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In several months, we will be sharing a call for proposals where approved participants can submit ideas for Circles, Meetups, and Booths. In response to your feedback, more skillshares will be included in the 2026 event programming.
== '''The Format''' ==
'''Circles''', or collaborative discussions that draw out collective wisdom, facilitate brainstorming, or help problem-solve around challenges.
'''Booths''' allow projects to use one of the venue’s permanent structures to showcase their work, demo a tool, run a skillshare, or have one-to-one conversations with participants.
'''Meetups''' are designed to gather participants who share a commonality or interest in a more informal setting. While Team CommUNITY will be coordinating a select number of topical and regional networking meetups, participants will be provided with tools to self-organize their own meetups.
'''Villages:''' In some cases, we will be grouping Circles and Booths into Villages, which are community-led hubs focused on specific themes, regions or areas of practices. In the past, organizations and networks have hosted villages centered on their core work, shared challenges, or regional priorities.
== '''2026 Themes''' ==
=== '''Ecosystem Security, Sustainability, and Health''' ===
* Identifying and onboarding new funders to the field
* Best practices navigating new organizational realities
* Org security in low-resource environments
* Digital security training for at-risk groups and journalists
* Whistleblowing protection
=== '''Surveillance and Censorship''' ===
* Showcasing current research and frontline insights
* Conversations that allow for threat and/or trend discovery
* New and emerging spyware developments
* Combatting smart cities, data brokers, and other privacy intrusive tools
* Showcasing open source circumvention tools and encrypted communication tools, as well as protocols, and effective approaches
* Brainstorming emerging technological challenges and trends in online surveillance and censorship, and collaborative problem solving
* Challenges and updates in security education and training
=== '''Alternative Infrastructure and Digital Sovereignty''' ===
* Educational sessions focused on how to build decentralized, community-owned technologies and protocols.
* Advice on hosting, potential tools, and common problems, and suggestion of open source tools.
=== '''Emerging and Urgent Tech Issues: Disinformation, AI, Platform Accountability, Internet Blackouts, Etc.''' ===
* Updates on current trends related to disinformation, platform accountability, and other tech-related emerging issues impacting rights defenders and journalists, prioritizing frontline experiences, and understanding impacts on democratic process and public trust (for example, during elections).
* Information on current disinformation campaigns actions, and discussions on actions needed.
* Developments in platform accountability work, current needs, and brainstorming cross-regional actions.
* Best practices to navigate internet blackouts, particularly during milestone moments (elections, etc).
* Best practices in information integrity, archiving, and defense tactics.  Artificial Intelligence and automated decision-making as it relates to surveillance, censorship, equity and access.  Algorithmic governance, discussions around how to ensure human rights principles are embedded into automated processes that inform, shape or make decisions that affect people, institutions and societies. especially in areas traditionally governed by human judgment, laws, or public institutions. (policing systems, etc).
=== '''Civil Society Reflections on Tech Regulation and Global Implication''' ===


