Argos are delighted to confirm the below selection of key speakers for the 2023 YTVC
Brad Beeler – Special Agent (United States Secret Service)
Brad has been a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service for the past 24 years. He currently is the USSS liaison at the National Center of Credibility Assessment at Fort Jackson where he serves as the lead instructor for interview techniques. For the past 16 years, Brad has been a polygraph examiner with the USSS. Since 2011, he has conducted hundreds of “tactical” polygraph examinations following ICAC search warrants and traveller operations. Over 130 of these examinations have resulted in “hands on” confessions by the suspects. Brad is currently a member of the South Carolina ICAC Task Force. Prior to joining the USSS, Brad received his Masters degree in Criminology from the University of Missouri – St. Louis and worked in the juvenile justice system.
Awards
United States Secret Service – Investigative Hero Award – 2022
United States Secret Service – Investigative Hero Award – 2019
United States Secret Service – Special Agent of the Year – 2015
Unites States Secret Service – Director’s Meritorious Service Award – 2014
United States Secret Service – Special Agent of the Year – Finalist – 2013
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Jim Cole – Supervisory Special Agent (Homeland Security Investigations – Nashville)
Jim Cole is a Supervisory Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Nashville, TN and the Chair of the INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes Against Children (IPSGCAC). Jim supervises Cyber, Child Exploitation, Human Trafficking and Victim Services for HSI Nashville. Jim formerly served as the National Program Manager and Section Chief for Victim Identification at the HSI Cyber Crimes Center. Jim stood up HSI’s Victim Identification Program and Laboratory in 2011. Jim is considered a subject matter expert on child exploitation, victim identification and digital forensics related to child exploitation. Jim has travelled around the globe to provide training and his expertise to numerous law enforcement agencies, NGO’s, INTERPOL, EUROPOL and CPOL. Jim managed several Research & Development Projects focusing on digital image/video processing and biometrics related to digital image/video for child exploitation. Jim is a founding member of Project Vic and formerly the Chair of the Victim Identification Sub-Group of the IPSGCAC.
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Dr Stacy Cecchet PhD, ABPP – Forensic & Operational Psychologist (Obsidian Forensics)
Dr. Cecchet is the forensic and operational psychologist for both the Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force and the Idaho ICAC TF. She also works as a forensic psychologist and criminal profiler for the Cold Case Foundation. She provides consultation and training internationally across all branches of law enforcement on: child pornography; child torture; sex trafficking; working with victims of sexual trauma; secondary and vicarious trauma; rape; sex offender typologies; and law enforcement wellness and resiliency. Dr. Cecchet’s specializations include: Internet Crimes Against Children (i.e., child pornography/child sexual abuse material, online victimization of children); sex trafficking; child sexual abuse; child torture; and serial sex offenses. She has conducted a significant number of forensic evaluations assessing sexual deviancy, trauma, psychopathology, risk for violent crime, psychopathy, child abuse, competency, and diminished capacity.
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Dr Michael Salter – Scientia Associate Professor (University of New South Wales)
Dr Michael Salter is the Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of New South Wales where he studies child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence and complex trauma. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge) and over fifty papers in international journals and edited collections. Dr Salter is the president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and the chair of the board of the Grace Tame Foundation. He is a member of the advisory groups of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, the eSafety Commissioner, the Advisory Group of White Ribbon Australia, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and the National Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women and Their Children. Dr Salter is a key advisor to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection where he has undertaken a range of projects on strategic responses to child sexual exploitation.
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Julie Inman Grant – Commissioner (Office of the eSafety Commissioner)
Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online. Before commencing in this role in January 2017, Commissioner Inman Grant spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter and Adobe. The Commissioner has led work to stand up novel and world-first regulatory regimes under the new Online Safety Act 2021, with implementation of a sweeping new set of reforms beginning on 23 January 2022. She also plays an important global role as Chair of the Child Dignity Alliance’s Technical Working Group, Board Member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety and on their XR Ecosystem Governance Steering Committee on Building and Defining the Metaverse. In 2021, Commissioner Inman Grant also launched the global Safety by Design initiative.
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Vanitha Pandi – Special Agent (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Vanitha Pandi is currently assigned to investigating crimes against children matters in the San Diego office. During her time with the FBI, she has conducted numerous investigations within encrypted applications and dark web matters. She also has been trained in victim identification and worked successfully concluding many of those matters. Currently, she focuses on investigations within encrypted environments and matters that affect San Diego. Prior to her law enforcement career, she was a practicing attorney in California.
