Dataharvest 2026 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference: Grid

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Masterclass: How to investigate the EU (Masterclass ticket needed) 10:00am - 12:00pm

Masterclass: How to investigate the EU (Masterclass ticket needed) 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Masterclass: How to investigate the EU (Masterclass ticket needed) 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Masterclass: From ships to satellites: Investigating fossil fuel supply chains (Masterclass ticket needed) 1:00pm - 3:00pm

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Masterclass: Get satellite imagery to tell you what on earth is going on! Using code and other tools (Masterclass ticket needed) 10:00am - 12:00pm

Masterclass: Get satellite imagery to tell you what on earth is going on! Using code and other tools (Masterclass ticket needed) 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Masterclass: Get satellite imagery to tell you what on earth is going on! Using code and other t... 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Check-in and coffee 9:30am - 10:00am

Lunch 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Coffee break 3:00pm - 3:30pm

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Finding the bad guys 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Upholding transparency – the right to access EU documents in practice 11:30am - 12:45pm

Using LLMs in R to expand and categorise your datasets: the Ellmer package 2:00pm - 3:15pm

EU/FOI café 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Israel Files: Inside a legal war machine of impunity 11:30am - 12:45pm

How to turn a data-driven investigation into a documentary 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Tracking AI scam ads and platform failure under the DSA 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Safety and Security café 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Investigating CO2 emissions fraud by reverse-engineering publicly reported data 11:30am - 12:45pm

Using data to expose violations of transgender rights 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Budgeting café 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Is there anybody listening? Creative formats to reach wider audiences 11:30am - 12:45pm

Dirty shipping: How we investigated maritime pollution 2:00pm - 3:15pm

How close is too close? Setting boundaries with human and digital sources 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Cross-border café 5:15pm - 6:15pm

How to budget (almost) anything 11:30am - 12:45pm

FunForensics: What can you squeeze out of a second-hand laptop? 3:45pm - 5:00pm

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Build web scrapers with AI for non-coding journalists 11:30am - 12:45pm

Scraping the unscrapable: advanced approaches to deal with complex sites and eva... 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Investigating inequality in Copenhagen’s nurseries 3:45pm - 5:00pm

How we built Europe's most comprehensive arms export database - and how you too... 11:30am - 12:45pm

How to code anything 2:00pm - 3:15pm

How local LLMs can help you with sensitive information: a beginner's guide 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Your first investigative data pipeline with agentic AI 11:30am - 12:45pm

Using the cloud and local LLMs to rapidly analyse thousands of audio/text docume... 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Newsroom infrastructure for AI experimentation 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Oh wow, that has changed! – Creating powerful climate stories from old guide boo... 11:30am - 12:45pm

75,000 meetings, 1,800 side jobs: Investigating policy capture and conflicts of... 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Mapping and spatial analysis in code 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Exploring North Data registries: book a personalised consultatio... 5:15pm - 6:15pm

How to extract Persons, Names and Locations from research material – and where A... 11:30am - 12:45pm

Digital hygiene - level up your security game 2:00pm - 3:15pm

One day, I decided to establish a nonprofit media outlet: What I wish I knew bac... 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Check-in and Coffee 9:00am - 10:00am

Networking welcome 10:30am - 11:30am

Lunch 12:45pm - 2:00pm

Coffee break 3:15pm - 3:45pm

✨ Dataharvest Ultimate Pub Quiz ✨ 6:15pm - 7:30pm

Inside the European Defence Fund: hidden decisions, weak ethics, and funding for... 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Investigating with trade data 3:45pm - 5:00pm

OSINT challenge 2.0 6:15pm - 7:30pm

Investigating illicit fishing in the Mediterranean through open data 2:00pm - 3:15pm

How to find new angles in reporting on a long-running conflict 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Data helpdesk 5:15pm - 6:15pm

Opening of the conference 10:00am - 10:30am

A method for investigating private equity-backed companies at a large scale 11:30am - 12:45pm

Investigating sound: Where nobody looks, but everyone should listen 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Using local AI-models to investigate with explicit or sensitive data 3:45pm - 5:00pm

OSINT 101: The latest tools, tricks & tactics 11:30am - 12:45pm

There’s more to life than metadata – using analogue photos & archival documents... 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Understanding and investigating Polymarket data 3:45pm - 5:00pm

From the Soviet Union to the Moon – using OSINT on Tintin 6:15pm - 7:30pm

Networking session: Reporting on animal rights and welfare 11:30am - 12:45pm

Unmasking Palantir's Business activities with 59 FOIA requests: A Deep Dive into... 2:00pm - 3:15pm

Investigating arms and defence industry - Networking roundtable 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Meet up with Everlaw - learn mor... 5:30pm - 6:00pm

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How to investigate conflicts of interest in science 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Reporting from space: Using satellite images for investigations when access is l... 5:15pm - 6:30pm

How the hell did they make that?: Creating a collaborative inventory of data viz... 9:30am - 10:45am

50 shades of the housing crisis – in data 11:15am - 12:30pm

EU/FOI café 12:35pm - 1:35pm

Climate data for non-data journalists 1:45pm - 3:00pm

One template, many stories: Para... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Beyond data cleaning: Enhancing... 4:15pm - 4:45pm

Investigating arms producers 9:30am - 10:45am

Look what's flying there 11:15am - 12:30pm

Safety and Security café 12:35pm - 1:35pm

Not a chatbot: A hand-drawn case for putting primary sources first in designing... 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Old trade, new playbook: Investigating transnational narco-trafficking 3:30pm - 4:45pm

