends — temporal, spatial, behavioral — that help security teams anticipate and prepare for elevated risk. This session separates the science from the science fiction: what pattern analysis capabilities are actually deployable today, what data makes them work, and the ethical guardrails required to keep these systems grounded in defensible data and within privacy boundaries.

AI rules aren't being written where AI is being deployed, they're being written in Washington, Brussels, and state capitols, at an accelerating pace. This session is a view from inside the policy conversation: what's moving, where it's headed, and which proposals would meaningfully reshape how AI in physical security gets bought and deployed. Get strategic context for your innovation roadmap.

Hospitals, distribution centers, convenience stores, manufacturing plants, and data centers operate around the clock — but security staffing doesn't always match. This session explores how 24/7 operations are using AI-powered monitoring, automated alerts, and remote management to maintain security coverage during off-peak hours without proportional staffing increases. Learn more about configurations, escalation protocols, and overnight workflows that keep their facilities protected when skeleton crews are on duty.

AI in physical security has moved from forecast to deployment: most organizations are already using or piloting it, with governance, ROI, and trust catching up only as they move from pilots into production. Drawing on global survey data from IT and security leaders across 10 markets, this session separates what's already deployed from what's still aspiration, and looks at what comes next — generative AI and autonomous deterrence moving security from reactive to proactive. Leave with a defensible view of what to deploy now, what to keep human-in-the-loop, and where to invest next.

Security systems are capturing more human behavior than ever — movement patterns, crowd dynamics, repeated visits, hesitation, aggression. But the people interpreting that data are still relying on gut instinct and outdated training. Evolutionary psychologist Dr. Debra Lieberman (University of Miami) breaks down what decades of research reveal about the social signals that indicate threat, deception, and distress — and how to spot them in real-time. This isn't theory: it's a practical toolkit for security operators and investigators who want a sharper eye for the behavioral patterns their systems are already recording.

On most factory floors, the loading-dock camera only earns attention after something goes wrong. Kevin Stahl, Vice President of Technology and Digital Advancement at Fresh Mark, is changing that — putting the same cameras that secure the plant to work feeding operational data back into the business, from quality checks to dock safety. Learn how the video system you already run for security can become a tool for running the floor better.

Retail shrinkage is a $112 billion problem. Organized retail crime is growing more violent. Traditional LP can't keep pace. AI video analytics — real-time behavior detection, POS integration, cross-location pattern analysis — is transforming loss prevention from reactive investigation to proactive intervention. Retail security leaders share measurable shrink reduction data and how they're using camera-based intelligence to protect both merchandise and staff.

Hotels, resorts, and entertainment venues must provide robust security without making guests feel surveilled. This session explores how a luxury hospitality organization deploys discreet yet comprehensive security. The goal: security that's felt but never seen.

When an executive's home address shows up on a forum thread, the threat moves from a screenshot to the driveway in hours. This session covers the physical security programs that protect leadership when online activity becomes in-person risk: residential camera coverage, license plate recognition and person-of-interest alerting at home and office, integrated access control across multiple sites, and the coordination protocols between corporate security and law enforcement when something escalates.

Slip-and-fall incidents cost businesses billions annually in workers' comp and liability claims. AI-powered analytics can detect incidents as they happen, automatically generate documentation, identify high-risk zones through pattern analysis, and provide the evidentiary data that transforms how organizations handle claims. This session features a restaurant chain leader who's used AI analytics to reduce false claims and improve workplace safety simultaneously.

Healthcare workers are 5x more likely to experience workplace violence, and 55% report it's getting worse. With The Joint Commission and new state laws holding hospitals accountable, health systems are deploying integrated technology — duress buttons, AI behavior detection, real-time lockdowns — to protect staff. Learn what's working, what isn't, and what boards are finally funding after years of being asked.

In this interactive workshop, we move beyond the slides and into the Partner Demo Environment for a guided technical deep dive. We'll navigate demo scenarios designed to showcase our newest launches in action. From expediting investigations with AI to synchronizing cross-product workflows, you’ll leave with the tactical skills and talk tracks needed to deliver a world-class Verkada demo.

The most powerful security systems don't live in a vacuum -- they interact seamlessly with the tools you use every day. In this session, we’ll showcase real-world success stories of how pre-built integrations and Helix have helped customers transform disparate data streams into actionable insights across industries, from employee safety in healthcare to quality assurance in manufacturing.

Moving up-market means navigating bigger budgets, complex IT architectures, and massive deployment scales. Join leadership from Cache Valley Electric as they share their strategy on how they’ve pivoted their business to successfully win larger deals with Verkada. Plus, you’ll hear about how Verkada can help support your team on large-scale rollouts.

What does it look like to build a business around cloud-first physical security from day one? In this panel discussion, Nitor and V Secure will share how they built Verkada-centric businesses from the ground up — and why they made the decision to go all in. Hear firsthand lessons on scaling and aligning sales and operations around a cloud-first model.

The best enterprise deals aren’t won on pitch — they’re won on proof. In this session, learn how top Verkada partners use a multi-product proof of value to solve quantifiable customer pain, shape the buying criteria, and become the only technically viable solution in the room. This session shows you how to build the engagement so the evaluation confirms what you already know: nothing else competes.

