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Thursday
, May 22
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Mediaforum
9:00am •
Check-in and Coffee
12:00pm •
Lunch
3:00pm •
Coffee break
Z1.14
10:00am •
Masterclass: Spatial analysis with QGIS (Masterclass ticket needed)
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Masterclass: Spatial analysis with QGIS (Masterclass ticket needed)
LIMITED
3:30pm •
Masterclass: Spatial analysis with QGIS (Masterclass ticket needed)
Z1.16
10:00am •
Masterclass: Hack your way into a big dataset with R (Masterclass ticket needed)
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Masterclass: Hack your way into a big dataset with R (Masterclass ticket needed)
LIMITED
3:30pm •
Masterclass: Hack your way into a big dataset with R (Masterclass ticket needed)
Z3.02
10:00am •
Masterclass: Follow the Money to detect corrupt practices (Masterclass ticket needed)
FILLING
1:00pm •
Masterclass: Follow the Money to detect corrupt practices (Masterclass ticket needed)
LIMITED
3:30pm •
Masterclass: Follow the Money to detect corrupt practices (Masterclass ticket needed)
Z3.05
10:00am •
Masterclass: Take your research skills to the next level with OSINT tools (Masterclass ticket needed)
LIMITED
1:00pm •
Masterclass: Take your research skills to the next level with OSINT tools (Masterclass ticket needed)
LIMITED
3:30pm •
Masterclass: Take your research skills to the next level with OSINT tools (Masterclass ticket needed)
Friday
, May 23
Mediaforum
9:00am •
Check-in and Coffee
10:30am •
Networking welcome
12:00pm •
Lunch
2:30pm •
Coffee break
4:15pm •
Coffee break
6:30pm •
Live journalism: Investigative Journalism on stage
Schepenhuis - Grote Markt, Vleeshouwersstraat 6
6:30pm •
Walking tour: Historical Mechelen (sign up here)
6:30pm •
Walking tour: Women of Mechelen (sign up here)
Z0.10
1:15pm •
Investigating international far-right: uncover Neonazi groups and campaigns against abortion
3:00pm •
How do you investigate an oligarch? Take a trip with us through an offshore maze
4:45pm •
World of pain: how to understand Big Pharma - and find data in an information desert
Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk
10:00am •
Opening of the conference
11:15am •
Keynote conversation: From Gaza to Ukraine - Collaboration when investigating conflicts
1:15pm •
Using AI to identify suspects, verify sources, and analyse locations: Latest AI-OSINT techniques
3:00pm •
How to track supply chains and money flows in Europe that contribute to environmental destruction in the Global South
4:45pm •
The vertical perspective: best practices for using satellite data in journalism
6:30pm •
OSINT Challenge kick-off
Z1.14
1:15pm •
Farm subsidies: get the new data, find stories about the biggest EU money pot
3:00pm •
Find the Eurostat data you want - using an API
4:45pm •
Find your way through the data maze of European "illegal" border crossings
Z1.15 - Aula Donche
1:15pm •
Investigating the role of consulting, PR and advertising firms in corporate influence campaigns
3:00pm •
Taking OSINT to the archive: using data, OSINT and (a little bit of) AI for historical investigative journalism
4:45pm •
Risk and rewards: how to hunt for sanctions evasion in customs data
Z1.16
1:15pm •
Dataviz: make sure users understand your charts
3:00pm •
Public interest journalism – where does Europe go?
4:45pm •
From journalist to manager - how to make the transition
Z2.01 - Mediadrôme
1:15pm •
Pathways to collaboration with scientists: networking roundtable about cross-disciplinary collaboration
3:00pm •
Keep calm and coordinate: Networking Roundtable about coordinating collaborative investigations
4:45pm •
Independent tech infrastructure vs big tech? Old debate, new urgency and relevance
6:00pm •
Nerd Jam: bring your software projects, scripts and tools
Z2.02
3:00pm •
Up your digital security game
Z2.08
1:15pm •
Beyond the pixels: the power of raster data in QGIS
3:00pm •
AI in code editors: save time when writing code
4:45pm •
Data Magic made simple: three ways to crunch numbers in spreadsheets
Z2.09
1:15pm •
Mapping independence: why and how newsrooms should host and style their own maps
3:00pm •
Browser puppetry: Playwright for dynamic website scraping
4:45pm •
Finding connections: transform your document collections into a graph visualisation
Z2.10
1:15pm •
🤖 How LLMs can classify thousands of records in minutes
3:00pm •
Cracking the code: how to use RegEx in your investigations
4:45pm •
Investigating British royals' wealth using geospatial tools 👑 : learn the basics of PostGIS
Z3.02
1:15pm •
Tracking assets and people: A day in the life of an investigative researcher
3:00pm •
The EU corporate sustainability law: what's in it for you?
