2025 Instructors

Dawn Jauernik

Ventosa K9 Kennel
Classes: Tracking: Scent Discrimination Training/Developing Advanced Tracking Skills

Dennis Clark

Retired K-9 Handler
Owner of Tactical Detection K9
Class: Survival Starts before the Shift Begins

Aric Harris

Master Trainer & Decoy Instructor,
Owner and Operator of THE IRON CANINE LLC
Class: Decoy & Bitework

Ernest Wolosewicz

Retired K-9 handler/trainer of the Long Beach, CA Police Department
Owner of Canine Deployment Strategies
Class: SWAT/K9 Integration & Tactics
Class: Advanced Bomb Dog Handler Class

Garret Wing

Owner and founder of American Overwatch K9 Services, American Standard Dog Training, and DIYK9.com
Classes:
High Risk Tracking for Armed and Violent Offenders
How to Make Money Training Dogs

Jacob Viano

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
Class: Surviving a Tracking Ambush

Danny Nunez

Domestic Interdiction Group
Class: Hidden Compartments, Criminal Patrol & Officer Safety

Alyssa Richter

K2 Solutions
Class: Transitioning from Training to the Operational Environment

Ted Priest

Owner and lead trainer of Caliber K9 Solutions LLC
Class: K9 Strengthening to Odor

Frank Schembre

Founder of Olfactix K9 Technologies
Class: The Next Level of Detection: Calibrating your K9 Team’s Strengths and Weaknesses

Richard A. Vargus

Retired LTC Richard Vargus – Department of Defense Canine Program Manager
Class: Canine Decontamination

Rodney Spicer Jr

Director of Operations at Gold Coast K9
Class: K-9 Stress Inoculatoin Prior to Deployments
Class: Reality Based Detection Training

Chris Altherr

Founder of MyDogTrainer.com & the E-FLO Training System
Class: The Complete Opposite of Everything You’ve Been Told About E-Collars & Training in General

Dr. David Adebimpe, DSc, PhD.

ScentLogix
Class: The Consequences of Non-Standardization of Scent Training Aids and The Origin of the Saying, “The Only Thing Two Trainers Agree on is What the Third One is Doing Wrong.”

Matthew Aitken

Pinellas Co. Sheriff’s Office, FL
Class: Surviving a Tracking Ambush

Ryan Huneycutt

Ventosa K9 Kennel
Classes: Tracking: Scent Discrimination Training | Developing Advanced Tracking Skills

Ricky Farley

President of Alabama Canine (ACLEOTC)
Class: K-9 Narcotics Detection
Class: Beginning of Muzzle Training
Class: Muzzle Training Through Pictures: A Continuation of the Beginning of Muzzle Training

Paul Hammond

Andy Frain Security
Class: Understanding Body-Worn K9 Detection & School K9 Safety
Class: Starting Your Own K9 Business

Travis Hicks

Owner and Head Trainer of Flatline K9
Class: Trauma in Working Dogs

Ryan Millbern

ICRWDA President & Wynn Resorts K9 Program Manager
Class: Reality Based K-9 Training and US Based Operations for LE/Commercial Explosives Detection Teams

Rachel Nuzzo

K9 F.R. (Field Response)
Class: Emergency/Critical K-9 Field Care

David Reese

CEO of: K-9 Inc, International Scent Solutions, ShipMyPets.com, and VIP Pet Hotels
Class: Tactical K-9 Psychology

Paul Shaughnessy

Founder & President of Excel K-9 Services, Inc. / Master Trainer
Class: K-9 Selection, Imprinting, Search Patterns, Communication & Full Overview of Starting & Finishing a Detection K-9

Jake Wright

Owner and Head Trainer at Precision K9 Work
Class: The Art of Remote Collar Introduction and Problem Solving
Class: Teaching the Out Command