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Dataharvest 2023 - the European Investgative Journalism Conference

Join us for four days of inspiration, learning and networking!

09:30 CEST

Check-in and Coffee Cafeteria

10:00 CEST

Hackday [Hackday ticket needed] C3.19 Masterclass: Investigating corporate lobbying [Masterclass ticket needed] C3.03Stéphane Horel Masterclass: Planning and coordinating cross-border investigations [Masterclass ticket needed] C2.07Jose Miguel Calatayud • Sotiris Sideris Masterclass: Researching the EU [Masterclass ticket needed] C3.05Sigrid Melchior

12:00 CEST

Lunch Cafeteria

13:00 CEST

Hackday [Hackday ticket needed] C3.19 Masterclass: Investigating corporate lobbying [Masterclass ticket needed] C3.03Stéphane Horel Masterclass: Planning and coordinating cross-border investigations [Masterclass ticket needed] C2.07Jose Miguel Calatayud • Sotiris Sideris Masterclass: Researching the EU [Masterclass ticket needed] C3.05Sigrid Melchior

09:00 CEST

Check-in and Coffee Cafeteria

10:00 CEST

Opening of the conference (transmitted from Aula 2) Aula 1 Opening of the conference Aula 2Trine Smistrup • Jelena Prtoric • Brigitte Alfter

10:30 CEST

Networking welcome Announced from aula

11:30 CEST

Keynote: Why we need to investigate the EU (transmitted from Aula 2) Aula 1 Keynote: Why we need to investigate the EU Aula 2Brigitte Alfter • Lise Witteman

12:00 CEST

Lunch Cafeteria

13:00 CEST

Farm subsidies - dive into the data, learn who gets the money C3.10Adriana Homolova • Simon Wörpel Working with flexible funding C2.25Peter Matjašič • Timothy Large • Ebru Akgun • Rozina Breen Lessons from difficult FOI processes C3.05Tarjei Leer-Salvesen • Luisa Izuzquiza • Dina Đorđević Don't be numbed by numbers Aula 1Jonathan Stoneman LobbyFacts - investigating EU lobbying C2.07Vicky Cann Tech tools and infrastructures for collaborations C3.01Stefan Candea • Stephan Heffner • Jan Strozyk • Alex Ștefănescu • Caroline Desprat Using isotope analysis to investigate a supply chain C2.23Manuel Daubenberger Working for our food: Modern slavery in Europe C2.05Emiliano Mellino • Geesje van Haren • Alexander Sokoler Digital hygiene – password managers, social media settings, 2FA (introductory session) C3.03Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Jake Charles Rees Reconstructing the Melilla massacre - how to present a well known story C3.19Jack Sapoch • Bashar Deeb • Maud Jullien The art of sonification: How to make your data sound C3.18Berit Kruse • Christian Basl Clean data like a pro with OpenRefine C3.15Anuška Delić • Hervé Letoqueux Extract patterns from messy data C3.11Lasse Edfast • Rob Gebeloff Web basics: how the web works, and how to scrape it C3.04Max Harlow • Rui Barros

14:15 CEST

Coffee break Cafeteria

14:30 CEST

Individual safety consultations TBAJake Charles Rees • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin

14:45 CEST

Why wait for leaks? Find breaking news EU stories with FOI C3.05Vicky Cann • Peter Teffer • Helen Darbishire • Alexander Fanta How to think about collaborative science journalism C3.10Brigitte Alfter • Manuel Daubenberger • Elisabetta Tola • Stéphane Horel Lightning talks Aula 1Jonathan Stoneman Working with NGOs and activists - no problem or no-go? C3.01Ingeborg Eliassen • Rudi Bressa • Stefan Candea • Romina Colman Design thinking for solidarity 1 C2.25Will Franklin • Mick ter Reehorst MEP Index - how do your country's MEPs fare in the integrity test? C3.03Adriana Homolova • Lise Witteman Finding Faces C2.07Karina Shedrofsky • Eric Barret Tracking the Wagner group from Africa to Europe C3.19Justine Brabant • Lou Osborn Working on labour rights? How to research closed groups C2.05Hazel Sheffield • Emiliano Mellino • Apolena Rychlíková • Stavros Malichudis Arena Climate Network: what should we research together? C3.18Lorenz Matzat • Zeynep Sentek Prepare for online harassment 1: Self-doxing C2.23Javier Luque Basic rules of good data design C3.04Rui Barros • Krisztián Szabó Cozying up to your computer: an introduction to the command line C3.11Oksana Stavniichuk • Alex Ștefănescu Tracking changes with GitHub Actions C3.15Philip McMahon • Max Harlow