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Philip Attwood – Detective Chief Inspector (Serocu)
Philip is currently the national Undercover Online Coordinator for England & Wales for child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) having previously been the operational lead for CSAE in the South East Regional Organized Crime Unit. Philip was a police officer for 22 years and 15 years in organized crime investigating a variety of crimes utilizing covert tactics including conspiracy to supply class ‘A’ drugs, organized immigration crime, firearms importation and fraud. He is passionate about utilizing covert policing methods to tackle CSAE and have led the innovation through the development of new techniques and tactics to maximize the finite resources at our disposal to target the high harm offenders operating in clear and dark web space on the internet.
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Bjørn-Erik Ludvigsen – Police Superintendent (National Cybercrime Centre, NC3, Norway)
Mr Bjørn-Erik Ludvigsen is a Norwegian police officer, working in technical prevention of CSA and CSAM at the National Cyber Crime Center in Norway (NC3). In 2010-12 and 2018-20 he worked as a Criminal Intelligence Officer with the Crimes against Children team at INTERPOL in Lyon, France. He has been employed at the National Criminal Investigation Service since 2000, dealing with all aspects of sexual crimes against children, primarily on the Internet. He established and has been responsible for the preventive Norwegian access blocking of CSAM on the Web since 2004 and from 2010 the similar, but global, IWOL (INTERPOL Worst of List). Between 2014-2018 and presently he is the EMPACT representative in the Europol driven cooperation projects CSA and the manager of the Police2Peer project – a preventive initiative against child sexual abuse material distribution on P2P networks. His previous police life includes general investigation, computer training and education, bomb disposal, anti-terrorism, narcotics investigations and regular street patrols.
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Cameron Craig – Sergeant (Forensic Behavioural Specialist Unit – QPS)
Sergeant Cameron Craig is a psychologist attached to the QPS’s Forensic Behavioural Services Unit, Child Protection Offender Registry. Day-to-day he works alongside investigators and intelligence officers involved in the forensic risk assessment, supervision and management of reportable child sexual offenders residing in the Queensland community. In collaboration with Australian-based universities, he has initiated and facilitated a range of evidence-based policing projects, including the psychological impacts of exposure to child exploitation material, psychological assessment for the selection and ongoing mental health monitoring of police working in specialist roles, developing the psychological resilience of police officers, and the validation of sexual violence risk assessment tools. He is currently undertaking a three-year research project with Griffith University’s Autism Centre of Excellence to improve the identification and management of reportable offenders with autism.
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Coen Dufais – Inspector (National Police of the Netherlands)
Coen Dufais has been working for the Dutch police force since 2001, since 2013 as a Master of Criminal Investigation in the field of Internet Crimes Against Children. Currently he is working as a darkweb specialist for the National Unit based in Zoetermeer. Coen is well-known for his international network and his pro-active hands-on operational approach. As a member of the FBI Violent Crimes Against Children Taskforce he has a worldwide network that enabled him to assist in multiple international investigations over the past years. He is trained on various international programs and delivers both national and international trainings. As part of the international network on working these crimes, Coen stands for quality, perseverance, trust and an international approach to protect the weakest members of society: children.
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Helen Schneider – Commander (ACCCE & Human Exploitation)
Commander Helen Schneider commenced her career with the Queensland Police Service 26 years ago. After 16 years, Helen transitioned to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and has worked within Counter Terrorism (international and domestic), Organised Crime and Learning and Development. Helen has assisted with project work for the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation and was a member of the Lawler Review into AFP Sensitive Investigations. Helen was seconded to Taskforce Integrity as the AFP operations lead and was subsequently promoted in February 2021 to Superintendent of Crime for Northern Command in Brisbane. Helen’s AFP career highlights include assisting in the investigation into the downing of MH17 and her involvement in joint agency environments and task forces, such as the Queensland Joint Organised Crime Task Force, Taskforce Integrity and the Joint Counter Terrorism Team. Helen has a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, Master of Arts in Terrorism Safety and Security and an Associate Diploma of Public Safety (Police Investigation).
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Frances Lee – Senior Superintendent of Police (Hong Kong Police Force)
Frances Lee has joined the Hong Kong Police (HKP) for 15 years and has been a detective since 2009. She specialized in child abuse investigation at her early police career and was deployed to the Family Conflict and Sexual Violence Policy Unit (FCSV) for 3 years as Chief Inspector, which she oversaw policy matters in relation to family violence, domestic violence, sexual violence, child abuse, elder abuse and juvenile crime. After her promotion to Superintendent, she served in the Criminal Intelligence Bureau to supervise intelligence operations targeting serious crimes.
