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Crimes Against Children Investigators need continuous training to sharpen their abilities to find and rescue children from sexual exploitation and abuse. At Project VIC International, we regularly engage with investigators one-on-one, in small groups, or at conferences to provide technology-focused instruction based on the needs of each investigator. We provide training for all of the tools that we develop and we provide instruction to investigators so they can build their own capabilities, or enhance and integrate with existing capabilities in their toolbox.
Cory Hall, CEO of Project VIC International, is leading two four-hour, hands-on workshops at DFRWS APAC 2026, held 19–22 October 2026 at the Police Cantonment Complex in Singapore. Registration is through DFRWS, with discounted rates for full-time members of law enforcement and full-time students. Visit the DFRWS APAC 2026 conference page for registration, the program schedule, and travel information.
Investigators and forensic examiners understand their mission problems better than anyone, but turning those problems into new software has usually meant waiting on commercial vendors, development teams, or research organizations. Agentic AI coding tools now let practitioners move from a mission problem to a working prototype in hours rather than months. This workshop teaches how to do that responsibly, so the resulting software is understandable, testable, documented, interoperable, secure, and ready to be evaluated for eventual use in a law-enforcement environment.
The instructor and attendees will pick a digital investigation mission problem together, turn it into structured requirements and specifications, and direct an agentic coding system through building a working prototype. Requirements, architectural decisions, security constraints, tests, documentation, provenance, and interoperability are established before and during code generation rather than added as afterthoughts.
The workshop closes with a look at how Project VIC applies these principles across its technology ecosystem, designing tools, APIs, MCP servers, and shared semantic models that can be safely composed into larger agentic investigative workflows while preserving human oversight, provenance, validation, and interoperability.
Warrant returns, cloud service provider records, open-source search results, forensic tool exports, spreadsheets, and case notes often contain valuable investigative leads, but they arrive in inconsistent formats with different field names, ambiguous identifiers, and incomplete provenance. This workshop introduces the DFRWS and Linux Foundation supported Cyber-investigation Analysis Standard Expression and Unified Cyber Ontology (CASE/UCO), the free and open-source CASE/UCO software development kit (SDK) sponsored by Project VIC International, and Project VIC's experimental Link-Look tool. You will see how ontology-based modeling can normalize investigative data, preserve source context, support structured review, and help identify potential leads across multiple data sources while avoiding unsupported conclusions.
Analysts, investigators, forensic examiners, and capability developers at all levels of experience who believe data and analytic interoperability between tools, teams, agencies, and countries is important.
Workshop slides, synthetic warrant return and open-source search result examples, hands-on exercise instructions, sample CASE/UCO mappings, Link-Look installation or demonstration instructions, references to the CASE/UCO SDK and the Linux Foundation Cyber Domain Ontology project, and contributor guidance. All materials will also be distributed on thumb drives.
This is not a commercial product workshop. CASE/UCO and the CASE/UCO SDK are open-source community efforts, and attendees can help shape the future direction of Link-Look.
Select a course to see its details, materials, and how to take part.
Free and open-source materials for teaching law enforcement, forensic examiners, analysts, and prosecutors to build mission tools with agentic AI and open standards.
Course Lecture Repository: https://github.com/Project-VIC-International/Agentic-AI-Development-Course
This repository contains Project VIC training materials for teaching law enforcement, forensic examiners, analysts, and prosecutors how to use agentic AI and open standards to build mission tools. It supports a two-part session with lecture and hands-on lab materials. It solves the capability creation gap when mission problems are too specific or urgent to wait for commercial software cycles.
Investigators know the mission problems best. Teaching them to safely use AI-assisted development, GitHub, Cursor, and CASE/UCO/CAC ontology standards can help agencies build small interoperable tools and evaluate open-source projects responsibly.
The course explains AI and agentic workflows, introduces GitHub and Cursor, teaches spec-driven development, and guides students through building a CAC mission tool prototype. It connects development practices with ontology-based data modeling so outputs can remain interoperable.
Development Template Repository: https://github.com/Project-VIC-International/Agentic-AI-Development-Project-Template
This repository is a quick-start template for investigators, forensic examiners, analysts, and supporting technologists who want to build mission tools using Project VIC's agentic AI development approach. It solves the problem of starting safely by providing a structured workspace, prompts, intake forms, planning documents, and guardrails.
Small local tools can make a real difference in CAC work, but they need to be built carefully. The template helps practitioners turn a problem statement into a tested prototype while using synthetic data and interoperability guidance. Users create a private repo from the template, open it in Cursor, complete a problem intake, use provided prompts and planning materials, and build the first small milestone in minutes. Within a few hours it is possible to develop a tool with new capability for your department that includes security controls, documentation, and all the source code. This makes it easier to explain exactly what is your new software is and how it works. The template repository includes setup scripts, Cursor rules, examples, docs, and CASE/UCO/CAC-oriented guidance to help you build interoperable tools from the beginning.