16:00 CEST

Break (cold drinks only) Cafeteria

16:30 CEST

Lost in Europe: investigating child trafficking around asylum centers C3.03Geesje van Haren • Ismail Einashe • Sanne Terlingen Biggest EU Subsidy Pot ever: Who gets billions from the EU recovery files? C3.05Staffan Dahllöf • Adriana Homolova • Hans-Martin Tillack • Peter Teffer Fueling war - how a local story turned into major international research C3.10Chris Matthews • Sotiris Sideris How to use the user-unfriendly EU ETS database to track CO2 emissions C3.01Ariane Lavrilleux • Rémi Labed Making research data from text C3.19Simon Wörpel Design thinking for solidarity 2 C2.25Will Franklin • Mick ter Reehorst Sue the bastards? C3.18Tarjei Leer-Salvesen • Helen Darbishire • Arne Semsrott How to investigate Russian gas lobby - or any other network C2.05Jelena Prtoric • Annika Joeres Finding facts about people Aula 1Marcus Lindemann Prepare for online harassment 2: Analyse and plan! C2.23Javier Luque Investigative journalists and artists - a dream team? C2.07Janine Louloudi • Alexia Barakou • Jake Charles Rees Python for beginners C3.15Karrie Kehoe • Alesya Marohovskaya Scraping without code: using third-party tools to scrape websites C3.04Sandra Foresti • Carmen Aguilar Garcia When Excel explodes: techniques for handling large datasets C3.11Joseph Smith • Philip McMahon

18:15 CEST

FOI Party and Art Auction CafeteriaTarjei Leer-Salvesen • Jonathan Stoneman • Stéphane Horel

09:00 CEST

Coffee Cafeteria

09:30 CEST

Mapping Q-Anon in Europe, on Telegram and beyond C2.07Riccardo Coluccini • Justin-Casimir Braun Tracking wildlife crime in your country C2.23Zeynep Sentek • Rudi Bressa How to fact-check your data work for an investigative piece? C2.25Karrie Kehoe • Jelena Cosic • Caroline Desprat Building a (business) case on data C2.21Sanne Schim van der Loeff • Sanne Breimer • Malte Werner The human aspect of FOI C2.15Tarjei Leer-Salvesen Follow the Money of European political parties Aula 1Nathan Niedermeier • Adriana Homolova • Lise Witteman Forever Pollution Project: how to practice “peer-reviewed” journalism C2.01Catharina Felke • Eurydice Bersi • Stéphane Horel • Raphaëlle Aubert Save safely! Secure documentation of your web findings C2.05Ude Albrecht Working for us: Human trafficking and exploitation in Europe C2.17Geesje van Haren • Ismail Einashe • Maria Delaney We have been SLAPPed! C2.28Anuška Delić • Daniel Simons • Danuta Pawłowska • Thodoris Chondrogiannos • Steven Vanden Bussche How to communicate data so people understand you C2.02Federico Caruso • Elisabetta Tola • Gianna-Carina Grün • Catherine André Building your first scrollytelling data visualization C3.15Krisztián Szabó • Rui Barros How to bring structure to unstructured documents without coding C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Victoria Gaunitz Personalising the story: how to generate a 100-page website from one dataset using R C3.11Paul Bradshaw • Paul Lynch