4:45pm •
Watching the watchers: investigating AI, surveillance & the loopholes of Europe’s AI Act
Z3.04
1:15pm •
The EU deregulation wave and the corporate agenda – tips and stories to investigate
3:00pm •
How to track AI extractivism practices through data annotators
4:45pm •
How to use privacy rules as an investigative tool
Z3.05
1:15pm •
Investigations coordinator - one title, multiple realities
3:00pm •
EU transparency and the right to information: discussion with the EU ombudswoman
4:45pm •
Unveiling Europe's arms industry lobbying: what are the main actors, trends and impacts?
Z3.09
3:00pm •
From page to stage: bringing journalism to life
4:45pm •
The power of bad data: How a media monitor from Northern Macedonia learned to understand its role in information disorder
Saturday
, May 24
Mediaforum
9:00am •
Coffee
10:45am •
Dataharvest cafes: Come and chat with us about Security, Fundraising & Finance, and the EU & FOI
10:45am •
Coffee break
12:30pm •
Dataharvest cafes: Come and chat with us about Security, Fundraising & Finance, and the EU & FOI
12:30pm •
Lunch
3:00pm •
Coffee break
4:45pm •
Coffee break
Z0.10
9:30am •
Unmasking a scam empire: leak processing at scale for collaborative investigations
11:15am •
Investigating corporate lobbying — tips and tools
1:45pm •
How to research the arms industry in times of a defence boom
3:30pm •
How to use data to investigate Big Pharma — secret medicine prices, industry funding and tax havens
5:15pm •
Effective Investigations on Telegram for Journalists
Z1.14
9:30am •
Welcome to the Brussels bubble: tips on how to investigate the EU
11:15am •
Find the spy tech: How to Spot Invasive Technologies in Public Procurement
1:45pm •
How to investigate AI: advanced level
3:30pm •
Using WhatsApp to crowdsource data
5:15pm •
Scrollytelling the low-tech way: creating visual narratives on your own
Z1.15 - Aula Donche
9:30am •
How to investigate AI: beginner level
11:15am •
#Forever Pollution & Expert-reviewed journalism: experimental investigations with scientists
1:45pm •
How to find stories in private finance data
3:30pm •
An investigative method to measure content on TikTok
5:15pm •
Supply chain investigations - how to trace ingredients from factory to supermarket shelf
Z1.16
9:30am •
Working with whistleblowers
11:15am •
How to be an effective data editor (and build a data-friendly newsroom for international investigations)
1:45pm •
Check your phone for spyware
3:30pm •
Using the Aarhus Convention to access environmental information
5:15pm •
By word of mouth: producing investigative podcasts
Z2.01 - Mediadrôme
9:30am •
Journalism educators unite - inspiration and skill sharing
11:15am •
Transparency talks: Networking roundable for journalists working with FOI
1:45pm •
Investigative Tools for the Commons: DARC, OpenAleph, and the Case for a Shared Data Library
3:30pm •
Investigating arms and defence industry - networking roundtable
5:15pm •
Networking roundtable for AI practitioners
Z2.02
9:30am •
Beyond bars and pie charts: creative and interactive data storytelling
11:15am •
Harnessing the power of OpenAleph: a look at its new features and how to use them to find the data you're looking for
1:45pm •
Going beyond traditional media and truly engaging with communities
3:30pm •
Mix and match: how to benefit from growing interdisciplinarity in our newsrooms
Z2.03
9:30am •
The JuicyFields story - investigating the largest cannabis fraud of all time
11:15am •
Let’s talk about fundraising!
