Summer Conference Events

The Russian invasion of Ukraine changed many of the topics covered by Ukrainian investigative journalists, though the key investigative techniques have often remained the same. Elena Loginova speaks about an investigation by OCCRP, The Banality of Brutality.

Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe’s top open source intelligence specialists, this session will focus on using images in an investigation. It will show how to find images, including searching by face, finding locations and verifying information using reverse image searching.

Taught by Paul Myers, one of Europe's top open source intelligence specialists, this session will demonstrate techniques for locating and investigating people using various resources and detective skills like jigsaw identification.

This talk will build participants' knowledge of the available sources of satellite imagery, what their respective strengths are and how to use them most effectively. - Review of different sources: Planet, Sentinel-2, LandSat-7 and Maxar — we set out the main options in more detail in a recent Substack post.

After the mayor of Mariupol warned that tens of thousands of people from the city were being interrogated in Russian filtration camps and forced across border, the i newspaper’s award-winning investigations correspondent Dean Kirby set out to try to find them.