10:30 CEST

Journalism fair - meet the organisations that support and promote journalism

10:45 CEST

Coffee break Cafeteria

11:15 CEST

Töpfer Stiftung (closed meeting) C2.25 Suspicion machines: welfare surveillance algorithms revealed Aula 1Gabriel Geiger • Romy van Dijk • Justin-Casimir Braun • Evaline Schot Futureproof your investigation with the whole team C2.23Jonathan Stoneman • Semir Mujkić Missing data: An updated map of femicides in Europe C2.07Maria Álvarez del Vayo • Thanasis Troboukis • Janine Louloudi How to balance costs and (digital) safety C2.21Hisham Almiraat Three years of European housing investigation: A guide C2.01Sotiris Sideris • Hendrik Lehmann • Gaby Khazalová Scrutinising EU funds in your country: how to find the data you need C2.05Zoltán Sipos • Daiva Repečkaitė Labour in Europe - research on the ground and in the EU institutions C2.17Eurydice Bersi • Alina Lippegaus • Adina Florea Arena Food & Water meeting: Let’s talk about future investigations! C2.15Sarah Pilz • Brigitte Alfter • Zeynep Sentek How to avoid SLAPP lawsuits – and what to do if you get them anyway C2.28Daniel Simons • Emma Prest • Rebecca Bonello Ghio A simple scraper using Python C3.15Karrie Kehoe • Alesya Marohovskaya Introduction to R and RStudio C3.11Rob Gebeloff • Luuk Sengers Spreadsheets: the basics C3.04Pamela Duncan • Carmen Aguilar Garcia

12:30 CEST

Lunch Cafeteria

13:30 CEST

Scraping with R C3.11Rob Gebeloff • Jonathan Stoneman • Luuk Sengers How to fund journalism better C2.01Daniela White • Ebru Akgun • Abhijit Das • Willem Lenders Managing chaos: Huge leaks, huge headaches C2.25Emma Prest • Jelena Cosic • Jan Strozyk • Paulo Pena Hackday findings: The inequalities of work and wage C2.05Sarah Pilz • Alexander Sokoler Rural Observatory: let´s look into the EU data on rural areas (and find stories) C2.23Jose Miguel Calatayud • Carla Lostrangio Doing it all - combining skills in (small) teams C2.21Sanne Schim van der Loeff • Steffen Kühne • Dan Kåre Engebretsen • Thomas Muntz Europe's Missing Emails C2.02Staffan Dahllöf • Hans-Martin Tillack • Peter Teffer Friend or foe: using AI as an investigative tool Aula 2Carmen Aguilar Garcia • Joseph Smith • Ude Albrecht • Alexander Fanta • Paul Bradshaw • Irene Larraz How to find sources, offline and online C2.15Zeynep Sentek • Nicola Naber • Tatev Hovhannisyan • Geesje van Haren How to work with traumatized sources C2.07Gavin Rees • Sanne Terlingen • Ismail Einashe Researching the arms lobby C2.28Bram Vranken On the ground – learning from a workers’ aid group in Germany C2.17Brigitte Alfter • Alina Lippegaus Network analysis: make sense of all that data you have C3.15Oksana Stavniichuk • Lasse Edfast Spreadsheets: Advanced formulas C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Pamela Duncan

14:00 CEST

Individual safety consultations 2 TBAJake Charles Rees • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin

