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Innovation meets mission at Magnet User Summit 2026

How AI innovation, new platform capabilities, and expanded evidence access are shaping the future of digital investigations.

Today at Magnet User Summit 2026, Magnet Forensics unveiled exciting announcements spanning AI innovation, platform advancements, and access to new evidence sources — all designed to help investigative teams move faster, collaborate earlier, and extract meaning from increasingly complex digital evidence. Shared during the company’s executive keynote address, the announcements reflect a clear direction for modern digital investigations: bring investigative workflows together, expand access to emerging evidence sources, and reduce the time between evidence collection and actionable leads.

Magnet User Summit 2026 is unfolding April 20–22 in Nashville, TN, and the energy is unmistakable. Public safety, government, and enterprise professionals from 23 countries around the world have come together for a week defined by hands‑on learning, compelling thought leadership, and candid peer exchange. From packed technical sessions and live demos to hallway conversations and problem‑solving between labs and agencies, the summit is about bringing the community together, and showing, in real time, how Magnet Forensics is helping remove friction between tools, teams, and timelines, so investigators can move from data to answers with greater speed, confidence, and defensibility. For those in the room, it’s a chance to step out of day‑to‑day casework and see where digital investigations are headed next.

Magnet AI: From artifacts to investigative intelligence

Unveiled during the opening keynote presentation, Magnet AI is the engine powering AI-driven innovation across the Magnet Forensics ecosystem. Magnet AI encompasses powerful new AI capabilities that redefine how AI is applied to digital investigations, helping teams move beyond automation toward deeper investigative understanding.

Intelligent Insights, powered by Magnet AI, is Magnet Forensics’ most advanced AI capability to date, not only identifying artifacts, but delivering context behind the evidence, including structured investigative summaries, key findings, and suggested lines of analysis — all with citations linked to source evidence.

Magnet AI is designed to help investigators orient themselves faster within complex cases, identify meaningful leads earlier, and focus their expertise where it matters most.

Magnet One: The most advanced investigative intelligence platform

Central to Magnet Forensics’ innovation is Magnet One, the industry’s most advanced investigative intelligence platform. With Magnet Review now seamlessly integrated at the center, teams can share and act on evidence earlier, while maintaining security and continuity across stakeholders and workflows.

Key Magnet One advancements announced include:

  • Magnet One Case Stream — a cloud-enabled workflow that streams priority mobile and vehicle data to stakeholders as it is extracted, helping teams surface leads sooner and reduce wait time between steps.
  • Magnet One Connect — a new partner hub enabling approved third-party integrations through secure, managed APIs, expanding how agencies connect Magnet Review and Magnet One to trusted tools in their investigative ecosystem.
  • New Magnet One Connect partners — Siren and Lumyx, enabling agencies to incorporate digital evidence into broader analysis, visualization, and geolocation workflows without disrupting case continuity.
  • Project Unison — a new way to highlight patterns, visualize events, and create timelines for investigators. Unison is currently available in Beta at Magnet Idea Lab.

Expanding access to emerging evidence types: vehicle and drone forensics

As modern investigations draw from more evidence sources than ever before, Magnet Forensics announced two game-changing new ways to acquire and operationalize evidence from vehicles and drones.

  • Magnet Autokey — an industry-first solution enabling fast access to encrypted vehicle infotainment data without invasive teardowns — helping agencies operationalize vehicle evidence within connected case workflows.
  • V2 Forensics acquisition — enabling Magnet Forensics to expand its investigative solutions to include specialized drone forensics.

New advancements for mobile access, speed, and triage

To help agencies address time-to-evidence pressures in mobile investigations, Magnet Forensics highlighted upcoming next-generation mobile access hardware, and new triage capabilities.

  • Magnet Graykey 2 and Magnet Verakey 2 — next-generation mobile forensic access solutions will provide significantly faster operation and imaging, with availability later this year.
  • Graykey Media Triage integrated with the Magnet Griffeye Intelligence Database (GID) — enabling agencies to quickly identify known media on mobile devices for early intelligence during investigations.

Recognizing the human effort behind every case

Magnet User Summit 2026 is also proud to spotlight the people and organizations dedicated to advancing justice through digital evidence. Recipients of the annual Magnet Forensics’ Agency Impact and Scholarship Awards were announced during the keynote address, including the Caitlyn Kaufman Award, a new award in 2026 honoring a prosecutor who transforms digital evidence into meaningful outcomes for victims and communities.

Keynote speaker John Walsh — victims’ rights advocate, cofounder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and host of CNN’s The Hunt with John Walsh — takes the stage April 22 to reflect on the human stakes behind investigative work, and the responsibility the community carries as technology evolves. Tyler Cohen Wood, Co-Founder and CEO, Dark Cryptonite, and nationally recognized cybersecurity, intelligence, and national security expert, will close out the conference by exploring critical disconnects and systemic failures that are holding organizations back.

Magnet Forensics is proud to bring this community together, celebrate its customers, and honor agencies and organizations for the important work that they do to protect communities and deliver justice.

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