Dates, Highlights & What to Expect
The conference will begin with an evening reception on November 20 and end in the early afternoon on November 24.
On Thursday 20th (6pm to 8pm) we’ll host our welcome reception, as we greet our guests from around the world. The main conference program starts on Friday, Nov. 21 at 9am, and it ends on Monday, Nov. 24 at 12.30pm.
A pre-conference day on Thursday 20th will feature workshops and special classes. All pre-conference sessions are by invitation only. Activities that day will begin at 9am or 10am, and will conclude in time for the Welcome Reception at 6pm.
Finally, on Sunday 23rd we will have a Banquet and Awards Night, concluding with the announcement of the Global Shining Light Award winners.
A World-Class Program for a Global Gathering
Get ready for an extraordinary event. This is our 14th global conference and we expect over 1,500 journalists from over 100 countries and territories. We’re crafting a world-class program to go with it.
The conference will host over 150 state-of-the-art sessions, with expert panels, cutting-edge workshops, and the best networking in the business.
We’ll cover online search techniques, best practices for cross-border collaboration, and exiled media tips and tools. We’ll be hosting top journalists who have developed innovative uses of technology to hold powers to account, and others who have worked in environments with press freedom limitations and developed techniques to continue investigating while maintaining high standards and reducing risks. There will be experts on satellites, artificial intelligence, and other investigative journalism techniques.
You’ll find special tracks on climate change, the threat to democracy, crime and corruption, human rights, teaching and training, and sustainability strategies — plus the latest on security, media law, and dealing with stress and burnout. We will also include sessions with experts who have worked on engaging ways of presenting journalistic investigations in various formats.
As always, we’ll feature the world’s best data journalists and researchers, offering hands-on workshops, and advice. The data track will range from basic spreadsheets to sophisticated coding, visualization, and analysis. The GIJC has trained three generations of data journalists, and the best is yet to come.
And then there’s the networking. Ask a journalist who’s been to a GIJC about their favorite part, and they’re likely to say it’s the people — those chance encounters in the hallways, at the elevators, in the bars. Imagine what it’s like to have more than 1,500 journalists from 100 countries and territories brainstorming about how to get data, documents, and the truth. That’s the GIJC. We are planning networking sessions — by language, region and topic — to collaborate and brainstorm in a relaxed setting.
