IWCE 2025

TAK and Situational Awareness Support for FIFA World Cup

Speakers

• Ken Rehbehn, CritComm Insights
• Charles Laird, North Carolina
• Eric Mekosch, Fort Worth Police Department

Agenda

• TAK at a high level (Ken Rehbehn, 00:00)
• FirstNet capabilities and World Cup (Charles Laird, 11:35)
• TAK Use Case - Suspect Pursuit 2016 (Eric Mekosch, 16:00)
  • Haunting audio from an officer-involved shooting that illustrates why geospatial contextual information is required to supplement PTT audio
• TAK and Data Interoperability (Charles Laird, 27:32)
  • Federation to combine responder communities
  • Operational approaches
  • Administrative best practices
• Technology Advances - Speech to Text via AI (Eric Mekosch, 34:41)
• Geospatial Data Streams - Hurricane Helene (Charles Laird, 37:53)
• UAS Video Integration with TAK - Large Event (Charles Laird, 39:41)
• TAK and FIFA World Cup - Final Thoughts (All, 41:02)
• General Discussion and Q/A (All, 41:47)