For more information and to register, visit the conference page.

Wesnet's 7th Technology Safety Summit brings together national and international experts on technology safety and gender-based violence to explore the complex and evolving interplays between technology and family/domestic and other forms of gendered violence. This is a singular opportunity to learn, influence, develop your network and innovate through cross-sector dialogue.

Who Is It For?

Attendees will be joined by family and domestic violence frontline workers, advocates, policymakers, technologists, legal and law enforcement professionals and researchers; all with a common purpose of preventing and responding to technology-facilitated abuse.

What Is It About?

This year’s Tech Safety Summit will focus on trending issues in technology-facilitated abuse as well as emerging technologies, addressing the intersection of technology, privacy, safety and violence against women.

Presentations, panel discussions and practical demonstrations will cover a wide range of topics including:

• Artificial intelligence
• Online dating
• Children/young people and DFV
• Surveillance
• Data management

Please contact the organiser for all queries at events@wesnet.org.au.

For more information and to register, visit the conference page.

Wesnet's 7th Technology Safety Summit brings together national and international experts on technology safety and gender-based violence to explore the complex and evolving interplays between technology and family/domestic and other forms of gendered violence. This is a singular opportunity to learn, influence, develop your network and innovate through cross-sector dialogue.

Who Is It For?

Attendees will be joined by family and domestic violence frontline workers, advocates, policymakers, technologists, legal and law enforcement professionals and researchers; all with a common purpose of preventing and responding to technology-facilitated abuse.

What Is It About?

This year’s Tech Safety Summit will focus on trending issues in technology-facilitated abuse as well as emerging technologies, addressing the intersection of technology, privacy, safety and violence against women.

Presentations, panel discussions and practical demonstrations will cover a wide range of topics including:

• Artificial intelligence
• Online dating
• Children/young people and DFV
• Surveillance
• Data management

Please contact the organiser for all queries at events@wesnet.org.au.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

Safe and Equal's Prevention Foundations training is designed to build skills and knowledge, grow professional networks and empower attendees to drive meaningful change.

This course is delivered online in two 2-hour sessions over one day, providing a space for practitioners to learn, connect with and bolster their professional toolkits to promote equality, safety and respect.

Attendees will:

• Build understanding of the gendered and overlapping drivers that shape family and gender-based violence
• Build understanding of prevalence, impacts and nature of family and gender-based violence
• Build understanding of the prevention continuum
• Identify key essential actions that will contribute to the primary prevention of family and gender-based violence

Please direct all queries to the organiser at training@safeandequal.org.au

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

Safe and Equal's Prevention Foundations training is designed to build skills and knowledge, grow professional networks and empower attendees to drive meaningful change.

This course is delivered online in two 2-hour sessions over one day, providing a space for practitioners to learn, connect with and bolster their professional toolkits to promote equality, safety and respect.

Attendees will:

• Build understanding of the gendered and overlapping drivers that shape family and gender-based violence
• Build understanding of prevalence, impacts and nature of family and gender-based violence
• Build understanding of the prevention continuum
• Identify key essential actions that will contribute to the primary prevention of family and gender-based violence

Please direct all queries to the organiser at training@safeandequal.org.au

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This training is designed for practitioners with experience working alongside people who are experiencing family violence. Building on the concepts of entrapment and response-based practice introduced in Levels 1 and 2, Level 3 focuses on resistance.

This training addresses the most challenging parts of advocacy and will enhance participants' skills to support systemic responses such as coordinating multi-agency responses, building community alliances, and utilising information sharing.

Throughout the day, the training will emphasise situating people within their wider contexts – as parents, as youth experiencing family violence, and as members of family, whānau, and community and the responsibilities and expectations that come with that.

Learning Objectives:

• Further develop an understanding regarding concepts of coercive control, entrapment and resistance which inform a response-based approach.
• Explore advocacy against intersectionality and oppression and examine the intersection of mental health, substance misuse and family violence.

For all queries about Shine's training, contact trainer@2shine.org.nz.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This training is designed for practitioners with experience working alongside people who are experiencing family violence. Building on the concepts of entrapment and response-based practice introduced in Levels 1 and 2, Level 3 focuses on resistance.

This training addresses the most challenging parts of advocacy and will enhance participants' skills to support systemic responses such as coordinating multi-agency responses, building community alliances, and utilising information sharing.

Throughout the day, the training will emphasise situating people within their wider contexts – as parents, as youth experiencing family violence, and as members of family, whānau, and community and the responsibilities and expectations that come with that.

Learning Objectives:

• Further develop an understanding regarding concepts of coercive control, entrapment and resistance which inform a response-based approach.
• Explore advocacy against intersectionality and oppression and examine the intersection of mental health, substance misuse and family violence.

For all queries about Shine's training, contact trainer@2shine.org.nz.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

The Practitioner-Victim Insight Concept (PVIC) is ECLIPSE's practice model developed through lived and practice experience. PVIC raises awareness of coercive control as an overarching family violence tactic.