This course is open-source and freely available to everyone to help build capacity in the crimes against children investigation community. Reach out to us via our "help" button if you would like for Project VIC to come and teach this course to your department.
If you find this course to be helpful to you, would you please consider making a donation to Project VIC to help us sustain this work and keep improving it. Donate here.
This workshop has concluded. The original announcement and agenda are kept here for reference.
This course is offered in-person and online at the DFRWS USA 2026 conference. The hands-on portion will only be available to those persons that are in-person. All online participants will be able to observe all of the presentations expect for the last one on Sunday 26 July which is law enforcement only.
You must register through DFRWS.
We have secured a significant discount from DFRWS for Crimes Against Children Investigators, and others that safeguard children for a living to attend the workshop and conference.
If you are only attending the workshop in person, you will need to use this code and pay the $25 registration fee: ProVicVR
If you are attending both the workshop and conference online, you will need to use the same discount code at registration. The total discounted cost for online registration for Project VIC-affiliated investigators and digital forensics examiners is $25. The cost is normally $150, so you are getting a discount of $125.
If you are attending the workshop and conference in-person, you will need to use this 10% discount code: ProVicUSA10
Here is the full agenda for the DFRWS USA 2026 conference.
All in-person attendees must bring a Windows laptop to run the the digital forensics tools from MSAB and Magnet Forensics. Tablets and Chrome Books will not work.
08:00–09:00 - Workshop presenters arrive and setup the workshop space
09:00 - 09:05 - Opening introduction by Cory Hall, including introduction of workshop presenters, identification of key resources for all attendees, and workshop goals
09:05–9:35 (Session 1a) - Install MSAB XRY Trial License (XRY presenter is Wil Hernandez from MSAB)
09:35 -12:15 (Session 1b) MSAB presents basic usage of their products that all crimes against children investigators and digital forensic examiners need to know: imaging, triage, on-scene analysis, Project VIC hash intelligence, etc. Operational context and insights provided by participants.
12:15–13:25 Lunch (on your own)
13:25–13:55 (Session 2a) Install Griffeye Trial License (Griffeye presenter is Brett Bolton from Magnet Forensics)
13:55 - 1615 (Session 2b) Magnet Forensics presents basic usage of their products that all crimes against children investigators and digital forensic examiners need to know: imaging, triage, on-scene analysis, Project VIC hash intelligence, etc. Operational context and insights provided by participants.
16:15 –17:00 (Session 3) Presentation of Link-Look, a new prototype system from Project VIC International for normalizing data sources including warrant returns, open-source, and enrichment datasources using the CASE/UCO and Crimes Against Children ontologies for analysis and lead development. Presenters: Detective Brad McNamara (Lunenburg Police Department) and Cory Hall (Project VIC International).
18:00 - 20:00 - Workshop Dinner (Optional) - Details will be provided soon. Attendees pay their own way.
Focus is on exploring free technical and intelligence resources that are available to Crimes Against Children investigators, explore non-profit capabilities that assist law enforcement to fight back against child sex trafficking. Focus on Victim ID tradecraft, and then skinny down to a law enforcement and workshop presenter only session to discuss ICACCOPS capability.
08:30–09:00 Presenters and attendees arrive
09:00 - 09:05 Opening remarks by Cory Hall
09:05 - 10:45 (Session 4) Exploration of some of the free and low-cost technical resources from Project VIC International, Rigr AI, Global Emancipation Network, and Kindred Tech. (Various Presenters)
09:05-09:55 - Jonas Seider - Kindred Tech - Presenting on Prometheus and Katalyst
09:55-10:45 - Jeremy Gerard - Rigr AI
10:45 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 12:00 (Session 5) Non-Profit capabilities for assisting law enforcement to find and rescue children from trafficking - Presentation by Sherrie Bosisto, Executive Director of the Global Emancipation Network
12:00-1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 3:00 (Session 6): Victim Identification - Bettye Allwang - Director Exploited Children Division at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
3:00 - 3:30 (Session 7a ) Introduction to ICACCOPS. Presentation by Robert Erderly, Fox Valley Technical College
3:30 - 5:00 (Session 7b) ICACCOPS Deepdive. This presentation is only for law enforcement and the workshop presenters.
If you find this course to be helpful to you, would you please consider making a donation to Project VIC to help us sustain this work and keep improving it. Donate here.
A two-page starter kit for new (and experienced) ICAC investigators. It gives quick access to trusted investigative and open-source research tools, legal process and statute references, digital forensics tools, training and certification, community groups and podcasts, victim support and prevention resources, and research and statistics. It highlights trusted starting points rather than every available resource; use it alongside the ICAC Operational and Investigative Standards and the guidance of your agency, task force, prosecutor, and experienced investigators.
Thank you to Debbie Garner for sharing this resource with the crimes against children investigation community.
Download the Quick Reference Guide (PDF, 501 KB)