Samantha Woolfe, Executive Director of INHOPE, and Kalina Zografska, Head of Technology and Innovation, present our new at-a-glance Annual Report 2025 highlighting global CSAM trends, offender behaviours, and the network’s efforts to strengthen partnerships and child protection worldwide.
Date: Tuesday, April 7th
Time: 14:00 CEST / 1 PM GMT / 8 AM EST / 11 AM KST
Speakers: Samantha Woolfe, and Kalina Zografska from INHOPE.
This session will be recorded.
No organisation has a broader operational view of online child sexual abuse material than INHOPE. Through a network of 57 hotlines across 52 countries, reports of suspected CSAM are processed and exchanged every day, providing a uniquely global perspective on online child safety.
In 2025 alone, the network exchanged 4,781,125 suspected CSAM records, a 450% increase from 2024, with 3.2 million of these confirmed as illegal. In this webinar, INHOPE’s Executive Director and Head of Technology and Innovation will walk participants through the latest data and trends observed across the global hotline network.
The session will cover where CSAM is hosted, how quickly content is removed, and the main challenges and offender tactics hotlines are seeing. Attendees will also gain insight into INHOPE’s activities over the past year, including achievements across the areas of capacity building, global partnerships, analyst training, awareness raising, and policy engagement.
This webinar is intended for INHOPE member hotlines, partners, policymakers, law enforcement, government representatives, NGOs, trust and safety professionals, and others working to protect children online.
Samantha Woolfe is Executive Director of INHOPE, the International Association of Internet Hotlines. With over 20 years of experience in child online protection, she has driven the growth of INHOPE and built strong cross-sector collaborations spanning industry, law enforcement, and civil society. Her extensive background spans roles at ICMEC, FOSI, Insafe, European Schoolnet and Political Intelligence, and advisory work with various Ministries of Justice. She is commited to creating safer digital environments for children worldwide.
Kalina Zografska is the Head of Technology and Innovation at INHOPE. With over, 15 years of experience in software development and technical product management, she works together with the INHOPE team and the analysts at 57 member hotlines in the efficient exchange of data on CSAM reports.
The Annual Report 2025 is Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the European Education and Culture Executive Agency can be held responsible for them.
