Summer Conference Events

This workshop is an introduction to the principles and techniques of Forensic Architecture and open-source human rights investigations more broadly. This session will cover open-source research and geolocation, as well as basic media and spatial analysis.

Learn from a corporate intelligence analyst how to investigate a person's digital footprint through interactive demonstrations and case studies. Journalists can reveal valuable insights into a person's identity by examining digital footprints.

Hands-on. Ever relied upon an online source, only later to find it deleted or changed? Ever wanted to travel back in time? This class will cover the next best thing: web archives. We'll look at getting the most out of resources like the Wayback Machine -- what they're good for, and what they're not.

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 the 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.

Hands-on This talk will build participants' knowledge of the available sources of satellite imagery, what their respective strengths are and how to use them 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 the border, the i newspaper’s award-winning investigations correspondent Dean Kirby set out to try to find them.

This presentation takes journalists and analysts through the basics of satellite imagery, geographical data, and using imagery in storytelling to verify information and make new findings.

This short course is for those new to open-source intelligence. It will cover a wide range of digital tools and methodologies that can be used for investigations. Participants will be introduced to many techniques and platforms and provided with guidance on how to use them.