14:45 CEST

Coffee break Cafeteria

15:15 CEST

Breaking out of the silos – can we? C2.28Simon Bowers • Jelena Cosic • Stefan Candea • Harald Schumann • Jan Strozyk The coordinator - the unsung hero of cross-border collaborations C2.07Jose Miguel Calatayud • Hazel Sheffield • Elena Ledda • Zeynep Sentek The Devil in the Data - researching sports's data and betting industry C2.15Jonathan Stoneman • Philippe Auclair The non-voter time bomb: mapping voter abstention in Europe C2.01Luciana Maruta • Andrea Nelson Mauro Engaging with hard-to-reach communities C2.21Lucas Batt • Zoltán Sipos • Sofia da Palma Rodrigues • Maria Delaney Researching alt-right and conservative groups online: blueprints for an investigation C2.23Daiva Repečkaitė • Anna Gielewska Googling for nerds C2.05Marcus Lindemann The future of work in the digital age: Dark sci-fi utopia on its way to become reality? C2.17Charles Boutaud • Matea Grgurinović • Miriam Lenz From reporter to subject of surveillance C2.25Hisham Almiraat • Gavin Rees • Thodoris Chondrogiannos Phishing 101 (introductory session) C2.02Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Jake Charles Rees War and muscles on TikTok: Investigating the most popular app in the world Aula 1Henrik Bøe • Christian Nicolai Bjørke Stats with R C3.11Rob Gebeloff • Luuk Sengers Summarising complex data with Pivot tables and merges C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Pamela Duncan Text Analysis in Python C3.15Rémi Labed • Natalie Widmann

16:30 CEST

Break (cold drinks only) Cafeteria

17:00 CEST

Big Plastic in Europe – a story of power abuse and green-washing Aula 1Maria Maggiore • Lorenzo Buzzoni • Manuel Rico • Àttila Kalmán What to do when you don't have the perfect dataset for an investigation? C2.17Karrie Kehoe • Pierre Romera • Jelena Cosic You want impact? Let's work on it! C2.21Emma Prest • Eva Belmonte • Abhijit Das Child trafficking: inspiration for an investigation C2.07Tatev Hovhannisyan Find more through structured Internet Research C2.05Ude Albrecht Getting Started with Satellite Imagery C2.02Natalie Widmann • Marcus Pfeil • Michael Anthony How to follow the money and unpick offshore transactions C3.05Leigh Baldwin • Marcus Leroux Labour roundtable: Let’s talk about work! C2.28Brigitte Alfter • Adriana Homolova • Matea Grgurinović • Ana Tudela • Alexander Sokoler • Alina Lippegaus Collaborating across borders (advanced session) C2.15Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Jake Charles Rees Toxic data: working with graphic imagery and other nasties C2.25Gavin Rees Investigative journalism in audio: podcasting beyond true crime C2.01Ricardo Ribero GeekSpeak: Our favourite digital tools C3.15Ana Lutzky • Marcus Lindemann • Alex Pyrgiotis • Olaya Argüeso Pérez Joining tables in SQL C3.04Helena Bengtsson • Oksana Stavniichuk OpenRefine for OSINT: how to automate your open source searches C3.11Anuška Delić • Hervé Letoqueux

09:00 CEST

Coffee Cafeteria

09:30 CEST

Step by step: Digging into a multinational arms company C2.28Stefan Candea • Rafael Buschmann • Nicola Naber Mapping street names: What do they tell us? C2.15Yuliia Dukach • Lorenzo Ferrari • Kelly Kiki How to investigate public tenders? C2.05Adriana Homolova • Semir Mujkić • Irene Larraz Company ownership registries, an endangered species C2.07Karina Shedrofsky • Eric Barret • Zsuzsanna Wirth Urban journalism is the future! Connect with journalists from other cities to improve your research C2.01Hendrik Lehmann • Gaby Khazalová Scraping at the speed of thought with TypeScript and Deno C3.11Zeke Hunter-Green • Samantha Gottlieb

10:45 CEST

Coffee break Cafeteria

11:15 CEST

How to write the perfect grant application Aula 1Timothy Large FOI'ing Europe's suspicion machines C2.07Justin-Casimir Braun • Tarjei Leer-Salvesen • Gabriel Geiger Working your entire life, struggling as a pensioner C2.05Diogo Cardoso • Matea Grgurinović • Ana Tudela Signal for beginners (introductory session) C2.01Harlo Holmes • Olivia Martin • Abigail Lis-Perlis • Jake Charles Rees Create a simple data web app in Python with Streamlit C3.15Natalie Widmann • Rémi Labed How to analyse millions of tweets (or other text) using Python notebooks (and why you might not) C3.11Paul Bradshaw • Paul Lynch

12:45 CEST

Goodbye - see you next year! Aula 2