Connecting the World to Advance Safe Sport
SSI convenes global leaders, researchers, survivors, policymakers, and practitioners to share insights, commit to action, and shape safer sporting cultures internationally.
Facilitating global networks and conferences in safe sport
We bring together sports organisations, sport leaders, governments, athletes, survivors and safeguarding experts to exchange ideas, better understand each other, and empower safeguarding change.
We work with partners to provide responsive safeguarding and safe sport events / conferences / symposiums that are topic focussed and accessible at a local or continental level.
Safe Sport 2026
Join athletes, survivors, policymakers, researchers, and safeguarding leaders from across the world to share evidence, elevate lived experience, and strengthen the systems and cultures that keep people safe in sport.
It is with great enthusiasm that we announce SSI’s 6th Global Safe Sport Conference, to be held LIVE in person in Cape Town South Africa 25-27 May 2026.
This landmark event represents a significant step in our collective mission to foster safe, inclusive, and equitable sports environments worldwide.
Safe Sport 2025
Global Voices, Shared Solutions: The key findings from 2025 for making sport safer for everyone, everywhere.
Download the SSI 2025 Conference Report, or get a SSI2025 ‘Catch Up Pass’ to watch ALL keynote speaker videos.
Safe Sport 2024
Parks + Podiums: Lessons learned from 2024 for making sport safer for everyone, everywhere.
Download the SSI 2024 Conference Report, or get a SSI2024 ‘Catch Up Pass’ to watch ALL keynote speaker videos.
Safe Sport 2023
Hope, healing and transformation through sport.
Download the SSI 2023 Conference Report, read the SSI & Inrovis Research Symposium abstracts, and view the Safe Sport 2023 Award Winners below.
Safe Sport 2022
Safeguarding: knowledge to practice.
Download the SSI 2022 Conference Report below.
Safe Sport 2021
Placing the athlete voices at the centre of sport safeguarding.
Download the SSI 2021 Conference Report below.
Safe Sport 2018
The first international conference in interpersonal violence in sport.
Download the SSI 2018 Conference Report below.
Why These Conferences Matter
Safeguarding is no longer optional — it is essential to the credibility, integrity, and future of sport. The SSI Global Conference brings together the world’s leading minds to accelerate change, strengthen systems, and ensure that every athlete, at every level, can participate in sport free from harm.
This conference is where:
Global safeguarding research meets policy and practice
Lived experience shapes meaningful change
The Global South leads the conversation
Collaboration replaces silos
Real-world safeguarding solutions are built