Two breaches in two years. A seven-month rebuild. An operating environment spanning airport-controlled hangar space and a customer base of ultra-high-net-worth jet buyers. Hear from Leo Deonarine of Dassault Falcon Jet on what the company learned treating cyber and physical security as one posture — and what that rebuild has to look like now that LLM-accelerated threats have rewritten the assumptions.

When every site, every plant, and every regional manager picks their own security vendor, you end up with a patchwork that's impossible to manage, impossible to audit, and impossible to secure. This session features an enterprise IT leader who inherited exactly that situation and replaced it with a corporate-standard platform — covering the political battles with site managers who liked their existing systems, the procurement framework that made standardization stick, and the compliance and visibility improvements that justified the pain.

Air medical transport, emergency dispatch, 24/7 clinical operations — some organizations can't afford even minutes of security system failure. This session features a VP of IT and Global CISO who secures 80+ distributed sites where the stakes are measured in patient outcomes, not just property loss. Covering the convergence of physical security and IT in environments that demand absolute reliability, 24/7 command center design, and how cloud-managed infrastructure changes the resilience equation for mission-critical operations.

AI isn't replacing security teams — it's transforming them. 82% of industry professionals believe AI will improve efficiency, but 52% expect reduced entry-level roles. What does the security workforce of 2028 look like? This session explores the shift from manual monitoring to analysis-driven operations, the new skills teams need, how organizations are reskilling staff, and why the best security professionals of the next decade will be technology translators.

The technical case for consolidating a multi-vendor security stack is the easy part. The hard part is getting your CEO, your CFO, and a roomful of plant managers to agree on the same plan — and to fund it. In this fireside chat, Chinthaka Liyanapathirana (CTO/CISO, Axium Plastics) shares the three-pitch playbook he used to align stakeholders and convert 30+ facilities in under 18 months — including how he framed risk for the C-suite, TCO for finance, and operational visibility for plant operations, and how he phased the retrofit without writing off existing capital.

Managing security across 50, 200, or 500+ sites with consistent policies, centralized visibility, and local responsiveness is the defining challenge for enterprise security leaders. This session features organizations managing massive distributed estates — sharing how they standardized policies across geographies, built centralized command without losing local autonomy, and used data aggregation to identify systemic risks invisible at the site level.

You've built the business case. The data is clear. And the answer is still "not this quarter." This session features a former Fortune 500 security consultant who's helped dozens of CSOs win budget battles — sharing the psychological and strategic frameworks that move executive committees: when to lead with fear vs. opportunity, how to frame security investment as risk transfer, and the three slides that consistently get board-level approval.

A strategic roadmap for higher education to implement unified physical security and overcome challenges like the enrollment cliff and "Infrastructure Debt". It outlines how a unified platform can use AI-powered situational awareness and modernized access control to create a proactive, frictionless safety experience.

This practitioner-focused course dives into the daily "playbook" of a high-functioning RTCC. Participants will walk through live scenario analysis-including homicide investigations and dignitary protection-to master incident response workflows. The curriculum focuses on building operational manuals, defining staffing models, and implementing best practices that turn raw data into actionable intelligence during a crisis.

This session on Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) for Physical Security provides a roadmap to move from fragmented, "hero-based" security to a predictable, "process-based" system. It covers applying CMMI across security domains and outlines the necessary steps to achieve higher levels of security maturity.

Reunification is a critical step in crisis recovery and it has to be planned before a crisis begins. This session introduces the Standard Reunification Method, a proven, scalable approach to accountably reuniting students with their families following an emergency.

A technical roadmap for building a resilient Real-Time Crime Center from the ground up. This course covers the "heavy lifting" of RTCC development: selecting hardware, managing complex integrations (e.g., Fuses, Axon), and establishing data-privacy policies. A key focus is the integration of Drones as First Responders (DFR), teaching agencies how to ingest live aerial feeds into their command center to enhance situational awareness.

Learn the five core actions of the Standard Response Protocol (Hold, Secure, Lockdown, Evacuate, and Shelter) a framework used in 78,000+ schools nationwide to bring common language and coordinated response to everyday incidents and emergencies. Designed for education leaders, school safety professionals, and technology partners.

An exploration of the "Digital Handshake" between public safety and the private sector. This course focuses on the mutual benefits of data sharing to combat Organized Retail Crime (ORC) and enhance neighborhood safety. Attendees will learn how to build formal public-private partnerships, navigate the legalities of sharing retail camera feeds with law enforcement, and use external technology to expand an RTCC’s impact beyond the public sector.

Explores the convergence of cyber and physical security, focusing on the shift from vulnerable legacy NVRs to a zero-trust physical infrastructure. It details key strategies like Verkada's secure Edge-to-Cloud architecture, identity convergence (SSO/SCIM), and proactive defense using Agentic AI and sensors.

Redefines strategic governance via ARB, TRB, and CAB, reframing these boards as "safety rails" that allow organizations to "Go Faster, Safely". It details how shifting the mindset from compliance to confidence provides the necessary velocity to prevent the chaos of Shadow IT and technical debt.