In this course, attendees will:

• Obtain a deeper understanding of ECLIPSE's Practitioner-Victim Insight Concept
• Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist coercive control and family violence every day
• Understand the importance of self-determination strategies, dignity-enhancing practice, and empathetic connection as steps to a healing pathway
• Grow in awareness and knowledge of the guidelines for identifying and navigating coercive control as an overarching family violence tactic
• Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of family violence.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

The Practitioner-Victim Insight Concept (PVIC) is ECLIPSE's practice model developed through lived and practice experience. PVIC raises awareness of coercive control as an overarching family violence tactic.

In this course, attendees will:

• Obtain a deeper understanding of ECLIPSE's Practitioner-Victim Insight Concept
• Develop knowledge of resistance strategies and how victims resist coercive control and family violence every day
• Understand the importance of self-determination strategies, dignity-enhancing practice, and empathetic connection as steps to a healing pathway
• Grow in awareness and knowledge of the guidelines for identifying and navigating coercive control as an overarching family violence tactic
• Be provided with practice tools and guidelines developed by victim-survivors and are embedded with and informed by the voice of lived experience of family violence.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This webinar is designed to raise awareness and deepen understanding of child protection issues specific to early childhood education in Aotearoa. Participants will gain essential knowledge and practical guidance to help safeguard children and respond appropriately to concerns.

Key topics include:

• The context and prevalence of child abuse in New Zealand
• Risk factors associated with early childhood
• Recognising signs and indicators of abuse
• Responding sensitively and effectively to a child’s disclosure
• What to expect when reporting abuse to statutory agencies

This session is ideal for anyone working in early childhood education, including centre managers, teachers, and support staff.

For all queries, please contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit the event page.

This webinar is designed to raise awareness and deepen understanding of child protection issues specific to early childhood education in Aotearoa. Participants will gain essential knowledge and practical guidance to help safeguard children and respond appropriately to concerns.

Key topics include:

• The context and prevalence of child abuse in New Zealand
• Risk factors associated with early childhood
• Recognising signs and indicators of abuse
• Responding sensitively and effectively to a child’s disclosure
• What to expect when reporting abuse to statutory agencies

This session is ideal for anyone working in early childhood education, including centre managers, teachers, and support staff.

For all queries, please contact the organiser.

For more information and to register, visit the conference page.

Whakamanawa is a conference that inspires, encourages, and connects, bringing kotahitanga across the whole social sector of Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s about uniting collective knowledge, skills, and passion so all return to their communities and hapori refreshed, ready to continue making a real difference.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit the conference page.

Whakamanawa is a conference that inspires, encourages, and connects, bringing kotahitanga across the whole social sector of Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s about uniting collective knowledge, skills, and passion so all return to their communities and hapori refreshed, ready to continue making a real difference.

Please direct all queries to the organisers.

For more information and to register, please visit the official conference webpage.

The SVRI Forum 2026 is currently accepting abstract submission. The call for abstracts ends 30 January 2026.

The SVRI Forum is a global conference on research, evidence, and solutions to prevent and respond to violence against women (VAW), violence against children (VAC), and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV).

Held every two years, this action-driven event brings together over 1,500 global stakeholders, researchers, practitioners, survivors, policymakers, funders, and activists to share cutting-edge research, challenge the status quo, and co-create solutions for a world free from violence.

SVRI Forum 2026 is co-hosted by the Southeast Asia Gender-Based Violence Prevention Platform and the UN Joint Programme, through UN Women and UNFPA.

Conference Themes (More information on the themes below is available on the conference website):

1. Understanding Root Causes, Risks and Protective Factors of Violence
2. Strengthening Prevention Strategies
3. Strengthening Response Services
4. The Role of Technology in Perpetuating and Preventing Violence
5. Strengthening the Science: Research Methods, Scaling, and Practice-Based Knowledge
6. Using Research for Advocacy and Policy Change
7. Building a Healthy Evidence Ecosystem

Please direct all queries to the organisers: svri@svri.org.

For more information and to register, please visit the official conference webpage.

The SVRI Forum 2026 is currently accepting abstract submission. The call for abstracts ends 30 January 2026.

The SVRI Forum is a global conference on research, evidence, and solutions to prevent and respond to violence against women (VAW), violence against children (VAC), and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV).

Held every two years, this action-driven event brings together over 1,500 global stakeholders, researchers, practitioners, survivors, policymakers, funders, and activists to share cutting-edge research, challenge the status quo, and co-create solutions for a world free from violence.

SVRI Forum 2026 is co-hosted by the Southeast Asia Gender-Based Violence Prevention Platform and the UN Joint Programme, through UN Women and UNFPA.

Conference Themes (More information on the themes below is available on the conference website):

1. Understanding Root Causes, Risks and Protective Factors of Violence
2. Strengthening Prevention Strategies
3. Strengthening Response Services
4. The Role of Technology in Perpetuating and Preventing Violence
5. Strengthening the Science: Research Methods, Scaling, and Practice-Based Knowledge
6. Using Research for Advocacy and Policy Change
7. Building a Healthy Evidence Ecosystem

Please direct all queries to the organisers: svri@svri.org.