No data, no story? Generate them. Citizen scienc... 5:15pm - 6:00pm

Handling leaks and source protection in a changing technological environment 9:30am - 10:45am

Risky research - protect yourself in high-risk investigations 11:15am - 12:30pm

Budgeting café 12:35pm - 1:35pm

How to use court decisions to build multimedia narratives that enhance human rig... 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Crossing the borders safely: securing devices, data and sources 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Academic complicity on Palestine: Crowdsourcing and maintaining an actionable da... 5:15pm - 6:30pm

Reclaiming the (old) public square: from data and digital to journalism with and... 9:30am - 10:45am

Designing stories on maps: A practical guide to map-driven scrollytelling 11:15am - 12:30pm

Cross-border café 12:35pm - 1:35pm

Naming the Unsaid: How to navigate the power dynamics in collaborative investiga... 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Make a publication-ready static... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

From 007 to n8n - build your own... 4:15pm - 4:45pm

How to pitch biodiversity stories in a news ecosystem that rarely has space for... 1:45pm - 3:00pm

I tracked how the EU’s €26 billion Just Transition Fund is really being spent (s... 3:30pm - 4:45pm

How to use Earth Index, an AI tool for finding leads in satellite imagery 9:30am - 10:45am

How to spot a bot: Practical techniques and investigation ideas 11:15am - 12:30pm

The Fueling Ecocide project: how we handled a mapping exercise of epic proportio... 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Uncovering the organized economy of image-based sexual abuse 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Investigating algorithms by land, sea and air 5:15pm - 6:30pm

Scraping with a browser emulator 9:30am - 10:45am

Choosing the right web scraping strategy 11:15am - 12:30pm

Turning raw data into reliable sources: Python for journalists 1:45pm - 3:00pm

"The Mechelen Connection" (Escap... 5:15pm - 5:45pm

"The Mechelen Connection" (Escap... 6:00pm - 6:30pm

AI-Assisted OSINT: Automating the investigative workflow 9:30am - 10:45am

Embracing agents with Pydantic AI 11:15am - 12:30pm

How to manage mass FOI projects using AI, vibe coding and verification 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Hack your CMS (and the rest of t... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

No download button? Getting web... 4:15pm - 4:45pm

Mining data from unstructured do... 5:15pm - 5:45pm

Modern document processing with... 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service data buffet: find stories in the data 9:30am - 10:45am

Cancer Calculus: Investigating big pharma's dirty tricks 11:15am - 12:30pm

Copernicus climate change service data buffet: find stories in the data 1:45pm - 3:00pm

Tracking fire in a hotter Europe... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Lean, not broken: How independent newsrooms adapt to uncertain funding 11:15am - 12:30pm

How to FOI in difficult contexts 1:45pm - 3:00pm

You received a leak, now what? A hands-on OPSEC simulation 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Coffee 9:00am - 9:30am

Coffee break 10:45am - 11:15am

Lunch 12:30pm - 1:45pm

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Coffee break 4:45pm - 5:15pm

How to investigate AI border surveillance in Europe 9:30am - 10:45am

Bad practice: investigating medical malpractice across borders 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Showcase your work online: Build a portfolio with GitHub pages 9:30am - 10:45am

From data projects to pipelines 11:15am - 12:30pm

Data helpdesk 12:35pm - 1:35pm

How to save the planet with nerds 1:45pm - 3:00pm

How we uncovered an international rapist network through undercover online resea... 9:30am - 10:45am

How to investigate China 101 11:15am - 12:30pm

Tourism on stolen land: How we found tourist accommodations on Israeli settlemen... 1:45pm - 3:00pm

So…you want to investigate crypto? 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Darcula Unmasked: Investigating Chinese cybercrime and scam operations 5:15pm - 6:30pm

Gambling on the beautiful game: Following the money and suspect sponsorships in... 9:30am - 10:45am

Behind closed doors: Exposing human rights violations in prisons and psychiatric... 11:15am - 12:30pm

Who's behind this website? 1:45pm - 3:00pm

When numbers are missing: Building your own datasets to investigate the police 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Which schools are the most exposed to pesticides in your country? How to investi... 5:15pm - 6:30pm

R and AI - so many options. What works for you? 9:30am - 10:45am

The “perfect” MoU: an invitation 11:15am - 12:30pm

Digital security networking roundtable 1:45pm - 3:00pm

FOI meet-up: presentation of a cross-border guide 3:30pm - 4:45pm

Investigative journalism on health: networking roundtable 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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Unlocking the apps: How can you scrap data, trace leaks on mobile and turn it in... 9:30am - 10:45am

Text embeddings: navigating text in high dimensions 11:15am - 12:30pm

How to keep reporting on migration: Strategies from the field 9:30am - 10:45am

Screenscraping: Stories before your very eyes! 11:15am - 12:30pm

Using AIS data platforms to investigate shipping and shadow fleets 9:30am - 10:45am

A map for every reader: how to generate hundreds of images for multiple audience... 11:15am - 12:30pm

From satellite Images to a story: How to visualise change and tell a story with... 9:30am - 10:45am

Investigating workplace surveillance and algorithmic management 11:15am - 12:30pm

Update your google skills 9:30am - 10:45am

From OnlyFans to OnlyScams: Investigating online sex-work ecosystems 11:15am - 12:30pm

Coffee 9:00am - 9:30am

Coffee break 10:45am - 11:15am

Goodbye - see you next year! 12:45pm - 1:15pm

Tools, methods and tips to track networks and influencers on TikTok, from the el... 9:30am - 10:45am

How to identify someone the state tried to hide: A step-by-step OSINT and AI wor... 11:15am - 12:30pm

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