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Nicole Poynton – Criminal Intelligence Officer (INTERPOL)
Nicole is a Criminal Intelligence Officer in INTERPOL’S Crime against Children Unit. She previously served for 12 years with Victoria Police in Melbourne, Australia. As an experienced sexual offences and child sexual exploitation investigation detective, Nicole has conducted complex investigation for domestic units and as part of multinational information-sharing operations. Nicole specialises in victim identification and child victim interviewing
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Dr Åsa Kastbom MD, PhD – Physician (University Hospital of Linköping, Sweden)
Dr Kastbom works as a physician with children, adolescents and adults at Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department as well as the Adult Psychiatry Department at the University Hospital in Linkoping in Sweden. She is a consultant at the Trauma Unit for Abused Children and at the Adult Psychiatry Emergency Department. Her special field is sexual abused and traumatized children and adults and her research has covered, for example, sexual behaviour in children. Dr Kastbom is a founder and a member of the Child Protection Team at the University Hospital in Linkoping, a member of INTERPOL Specialist Group on Crimes against Children and an appreciated and well-known speaker in Sweden and at International Conferences in, for example, Australia, Canada, France, USA, Singapore, France, Iceland, Japan, Greenland and Poland.
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Graeme Marshall – Detective Superintendent (Australian Federal Police)
Detective Superintendent Graeme Marshall is a 26 year Australian Federal Police (AFP) career officer who has served across various crime types and locations including Canberra, Sydney, Perth, East Timor and Solomon Islands. In 2018, as a member of AFP International Command, Graeme deployed to the Philippines where he revolutionised the domestic and foreign law enforcement collaborative effort to counter international child exploitation. This included establishment of the Philippine Internet Crimes Against Children Centre (PICACC) to combat online sexual exploitation of children. Graeme returned to Western Australia in 2021 where he is now Superintendent Investigations for the AFP Western Command. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Criminal Justice Administration), a Masters (Transnational Crime Prevention), a Graduate Certificate in Applied Management (Policing and Emergency Services) and has completed the Western Australia Police Senior Investigation Officer course.
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Scott Ralph – Team Leader ACCCE Intelligence Fusion Cell (Australian Federal Police)
After a decade as a soldier specialising in surveillance, intelligence and translation, Scott joined the National Intelligence Community (NIC). Over the next 20 years, Scott worked as an analyst for several Australian and US agencies (ASD, AGO, ONI, NSA, NGA). His early days were spent building the strategic ‘high value targeting’ capability (post 9/11), after which he led the Defence foray into multi-agency ‘fusion analysis’, before finally managing the design and delivery of several billion-dollar Intelligence projects. In 2021 Scott went looking for a fun job again, and as soon as the IFC TL was pitched his search for a unicorn was over. As IFC TL, Scott works with 15 Analysts from ACIC, AFP, Austrac and Home Affairs. This team engage on a daily basis across diverse Government agencies, Intel partners, NGO and Industry. These efforts maximize ACCCE awareness, positioning us to achieve effects across the environment that significantly outweigh our size, through efforts such as OP HUNTSMAN.
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Natalie Walker – CEO (PartnerSPEAK)
Ms. Natalie Walker is a world leader in her innovative and trauma-informed response to non-offending partners and affected family members of perpetrators of online child sexual abuse. Natalie is responsible for founding PartnerSPEAK and for raising awareness of the profound impact on affected family members in Australia. Over the past eighteen months Natalie has worked with Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force and local police in every State and Territory in Australia to support LEA to respond to AFM in a way that supports members to do their core job of disrupting CSAM while also responding to families in a trauma-informed way. Natalie’s awareness-raising and lobbying has been instrumental in non-offending partners and affected family members being included in the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse.
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Warren Bulmer – Head of Data Product (International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children – Australia)
Warren Bulmer was a member of the Toronto Police Service for 30 years and in 2020 he retired from being a Detective Constable. Warren’s policing career has predominantly been spent within the field of criminal investigation. Warren has taught at the United Nations in Bangkok, Thailand; the Canadian Police College; and the Ontario Police College and was a part-time faculty member at Humber College, where he instructed students in conducting online investigations and open-source intelligence techniques (OSINT). Warren has testified in court on many occasions as an expert witness in various capacities relating to digital evidence and computer forensic analysis as well as in the operation of social networks. From February 2020 to February 2023, he worked for the Australian Federal Police in Brisbane, Queensland, as a Product Manager where he helped build technical capabilities for the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation. Warren now works in the private sector as the Head of Data Products at the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children – Australia, where he continues to innovate and collaborate with industry to make the world a safer place for kids. Warren also guest lectures in the University of Queensland’s Cyber Criminology undergraduate and graduate programs.
