We are now accepting Speaker and Poster Proposals for our 2025 CATAP Conference, being held October 26-30, 2025, at the beautiful Fairmont Chateau Whistler resort, in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
Please pass this information on to anyone who may want to take advantage of this outstanding opportunity to share their knowledge, and engage with other professionals in the area of threat assessment and management, at this excellent annual event.
All proposals are to be submitted through our google form found HERE
The closing date for speaker proposals is April 30, 2025.
CALL FOR CONFERENCE SPEAKER PROPOSALS
We invite original proposals featuring research, case examples, and applied practitioner-related content on all topics relevant to threat assessment and management (TAM), and violence prevention more broadly.
For example:
- Specific mental health concerns and TAM
- Neurodiversity and TAM
- Radicalization, ideologically-motivated violence or terrorism, including countermeasures
- Stalking and harassment, online and/or offline
- Gender-based and sexualized violence
- Family violence including intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect, or elder abuse and neglect
- TAM as it pertains to organized crime and other group-based violence
- Support and management of victims and other impacted person(s)
- Legal, policy, and ethical issues specific to the Canadian landscape
- Navigating parallel and overlapping investigations
- Cultural considerations and integration of related practices within violence prevention, investigations or interventions
- Any other contemporary trends relevant to preventing or addressing violence in schools, healthcare settings, campuses, corporate settings, in our communities, etc.
FORMATS FOR SUBMISSION: TALK/FORUM (60, 90 or 120 minutes)
We welcome well-formed, novel presentations. Traditionally, CATAP encourages talks/forums presented by a single speaker. Co-presented presentations may be welcomed at the discretion of the Conference Committee if additional presenters are needed to make a significant contribution to the presentation. Submissions require a formal title, 100-word abstract, 1000-word summary, speaker bio and CV for all listed as speakers.
Decisions will be communicated mid May 2025.
*Accepted speakers will receive complimentary attendance at the 2025 Conference.
CALL FOR POSTER PROPOSALS
We invite well-formed, original poster proposals. Submissions are limited to a 100-word abstract and 1000-word summary. The Conference Committee will evaluate all proposals on the following criteria (using a 1 to 5 rating scale):
- Relevance of contribution to the field of threat assessment and management;
- Contribution to the operational knowledge of threat assessment and management;
- Degree to which data were collected with clear and appropriate methodology and analysis (for data-based submissions);
- Likelihood of generating discussion at the conference that will benefit the field;
- Clarity of description of information to be presented for the time proposed; and
- Breadth of appeal to anticipated audience.
FORMAT FOR POSTERS:
Selected posters will be professionally produced in written format on display boards (size to be communicated by CATAP), and available for display during the 2025 event in Whistler, BC.
Final deadline for POSTER submission is September 10, 2025. Decisions for POSTER submissions will be made on an ongoing basis. *Accepted poster presenters will receive discounted attendance at the 2025 Conference.