For more information and to register, visit Connect to Protect.

Connect to Protect – Children & Youth at Risk Conference is an international forum dedicated to strengthening child protection and improving outcomes for vulnerable children, adolescents, and young people. Organised by IASIS NGO, the conference brings together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organisations working across sectors to address the most pressing challenges affecting children and youth today.

Please direct all enquiries to the conference organisers.

For more information and to register, visit Connect to Protect.

Connect to Protect – Children & Youth at Risk Conference is an international forum dedicated to strengthening child protection and improving outcomes for vulnerable children, adolescents, and young people. Organised by IASIS NGO, the conference brings together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organisations working across sectors to address the most pressing challenges affecting children and youth today.

Please direct all enquiries to the conference organisers.

Registration for this event is not currently open, but to learn more, visit the conference page.

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The Call for Presentations is currently open for submissions. Find out more here. Proposals must be submitted by 24 April 2026.

This conference invites parents, practitioners, youth, researchers, policymakers, cultural leaders, and community builders from around the world to bring forward the ideas, practices, prototypes, and creative expressions that will define the next era of child welfare.

Day 1 is completely comprised of Skill Building Institutes—immersive learning experiences that equip changemakers with the frameworks, tools, and confidence to act. Days 2 and 3 make up The Global Gathering—an inspiring convergence of ideas, practices, and stories that point toward a shared, re-designed future for children, families and communities worldwide.

For all queries, please contact the organisers: globalgathering@cuanschutz.edu.

Registration for this event is not currently open, but to learn more, visit the conference page.

This event will be re-shared once registration opens. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss out.

The Call for Presentations is currently open for submissions. Find out more here. Proposals must be submitted by 24 April 2026.

This conference invites parents, practitioners, youth, researchers, policymakers, cultural leaders, and community builders from around the world to bring forward the ideas, practices, prototypes, and creative expressions that will define the next era of child welfare.

Day 1 is completely comprised of Skill Building Institutes—immersive learning experiences that equip changemakers with the frameworks, tools, and confidence to act. Days 2 and 3 make up The Global Gathering—an inspiring convergence of ideas, practices, and stories that point toward a shared, re-designed future for children, families and communities worldwide.

For all queries, please contact the organisers: globalgathering@cuanschutz.edu.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This three-hour virtual interactive training will prepare participants to recognise indicators of family violence and aid them with skills to provide a safe, simple and sensitive response to a disclosure from an adult experiencing family violence.

This training is intended for prevention practitioners working across a range of settings, including, but not limited to delivering programs across educational settings, youth and community programs, local councils and sporting clubs.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

For more information and to register, please visit the event page.

This three-hour virtual interactive training will prepare participants to recognise indicators of family violence and aid them with skills to provide a safe, simple and sensitive response to a disclosure from an adult experiencing family violence.

This training is intended for prevention practitioners working across a range of settings, including, but not limited to delivering programs across educational settings, youth and community programs, local councils and sporting clubs.

Please direct all questions to the organiser: admin@safeandequal.org.au.

For more information, visit the event page.

Ticket sales don't open until mid-2026 but pre-registration is currently available.

Decult 2026 is still accepting submissions for presentations, closing 31 December 2025.

Decult 2026 presents an opportunity for new voices in the cult survivor space, for professional networks for cult education, and for taking action to address human rights, social justice and mental health. Decult 2026 promises an enriching, stimulating and engaging experience held in a safe space that respects diversity.

Please direct all inquiries to the organiser: admin@decult.net.

For more information, visit the event page.

Ticket sales don't open until mid-2026 but pre-registration is currently available.

Decult 2026 is still accepting submissions for presentations, closing 31 December 2025.

Decult 2026 presents an opportunity for new voices in the cult survivor space, for professional networks for cult education, and for taking action to address human rights, social justice and mental health. Decult 2026 promises an enriching, stimulating and engaging experience held in a safe space that respects diversity.

Please direct all inquiries to the organiser: admin@decult.net.

For more information and to register, visit the conference page.

The conference is accepting abstract submissions until 30 April 2026.

This gathering, led by the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, will elevate Indigenous voices and leadership to address critical health and well-being issues through three interconnected sub-themes: Indigenous Health and Healing; Environmental and Ecological Systems; Advanced Technologies and AI. The gathering will also include presentation on cross-cutting themes, such as language reclamation, justice, creative practice and others.

For all queries, please contact the organisers.

For more information and to register, visit the conference page.

The conference is accepting abstract submissions until 30 April 2026.

This gathering, led by the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, will elevate Indigenous voices and leadership to address critical health and well-being issues through three interconnected sub-themes: Indigenous Health and Healing; Environmental and Ecological Systems; Advanced Technologies and AI. The gathering will also include presentation on cross-cutting themes, such as language reclamation, justice, creative practice and others.

For all queries, please contact the organisers.