That is not what this is. They have it every year. It includes school, colleges, police, state and federal agencies, hospitals. Usually deal with how to ID potential threat actors like the kids in Columbine, VA Tech, Vegas, Parkland FL.
On one hand people freak out about this type of Conference due to over active imaginations. And on the other they bitch about schools and law enforcement not doing enough to catch the idiots that commit these shooting.
Yes I have been to his conference. Got my picture taken on the blue turf at Boise State. Worked for an agency involved in critical infrastructure.
This conference is a good thing.
And there is zero reason parents cannot be participants. We have all seen what the schools and law enforcement and universities do when they are not monitored by their supervisors... the parents.