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Dr Gemma McKibbin – Senior Research Fellow (University of Melbourne)
Dr Gemma McKibbin is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Melbourne, working with Prof Cathy Humphreys in the Violence Against Women and Children research team. Gemma has a background in gender studies and a PhD focused on the prevention of harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young people. Along with an interest in harmful sexual behaviour, Gemma’s research focuses on preventing child sexual exploitation and dating violence, as well as on adult perpetrator-focused prevention. She leads a number of child sexual abuse prevention and response action research projects, including Power to Kids with MacKillop Family Services and the Worried About Sex and Pornography project with Jesuit Social Services. Gemma specialises in trauma-informed, child-focused research interviews with vulnerable children and young people. She is passionate about supporting children and young people and providing them with a voice to government.
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Ashley Phelan – Manager – Forensic Behavioural Specialist Unit (QPS)
Ashley Phelan is the manager of the Forensic Behavioural Specialist Unit within the Child Protection Offender Registry (CPOR) in the QPS. He has vast experience of working with men with a history of sexual abuse, identifying and responding to complex needs of offenders and identifying and reducing risk of further offending.
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Jessica Smith – President (Clicksafe Intelligence) & Special Investigations Lead (National Child Protection Task Force)
Jessica Smith is the President and Founder of ClickSafe Intelligence, a non-profit based in the United States, dedicated to educating parents, children and child safety professionals on child predators, their grooming tactics and exploitation trends through intelligence-based research into conversations had between predators on the dark web via child exploitation forums, as well as predators and their victims. Jessica also serves as the National Child Protection Task Force’s Special Investigations Lead, managing cases with high levels of sensitivity, complexity, and longevity. Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and certifications in Interviewing and Interrogation, Critical Incident Management from FEMA as well as, Social Media Intelligence Expert (CSMIE) and Cyber Intelligence Professional (CCIP) from McAfee Institute. Additionally, she has spent the duration of her career in various facets of the Intelligence field within both the public and private sector.
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Carol Ronken – Director of Research (Bravehearts)
Appointed in 2003, Carol Ronken is responsible for leading the program of research at Bravehearts. Carol is passionate about ensuring Bravehearts is actively involved in research, policy and legislative development that aims to prevent, respond to, and reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse and exploitation. She is a member of several working groups, including the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation Research Working Group, the Twitter Trust and Safety Council (Australia) and the Australian Child Rights Taskforce. Her professional memberships include the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Carol is also a Visiting Fellow in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology.
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Dr Deirdre Thompson – Director of Therapeutic and Support Services (Bravehearts)
Dr Deirdre Thompson is Bravehearts’ Director of Therapeutic and Support Services (since 2014). Deirdre holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) and a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology, with over 30 years of experience both in the UK and Australia in both Forensic and Community Settings. Deirdre currently provides oversight to all Bravehearts client services, including Counselling, Turning corners, Redress Support Services, and our National Information and Support Service. Deirdre was instrumental in developing and implementing the Bravehearts Turning Corners Program, a program aimed at providing early intervention and response to young people engaging in or at risk of engaging in harmful sexual behaviours. She is a member of the National Clinical Reference Group for Children Exhibiting Harmful Sexual Behaviours, which was established as part of the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse 2021 – 2030.
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Scott Anderson – Victim Identification Expert (QPS)
Scott Anderson is a multimedia analyst working within the Victim Identification Unit of ARGOS, a specialized Child Exploitation Task Force of the Queensland Police in Australia. His forensic and scientific knowledge makes him a unique member of Queensland’s international team of experts dedicated to the identification and geolocation of child exploitation victims around the globe in a proactive capacity. Prior to coming to Australia Mr. Anderson assisted in child exploitation investigations supporting efforts for both Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children task forces and Homeland Security’s Child Exploitation Investigations Unit (CEIU). Before working in Child Exploitation Mr. Anderson was part of a specialized group of forensic media experts supporting counter terrorism tasks force operations. Mr. Anderson holds a M.Sc. degree for digital media forensics from the University of Colorado’s National Center for Media Forensics as well as a B.Sc. degree for music industry technology.
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Dr Sarah Napier – Research Manager – OSEC Research Program (Australian Institute of Criminology)
Dr Sarah Napier is Research Manager of the Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC) Research Program at the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), where she conducts research into child sexual abuse material offending, live streaming of child sexual abuse and effectiveness of OSEC prevention programs. Ms Napier holds a PhD in Criminology from the University of Sydney, which focused on child sexual abuse material offending. She has also conducted research into juvenile sexual offending, the effectiveness of public sex offender registries and sex offender treatment programs, domestic violence and drug use.
