Dataharvest 2025 - the European Investigative Journalism...

Dataharvest 2025 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

9:00am CEST

Check-in and Coffee Mediaforum

10:00am CEST

Masterclass: Hack your way into a big dataset with R (Masterclass ticket needed) Z1.16 Masterclass: Follow the Money to detect corrupt practices (Masterclass ticket needed) Z3.02 Masterclass: Spatial analysis with QGIS (Masterclass ticket needed) Z1.14 Masterclass: Take your research skills to the next level with OSINT tools (Masterclass ticket needed) Z3.05

12:00pm CEST

Lunch Mediaforum

1:00pm CEST

Masterclass: Hack your way into a big dataset with R (Masterclass ticket needed) Z1.16 Masterclass: Follow the Money to detect corrupt practices (Masterclass ticket needed) Z3.02 Masterclass: Spatial analysis with QGIS (Masterclass ticket needed) Z1.14 Masterclass: Take your research skills to the next level with OSINT tools (Masterclass ticket needed) Z3.05

3:00pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

3:30pm CEST

Masterclass: Take your research skills to the next level with OSINT tools (Masterclass ticket needed) Z3.05 Masterclass: Hack your way into a big dataset with R (Masterclass ticket needed) Z1.16 Masterclass: Follow the Money to detect corrupt practices (Masterclass ticket needed) Z3.02 Masterclass: Spatial analysis with QGIS (Masterclass ticket needed) Z1.14

9:00am CEST

Check-in and Coffee Mediaforum

10:00am CEST

Opening of the conference Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk

10:30am CEST

Networking welcome Mediaforum

11:15am CEST

Keynote speech Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk

12:00pm CEST

Lunch Mediaforum

1:15pm CEST

Using AI to identify suspects, verify sources, and analyse locations: Latest AI-OSINT techniques Z0.10 Investigations coordinator - one title, multiple realities Z3.05 Farm subsidies: get the new data, find stories about the biggest EU money pot Z1.16 Dataviz: make sure users understand your charts Z3.09 Beyond the pixels: the power of raster data in QGIS Z2.08 Mapping independence: why and how newsrooms should host and style their own maps Z2.09 🤖 How LLMs can classify thousands of records in minutes Z2.10 Media start-ups - how the bumble-bees fly Z2.02 Deregulation and a "Clean Industrial Deal" – how to cover the new pro-corporate EU agenda Z3.04 Investigating far-right networks: uncovering extremist groups and international campaigns to curtail women’s rights Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk Working with whistleblowers Z1.14 Pathways to collaboration with scientists: networking roundtable about cross-disciplinary collaboration Z2.01 - Mediadrôme

2:30pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

3:00pm CEST

How to track AI extractivism practices through data annotators Z1.15 - Aula Donche How to track supply chains and money flows in Europe that contribute to environmental destruction in the Global South Z0.10 Find the Eurostat data you want - using an API Z3.04 AI in code editors: save time when writing code Z2.08 Browser puppetry: Playwright for dynamic website scraping Z2.09 Cracking the code: how to use RegEx in your investigations Z2.10 Public interest journalism – where does Europe go? Z2.02 Taking OSINT to the archive: using data, OSINT and (a little bit of) AI for historical investigative journalism Z3.09 How do you investigate an oligarch? Take a trip with us through an offshore maze Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk Keep calm and coordinate: Networking Roundtable about coordinating collaborative investigations Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Up your digital security and anti-surveillance game Z1.16 From page to stage: bringing journalism to life Z3.05 EU transparency and the right to information: discussion with the EU ombudswoman Z1.14

4:15pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

4:45pm CEST

Risk and rewards: how to hunt for sanctions evasion in customs data Z1.15 - Aula Donche Find your way through the data maze of European "illegal" border crossings Z3.04 The power of bad data: How a team in Northern Macedonia learned to understand its role in information disorder Z3.09 World of pain: how to understand Big Pharma - and find data in an information desert Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk Data Magic made simple: three ways to crunch numbers in spreadsheets Z2.08 Finding connections: transform your document collections into a graph visualisation Z2.09 Investigating built expansion on protected natural areas 🌳: learn the basics of PostGIS Z2.10 Protecting your newsroom against legal threats Z1.16 How to use privacy rules as an investigative tool Z1.14 The vertical perspective: best practices for using satellite data in journalism Z0.10

6:30pm CEST

OSINT Challenge kick-off Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk Live journalism: Investigative Journalism on stage Mediaforum

