Summit Agenda

STINGFORCE SUMMIT KEYNOTES & PANEL DISCUSSION

PROPOSED DISCUSSION TOPICS

1. Agility in Action: Real-Time Partnerships for Global Crime Response

Explore how mission-driven public-private collaboration enables faster resolutions of cyber-enabled crimes. Panelists will share operational models where time-sensitive intelligence led to timely arrests, asset freezes, and victim restitution—without reliance on overburdened treaty-based systems.

2. Decentralized Justice: Empowering Local and Private Responders

How county sheriffs, NGOs, financial institutions, and private investigators are building crime response capabilities closer to victims. This panel examines how regional actors, supported by national and global partners, can lead when traditional structures are slow to engage.

3. From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Reforming the Flow of Cross-Border Investigations

Instead of bypassing, we explore enhancing mutual legal cooperation through hybrid pathways. How can local police, cyber units, and prosecutors engage vetted private partners to preserve evidence and trace assets while formal processes unfold?

4. Fusion Centers 2.0: A Blueprint for Local-Global Cybercrime Command

Presentation of the Stingforce Fusion Center model: both virtual and a co-located physical intelligence and operations hubs uniting public agencies and private responders. Inspired by elite units that operate beyond conventional boundaries, this is a model of tactical coordination for a new era.

5. Actionable Intelligence: Transforming Signals into Seizures

Time is critical. How can law enforcement, telecoms, financial platforms, and private analysts create common protocols for acting on credible threat data—before it’s too late? This panel explores shared frameworks and tools to validate and escalate information quickly and lawfully.

6. Victim Recovery Playbooks: Lessons from Real-World Seizures and Arrests

Highlighting recent collaborative successes, such as the EFCC Nigeria operations and the French National Police cryptocurrency raid, this session unpacks how cross-sector cooperation led to case breakthroughs in days—not months.

7. The Chain of Trust: Managing Evidence Across Public-Private Boundaries

What does it take to maintain evidentiary integrity when data originates from non-government actors? Explore practical protocols for preserving digital forensics across jurisdictional lines and ensuring admissibility in court.

8. Cyber Trafficking Convergence: Tackling Fraud and Human Exploitation as One Battlefront

Criminal syndicates often operate in silos—financial fraud, trafficking, identity theft. We don’t have that luxury. This panel brings together anti-human trafficking NGOs, cybercrime investigators, and prosecutors to share strategies for dismantling complex criminal ecosystems holistically.

9. Leadership in Shared Operations: Who Coordinates When Everyone’s Involved?

Joint cases often raise questions: Who takes the lead? Who signs off on action? How are decisions made across sectors and borders? This candid discussion explores leadership models and operational command for multi-stakeholder investigations.

10. Private Sector as a Force Multiplier: Not Just Witnesses, but Partners

Explore how financial institutions, exchanges, ISPs, and SaaS vendors can move from reactive compliance to proactive co-enforcement. What does ethical leadership look like in transnational crime disruption?

11. Insurance as Disruption: Using Risk Transfer to Fund Faster Crime Response

Could insurers play a bigger role in early response funding, especially when crimes threaten large-scale losses? This panel explores how retainer models and incident underwriting can enable pre-authorized collaboration with law enforcement and private responders.

12. Public-Private Tech Stack: Building the Tools for Global Crime Coordination

A look at the Stingforce technology platform and others being developed to enable trusted collaboration, case deconfliction, and lawful intelligence sharing across borders. What role can APIs, blockchain analytics, and AI play in enabling secure, scalable operations?

13. Mental Health & Morale: Supporting the Human Beings Behind the Badges and Screens

Public and private investigators face enormous psychological strain, especially when working complex or unresolved cases. This session explores burnout prevention, vicarious trauma management, and peer-to-peer support strategies.