The Partnership for Priority Verified Alarm Response (PPVAR) held its mid-year meeting virtually today, June 10, at 11 a.m. ET.

Mission 500, a charitable non-profit organization engaging security professionals to assist families in crisis across the U.S., launched its 2020 foundational fundraising campaign — the M500 Club. 

Due to concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic, SIA GovSummit will be held as a virtual event in 2020, and for the first time ever, the conference will be entirely free to all attendees from industry and government.  

Since major industry events such as ISC West and ESX have been postponed or cancelled due to COVID-19, companies have been scrambling for new, contactless ways to interact with their customers and partners. 

Starting this week, DMP is hosting a weekly Zoom meeting for owners and managers to discuss how to conduct business during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Focused on technology, innovation and the challenges affecting the physical security industry, Connect’DX will provide an opportunity for security professionals from around the world to directly engage with each other as well as with Genetec and its partners.

On Wednesday, May 20, the PSIA will host a Virtual PLAI Experience which will demonstrate the value of its Physical Logical Access Interoperability (PLAI) specification to the market.

Genetec Inc., a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations and business intelligence solutions, released the full conference agenda for Genetec Connect’DX, the company’s first virtual trade show taking place April 20-22, 2020. 

The California Alarm Association (CAA) Spring Convention originally scheduled for May 13-16, 2020 in Palm Springs has been converted to a virtual conference. 

In an effort to do its part to keep people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Training Center (NTC) is taking all of its live, instructor-led training into the Virtual Classroom.