BAPCO Annual Event 2026
March 25-26, 2026
Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry, United Kingdom
Eventide Communications, a Silver Member of the British Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (BAPCO), will be attending BAPCO 2026 in Coventry, UK, reflecting our commitment to the UK public safety communications community and BAPCO’s mission to educate, advocate, and innovate to improve public safety.
Our team values the collaboration BAPCO enables across emergency services, commercial organisations, and academia, with a shared focus on practical technology progress.
Key speaking sessions:
Ashwin Dinkar, Vice President of Defense & International Business at Eventide, will be presenting “AI in Mission Critical Control Rooms: The Current Trends, Challenges, Feedback, and Evolving Opportunity”.
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 25, 3:40-4 p.m. GMT
Location: Theatre B – Technology
This session reviews updates from early AI adopters across related markets, user feedback on AI-integrated subsystems, and how Eventide is evolving its AI platform for mission-critical communications.
Ashwin Dinkar, Vice President of Defense & International Business at Eventide, will be presenting “AI in Mission Critical Control Rooms: What’s Actually Working?”.
Date and Time: Thursday, March 26, 10:45-11:15 a.m. GMT
Location: TBD
This peer-led roundtable will focus on where is AI helping mission-critical control rooms right now. Through real-world use cases and an open discussion on trust, governance, and accountability, attendees will leave with clear, realistic priorities for what emergency services can adopt over the next 12 months and what should be handled with caution.
Visit us at Stand H35 to learn how Critical Insights AI (CI AI) can support response performance through Training Simulator, Automated QA, Stress Exposure Analysis, and more.
Key elements of the event include:
• Product walkthroughs across various areas, including AI-enabled control rooms, cyber resilience, broadband transition, and frontline mobility.
• Networking opportunities for building relationships between emergency services teams and technology providers.
NexLog DX-Series aligns with mission-critical security expectations and supports frontline communications by reliably capturing emergency calls, radio, dispatch console activity, and screen workflows in one system. Recordings and metadata are available immediately for incident reconstruction and evidence requests.
Critical Insights AI (CI AI), a cloud-native extension of NexLog DX-Series, delivers automated QA/QM, intelligence, and analytics, helping emergency services teams improve communications, oversight, and outcomes. The role-based dashboards keep PSAP supervisors focused on the KPIs and compliance, while maintaining strong security controls. CI AI also supports workforce performance and wellbeing through automated evaluations, stress exposure monitoring, and coaching workflows that strengthen performance, staff retention, and readiness.
Event queries for BAPCO 2026 are handled by Ashwin Dinkar, VP of International Business.
