Cray Is Sponsoring the 2026 ATIXA/NABITA Joint Annual Conference

Cray is a sponsor of the 2026 ATIXA and NABITA Joint Annual Conference, running October 12 to 17 in Baltimore, Maryland. The event pairs ATIXA's 15th Annual Conference with NABITA's 18th, bringing together Title IX coordinators, behavioral intervention and threat assessment teams, and civil rights compliance staff from campuses across the country.

We're sponsoring because this is the room where campus safety actually gets built. The people in it write the policy, run the trainings, sit on the CARE and BIT teams, and answer for what happened when something goes wrong.

Why this conference, and why now

Title IX and behavioral intervention work is carrying more weight this fall than it has in years. The October 1 annual security report deadline just passed under the Clery Act as amended by the Stop Campus Hazing Act, the first federal anti-hazing law, which added hazing statistics and a public transparency report to what every institution already owed. Offices finished that document, looked at their own numbers, and are now being asked what their prevention stack actually looks like.

Meanwhile, the risk students face has moved upstream of campus. A large share of the harm that lands on a Title IX desk starts with someone a student met online and then agreed to meet in person: a stranger from a dating app, a direct message, a party invite from an account with no history. Verification tells a student that a face is real. It does not tell them whether the person behind it has a pattern.

That gap is what Cray was built for. CrayScore, SchemerScore, VibeCheck, Catfish Check, and Offender Check are all aimed at the same five minutes: the moment a student decides whether to go. We think that's a prevention intervention, and we think it belongs in the toolkit alongside bystander training and consent education, not instead of it.

Meet Justin Smith on Thursday

Cray founder and CEO Justin Smith will be on site Thursday, October 15, the second day of the joint annual conference. If you're attending, come find him.

He's there to listen more than to pitch. The conversations he's hoping to have:

• What your office is actually missing in the window before a student meets someone from the internet, and whether a risk score is useful to you or just one more thing to explain to students.
• How you're handling online-origin incidents in your reporting and your prevention programming, and whether current categories even capture them.
• What a campus partnership has to look like to survive a budget cycle, a staff turnover, and a FERPA review.
• Where Greek life fits. Cray works with sorority chapters and Panhellenic councils directly, and we want to know how that should coordinate with your office rather than route around it.

If you'd rather schedule something than catch him between sessions, reach out ahead of time and we'll lock in a time and place in Baltimore.

The door prize raffle

Cray is sponsoring the conference door prize raffle. One attendee goes home with:

• A pair of AirPods Pro.
• A free Campus Launch Kit for their institution, our full year-round student safety programming package at no cost.

Enter at the Cray table during the conference. The Campus Launch Kit half of the prize transfers to the winner's campus, so a win is worth something to your office whether or not you were the one who wanted the headphones.

Worth saying plainly: the kit is free anyway. The Campus Launch Kit is available to any college through our Campus Ally tier at no charge, raffle or not. We put it in the prize because it's the thing we most want in the hands of the people in that room, and a raffle is a decent excuse to start the conversation.

What's in the Campus Launch Kit

We made the Campus Launch Kit free for colleges nationwide in August through our Campus Ally tier. It's a package of programming, not software you have to deploy:

• The Campus Launch Guide, a step-by-step implementation playbook for standing the program up.
• 36 weeks of ready-to-use social media programming, covering August through May, so the calendar is already filled.
• Print-ready posters, professionally designed and ready to send to your print shop.
• Launch graphics and promotional assets, everything needed to announce it to students.

The kit is valued at over $2,500 and costs nothing. The reason is the one Justin gave when we announced it: "Colleges don't have a passion problem, they have a bandwidth problem. The people responsible for prevention are already wearing multiple hats."

That's the whole thesis. Most campuses we talk to don't need to be convinced that online-origin risk matters. They need thirty-six weeks of content they didn't have to write, and a tool students will actually open.

Conference details at a glance

• Event: ATIXA 15th and NABITA 18th Joint Annual Conference
• Dates: October 12 to 17, 2026
• Location: Baltimore, Maryland
• Pre-conference training: October 12 to 13
• Joint annual conference: October 14 to 15
• Post-conference training: October 16 to 17
• Cray on site: Thursday, October 15, with founder and CEO Justin Smith
• Cray sponsorship: Conference sponsor and door prize raffle sponsor

Come talk to us

If you're going to Baltimore, find Justin on Thursday and enter the raffle. If you're not going but the Campus Launch Kit sounds useful, you don't need to wait for the conference or win anything. It's free through the Campus Ally tier, and we'll walk your office through it whenever you're ready.

And if you work with a Panhellenic council or an individual chapter, ask us about sorority training and certification. That program runs alongside the campus partnership rather than competing with it, and the chapters tend to move faster than the institution does.

About Cray

Cray is a digital student safety platform that helps people objectively evaluate the quality and authenticity of the people they meet. The Cray app launched in October 2025 and is available worldwide on iOS, Android, and the web. Alongside the consumer app, Cray partners with campuses through the Campus Ally tier and certifies hospitality venues through Cray Protected.

Vibes lie. Patterns don't.