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Dr Marie Henshaw – Research Fellow (Swinburne University of Technology)
Dr Marie Henshaw is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and Research Fellow at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University. Her clinically applied research focuses primarily on enhancing risk assessment, case prioritisation, and clinical and legal intervention practices for online child sexual exploitation offenders. She is the lead author of the CEM-COPE Program, a novel treatment program for child sexual abuse material that is currently being piloted in Australia and Canada. She has also previously conducted research into the interface between law enforcement and individuals with intellectual disability. Dr Henshaw also has clinical expertise in the assessment and treatment of problem behaviours (e.g., sexual offending, violence, stalking, and arson), personality disorders and mental disorders, and has worked with both offenders and the general population across community, prison-based, and inpatient settings. She is currently employed as the Senior Practitioner at Stop It Now! Australia, a child sexual abuse prevention service that launched in September 2022.
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Dr Reneta Slikboer – Research Fellow (Swinburne University of Technology)
Dr Reneta Slikboer is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University. She has research experience in the areas of fatal and serious injury vehicle crashes, mental health and child sexual exploitation. She is currently working on the Australian and Canadian CEM-COPE pilot, and a range of ARC funded studies aimed at understanding online child sexual exploitation offenders, their experience through the criminal justice system and likelihood of recidivism. Her work uses multiple research modalities spanning, brain imaging, qualitative methods and quantitative work on small and large data sets.
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Ms Erika Fortunato – Doctoral Candidate (Swinburne University of Technology)
Ms Erika Fortunato is a Provisional Psychologist and Doctoral Candidate at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University. She has had research experience across several domains, including the cross-section of cognition and anaesthesia, the efficacy of stimulant medications in enhancing motivation, and offending outcomes for criminal justice populations. Clinically, she has worked across a variety of mental health areas, including general adult mental health and addiction, youth mental health, and acute services for adult prisoners. Her progress in the Doctor of Psychology (Clinical and Forensic Psychology) is ongoing, with a specific research focus on females who perpetrate online child sexual exploitation offences.
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Simon Fogarty APM – Sergeant (Victoria Police)
Simon FOGARTY has been a member of Victoria Police since 1996. For the last 17 years he has been investigating Internet Crimes Against Children. His current position has him supervising the Victoria Police Victim Identification Team and Intelligence Team within the Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET). Simon is considered a subject matter expert in online child exploitation and regularly delivers training to law enforcement regarding online child exploitation matters. Simon has attended conferences nationally and overseas and has completed various courses specific to this crime theme. Simon is currently the chair of the National Victim Identification Sub Working Group in Australia and is driving a collaborative approach to investigations into online child sexual exploitation maters.
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Kevin Metcalf – CEO (National Child Protection Task Force) & Deputy Prosecuting Attorney (Washington County)
Kevin Metcalf is a former federal agent turned prosecutor and founder of the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF). The NCPTF brings together experts in legal strategy, OSINT, geospatial mapping and analysis, dark web, cryptocurrency, image geolocation and analysis, and more to aid law enforcement agencies worldwide on cases involving missing, exploited, and trafficked children. Kevin has assisted with the recovery of countless missing and exploited children and the identification and apprehension of sexual predators in multiple countries. He is considered an international leader in innovative approaches to synthesizing legal, closed, and open-source intelligence to support missing person recovery, child exploitation, and counter-human trafficking cases worldwide.
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Professor Nicholas Davis – Co-Director and Industry Professor of Emerging Technology (Human Technology Institute, UTS)
Nicholas Davis is Co-Director of the Human Technology Institute and Industry Professor, Emerging Technology at UTS. Nick is a legal, policy and strategy professional with more than two decades expertise in strategic foresight, innovation management and technology governance. In September 2022, he published the landmark report “Facial recognition technology: Towards a model law”, with co-authors Prof Edward Santow and Lauren Perry, which proposes a context-sensitive, risk-based approach to regulating the use of facial recognition in Australia. Nick was previously Head of Society and Innovation and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, responsible for developing the theme of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and overseeing the development of cooperative emerging technology policy efforts around the world. With Klaus Schwab, he is co-author of “Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. He sits on a range of advisory boards and committees, and is an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
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Dr Jacqueline Drew – Associate Professor (Griffith University)
Dr Jacqueline M. Drew is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University Australia. Dr Drew has over 20 years of experience in law enforcement both as a practitioner and researcher across Australian police agencies. Trained as a psychologist she focuses on the organizational experiences of police, particularly the mental health of police personnel. She was most recently awarded a federal research grant (Australian Research Council (ARC) (Linkage) Grant) working with the Queensland Police Commissioner, to develop an early warning system for police workplace health and wellbeing. She was also recently awarded an ARC (Discovery) Grant, focusing on gender equity in policing across Australia and New Zealand. Dr Drew works collaboratively with police in the United States and the National Fraternal Order of Police. She has previously been an invited police scholar to the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy (FBINA).
