Building Safer Cities — Together

Where: San Antonio, TX

When: March 2nd – 4th

From dispatch innovation to placemaking design, the Connect & Share Public Safety Forum brings together the thinkers and doers shaping the future of safe, vibrant cities. Over three days, you’ll explore innovative strategies, trade stories, problem solve together and experience how connection fuels advancement in public space management.

During the forum you will get a behind the scenes look at Centro San Antonio’s breadth of operational impact along with a chance to participate in immersive city exploration tours and learn more about how the many partners in Downtown San Antonio work together to build a safer community. Then dive into insight-packed panels and problem-solving roundtables that spotlight the people and ideas redefining what public safety looks like today. Learn how leaders are:

• Managing stakeholder expectations and improving the service level they receive through robust communication centers.
• Leveraging partnerships and data to unlock funding and trust.
• Using placemaking, design, and programming to create safer, more welcoming places.
• Blending empathy, structure, and data to make outreach not just a program element, but a transformative part of community.

And finally, looking to the future, Block by Block will unveil an exciting vision for how blending the right people, training, technology and protocols will shape the next generation of safety and security in the public spaces.