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Saturday
, May 30
0.10
1:45pm •
How to investigate conflicts of interest in science
5:15pm •
Reporting from space: Using satellite images for investigations when access is limited
1.04
9:30am •
How the hell did they make that?: Creating a collaborative inventory of data viz tools
11:15am •
50 shades of the housing crisis – in data
12:35pm •
EU/FOI café
1:45pm •
Climate data for non-data journalists
3:30pm •
One template, many stories: Parameterized reports with Quarto
4:15pm •
Beyond data cleaning: Enhancing OpenRefine with LLM
1.16
9:30am •
Investigating arms producers
11:15am •
Look what's flying there
12:35pm •
Safety and Security café
1:45pm •
Not a chatbot: A hand-drawn case for putting primary sources first in designing AI tools for investigative journalism
3:30pm •
Old trade, new playbook: Investigating transnational narco-trafficking
5:15pm •
No data, no story? Generate them. Citizen science and social research for investigative data journalism
2.02
9:30am •
Handling leaks and source protection in a changing technological environment
11:15am •
Risky research - protect yourself in high-risk investigations
12:35pm •
Budgeting café
1:45pm •
How to use court decisions to build multimedia narratives that enhance human rights
3:30pm •
Crossing the borders safely: securing devices, data and sources
5:15pm •
Academic complicity on Palestine: Crowdsourcing and maintaining an actionable database
2.03
9:30am •
Reclaiming the (old) public square: from data and digital to journalism with and for our communities
11:15am •
Designing stories on maps: A practical guide to map-driven scrollytelling
12:35pm •
Cross-border café
1:45pm •
Naming the Unsaid: How to navigate the power dynamics in collaborative investigations
3:30pm •
Make a publication-ready static map with QGIS
4:15pm •
From 007 to n8n - build your own no-code AI Agents
2.04
1:45pm •
How to pitch biodiversity stories in a news ecosystem that rarely has space for them
3:30pm •
I tracked how the EU’s €26 billion Just Transition Fund is really being spent (saunas! axe-throwing!) – find stories for your country, too
3.02
9:30am •
How to use Earth Index, an AI tool for finding leads in satellite imagery
11:15am •
How to spot a bot: Practical techniques and investigation ideas
1:45pm •
The Fueling Ecocide project: how we handled a mapping exercise of epic proportions
3:30pm •
Uncovering the organized economy of image-based sexual abuse
5:15pm •
Investigating algorithms by land, sea and air
3.04
9:30am •
Scraping with a browser emulator
11:15am •
Choosing the right web scraping strategy
1:45pm •
Turning raw data into reliable sources: Python for journalists
5:15pm •
"The Mechelen Connection" (Escape Room)
6:00pm •
"The Mechelen Connection" (Escape Room - 2nd session)
3.05
9:30am •
AI-Assisted OSINT: Automating the investigative workflow
11:15am •
Embracing agents with Pydantic AI
1:45pm •
How to manage mass FOI projects using AI, vibe coding and verification
3:30pm •
Hack your CMS (and the rest of the web!): Tampermonkey 101
4:15pm •
No download button? Getting web data without writing a scraper
5:15pm •
Mining data from unstructured documents
6:00pm •
Modern document processing with Natural PDF
3.09
9:30am •
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service data buffet: find stories in the data
11:15am •
Cancer Calculus: Investigating big pharma's dirty tricks
1:45pm •
Copernicus climate change service data buffet: find stories in the data
3:30pm •
Tracking fire in a hotter Europe: Methods for long-term wildfire data
3.13
11:15am •
Lean, not broken: How independent newsrooms adapt to uncertain funding
1:45pm •
How to FOI in difficult contexts
3:30pm •
You received a leak, now what? A hands-on OPSEC simulation
Mediaforum
9:00am •
Coffee
10:45am •
Coffee break
12:30pm •
Lunch
3:00pm •
Coffee break
4:45pm •
Coffee break
Z0.10
9:30am •
How to investigate AI border surveillance in Europe
3:30pm •
Bad practice: investigating medical malpractice across borders
Z0.15
9:30am •
Showcase your work online: Build a portfolio with GitHub pages
11:15am •
From data projects to pipelines
12:35pm •
Data helpdesk
1:45pm •
How to save the planet with nerds
Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk
9:30am •
How we uncovered an international rapist network through undercover online research
11:15am •
How to investigate China 101
1:45pm •
Tourism on stolen land: How we found tourist accommodations on Israeli settlements
3:30pm •
So…you want to investigate crypto?
5:15pm •
Darcula Unmasked: Investigating Chinese cybercrime and scam operations
Z1.15 - Aula Donche
9:30am •
Gambling on the beautiful game: Following the money and suspect sponsorships in European football
11:15am •
Behind closed doors: Exposing human rights violations in prisons and psychiatric facilities
1:45pm •
Who's behind this website?
3:30pm •
When numbers are missing: Building your own datasets to investigate the police
5:15pm •
Which schools are the most exposed to pesticides in your country? How to investigate with data, maps and scientists
Z2.01 - Mediadrôme
9:30am •
R and AI - so many options. What works for you?
11:15am •
The “perfect” MoU: an invitation
1:45pm •
Digital security networking roundtable
3:30pm •
FOI meet-up: presentation of a cross-border guide
5:15pm •
Investigative journalism on health: networking roundtable
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