Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism...

Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

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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

11:30am CEST

Investigating CO2 emissions fraud by reverse-engineering publicly reported data 2.02 Networking session: Reporting on animal rights and welfare Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Oh wow, that has changed! – Creating powerful climate stories from old guide books 3.09 Build web scrapers with AI for non-coding journalists 3.02 How to extract Persons, Names and Locations from research material – and where AI fails to do it 3.13 Your first investigative data pipeline with agentic AI 3.05 How to budget (almost) anything 2.04 Israel Files: Inside a legal war machine of impunity 1.16 A method for investigating private equity-backed companies at a large scale Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk OSINT 101: The latest tools, tricks & tactics Z1.15 - Aula Donche How we built Europe's most comprehensive arms export database - and how you too can find stories in there 3.04 Upholding transparency – the right to access EU documents in practice 1.04 Is there anybody listening? Creative formats to reach wider audiences 2.03

12:45pm CEST

Lunch Mediaforum

2:00pm CEST

Dirty shipping: How we investigated maritime pollution 2.03 Investigating illicit fishing in the Mediterranean through open data Z0.15 Inside the European Defence Fund: hidden decisions, weak ethics, and funding for an Israeli arms manufacturer Z0.10 Using data to expose violations of transgender rights 2.02 Using LLMs in R to expand and categorise your datasets: the Ellmer package 1.04 How to code anything 3.04 Scraping the unscrapable: advanced approaches to deal with complex sites and evade anti-scraping systems 3.02 Using the cloud and local LLMs to rapidly analyse thousands of audio/text documents 3.05 Finding the bad guys 0.10 Investigating sound: Where nobody looks, but everyone should listen Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk There’s more to life than metadata – using analogue photos & archival documents in your investigations Z1.15 - Aula Donche 75,000 meetings, 1,800 side jobs: Investigating policy capture and conflicts of interest with Integrity Watch EU database 3.09 Unmasking Palantir's Business activities with 59 FOIA requests: A Deep Dive into Corporate Influence and National Risk Z2.01 - Mediadrôme Digital hygiene - level up your security game 3.13 How to turn a data-driven investigation into a documentary 1.16

3:15pm CEST

Coffee break Mediaforum

3:45pm CEST

Investigating inequality in Copenhagen’s nurseries 3.02 How local LLMs can help you with sensitive information: a beginner's guide 3.04 Mapping and spatial analysis in code 3.09 Newsroom infrastructure for AI experimentation 3.05 One day, I decided to establish a nonprofit media outlet: What I wish I knew back then 3.13 Using local AI-models to investigate with explicit or sensitive data Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk FunForensics: What can you squeeze out of a second-hand laptop? 2.04

Investigating with trade data Z0.10 Tracking AI scam ads and platform failure under the DSA 1.16 Understanding and investigating Polymarket data Z1.15 - Aula Donche Investigating arms and defence industry - Networking roundtable Z2.01 - Mediadrôme How close is too close? Setting boundaries with human and digital sources 2.03 How to find new angles in reporting on a long-running conflict Z0.15

5:15pm CEST

Budgeting café 2.02 Cross-border café 2.03 Data helpdesk Z0.15 EU/FOI café 1.04 Exploring North Data registries: book a personalised consultation 3.09 Safety and Security café 1.16

5:30pm CEST

Meet up with Everlaw - learn more about our document review and discovery platform Z2.01 - Mediadrôme

6:00pm CEST

Walking tour: Historical Mechelen (sign up here) Walking tour: Women of Mechelen (sign up here)

6:15pm CEST

From the Soviet Union to the Moon – using OSINT on Tintin Z1.15 - Aula Donche OSINT challenge 2.0 Z0.10 ✨ Dataharvest Ultimate Pub Quiz ✨ Mediaforum