Conference Agenda

Visit the CONNECT registration desk to get your conference materials and your CONNECT 2025 T-Shirt!

Guest/Spouse Badges can be purchased at registration desk.

Mingle on the outdoor patio (weather permitting) and enjoy some appetizers and a drink from the bar as we welcome you to CONNECT 2025! 

Attire: Spring Casual

Spouse/Guests permitted with Guest Badge. (Available for purchase at registration desk)

*CLOSED DURING OPENING CEREMONIES*

Visit the CONNECT registration desk to get your conference materials and your CONNECT 2025 T-Shirt!

Guest/Spouse Badges can be purchased at registration desk.

Enjoy a hot buffet breakfast Hershey-style before the Opening Ceremonies

Chief Robert Rizzo joins the CODY Team to officially welcome you to CONNECT 2025! 

Attire: Business Casual

An overview of the current deployed Pathfinder RMS version and a review of the training options available during CONNECT 2025!

COBRAnet is capable of integrating a number of different types of data from a number of different domains. During this session, we'll explore a myriad of data types that could be connected and shared via your COBRA network, and how that information could be used to improve and accelerate your mission. 

In this session, you will get a tour of CODY Learning Management System. We will review how to find, launch and take your assigned courses, as well as show admin within your agency how to generate learner reports. 

This session is for those attendees that attended a Pathfinder session at the last conference but have not yet implemented or planned to implement Pathfinder for your agency.  You can ask our Subject Matter Experts any open questions you have about Pathfinder and how it can benefit your agency. 

Join this presentation to receive a comprehensive overview of Pathfinder.  

This session will cover completing NIBRS data entry in Pathfinder, within an incident report. 

Learn how you can restrict access to names, reports, narratives, and more, including locking entities to a single person or an entire permission group. 

The COBRAnet Search App is both a powerful investigative tool and a tool used on the street for quick look-ups to aid in preparedness, officer safety and situational awareness. Follow along with seasoned users of the application who will review quick searches and settings to get you rolling.

The layers of information and linkages in the data stored in COBRA are endless. Learn how to perform a cascade of searches and drilldowns to help shorten your investigative cycles by helping you hone in on the data you are looking for, allowing you to uncover relationships between entities hidden in your COBRA data-sharing network. 

Enjoy this Live Demonstration of COBRA/SuperCOBRA in action to determine whether your agency should consider joining the statewide PA SuperCOBRA Network. Details on how to get started and next steps will be provided. 

This session will teach you how to submit your incident report reviews to your supervisors in Pathfinder. 

This session will review how to create an assignment within an incident report and how you can keep track of assignments you have created and received within Pathfinder. 

This session will walk through completing an incident report in Pathfinder.  Including linking locations, persons, vehicles, and organizations. 

In this session, you will get an overview of how to define roles for your agency by setting specific claims for defined roles.  We will also review how to set up new users and review the general system configuration settings in Pathfinder. 

This session will offer a quick refresher for our seasoned System Admins. Topics include Creating New Users, adjusting Permissions, editing Codes, and more. 

Take a break for lunch!

Join us as Matthew Griffin, Retired Undercover Cop & US Navy SAR swimmer shares his roadmap to recovery from the years of Trauma protecting his Country and Community. 

This introductory level training session includes basic online instruction on CODY’s data sharing solution; COBRAnet. This accelerated training session includes how to login to the COBRAnet Search Application, how to setup datasource favorites, how to perform a global search, how to perform an advanced/fielded search, how to group, sort and filter search results, how to consolidate associated documents, how to send a broadcast alert/notification, how to subscribe to entities or searches, how to customize and save favorite searches and search screen configurations, and more. 

This session will outline the new location functionality within Pathfinder and how you can search and link existing locations within an incident report and how you can use Google Maps functionality within locations in Pathfinder. 

In this session, we will review what information is included in a Property Record for all of the various property types: firearms, drugs, weapons, vehicles, intangible, and other items.

Join this presentation to receive a comprehensive overview of Pathfinder.  

This session will review how to effectively use DB (Database) Search in CODY Desktop and Express to find your data.

This session will explore how to review activities and shift information logged by officers within your agency and create shift reports.

In this session, we will review how to enter charging information into an incident report in Pathfinder including:  

• Arrest Report 
• Booking  
• Citation(s) 
• Non-Traffic Citation(s) 
• Parking Ticket(s) 
• Warning(s) 

This session will review how to log activities and shift information in Pathfinder, as an officer.

Your COBRAnet system contains a wealth of information that is available instantly at many different levels of sophistication. There are different methods, tips and tricks to employ to get the results you need and to understand what the system is telling you. This class will help you to understand how search parameters and filters affect your search results, which will enable you to adjust “on the fly” to find what you’re looking for. You will also learn best practices to distinguish between an issue to report to your administrator and an issue with how your search was configured that is preventing you from finding the results you were expecting.