9:00am CEST

Coffee Mediaforum

9:30am CEST

How to investigate AI: beginner level Z1.15 - Aula Donche The JuicyFields story - investigating the largest cannabis fraud of all time Z3.05 Unmasking a scam empire: leak processing at scale for collaborative investigations Z0.10 How to find and use up-to-date beneficial ownership data to reveal the real owners of companies Z1.16 Exploring extreme heat: satellite imagery and spatial analysis in R Z3.04 From source to chart 📈 : Using free tools to automate your data flows Z2.08 Python Without the pain: write code with LLMs Z2.09 Teaching LLMs to build your Machine Learning Models Z2.10 Impact 101: how newsrooms around the world measure their echo Z3.09 Uncovering court records - a beginners guide to hunting for legal data Z3.02 Welcome to the Brussels bubble: tips on how to investigate the EU Z1.14 Journalism educators unite - inspiration and skill sharing Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Beyond bars and pie charts: creative and interactive data storytelling Z2.02

10:45am CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

11:15am CEST

Expert-reviewed journalism: investigating corporate hired guns in the PFAS lobbying project with scientists Z0.10 Harnessing the power of OCCRP's Aleph: a look at its new features and how to use them to find the data you’re looking for Z2.02 How to be an effective data editor (and build a data-friendly newsroom for international investigations) Z1.16 Make your own investigative application with minimal code Z2.08 Making maps with code Z2.09 More than just the Wayback Machine: how to investigate deleted and archived content Z2.10 Create our own impact strategy Z3.09 Let’s talk about fundraising! Z2.03 Investigating corporate lobbying - tips and tools Z3.05 Taking your authorities to court Z1.14 Get off the screen, look me in the eye: offline and in-person journalistic storytelling Z3.04

11:45am CEST

Watching the watchers: investigating AI, surveillance & the loopholes of Europe’s AI Act Z3.02

12:30pm CEST

Lunch Mediaforum

1:45pm CEST

How to investigate AI: advanced level Z1.15 - Aula Donche Exploding pagers – investigating while jumping from stone to stone Z0.10 Investigating the business of outsourced war crimes prosecutions in Europe Z3.02 Scientific laboratory analysis applied to journalism: what you need to know Z3.04 EU's defense spending frenzy: where to find the data Z1.16 Extract all relations in Game of Thrones using AI and Python Z2.08 Spreadsheets with superpowers: LLMs for data extraction and classification Z2.09 Together at last: R and Python united in the Positron IDE Z2.10 Going beyond traditional media and truly engaging with communities Z2.02 Oligarchs and media ownership: Diving into registries Z2.03 How to find stories in private finance data Z3.09 Using WhatsApp to crowdsource data Z3.05 Transparency talks: Networking roundable for journalists working with FOI Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Check your phone for spyware Z1.14

3:00pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

3:30pm CEST

An investigative method to measure content on TikTok Z1.15 - Aula Donche How to use data to investigate Big Pharma — secret medicine prices, industry funding and tax havens Z0.10 The Investigative Commons - how to share structured data, document collections and build knowledge collaboratively Z2.02 Protests, TikTok, and More 🎥: Analyzing images and videos with AI Z2.08 Start looking: finding patterns in data with your eyes 👀 Z2.09 💡Streamlit for building tools and collaborate with non-coders Z2.10 Cracking the code: How to sustain your newsroom with mixed funding Z3.09 How to research the arms industry in times of a defence boom Z3.05 Skill take away - come and learn four skills/tools in one session Z1.14 Using the Aarhus Convention to access environmental information Z1.16 Maps-Not-Maps: visualising qualitative data in investigative journalism Z3.02 Taking data to the people: building up and using databases as investigative storytelling Z2.03

4:45pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

5:15pm CEST

Advanced prompting for investigations Z2.08 AI cookbook 🥧: 6 recipes for the modern journalist Z2.09 Scraping the unscrapable: advanced approaches to deal with complex sites and evade anti-scraping systems Z2.10 Supply chain investigations -- how to trace ingredients from factory to supermarket shelf Z3.02 Effective Investigations on Telegram for Journalists Z3.05 Using Bluetooth in your investigations - lessons learnt and approaches to adopt Z0.10 Networking roundtable for AI practitioners Z2.01 - Mediadrôme By word of mouth: producing investigative podcasts Z3.09

9:00am CEST

Coffee Mediaforum

9:30am CEST

Automated migration control: tracking dystopian technology and funding across the EU Z1.15 - Aula Donche Sacred Grounds: How to investigate Church property ownership across Europe Z3.02 Investigating climate disinformation: Methods for exposing fossil fuel industry influence on policy Z3.05

10:45am CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

11:15am CEST

Using OpenSanctions for investigative research Z1.14 How to get started with the criminal's safe haven, Dubai. And get stories from the Emirates without leaving home! Z1.15 - Aula Donche How to uncover land and property speculation all over Europe Z3.05 Is my house at risk of flooding? : Using cadastral data to track buildings in flood-prone zones of the Mediterranean (and beyond) Z1.16

12:45pm CEST

Goodbye - see you next year! Mediaforum