* Updates on laws, governance frameworks, and regulatory approaches shaping digital rights, data protection and privacy, freedom of expression, Internet governance, etc.
'''<big>Global Gathering 2026 Programming @ a Glance</big>'''
* SLAPPs and other legal or regulatory attacks on civil society; use and regulation of  privacy, security, and encryption technologies
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* Regulatory, technical, and civic responses to emerging risks
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* Tech and policy regulations impacting globally, such as policies impacting decentralized open source technologies, or using circumvention technologies.
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! style="width: 10%;" |'''<big>Sept. 3</big>'''
! style="width: 10%;" |Times
!'''<big>Sept. 4</big>'''
!'''<big>Sept. 5</big>'''
!'''<big>Sept 6</big>'''
|-
! rowspan="5" style="background: #5BE6EF;" |Pre-Registration will run from
'''16:00 - 20:00'''
!|'''9:00 - 12:00'''
| style="background: #8EE6C0; height: 10%;" |'''Satellite Events and Workshops'''
''You must register for each workshop prior to the GG. To see a list of available workshops and RSVP, [[September 4 2026 Agenda|visit the Sept 4 detailed agenda.]]''
| style="background: #8EE6C0; height: 10%;" |'''Satellite Events and Workshops'''
''You must register for each workshop prior to the GG. To see a list and RSVP for available workshops,[[September 5 2026 Agenda|visit the Sept 5 detailed agenda.]]''
| style="background: #8EE6C0; height: 10%;" |'''Satellite Events and Workshops'''
''You must register for each workshop prior to the GG. To see a list and RSVP for available workshops, [[September 6 2026 Agenda|visit the Sept 6 detailed agenda.]]''
|-
!'''9:00 - 12:00'''
| style="background: #FFD6CD; vertical-align: top;" |'''Wellbeing Morning Activities'''
[[Catalyst Coaching Group]] [[Catalyst Coaching Group|🪴]] <br>---> 9:30 - 11:00
| style="background: #FFD6CD; vertical-align: top;" |'''Wellbeing Morning Activities'''
[[Sound Bath Grounding]] 🔔🌿<br>---> 9:30 - 11:00
| style="background: #FFD6CD; vertical-align: top;" |'''Wellbeing Morning Activities'''
[[GG 5K|GG 5K Run!!]] <big>🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️</big><br>---> 8:30 - ??
|-
!'''12:00 - 13:00''' 
| style="background: #FFF9C4; width: 25%; vertical-align: top;" |'''[[September 4 2026 Agenda|Networking Hour and Featured Meetups]]''' 
The bulk of regional meetups will take place at this time - don't miss them! 
| style="background: #FFF9C4; width: 25%; vertical-align: top;" |'''[[September 5 2026 Agenda|Networking Hour and Featured Meetups]]'''
| style="background: #FFF9C4; width: 25%; vertical-align: top;" |'''[[September 6 2026 Agenda|Networking Hour and Featured Meetups]]'''
|-
!'''13:00 - 18:00''' 
| style="background: #c0e590;" |'''[[September 4 2026 Agenda|Circles, Villages, and Booths]]'''
| style="background: #c0e590;" |'''[[September 5 2026 Agenda|Circles, Villages, and Booths]]'''
| style="background: #c0e590;" |'''[[September 6 2026 Agenda|Circles, Villages, and Booths]]'''
|-
!'''18:00 - 21:00''' 
| style="background: #ffa3e8; vertical-align: top;" |[[September 4 2026 Agenda#drag|The Drag Show:]] [[September 4 2026 Agenda#drag|Valencia Drive]]
| style="background: #ffa3e8; vertical-align: top;" |Karaoke Extravaganza
| style="background: #ffa3e8; vertical-align: top;" |DJ Boom Boom Boom
|}


== '''Villages''' ==
== <big style="text-shadow:#5BE6EF 0.1em 0.1em 1.5em,#01EE796D -0.1em -0.1em 1.5em;">Detailed Agenda by Day</big> ==
Additionally, some of the Villages that we hope to host include the following. Reach out if your organization would like to partner to support a Village.
{| style="width:100%"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
! style="background-color:#fde68a; padding: 30px" |<big>[[September 4 2026 Agenda|September 4]]</big>
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! style="background-color:#c0e590; padding: 30px" | <big>[[September 5 2026 Agenda|September 5]]</big>
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! style="background-color:#5BE6EF; padding: 30px" |<big>[[September 6 2026 Agenda|September 6]]</big>
|}


* '''Spyware Response'''
== Updates ==
* '''Circumvention Tech Hub'''
==Tools & Resources==
* '''VPN Community Village'''
* '''Secure Communications'''
* '''Org Sec Village'''
* '''Ecosystem Resilience Salon'''
* '''Alternative Infrastructure Builders'''
* '''Regional Action Lab'''

Latest revision as of 21:07, 17 July 2026


Gathering defenders at the intersection of technology and rights


Global Gathering 2026 Programming @ a Glance

Sept. 3 Times Sept. 4 Sept. 5 Sept 6
Pre-Registration will run from

16:00 - 20:00

9:00 - 12:00 Satellite Events and Workshops

You must register for each workshop prior to the GG. To see a list of available workshops and RSVP, visit the Sept 4 detailed agenda.

Satellite Events and Workshops

You must register for each workshop prior to the GG. To see a list and RSVP for available workshops,visit the Sept 5 detailed agenda.

Satellite Events and Workshops

You must register for each workshop prior to the GG. To see a list and RSVP for available workshops, visit the Sept 6 detailed agenda.

9:00 - 12:00 Wellbeing Morning Activities

Catalyst Coaching Group 🪴
---> 9:30 - 11:00

Wellbeing Morning Activities

Sound Bath Grounding 🔔🌿
---> 9:30 - 11:00

Wellbeing Morning Activities

GG 5K Run!! 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️
---> 8:30 - ??

12:00 - 13:00 Networking Hour and Featured Meetups

The bulk of regional meetups will take place at this time - don't miss them!

Networking Hour and Featured Meetups Networking Hour and Featured Meetups
13:00 - 18:00 Circles, Villages, and Booths Circles, Villages, and Booths Circles, Villages, and Booths
18:00 - 21:00 The Drag Show: Valencia Drive Karaoke Extravaganza DJ Boom Boom Boom

Detailed Agenda by Day

September 4 September 5 September 6

Updates

Tools & Resources

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