LEDA Northeast 2025
Join us in the Boston Metro area from Tuesday, August 5th through Friday, August 8th, 2025, when we take over the Sheraton Conference Center in Framingham, MA, for a loaded 4-day training event hosted by the Wellesley Police Department!
Opening up to ALL of Public Safety, including Fire, Emergency Management and Search and Rescue, LEDA will be bringing a packed agenda covering topics like Tactical Drone Operations, Search and Rescue Tactics, Fire Operations with UAS, Disaster Response, Aerial Search Tactics, Crash/Crime Scene Reconstruction, Drone as First Responder Programs, UAS Program Hardening, Supervisors Courses, K9 Integration, Panel Discussions, tons of real life incident debriefs and so much more! Below is a sample of what the conference agenda will look like (some classes are subject to change based upon availability.).
We will also be continuing our "Seminar Only Pass" (SOP) at this event, where attendees who wish only to attend classes and will not fly can maintain their learning in classrooms and breakouts while our "Flight Pass" (FP) attendees are ripping up the practical scenarios stations, both indoor and out! Those desiring the SOP will pay less, yet will gain lots of intel on the latest tactics and techniques, as well as the most up-to-date technology on the market. Also, SOP attendees will be allowed to fly our LEDA Basic Skills courses for the opportunity to obtain their LEDA certificates for each course. (Flight Pass students get priority for our basic skills courses, but as long as there isn't a long line out there, SOP students can get on the sticks!)
**There are a limited amount of Flight Pass tickets, so we recommend you register early to secure your spot to fly. After Flight Passes sell out, you may still attend with the SOP pass and work on obtaining your LEDA Basic 1 and 2 Certifications.**
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 (August 4th) the conference starts Tuesday August 5th. Cost to certify your trainer is $200 and an ADD-ON to the conference registration. 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. Please bring a drone platform to fly the courses if needed.
HOTEL BLOCK: We have a block of rooms at the Sheraton (150 rooms) reserved and also can overflow to the sister hotel on the same property once that block is full. Please click the block reservation link below to reserve your room at a rate of $178 per night, plus taxes and fees. We have a small amount of rooms on the block for Sunday night for those needing a room for the Trainer course on Monday.
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 - $605 per attendee (Will participate in flight training, Limited Amount)
SEMINAR ONLY PASS - $449 per attendee (Permitted to fly Basic Skills Level 1 & 2, but no flight stations)
LEDA BASIC SKILLS PROCTOR COURSE - $200 per Student Instructor (Limited to 30 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, except for Friday August 8th. Attendees will be released before noon on that day for travel home. The hotel does not provide breakfast, but does have several restaurants, 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.
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
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