IAHTI 2026: Three Days of Hands-On Human Trafficking Training
Join us for the 15th Annual IAHTI Conference, the essential training experience for professionals working to combat human trafficking and provide services to victims. This milestone year marks a major step forward for IAHTI as we expand to three full days of education, networking, and collaboration in our new home at the Tradewinds Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
Only about 35 minutes from Tampa International Airport (TPA) and St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport (PIE), the 2026 conference offers the same accessible location with even more space, convenience, and connection. This larger venue has nearly 800 rooms so the majority of our attendees will be able to stay on-site, creating more opportunities for networking during your stay. This venue provides the option for several ballrooms, tech rooms, labs, and allows us to adjust the size of the breakout rooms to better serve our attendees.
About the Conference
Our annual conference is an internationally recognized human trafficking training event, providing practical, hands-on instruction to professionals dedicated to ending human trafficking and supporting survivors.
Presented annually by the International Association of Human Trafficking Investigators (IAHTI), the conference is designed for human trafficking practitioners, including investigators, prosecutors, crime analysts, and victim service providers.
Why Attend?
The IAHTI Conference brings together professionals from across the world who are on the front lines of combating human trafficking. Each year, attendees gain new skills, strengthen partnerships, and discover tools that help them take more effective action in their own communities.
Training sessions are designed specifically for three key audiences to ensure that every participant gains practical, relevant knowledge tailored to their role in the fight against trafficking. Our training sessions are focused specifically for:
- law enforcement and analysts,
- prosecutors and other legal professionals
- NGOs and service providers.
What makes the IAHTI Conference stand out is the diversity of voices and perspectives that come together in one place. Investigators learn from survivors. Prosecutors share strategies that lead to convictions. Advocates and NGOs exchange ideas on victim-centered approaches. The result is a powerful, collaborative environment where every attendee leaves more informed, connected, and prepared to make an impact.
Whether you are deepening your investigative techniques, learning new legal strategies, or expanding your organization’s reach, this conference offers training and relationships that will strengthen your work long after you return home.
What to Expect
Expect three full days (24 hours) of dynamic, focused, and interactive training designed to push your thinking and enhance your impact. With specialized tracks for law enforcement, prosecutors, analysts, and NGOs, each session is crafted to address the challenges and opportunities most relevant to your role. Each year we add new topics, new presenters, new vendors, so that our attendees have access to the most up to date Human Trafficking tools and technology in the field.
You will experience:
- Survivor-led presentations that bring lived experience to the forefront
- Hands-on sessions in advanced investigative and analytical techniques
- Case studies from around the world
- One-on-one interaction with leading experts and technology providers
- Networking opportunities with peers, partners, and practitioners who share your passion to combat human trafficking
- Interaction with the leading technology companies in the world
Who Should Attend?
The IAHTI Annual Conference is designed for professionals working to combat human trafficking, including:
- Law enforcement officers and investigators
- Judges and Prosecutors
- Crime and intelligence analysts
- Victim service providers
- Non-profit and community organization leaders
- Technology, OSINT, and intelligence specialists
- Task Force members and Commanders
- Chiefs, Sheriffs, and other command staff
- Federal, State, and local law enforcement
Ideal for anyone involved in investigating, prosecuting, or supporting victims of human trafficking who wishes to increase their knowledge, skills, and to expand their professional network.
As this event contains sensitive information, IAHTI requires anyone not registering with a law enforcement, prosecution, or military email address to submit an application for review. Anyone that is not in an active role in law enforcement, prosecutorial, or a judicial role that is accepted to attend will be required to provide a letter of support from a law enforcement agency. If you are a victim service provider, victim housing provider, or survivor and have previously attended please let us know this information when you register.
**IAHTI reserves the right to decline admittance to any individual without prior IAHTI approval, agency identification, and/or the letter of support that can be verified **