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Prof Martine Powell – Founding Director (Centre for Investigative Interviewing)
Martine Powell is a Professor in the Griffith Criminology Institute and Founding the Founding Director of the Centre for Investigative Interviewing at Griffith University. She is one of the leading Australian authorities on the topic of eyewitness testimony in cases involving child abuse and sexual offences. Professor Powell’s current profile is largely research focused, and she has over 300 publications addressing four themes: analyses of child memory and language and the effectiveness of various interview techniques, development of strategies to promote transfer of learning from investigative interviewer training programs to the field, evaluations of criminal justice reforms related to sexual abuse investigation, and methods of minimising the mental health impact of working in the area of child exploitation.
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Dr Jonah Rimer – Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Queensland)
Jonah Rimer is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Queensland, and Convenor of the Cyber Criminology field of study for UQ’s postgraduate Cyber Security programs. He is also an Associate Researcher with the Young Lives Research Lab, Canada. Jonah holds a Doctorate in Anthropology and an MPhil in Medical Anthropology from Oxford University. His primary research areas are cybercrime; online sexual offending; child abuse; social science of the Internet; childhood and youth studies; policy and the justice system; and research methods in the digital age. He is particularly interested in the human and social elements of cybercrime, and more generally, the impacts of digital media use. Jonah has previous experience working in a child abuse prevention and treatment agency and has been researching online child exploitation since 2007. He is keen to make connections between policy, practice, and academia, and he collaborates with colleagues locally and internationally in academia, law enforcement, and the public sector.
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Austin J. Berrier, Jr. – Senior Special Agent (Homeland Security Investigations)
Austin Berrier has been a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) since January 2003 & has been assigned to Crimes Against Children since January 2010. Special Agent Berrier has conducted both traditional & undercover online investigations across a broad spectrum of platforms such as peer-to-peer, social media, file-sharing, live-streaming, & E2EE platforms. Special Agent Berrier is a recipient of the 2018 Assistant Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for Project Mercury, a 3 ½ year online undercover investigation that led to the arrest and/or indictment of over 250 child predators globally & the identification of 89 child victims. Special Agent Berrier regularly presents & instructs on live-streaming investigations, online undercover techniques, & E2EE platforms both within the U.S. at the Atlanta & Dallas ICAC & internationally in Canada, Thailand, Korea, & Australia. Special Agent Berrier regularly presents for EUROPOL, INTERPOL, and ILEA.
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John Pizzuro – Commander (ret.) (CEO RAVEN / ICAC Commander)
John Pizzuro serves as Raven’s CEO, before that he spent 25 years in The New Jersey State Police with the last 6 years being spent as the Commander of the NJ Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. John lead a team of 200 including 71 Law Enforcement Agencies. His task force arrested over 1500 people that preyed on the innocent. John served as Chairman of the ICAC Outreach Committee where he championed prevention and served as the Co-chair of the National Children’s Alliance working group. He has created a framework for other countries to investigate Child Exploitation, through the International Center of Missing & Exploited Children and consulted with countries and organizations on child exploitation and how to protect children. Additionally, John has been a sought-after presenter and trained thousands of investigators on investigative techniques surrounding child exploitation. John is a certified Master Neuro Linguistic Practitioner and has an M.A. in Human Resource Development and Training.
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Joshua Fry – Special Agent (Homeland Security Investigations)
Special Agent Joshua Fry began his career with Homeland Security investigations in 2004 at the El Paso, Texas Special Agent in Charge office. SA Fry has been involved with successful financial and asset forfeiture investigations involving Drug Trafficking, Weapon and Munitions Trafficking, Human Trafficking/Alien Smuggling, Identity and Benefit Fraud Violations, Child sexual abuse material/sexual assault, Money Laundering and Public Corruption. SA Fry in conjunction with DOJ has pioneered new asset forfeiture techniques and has been an instructor at numerous conferences and speaking engagements for the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the State Department, Universities and multiple other state, local and federal agencies both domestically and internationally. SA Fry has received multiple local and national awards for investigative work and is currently assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya covering fifteen additional sub-Saharan African countries.
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Campbell Wilson – Associate Professor & Co-Director (AiLECS Lab, Monash University)
Associate Professor Campbell Wilson is with the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He is the inaugural co-director of the AiLECS (AI for Law Enforcement and Community Safety) research laboratory, a joint initiative of Monash University and the Australian Federal Police. His expertise encompasses machine learning, information retrieval and digital forensics. His current research focuses on the application of AI in addressing serious societal issues such as online child exploitation. He also explores the ethical implications of AI technologies in law enforcement applications and their explainability in policing and judicial contexts.
