Get ready for an extraordinary event. This is our 15th global conference, and we’re expecting more than 1,600 journalists from over 100 countries and territories. We’re crafting a world-class program to match.

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 sensors, satellites, artificial intelligence, and undercover reporting. 

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, clinics, 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 coffee shops and restaurants. Imagine what it’s like to have more than 1,600 journalists from 100 countries and territories brainstorming about how to get data, documents, and the truth. That’s the GIJC. We’re planning an exciting mix of networking sessions — by language, region, and topic — to collaborate and brainstorm in a relaxed setting.