LEDA Houston 2025
LEDA's First SUPER Regional Training Event!
Join us for this Texas-sized Regional Training in the Houston Metro area from February 4th through February 6th from 0800-1700 hours. We return to Crosspoint Church in Pearland for a loaded two and a half day training event hosted by the Pearland Police Department! (Day 3 will end at 1pm)
We heard your requests from our last event wanting more time with us, so we're bumping it out and bringing even more of the industry's best manufacturers and developers with us! PLUS, you'll have the option to add on a day for those wanting to obtain a certification to run our LEDA Flight Skills Courses for your agency or region.
LEDA will be bringing a packed agenda covering topics like Tactical Drone Operations, Aerial Search Tactics, Crash/Crime Scene Reconstruction, Drone as First Responder Programs, Risk Management and Safety Culture, Supervisors Courses, Legislative Updates, K9 Integration and so much more! Click the button below to download the flyer for the event if you need it for your training request).
**There are a limited amount of seats for this event, so we recommend you register early to secure your spot to fly.**
BONUS OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR TEAM INSTRUCTORS - If you would like to certify your team trainers to run and qualify your team members on our LEDA Basic Level 1 and 2 courses, LEDA is holding a Train the Trainer course for our NIST proctors. The course is one day only and takes place the day before the training event starts on February 3rd from 0900-1700 hours. Cost to certify your trainer is $200. If you're interested in sending a student instructor to this course, check out our page explaining the LEDA/NIST Basic Level 1 and 2 courses.
REGISTRATION
If you need to pay by Purchase Order, please click the button below to send us your PO, or mail it to 1574 Coburg Road, Suite 863, Eugene, Oregon, 97401. Once we receive the PO, we will add the members to the registration. PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON THE PO:
Rank of Attendee
Name of Attendee
Email Address of Attendee
Please specify which ticket you are purchasing -
FLIGHT PASS - $435 per attendee (Will participate in flight training, Limited Amount)
LEDA BASIC SKILLS PROCTOR COURSE - $200 per Student Instructor (Limited to 25 students only)
You can click the button below to send an email with an attached Purchase Order. Our W9 may be downloaded above.
PER DIEM Information: Lunch will be provided each day of the conference to all attendees. The hotels do not provide breakfast, but there are several restaurants nearby, so please factor that into per diem.
LASTLY, please plan on bringing a drone platform if you are able. If you have the ability to bring an outdoor drone with thermal capability and a smaller indoor capable drone, that is preferable. Make sure to bring enough batteries to fly for several hours. Our sponsors will have a limited amount of demo units on hand to allow students to fly certain stations, but we cannot guarantee your ability to secure them at length.
HOTEL BLOCK: We've contracted with two hotels in the area for a rate of $129/per night plus taxes & fees. Follow the links below to make your reservations. Please note the last day to register for a room at the Hampton Inn is January 6, and the last day at SpringHill Suites is January 20. Rooms are first come, first served, so get your rooms reserved ASAP. If they book up, we will go back and ask for additional rooms and we will push that information out when needed.
Testimonials from our Northeast Conference 2024
Check out just a few of our many reviews from our recent conference in the Boston Metro area in May of this year:
"This training really was fantastic. If it wasn’t for LEDA, my agency would not have a drone program. Everything I have ever learned about drone operations has been through LEDA."
"This is one of the best trainings and/or conferences I’ve been to over the last 20 years. I’ll pull whatever strings I can to convince my department to let me come back again and again..."
"Well worth my departments money and my time. Looking forward to the next one. There were so many experienced personnel in that room at one time, what more could you ask for in a training environment."
"Hands down the best police training I've ever taken. The volume of useful and truly relevant material was great. So much info to bring home and apply personally and to better develop and grow our program."
"The level of experience and knowledge of all of the instructors. As a supervisor of a new drone team, I gained a lot of usable information that will help make my program successful. The variety of breakout sessions was very helpful."
"Undoubtedly will make our program better short term and long term and drastically make me a better pilot and program manager."
LEARN
Come learn the latest tactics and theory behind the why and how we do our best work in the field. Join the hundreds of other pilots that have come to our events and developed a strong strategy to make themselves, their team and programs more effective on every call.
FLY
Get HANDS ON learning by doing at our practical scenario flight stations, proctored by experienced public safety drone pilots with tons of real-life experience on types of flights you will be performing in training.
BREAKOUT
Our agenda will have a myriad of pertinent topics during breakout days, where attendees can choose which course best captures their pursuit of knowledge in the sector. We will have a track for Supervisors, Tactical Operators, Crash/Crime Scene Reconstruction, Patrol Pilots, and also fill space for our amazing industry sponsors.
NETWORK
The LEDA Experience is one folks tend to not forget! Join us for our fun-filled social evenings and network with other pilots and teams from all over the country