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Chris Chappell – Senior Constable (Australian Federal Police)
Senior Constable Chris CHAPPELL was born, raised and living in Regional Victoria when he joined the AFP in 2013. He has worked in community policing and criminal investigations involving large drug and firearm importations before commencing his role as a member of the Southern Command Joint Agency Child Exploitation Team in Melbourne. As an investigator in this team, Chris’s prime focus continues to be the identification of victims and facilitators of online child sexual abuse and the removal of children from harm.
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Martin Conley – Special Agent (Homeland Security Investigations)
Martin Conley is a Special Agent with United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Agent Conley’s investigative responsibilities are currently primarily focused on the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children throughout the world. Special Agent Conley is a subject matter expert regarding international child sex trafficking crimes via live streaming networks. Prior to his employment with HSI, Special Agent Conley spent eight years as a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service.
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Kristin Boorse – Vice President Victim Identification (Thorn)
As the Head of Victim Identification, Kristin leverages the latest technology as a force for good. She leads the collaboration between product and engineering to deliver applications directly to investigators and NGOs to help identify children faster. Kristin has over 20 years of experience in product management, product marketing, online community development, and business analysis. Prior to Thorn, Kristin was the Sr. Product Manager at 41st Parameter where she developed the product strategy and roadmap for FraudNet – the leading web fraud detection software protecting the world’s premium brands against cyber fraud. She graduated Summa Cum Laude in Psychology from California Lutheran University.
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Rebekah Kilpatrick – Director (National Office for Child Safety)
Rebekah leads a team dedicated to the delivery of national reforms aimed at promoting children’s wellbeing and protecting children from harm, with a particular focus on child sexual abuse. Rebekah has worked with the National Office since it was established in July 2018 as a result of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Rebekah has significant Commonwealth public policy experience across a range of agencies including the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Attorney-General’s Department. Her professional experience has in large part focused on protecting our most vulnerable – including work on issues such as children’s policy, human rights policy, and human trafficking, slavery and forced marriage policy and legislation. Rebekah also has experience in law enforcement and national security policy and legislation.
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Thomas Goger – Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor (Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime)
Thomas Goger is currently the Deputy Director of the Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime (at present as Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor) since 2015. Before this from 2007 – 2011 he was a Public Prosecutor in Bayreuth. From 2011 – 2014 he was the appointed the Judge at the District Court in Bayreuth. He was then assigned to IGCI in Singapore to work on topics regarding MLAT procedures in cybercrime cases in 2016. Thomas has had papers published on asset recovery regarding cryptocurrencies, CSAM investigations and MLAT reform. He has been a presenter at national and international conferences in Germany, France, Singapore, India, Croatia, Montenegro and the Philippines.
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John Penn II – Senior Architect Law Enforcement Tech (Adobe, Inc)
John Penn II, Senior Solutions Architect for Law Enforcement Technologies at Adobe Inc in San Jose, California, has spent four decades writing software. He has been at Adobe for 24 years which includes over a decade as a Senior Computer Scientist on Photoshop. His primary focus is working globally with law enforcement on advancing tools, techniques and technologies to aid investigations and law enforcement efforts. He currently serves on the board of directors for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
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Georgia Naldrett – Manager of Stop It Now! (Jesuit Social Services)
Georgia Naldrett is the Stop It Now! Australia Manager at Jesuit Social Services, a program which aims to prevent child sexual abuse by providing an anonymous support and advice for individuals concerned about their sexual thoughts or behaviours towards children, as well as affected family members and professionals, in order to protect children. She is a psychology graduate with a BSc(hons) in Psychology and a MSc in Forensic Psychology. During Georgia’s previous employment for The Lucy Faithfull Foundation/Stop It Now! UK she assisted in the implementation and delivery of secondary and tertiary prevention services to aid in the prevention of child sexual abuse. Georgia is passionate about research and advocacy, and working collaboratively to ensure a holistic approach to keeping children safe.
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Kelly Crouch – Strategic Advisor (Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children)
Kelly Crouch is the Strategic Advisor for the Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce. She provides the Administration of the state taskforce coordinating over 135 agencies across Washington State and providing support across the state. She has been employed with the Seattle Police Department for seven years and has worked in law enforcement for over 20 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. Kelly’s duties include grant writing, budget oversight, community outreach, management of Triumph; ICAC wellness program, supporting affiliate agencies, working with school administration reviewing policies for responding to online incidents, training SROs and school administrators, working with WA Senators and House of Representatives for funding and changes in law, managing a annual conference and coordinating training for the state taskforce. She speaks nationally on the topic of internet safety and mental health wellness for ICAC investigators as well as providing training to schools, community groups, law enforcement agencies as well as others across the state regarding internet safety, partnerships with schools and law enforcement and wellness within the ICAC community.
