Since 1999, IWDBA has organized and conducted the International Working Dog Conference. From 1999 through 2003, each IWDC was held in San Antonio, Texas. Beginning in 2005, IWDC began moving to international venues, the first of which was in Melbourne, Australia. In 2007, the venue was back in San Antonio, then in Ieper, Belgium in 2009, Sun City, South Africa in 2011, in San Antonio in 2013, in La Grande Motte, France in 2015, in Banff, Canada in 2017, and in Stockholm, Sweden in 2019. IWDC2021 will be a fully virtual event, thus enabling people from around the world to fully participate.