1:45pm •
Oligarchs and media ownership: Diving into registries
3:30pm •
Taking data to the people: building up and using databases as investigative storytelling
Z2.04
9:30am •
From source to chart 📈 : Using free tools to automate your data flows
11:15am •
Make your own investigative application with minimal code
1:45pm •
Extract all relations in Game of Thrones using AI and Python
3:30pm •
Protests, TikTok, and more 🎥: analyzing images and videos with AI
5:15pm •
Advanced AI prompts for investigations
Z2.09
9:30am •
Python Without the pain: write code with LLMs
11:15am •
Making maps with code
1:45pm •
Spreadsheets with superpowers: LLMs for data extraction and classification
3:30pm •
Start looking: finding patterns in data with your eyes 👀
5:15pm •
AI cookbook 🥧: 6 recipes for the modern journalist
Z2.10
9:30am •
Teaching LLMs to build your Machine Learning Models
11:15am •
More than just the Wayback Machine: how to investigate deleted and archived content
1:45pm •
Together at last: R and Python united in the Positron IDE
3:30pm •
💡Streamlit for building tools and collaborate with non-coders
5:15pm •
Scraping the unscrapable: advanced approaches to deal with complex sites and evade anti-scraping systems
Z3.02
9:30am •
Uncovering court records - a beginners guide to hunting for legal data
11:15am •
#ChinaTargets: How ICIJ investigated China's transnational repression and its abuse of Interpol and the U.N.
1:45pm •
Investigating the business of outsourced war crimes prosecutions in Europe
3:30pm •
Maps-Not-Maps: visualising qualitative data in investigative journalism
5:15pm •
Using Bluetooth in your investigations - lessons learnt and approaches to adopt
Z3.04
9:30am •
Exploring extreme heat: satellite imagery and spatial analysis in R
11:15am •
Get off the screen, look me in the eye: offline and in-person journalistic storytelling
1:45pm •
Scientific laboratory analysis applied to journalism: what you need to know
3:30pm •
Risky research - how to protect yourself when doing sensitive research and reporting in the field
5:15pm •
From Space to Spreadsheet: Analysing flood impact using Copernicus satellite data
Z3.05
9:30am •
How to find and use up-to-date beneficial ownership data to reveal the real owners of companies
11:15am •
EU's defence spending frenzy: where to find the data
1:45pm •
Unveiling the tracks behind Lebanon's pager explosions
3:30pm •
Skill take away - come and learn four skills/tools in one session
5:15pm •
The Investigative Commons - how to share structured data, document collections and build knowledge collaboratively
Z3.09
9:30am •
Impact 101: how newsrooms around the world measure their echo
11:15am •
Let's build the impact strategy of your next investigation
1:45pm •
Taking your authorities to court
3:30pm •
Cracking the code: how to sustain your newsroom with mixed funding
5:15pm •
Pensions for the SS? How we challenged German bureaucracy and found one of the last SS-volunteers
Sunday
, May 25
Mediaforum
9:00am •
Coffee
10:45am •
Coffee break
12:45pm •
Goodbye - see you next year!
Z1.14
9:30am •
Data journalism vs corruption - a case study from Serbia
11:15am •
Is my house at risk of flooding? Using cadastral data to track buildings in flood-prone zones of the Mediterranean (and beyond)
Z1.15 - Aula Donche
9:30am •
Sacred Grounds: how to investigate Church property ownership across Europe
11:15am •
How to start investigating the criminal's safe haven, Dubai. And get stories from the Emirates without leaving home!
Z1.16
9:30am •
Dead Russian soldiers: How to count hidden numbers with AI
Z2.04
9:30am •
Efficient Collaboration? Automate your Google Docs with Python!
11:15am •
Reset before you repeat: How automation helps us save time in the data team
Z2.10
11:15am •
RAG: Leveraging AI for document research
Z3.02
9:30am •
Automated migration control: tracking dystopian technology and funding across the EU
11:15am •
Using OpenSanctions for investigative research
Z3.05
9:30am •
Investigating climate disinformation: methods for exposing fossil fuel industry influence on policy
11:15am •
How to uncover land and property speculation all over Europe
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