Meet with CODY's Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts and ask your Pathfinder related questions. They can help with reporting, workflow questions, modules, interfaces, and a myriad of other CODY topics you may have questions on or need help with.

In this session, we will walk through the process of entering booking information in Pathfinder.

This session will give an overview of how to manage incident reviews and approvals within Pathfinder.

This session will cover completing UCR Data Entry in Pathfinder, within an incident report.

In this session you will get an overview on how to run basic reports as well as how to create simple custom reports for your agency.

This session will provide a deep dive into how to build, save, and export complex searches. Included will be using groups, searching for multiple entities, locating what you want to search by, and sorting/grouping results.

Meet with CODY's Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts and ask your CODY Desktop/Express related questions. They can help with reporting, workflow questions, modules, interfaces, and a myriad of other CODY topics you may have questions on or need help with.

This session will walk you through how to prepare your agency for the transition from Desktop/Express to Pathfinder.

Poker, pool tables, black jack, and more - CONNECT CASINO NIGHT lives on! Enjoy a drink from the bar, food stations, music, photo booth, casino games, and more!

Spouse/Guests are permitted with Guest Badge. (Available for purchase at registration desk)

Enjoy a nice Breakfast to start your day!

The objective of this course is to provide Law Enforcement Officers, Law Enforcement Support Personnel and Special Investigators with the knowledge of how to best utilize the information covered in a Vehicle History Report.  Topics covered will include:

Data sources

How our VHR (Vehicle History Report) is created

Partial license plate applications

Monitoring vehicles of interest

Data mining in the Crash Report database

Mobile applications for investigators in the field

Reading a VHR and identifying leads and discrepancies in a VHR

How to identify potential stolen cars or vehicle fraud from a VHR

Using the tools in deconfliction with other partner agencies

And much more....

We will use real world case solutions to teach the various ways to apply our proprietary “Investigative Tools” to investigators.

In the training, we cover how members of your agency can utilize these tools to their advantage in investigations to include narcotics & vice, homicide, gang events, and offenses against juveniles. It is an important part of the program to teach investigators that any type of criminal offense where the suspect, witness or victim can be connected to a vehicle of interest will benefit from using these tools.

We will review dozens of CARFAX reports and attendee’s will learn how to read reports with a better understanding of how the information can help them in building their case. We will perform live searches in the database and teach attendees how to use the tools to mine relevant data pertaining to their investigation.

Join this presentation on the intersection between governance and technology in modern multi-agency information sharing consortiums. We’ll review governance challenges and how COBRAnet is a proper technology solution thoughtfully designed to achieve flexible, sustainable governance for such programs. When you purchase a COBRAnet System from CODY, you get a technology platform that is flexible enough to handle a vast array of governance scenarios. The other half of any deployment of COBRAnet or any cross-agency sharing system is managing the ever-present data governance challenges presented by the laws and/or regulations regarding data sharing and dissemination in your community/state.

This session will outline the new location functionality within Pathfinder and how you can search and link existing locations within an incident report and how you can use Google Maps functionality within locations in Pathfinder. 

Panel discussion on best practices for pulling documentation from CODY for accreditation. We will discuss both Pathfinder and CODY Desktop/Express (Leon Crone and Craig Rudisill).

This session will  review common issues encountered when submitting NIBRS data and methods used to identify and resolve these issues. This is relevant for both Pathfinder and CODY Desktop/Express.

This session will review how to effectively use DB (Database) Search in CODY Desktop and Express to find your data.

This session is for those attendees attended a Pathfinder session at the last conference but have not yet implemented or planned to implement Pathfinder for your agency. You can ask our Subject Matter Experts any open questions you have about Pathfinder and how it can benefit your agency.

This session will review how to create an assignment within an incident report and how you can keep track of assignments you have created and received within Pathfinder. 

Communicating in unfamiliar locations under stress - and planning for contingencies - is an art and science mastered by U.S. military special operators through hard lessons learned over the past twenty years. During this presentation, decorated Army Ranger and Director for Pennsylvania at Critical Response Group will discuss how lessons learned overseas can improve how building managers and public safety professionals plan and communicate during critical incidents at home. This presentation will detail how to make building maps accessible and tactically-usable for first responders under stress.

The layers of information and linkages in the data stored in COBRA are endless. Learn how to perform a cascade of searches and drilldowns to help shorten your investigative cycles by helping you hone in on the data you are looking for, allowing you to uncover relationships between entities hidden in your COBRA data-sharing network. 

This session will walk through completing an incident report in Pathfinder.  Including linking locations, persons, vehicles, and organizations. 

