The 2025 Crisis Negotiator Seminar & Challenge will be a 3-day event hosted by the Bay Area Negotiator Group. This is a unique opportunity for crisis negotiation teams to attend a seminar and participate in a complex team negotiations competition.

Day 1 – Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office

A series of presentations and case studies relative to contemporary issues in crisis negotiation.

Day 2 – TBD

A full-scale scenario involving entire crisis negotiation teams with live role players, incident command, intelligence workflows, and trained judges. Judging criteria will be provided to each of the teams prior to the event.

Day 3 – Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office

A half-day of presentations, case studies and awards presentation. The afternoon will be a network session encouraging teams to connect with each other in the Tampa Bay Area. Agency leadership and tactical operators are encouraged to attend the seminar and the challenge for training and observation purposes. Individuals may register to be placed on an ad-hoc, multi-agency team. Early registration is encouraged.

Teams participating in the competition must provide at least one person to a judging pool.

Judges must have attended at least a 40-hour basic course and have at least 2 years of negotiation experience. Trophies will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams. All participants will receive a certificate of participation. Although we are capping the competition entry to 10 teams, individuals are encouraged to sign up, and come to the seminar and the competition as an observer, judge, or role player.

Teams will be granted one individual free seminar registration if they provide a role player for the competition day.

Registration Link will be live soon.

For questions, please email bayareanegotiatorgroup.com.