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Jodie Baumgartner – Intelligence Manager – Child Sexual Exploitation Response Team (AUSTRAC)
Jodie Baumgartner is the Intelligence Manager of the AUSTRAC Child Sexual Exploitation Response Team (CSERT). She has over 17 years’ experience in law enforcement prior to transitioning to AUSTRAC-Intelligence in 2016. Her experience includes working within Homicide, Target Development, Fraud, Counter-Terrorism, Human Source, G20, Major Events and Child Exploitation whereby she received multiple citations. She is recognized as a subject matter expert on financial aspects and profiles linked to child sexual exploitation and leads the CSERT to focus on financial intelligence components within this crime type. The CSERT is responsible for investigations such as Operation Huntsman-targeting worldwide sextortion of minors for financial gain, and projects with ACCCE, law enforcement, industry and NGOs targeting real-time purchases of live online child sexual abuse. Jodie holds a Masters in Intelligence, Bachelor of Arts(Sociology/Psychology), Graduate Certificate in Criminal Intelligence, Graduate Diploma in Education, and Advanced Diploma of Public Safety(Police Intelligence). Jodie received the AUSTRAC nominated Australia Day Award in 2021 for her work towards protecting children.
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Adele Desirs – Victim Identification Analyst (Argos QPS)
Adèle DESIRS is a French Police Captain who has dedicated all her career to the rescue and protection of children. She has been attached to the Argos unit within the Queensland Police Services in Australia since March 2017, as a Victim Identification Analyst. Her work consists in reviewing and analysing all the data seized by the unit post-arrest, but also pro-actively searching the web and darknet for new child abuse material, with the aim of identifying the victims and offenders. Since 2020, the Argos Victim Identification unit is embedded at the new federally funded Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation facility in Brisbane, with Australian Federal Police analysts. Prior to her role in Argos, Adèle DESIRS was a Criminal Intelligence Officer within the Crimes against Children unit at the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, where she was mainly responsible for the Victim Identification activities, and the administration of the International Child Sexual Exploitation Database (ICSEDB).
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Greg Squire – Special Agent (Homeland Security Investigations)
SA Greg Squire has been with the department of homeland security since 2007 and has been working crimes against children since that time. In the past five years SA Squire has been working exclusively on the dark web helping to develop tools and techniques alongside other investigators across the globe to make the investigations in the darkweb more efficient and effective.
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Jennifer Newman – Executive Director (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)
Jennifer Newman is an Executive Director at NCMEC, overseeing NCMEC’s Austin, Texas branch office and, operationally, focused on international engagement and special projects in the Exploited Children Division (ECD). Ms. Newman started with NCMEC in 2001, working first for the CyberTipline and then the Child Victim Identification Program. Ms. Newman has spent the past 21 years working cases, helping build programs, and engaging in the issues in the fight against the sexual exploitation of children. In her current role, Ms. Newman helps ECD leadership in the development and implementation of CyberTipline policies and processes, as well as expanding international reach and relationships. Ms. Newman helps drive special projects, assess workflows, and expand systems to enable the ECD to perform at an optimal rate and provide new and enhanced products and services to victims & survivors, industry, law enforcement, NGOs, and other stakeholders. For Texas, Ms. Newman directs the administration and management of the office, working closely with NCMEC senior leadership on advancing, growing and raising awareness of local programs and initiatives. For over 20 years, Jennifer has presented at various national, local and international trainings and conferences related to the sexual exploitation of children.
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Jonathan ‘Andy’ Hendrix – Special Agent (Homeland Security Investigations)
Andy Hendrix started his law enforcement career in 2002 as a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). In 2006, Andy was assigned to HSI Nashville, TN and started investigating child sexual exploitation cases and in 2016, investigated Patrick FALTE, aka: CRAZYMONK the owner/operator of the infamous Child’s Play darknet board. Andy received the United States Attorney General’s award for Excellence in Law Enforcement for leading the FALTE investigation and culminating in the prosecution resulting in life sentences for five of the primary offenders. Andy is well-known for being the “go-to” in Middle Tennessee for child exploitation and bringing together various agencies to work the cases in a coordinated way.
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Dajana Holst – Detective Inspector (Swedish National Police)
Detective Inspector Dajana Holst is a police officer with the Swedish National Police and has for the past four years worked in the Online Undercover Group targeting Child Exploitation Crimes. DI Holst has been working with complex investigations on the Darkweb helping to develop better processes, methods and technical solutions to increase the number of successful investigations. Her areas of expertise are in Behavioral Science and Cybercrime. DI Holst is currently championing wellness and mental health awareness for officers working in an undercover capacity.
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