The 2026 programme
Every session at the World Police Summit is built around a question a serving agency is already facing. Choose the tracks that match your remit, or follow the whole programme — a delegate pass opens all of it.
How the programme works
Tracks are set each year by the Board of Trustees and the Speakers & Agenda Committee, informed by what the Policing 5.0 think tank surfaced the year before. Sessions are chaired by serving officers and researchers; suppliers appear on the exhibition floor, not on the conference platform.
Ministerial and chief-of-police level addresses that set the frame for the day. Opening ceremony keynotes are under high-level patronage.
Four to five practitioners on a single operational problem, chaired to force disagreement rather than consensus.
One interviewer, one subject, forty minutes. Used where the value is depth on a single agency’s experience.
Closed-room, capped attendance, hands-on. Practice sharing rather than presentation — see workshops below.
Conference tracks
Each track is the seed of a year-round global forum. Your delegate pass opens every one of them — you are not locked into a stream.
Autonomous robotics, drones and human resilience when the worst happens.
How AI, data and automation are reshaping investigation, prediction and frontline operations.
Defending critical infrastructure and citizens against an evolving threat landscape.
Tracing illicit finance and virtual assets across borders and blockchains.
Criminal intelligence and innovative forensics solving the hardest cases.
Smart. Secure. Together. Building legitimacy and trust with the communities you serve.
Interdiction technology and cross-border cooperation against transnational networks.
Leadership, process and technology that raise the standard of everyday policing.
Cutting road deaths through enforcement, engineering and behaviour change.
Building the police leaders the next decade needs.
Securing borders while protecting rights — biometrics, screening and humane management.
Protecting the domains that connect the world — on land, at sea and in the air.
Policing from orbit — and securing the domain everything else depends on.
Origin-and-cause investigation, incident command and multi-agency emergency response.
Track list as published for the 2026 edition. Session-level detail is released closer to the Summit.
Agenda at a glance
Headline moments only. The full session-level agenda — times, rooms and named speakers — is published closer to the Summit.
Doors open 09:00 and the programme runs to 17:00 on each of the three days.
Full agenda download — coming soonWorkshops
Workshops run alongside the main theatres in closed rooms with capped attendance. They are practice-sharing sessions: a serving unit walks the room through a method, a failure or a piece of casework, and the room interrogates it.
Workshop rooms seat a fraction of the main theatres. Seats are taken on the day — arrive early for the ones that matter to you.
No separate ticket and no additional fee. Government, Association and Student passes include workshop access on the same terms.
Recent editions have been led by national investigation units, college-of-policing research leads and international agency programme managers.
Co-located events
Ten programmes share the venue across the three days. The tag on each says what kind of pass opens it.
170+ companies showing the technology that reaches the frontline first.
Fourteen tracks of seminars, workshops and forums led by the people doing the work.
Closed-door strategic roundtables for global police leaders, under the Chatham House rule.
Early-stage innovation in front of investors and agencies.
Research meeting practice — evidence-based, ethical policing.
Businesses and government entities finding each other, deliberately.
Hands-on showcases and live simulations of what is next.
National innovation, side by side, uniting global forces.
Thirteen categories recognising excellence across global policing.
The keynotes that open the Summit, under high-level patronage.
All fourteen tracks, every workshop, the exhibition floor and the opening ceremony. 16–18 November 2026, Dubai World Trade Centre.
Your AI guide to the Summit — agendas, tracks, the floor and more.
Exhibition space
Tell us what you need — the exhibitions team will come back with stand options for the 2026 floor.
Prefer email? Exhibitions@worldpolicesummit.com
The exhibitions team will reach out.
