Schedule

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. The conference is a chance to learn from the best in the business — winners of the Pulitzer Prize and other top awards, pioneers of data journalism, and fearless investigators who have exposed corruption and abuses of power almost everywhere. 

Here’s a look at the schedule. We’ve integrated more than 400 pitches and proposals, as well as what past attendees have told us they most valued. You’ll find more than 100 workshops, expert panels, networking sessions, and special events — with more than 300 speakers from around the world. This is not the final program, there are more sessions and speakers to come. And the timings of panels may be subject to changes.

Saturday November 22

1:30pm
Data

Data World Tour

KLCC Level 3 - Room 303
This panel brings together journalists from different regions who are experts in uncovering information useful for local and transnational stories. Discover untapped data sources, learn cross-border research techniques, and explore how databases from one country can unlock investigations in another. Gain access to a curated collection of international data resources that could transform your investigative work.
1:30pm
Data

Fundamentals for Novice Data Journalists

KLCC Level 3 - Room 302
Working with data has become essential in investigative journalism. Brant Houston, a pioneer in this field and author of the seminal "Data For Journalists: A Practical Guide for Computer-Assisted Reporting," will guide participants step-by-step through fundamental data skills necessary for every newsroom. This hands-on workshop covers the basics of finding, analyzing, and storytelling with data, transforming numbers into compelling narratives. It's perfect for journalists ready to embrace data-driven reporting without the intimidation factor.
1:30pm
Environment

How Digital Tools Help Uncover Environmental Stories

KLCC Level 4 - Room 403
Environmental crimes routinely involve complex networks spanning remote locations and multiple jurisdictions, making traditional investigation methods challenging. This panel demonstrates how cutting-edge digital tools — including AI-powered satellite analysis, geospatial mapping platforms, and machine learning algorithms — can expose hidden environmental destruction. Attendees also learn practical techniques for cross-referencing environmental data with corporate networks, using satellite imagery for pattern recognition, and building compelling narratives that reveal previously undetectable crimes.
1:30pm
General

Strengthening Collaborations Across Regions

KLCC Level 3 - Conference Hall 3
Collaboration is one of the greatest investigative journalism tools of this century, but it comes with its own challenges. This panel brings together journalists from different regions to share their experience on cross-border projects, and present tips and ideas on how to make collaborations equitable, fair, and respectful, while also empowering journalists from all regions to hold powers to account. Panelists will also provide information about methodologies and resources that can be valuable for journalistic collaborations.
1:30pm
Nonprofit & New Models

Editorial Systems for Impact

KLCC Level 4 - Room 401
Impact measurement has become essential for investigative journalism's sustainability and credibility. As newsrooms worldwide create dedicated roles to focus on this issue, this panel brings together leaders who have successfully embedded impact metrics into editorial workflows. Speakers will share proven methodologies for tracking story outcomes and building impact-focused newsroom cultures. Through case studies and practical tools, attendees learn to design strategic impact frameworks, measure audience and societal value, and integrate assessment processes that strengthen both journalism quality and organizational sustainability.
1:30pm
General

Source Safeguarding: Protecting Whistleblowers and Leaks

KLCC Level 3 - Room 305
Whistleblowers remain essential to investigative journalism, but face unprecedented threats from sophisticated surveillance tools and normalized criminal prosecutions. As governments globally expand retaliatory tactics and newsrooms shrink, even well-resourced outlets have made catastrophic source protection missteps. This session examines how spyware and authoritarian surveillance put journalists and their sources in danger while providing practical information on digital security protocols, legal safeguards, and ethical frameworks to defend the sources who enable vital public interest reporting.
3:00pm
Data

Basics of Python

KLCC Level 3 - Room 305
Python programming opens up powerful possibilities for journalists willing to learn how to collect information from websites, process large datasets, and automate repetitive tasks that would take hours to complete manually. This beginner-friendly workshop introduces journalists to essential Python skills for web scraping, data analysis, and automation to enhance your investigative toolkit. No prior coding experience required.
3:00pm
Data

Investigating China: Documents, Data, and Access

KLCC Level 3 - Room 303
Despite real challenges and misperceptions of the world’s second largest economy as an unknowable “black box,” China has a wealth of publicly available information available to persistent reporters who know how to access it. In this session, journalists who are experts on the topic explain how sources such as court records, corporate databases, procurement notices, academic papers, satellite imagery, and Chinese social media can be mined for investigative scoops. They discuss work-arounds for the shrinking access to the Chinese internet ecosystem, and which investigative resources require Chinese phone numbers or IP addresses.
3:00pm
Diversity

Challenges and Strategies for Women Investigative Journalists

KLCC Level 4 - Room 405
Women investigative journalists face unique challenges — no matter where they’re based. This session brings together newsroom voices from West Africa, Asia, the Balkans and Latin America to explore how the political and social context influences their work and investigations. Panelists share their unique experiences working in conflict zones, covering human rights abuses, and challenging power structures.
3:00pm
Environment

How to Report on Carbon Offsets

KLCC Level 4 - Room 410
Carbon offsets have become central to corporate and government "net zero" strategies, fueling a boom in projects that promise climate mitigation and community finance. However, investigative reporting has exposed widespread irregularities in this largely unregulated market. This panel explores investigative techniques for tracking offset purchases, verifying project claims, and uncovering corporate greenwashing. Reporters will learn to navigate complex certification systems, identify red flags in project documentation, and hold companies accountable for their climate commitments.
3:00pm
General

Podcast Workshop

KLCC Level 4 - Room 404
Podcasts are proving to be a powerful platform for investigative storytelling. This workshop teaches essential elements for converting in-depth reports into compelling audio narratives that capture audiences and spark conversations. Learn the basic tools to structure complex investigations for the podcast format. Discover how to transform your written investigations into engaging audio experiences that reach new audiences and amplify your impact.
3:00pm
Human Rights

