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

12:00pm - 1:30pm
KLCC Level 3 - Grand Ballroom
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Business & Finance
KLCC Level 4 - Room 404
This workshop teaches journalists how to investigate oligopolies in the pharmaceutical industry that restrict access to essential medicines through high pricing and market manipulation. Participants learn to uncover price-setting mechanisms, expose patent extensions and lobbying tactics, reveal conflicts of interest, regulatory capture, and barriers to generic competition. The session provides practical tools for investigating complex market structures, holding pharmaceutical companies accountable, and informing policy debates that can improve healthcare access and affordability globally.
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Crime & Corruption
KLCC Level 3 - Conference Hall 1
Oligarchs, criminals, sanctions-evaders, and other bad actors have found new and cheaper ways to hide their ill-gotten assets, thanks to emerging technologies, secrecy jurisdictions, and sophisticated enablers. But journalists are countering this camouflage with their own innovative tools, persistence, and collaborative projects. In this highly practical panel, investigative journalists from three continents will share open source resources, leaks databases, and investigative pathways that can help follow the money far beyond the identify of hidden owners.
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Data
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 - 2:45pm
Data
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 - 2:45pm
Documentaries
KLCC Level 4 - Plenary Theatre
How can you turn investigative journalism into a documentary feature? This panel covers all the steps in the process — from research to production, attracting funding, and distribution. Participants learn how to identify which stories make good film subjects and how to decide which platforms work best for documentary storytelling, ranging from streaming services to festivals.
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Environment
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 - 2:45pm
General
KLCC Level 4 - Room 405
Sports investigations reveal power dynamics, corruption, and financial misconduct that are often hidden behind the spectacle of entertainment. This panel brings together journalists who will offer tips for getting access into insular sports organizations, cultivating sources within competitive environments, and following money trails through complex league structures. Speakers share methods for obtaining confidential documents, investigating institutional practices, and uncovering stories that transcend sports to reveal broader patterns of misconduct and governance failures.
1:30pm - 2:45pm
General
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.
1:30pm - 2:45pm
General
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 - 2:45pm
Human Rights
KLCC Level 4 - Room 410
Massive movements of people and restrictive immigration policies create urgent stories requiring specialized reporting approaches. This session brings together colleagues working on migration investigations to explore cross-border collaboration, open source research tools, and the use of data analysis. Participants will learn techniques for investigating migrant trafficking, border enforcement, detention facilities, and policy. They share experiences on how to safely and ethically work with migrants as sources, establishing secure communication protocols, and maintaining appropriate journalist-source boundaries when covering displacement, asylum processes, and human trafficking networks.
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Nonprofit & New Models
KLCC Level 4 - Room 401
How can we design investigations to spark real-world change, and how can we measure that change? Making, demonstrating and quantifying impact has become essential to investigative journalism's sustainability and credibility. As newsrooms worldwide create dedicated impact roles, this panel brings together leaders who have successfully embedded impact into editorial strategy, workflows and metrics. Speakers will share proven methodologies for building impact-focused newsroom culture and tracking story outcomes. Through case studies and practical tools, attendees will learn to design strategic impact frameworks to define, create and measure the value that their reporting brings to communities, audiences and wider society.
2:45pm - 3:00pm
TBA
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Crime & Corruption
KLCC Level 3 - Conference Hall 1
Scammers stole an estimated $1 trillion last year in a worldwide crime spree fueled by cryptocurrency and AI technology according to a report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, yet only a fraction of these crimes result in prosecution. No country escapes involvement — whether as targets, hosts of scam compounds, or secret money laundering hubs. This panel explores approaches to investigating modern fraud, from trafficking operations where victims are forced to defraud others, to engaging with communities to raise awareness on fact-checking, and how to spot fraud and manipulation tactics. 🪑All sessions are first-come, first-serve. That means people who arrive first will get seats. Be aware that some sessions are in relatively small rooms and they will fill up quickly.
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Data
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 - 4:15pm
Data
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 - 4:15pm
Data
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.
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Diversity
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 - 4:15pm
Environment
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 - 4:15pm
General
KLCC Level 3 - Conference Hall 2
This panel examines how collaboration enhances reporter safety and the impact of their stories to hold the powerful accountable. Experienced journalists from challenging regions share practical security protocols, communication tools, and partnership strategies that have protected their work and lives. Learn how international networks provide crucial support, distribute risk, and amplify investigations that expose corruption and abuse of power.
3:00pm - 4:15pm
General
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 - 4:15pm
Human Rights
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 - 4:15pm
Networking
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 - 4:15pm
Networking
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.
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