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Thursday
, May 28
1.14
10:00am •
Masterclass: How to investigate the EU (Masterclass ticket needed)
1:00pm •
Masterclass: How to investigate the EU (Masterclass ticket needed)
3:30pm •
Masterclass: How to investigate the EU (Masterclass ticket needed)
3.02
1:00pm •
Masterclass: From ships to satellites: Investigating fossil fuel supply chains (Masterclass ticket needed)
3:30pm •
Masterclass: From ships to satellites: Investigating fossil fuel supply chains (Masterclass ticket needed)
3.05
10:00am •
Masterclass: Get satellite imagery to tell you what on earth is going on! Using code and other tools (Masterclass ticket needed)
1:00pm •
Masterclass: Get satellite imagery to tell you what on earth is going on! Using code and other tools (Masterclass ticket needed)
3:30pm •
Masterclass: Get satellite imagery to tell you what on earth is going on! Using code and other tools (Masterclass ticket needed)
Mediaforum
9:30am •
Check-in and coffee
12:00pm •
Lunch
3:00pm •
Coffee break
Friday
, May 29
0.10
2:00pm •
Finding the bad guys
1.04
11:30am •
Upholding transparency – the right to access EU documents in practice
2:00pm •
Using LLMs in R to expand and categorise your datasets: the Ellmer package
5:15pm •
EU/FOI café
1.16
11:30am •
Israel Files: Inside a legal war machine of impunity
2:00pm •
How to turn a data-driven investigation into a documentary
3:45pm •
Tracking AI scam ads and platform failure under the DSA
5:15pm •
Safety and Security café
2.02
11:30am •
Investigating CO2 emissions fraud by reverse-engineering publicly reported data
2:00pm •
Using data to expose violations of transgender rights
5:15pm •
Budgeting café
2.03
11:30am •
Is there anybody listening? Creative formats to reach wider audiences
2:00pm •
Dirty shipping: How we investigated maritime pollution
3:45pm •
How close is too close? Setting boundaries with human and digital sources
5:15pm •
Cross-border café
2.04
11:30am •
How to budget (almost) anything
3:45pm •
FunForensics: What can you squeeze out of a second-hand laptop?
LIMITED
3.02
11:30am •
Build web scrapers with AI for non-coding journalists
2:00pm •
Scraping the unscrapable: advanced approaches to deal with complex sites and evade anti-scraping systems
3:45pm •
Investigating inequality in Copenhagen’s nurseries
3.04
11:30am •
How we built Europe's most comprehensive arms export database - and how you too can find stories in there
2:00pm •
How to code anything
3:45pm •
How local LLMs can help you with sensitive information: a beginner's guide
3.05
11:30am •
Your first investigative data pipeline with agentic AI
2:00pm •
Using the cloud and local LLMs to rapidly analyse thousands of audio/text documents
3:45pm •
Newsroom infrastructure for AI experimentation
3.09
11:30am •
Oh wow, that has changed! – Creating powerful climate stories from old guide books
2:00pm •
75,000 meetings, 1,800 side jobs: Investigating policy capture and conflicts of interest with Integrity Watch EU database
3:45pm •
Mapping and spatial analysis in code
5:15pm •
Exploring North Data registries: book a personalised consultation
3.13
11:30am •
How to extract Persons, Names and Locations from research material – and where AI fails to do it
2:00pm •
Digital hygiene - level up your security game
3:45pm •
One day, I decided to establish a nonprofit media outlet: What I wish I knew back then
Mediaforum
9:00am •
Check-in and Coffee
10:30am •
Networking welcome
12:45pm •
Lunch
3:15pm •
Coffee break
6:15pm •
✨ Dataharvest Ultimate Pub Quiz ✨
Z0.10
2:00pm •
Inside the European Defence Fund: hidden decisions, weak ethics, and funding for an Israeli arms manufacturer
3:45pm •
Investigating with trade data
6:15pm •
OSINT challenge 2.0
Z0.15
2:00pm •
Investigating illicit fishing in the Mediterranean through open data
3:45pm •
How to find new angles in reporting on a long-running conflict
5:15pm •
Data helpdesk
Z1.13 - Aula Hanswijk
10:00am •
Opening of the conference
11:30am •
A method for investigating private equity-backed companies at a large scale
2:00pm •
Investigating sound: Where nobody looks, but everyone should listen
3:45pm •
Using local AI-models to investigate with explicit or sensitive data
Z1.15 - Aula Donche
11:30am •
OSINT 101: The latest tools, tricks & tactics
2:00pm •
There’s more to life than metadata – using analogue photos & archival documents in your investigations
3:45pm •
Understanding and investigating Polymarket data
6:15pm •
From the Soviet Union to the Moon – using OSINT on Tintin
Z2.01 - Mediadrôme
11:30am •
Networking session: Reporting on animal rights and welfare
2:00pm •
Unmasking Palantir's Business activities with 59 FOIA requests: A Deep Dive into Corporate Influence and National Risk
3:45pm •
Investigating arms and defence industry - Networking roundtable
5:30pm •
Meet up with Everlaw - learn more about our document review and discovery platform
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
Sunday
, May 31
1.14
9:30am •
Unlocking the apps: How can you scrap data, trace leaks on mobile and turn it into stories
11:15am •
Text embeddings: navigating text in high dimensions
1.16
9:30am •
How to keep reporting on migration: Strategies from the field
11:15am •
Screenscraping: Stories before your very eyes!
3.02
9:30am •
Using AIS data platforms to investigate shipping and shadow fleets
11:15am •
A map for every reader: how to generate hundreds of images for multiple audiences or partners using QGIS and Python
3.04
9:30am •
From satellite Images to a story: How to visualise change and tell a story with Copernicus & Flourish
11:15am •
Investigating workplace surveillance and algorithmic management
3.05
9:30am •
Update your google skills
11:15am •
From OnlyFans to OnlyScams: Investigating online sex-work ecosystems
Mediaforum
9:00am •
Coffee
10:45am •
Coffee break
12:45pm •
Goodbye - see you next year!
Z1.15 - Aula Donche
9:30am •
Tools, methods and tips to track networks and influencers on TikTok, from the elections to the incel networks
11:15am •
How to identify someone the state tried to hide: A step-by-step OSINT and AI workflow
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