This session covers how to complete charging documents in Pathfinder. We will review how to complete PA Criminal Complaint and the PA Juvenile Allegation forms specifically as examples and outline how Pathfinder will also support forms in other states.

This session will offer a quick refresher for our seasoned System Admins. Topics include Creating New Users, adjusting Permissions, editing Codes, and more. 

This session is for those attendees attended a Pathfinder session at the last conference but have not yet implemented or planned to implement Pathfinder for your agency. You can ask our Subject Matter Experts any open questions you have about Pathfinder and how it can benefit your agency.

This session will review tips and tricks on how to locate data in your CODY RMS using existing report search tools, in both Desktop and Express.

In this session, you will get an overview of how to define roles for your agency by setting specific claims for defined roles.  We will also review how to set up new users and review the general system configuration settings in Pathfinder. 

This session will cover completing NIBRS data entry in Pathfinder, within an incident report.

This session will provide an overview of the onboarding process for new Pathfinder customers.

Whether you are the COBRA Administrator for a single agency that is part of a COBRAnet sharing network OR you are the Administrator managing the entire consortium, you will learn how to use key features in the CODY COBRAnet Administration Center, including an overview of the basic operations and settings which any administrator of a COBRAnet system has available to manage the fundamentals of the application’s behavior and end users' access and experience. This will allow the Administrator to set up the application to conform to the Agency’s Rules and Regulations and to set CJIS compliance on data access across individually managed Users, Organizational Units or, the entire Consortium. This class is intended for any COBRAnet Site/Department Administrator(s).

This session will give you an overview of what is included in Person, Organization and Vehicle records within Pathfinder.

This session will give an overview of how to manage incident reviews and approvals within Pathfinder.

This session will teach you how to submit your incident report reviews to your supervisors in Pathfinder. 

In this session, we will review what information is included in a Property Record for all of the various property types: firearms, drugs, weapons, vehicles, intangible, and other items.

This session will review how to log activities and shift information in Pathfinder, as an officer.

This session will provide a review of canned reports provided in the report library within CODY Desktop RMS, including Incident Reports, Incident Search & Chart, Employee Reports, Property Reports, Officer Activity Reports, and more.

This session will cover completing UCR Data Entry in Pathfinder, within an incident report.

Enjoy lunch, speakers, and visit our Exhibitors during the Exhibitors Showcase

Join Matt Bloom, Founder of CRIMEWATCH, as he presents a short demo of the new CRIMEWATCH AI for quickly drafting press releases and PSAs. Additionally, Matt will share his insights and synopsis of the current state of social media as it affects CRIMEWATCH and public safety users across the country. 

The COBRAnet Search App is both a powerful investigative tool and a tool used on the street for quick look-ups to aid in preparedness, officer safety and situational awareness. Follow along with seasoned users of the application who will review quick searches and settings to get you rolling.

Join this presentation to receive a comprehensive overview of Pathfinder.  

This session will review the process of UCR Validation and Submissions within Pathfinder.

In this session, we will review how to enter charging information into an incident report in Pathfinder including:  

• Arrest Report 
• Booking  
• Citation(s) 
• Non-Traffic Citation(s) 
• Parking Ticket(s) 
• Warning(s) 

In this session, you will get an overview of how to define roles for your agency by setting specific claims for defined roles.  We will also review how to set up new users and review the general system configuration settings in Pathfinder. 

In this session, we will take an in-depth look at the Property and Evidence Module and all the new features added in recent version releases. Entering property correctly is key to records that will hold up in court. Take a look at evidence entry from start to finish. Look at various ways CODY can be used to maintain your chain of custody. We will also talk about CODY's Property Bar coding module and some reporting for the agency property and evidence officer. 

This session will review the process of NIBRS Validation and Submissions within Pathfinder.

COBRAnet has been used in many places to satisfy a number of mission challenges. Join us for an interesting session where we break down and describe unique COBRAnet deployments from across the United States configured to meet a number of different use cases. Learn how COBRAnet can be configured and used in dispatch and communication centers, real-time crime centers and fusion centers, as well as meeting the challenges in daily law enforcement data driven policing and investigative missions.

This session will give you an overview of what is included in Person, Organization and Vehicle records within Pathfinder.

In this session, CODY will provide a preview of Pathfinder CAD, as well answer any questions from session participants about Pathfinder CAD.

This session we will talk  the processes of deleting or modifying data that may be subject to an Expungement order.  Expungement in the CODY System should include the deletion of appropriate incident/case links and targeted criminal arrest data based on state and agency guidelines. 

In this session, we will walk through the process of entering booking information in Pathfinder.