Investigating War Crimes in Different Contexts and Regions

KLCC Level 3 - Conference Hall 3
Across theaters of conflict from Sudan to Palestine, gathering and analyzing evidence of war crimes poses similar challenges. What methods can keep reporters, sources, and chains-of-custody safe? How can reporters counter active efforts to deny documentation and the gathering of testimonies, or report from afar? Is it ethically justifiable to use undercover techniques, and pose as someone else to extract key information? In this practical panel, journalists from three continents share insights and methods for holding war criminals accountable in differing contexts.  
3:00pm
Networking

Networking: French

KLCC Level 4 - Room 402
Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet Francophone colleagues from around the world in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen French-speaking investigative networks. All sessions are first come, first served. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.
3:00pm
Networking

Networking: MENA

KLCC Level 4 - Room 401
Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet colleagues from across the Middle East and North Africa in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen Arabic-speaking investigative networks. All sessions are first come, first served. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.
3:00pm
Networking

Networking: Ukrainian

KLCC Level 4 - Room 403
Our networking sessions are just that: informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here is a chance to meet Ukrainian colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere and help strengthen Ukrainian-speaking investigative networks. All sessions are first come, first served. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.
3:00pm
Safety & Security

Drop-In Legal Clinic (2)

KLCC Level 3 - Room 304
Facing a legal threat? Threatened by national security or privacy laws? Want to know more about how to protect yourself and your organization? This informal "clinic" offers one-on-one advice from top experts on media law. Come by and have an informal, off-the-record chat -- they're here to help. All sessions are first come, first served. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.
3:00pm
Tech

Pixel Logic: Investigating AI Deepfakes

KLCC Level 3 - Room 306
Across the globe, AI-driven audio and video deepfake campaigns in recent years have spread dangerous disinformation on pressing issues such as elections, public health, and climate. And the threat is only growing, as tools capable of producing convincing AI simulations are increasingly accessible and inexpensive, and even simple “cheapfakes” continue to deceive significant numbers of people. In this practical workshop, digital verification journalists lay out the latest tools to track the origins of AI-manipulated content, address the limitations of these tools and techniques to obtain more accurate results.
3:00pm
Data

The Coding Mindset: How to Reorient Your Thinking for Success

KLCC Level 3 - Room 302
Effective programming for journalism requires more than technical skills — it demands developing a data-oriented mindset. This session explores fundamental coding questions, offering ideas on how to approach the process with critical thinking and ask essential questions: What does the data represent? What insights are sought after? What to consider when scraping documents or websites? This isn't a hands-on workshop, but rather a conceptual foundation that teaches beginners how to think strategically about coding, combining programming fundamentals with journalistic inquiry to transform raw data into compelling stories.
4:30pm
Data

Intro to R Programming (Part 2)

KLCC Level 3 - Room 302
This second part of the hands-on workshop introduces participants to R's powerful capabilities for data analysis, moving beyond traditional spreadsheet limitations. Learn to efficiently scrape, clean, sort, and visualize large datasets through reproducible code workflows. Participants will master fundamental R operations. The session emphasizes practical applications with real journalism scenarios, teaching how to build transparent, shareable analysis processes. Perfect for reporters ready to enhance their data skills with this free, industry-standard tool that streamlines complex investigations. Please attend the first part of the workshop if you plan to attend this second part as well.
Speakers
4:30pm
Data

Mastering Pivot Tables to Summarize Data and Find Investigative Leads

KLCC Level 3 - Room 303
Ready to supercharge your data analysis skills? This workshop transforms journalists who know basic spreadsheet functions into pivot table power users. Learn to quickly dissect massive datasets, uncover hidden patterns, and spot investigation ideas that would have taken hours to find manually. Through practical exercises with real data, attendees master cross tabulation, trend analysis, and data summarization techniques that turn overwhelming spreadsheets into compelling story leads.
4:30pm
Diversity

Tips, Tools and Methods to Investigate LGBTQ+ Rights

KLCC Level 4 - Room 410
LGBTQ+ rights investigations require specialized approaches to access vulnerable communities and sensitive information while maintaining trust and safety. This workshop provides essential techniques for reporting on discrimination, policy impacts, and institutional barriers affecting this community. Learn ethical sourcing methods, protective interviewing practices, and data analysis tools for tracking legislative changes and hate crimes.
4:30pm
Exiled Media

Networking: Exiled Media

KLCC Level 4 - Room 405
Our networking sessions are informal meet-ups where you can introduce yourself, talk about your work, brainstorm, and find colleagues to collaborate with. Here, we bring together journalists in exile, who come from different regions, live in different countries, and speak different languages. Here is a chance to meet colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere, share experiences and tips, and help strengthen your investigative networks.
4:30pm
General

Colonial Archives, Indigenous Accountability: Mapping the Past to the Present

KLCC Level 3 - Room 306
This session examines the tools and methods behind Grist’s award-winning Indigenous Affairs series "Misplaced Trust" and "The Human Costs of Conservation." These projects, sourced directly from colonial archives and institutional data collections, provide rare opportunities to blend underappreciated and complex histories with public policy to produce stories that aim for justice and public awareness. This presentation showcases their research process, datasets, and mapping methodology and explains how these projects can foster impactful, cross-border investigations and multi-newsroom partnerships.
4:30pm
Human Rights

Investigating World Hunger

KLCC Level 4 - Room 403
Despite excess food production, nearly 300 million people in 59 countries and territories across the Global South face life-threatening levels of hunger, while global systems for identifying and preventing famine are faltering. This practical session explores the drivers behind the crisis and shares the latest databases, digital tools, satellite imagery techniques, and sources to investigate hunger.
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