In this session, we will dive deeper into the Pathfinder administration settings, and review how to ensure you are compliant with CJIS security policies, as you set up your roles and users in Pathfinder.

A CODY Agency's perspective on how to effectively use the CODY Incident Report Form (IRF) to enhance the police mission.

In this session, you will get a tour of CODY Learning Management System. We will review how to find, launch and take your assigned courses, as well as show admin within your agency how to generate learner reports. 

This session will provide an overview of the onboarding process for new Pathfinder customers.

Enjoy this Live Demonstration of COBRA/SuperCOBRA in action to determine whether your agency should consider joining the statewide PA SuperCOBRA Network. Details on how to get started and next steps will be provided. 

In this session, CODY will review the process of transition from the current CODY Desktop/Express RMS to Pathfinder RMS with a focus on Code Table Configuration.

This session with cover the Chain of Custody included in a Property Record. 

Find out what's new with CODY Tech Services. We'll have a “non- technical” conversation about CODY Tech Service's (Support) internal workings, getting to know about your Techs, find out how support cases are handled, learn how monthly maintenance in handled for our hosted agencies, and a CODY Resource Center (CRC) overview. Plus, interact with our Tech Services Manager. (All software products)

This session will provide a deep dive into how to build, save, and export complex searches.  Included will be using groups, searching for multiple entities, locating what you want to search by, and sorting/ grouping results.

This session will explore how to review activities and shift information logged by officers within your agency and review how to create shift reports.

Think you have what it takes? Register onsite at CONNECT to participate in the first-ever CONNECT Cornhole Tournament! Prizes and bragging rights are on the line!

🌴Come dressed in your best beach party attire!🌴

Light refreshments and bar. Registered Contestants get 2 additional drink tickets!

Spouse/Guests are permitted with Guest Badge. (Available for purchase at registration desk)

Enjoy a nice Breakfast to start your day!

In this session you will get an overview on how to run basic reports as well as how to create simple custom reports for your agency.

This session is for those attendees attended a Pathfinder session at the last conference but have not yet implemented or planned to implement Pathfinder for your agency. You can ask our Subject Matter Experts any open questions you have about Pathfinder and how it can benefit your agency.

In this session, you will get an overview of how to define roles for your agency by setting specific claims for defined roles.  We will also review how to set up new users and review the general system configuration settings in Pathfinder. 

This session provides a review of the duplicate name and business recombination tools included in the CODY Desktop system and will train you on techniques used to combine duplicate records in the system.

This session will teach you how to submit your incident report reviews to your supervisors in Pathfinder. 

Meet with CODY's Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts and ask your Pathfinder related questions. They can help with reporting, workflow questions, modules, interfaces, and a myriad of other CODY topics you may have questions on or need help with.

The COBRAnet Search App is both a powerful investigative tool and a tool used on the street for quick look-ups to aid in preparedness, officer safety and situational awareness. Follow along with seasoned users of the application who will review quick searches and settings to get you rolling.

Join CODY Executives and Development experts in a review of what is coming next on our development roadmap!

The layers of information and linkages in the data stored in COBRA are endless. Learn how to perform a cascade of searches and drilldowns to help shorten your investigative cycles by helping you hone in on the data you are looking for, allowing you to uncover relationships between entities hidden in your COBRA data-sharing network. 

This session will review tips and tricks on how to locate data in your CODY RMS using existing report search tools, in both Desktop and Express.

This session will walk through completing an incident report in Pathfinder.  Including linking locations, persons, vehicles, and organizations. 

This session will give an overview of how to manage incident reviews and approvals within Pathfinder.

This session will review how to log activities and shift information in Pathfinder, as an officer.

This session will give you an overview of what is included in Person, Organization and Vehicle records within Pathfinder.

This session with cover the Chain of Custody included in a Property Record. 

This session will explore how to review activities and shift information logged by officers within your agency and review how to create shift reports.

In this session, we will dive deeper into the Pathfinder administration settings, and review how to ensure you are compliant with CJIS security policies, as you set up your roles and users in Pathfinder.

This session we will talk  the processes of deleting or modifying data that may be subject to an Expungement order.  Expungement in the CODY System should include the deletion of appropriate incident/case links and targeted criminal arrest data based on state and agency guidelines. 

In this session, CODY will review the process of transition from the current CODY Desktop/Express RMS to Pathfinder RMS with a focus on Code Table Configuration.

This session will review some of the more advanced features available for completing an IRF. Included will be the use of multiple locations, adding and updating Units / Officers, advanced narrative features, editing snapshots, and more.

This session will review the process of UCR Validation and Submissions within Pathfinder.

This session will review the process of NIBRS Validation and Submissions within Pathfinder.

This session provides participants of a preview of the barcoding functionality how it is integrated with property records in Pathfinder.