September 6 2026 Agenda

Previous Day ◀   Day Three of the 2026 Global Gathering Agenda

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September 6 Pre-GG Morning Activities | 9:00 - 12:00

These activities occur in the morning, before the start of the Global Gathering

	Satellite Events and RSVP-Required Workshops
	Each morning, we provide space for private satellite events, and a handful of workshops that are open to participants but require you to register before the start of the event. Currently accepting RSVPs for: 11:00 - 12:30 The Costs of Protection: Turning GG 2024 Insights into an Agenda for Global South Sovereignty 11:00 - 12:30: From Activist to Consultant: How to Build a Revenue-Generating Consulting Career 11:00 - 12:30: Experience the Shutdown! A Role-Playing Training Simulation 11:00 - 12:30: Agentic AI for Activism: Building Local, Sovereign Tools

	Wellbeing Morning Activities
	Wellbeing Morning Activities take place offsite, before the start of the GG each day, and do not require prior registration. You can also volunteer to host a Wellbeing Morning Activity by following these instructions. 8:30 - ?: GG 5K Run!! 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️

September 6 GG Activities | 12:00 - 21:00

	Networking Hour Meetups 12:00 - 13:00
	Each day we host a networking hour at the venue. Take advantage of the many food vendors we have while meeting folks in the digital rights space! This includes a handful of meetups that take place in the venue.

	Circles, Villages and Offsite Meetups You can find detailed Circles, Villages, and Meetup descriptions the end of this page. Please take notes in each Riseup pad linked in each title. Follow these instructions, to organize a Circle in the slots marked "TBD" in the venue OR to organize an offsite afternoon meetup.
Circles, September 6
	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Circle 1	Age Verification Systems and Digital Identity Systems: The Collaborations and Strategies (Part 2)	Intergenerational Conversation: Resisting Digital Authoritarianism Across Contexts
Circle 2	Mapping the Militarisation of Tech	AI Disinformation in Pre-Election Contexts Across The Global South
Circle 3	Moderation, Maintenance, and Money: The Care Work of Community-Governed Tech	Your Email, Delivered! Lets start a Discussion on Email Compliance and Deliverability
Circle 4	Secure and Private Design and User Research for Human Rights Tech Meetup	Building Stronger Digital Security Communities: A Conversation Between Moldova, Ukraine and Beyond
Circle 5	Deeply Rooted: Co-Creative and Relational Practices for Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural and Natural Heritage	Care for the docs! Challenges and Concerns within Digital Security Documentation Community
Circle 6	Do You Sleep at Night? How to Not Wear Out Your Sysadmin
Circle 7
Villages
	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Calyx Village	reserved		reserved
APC Village
Digital Security	Games for Digital Rights & Security Education	Availability Over Confidentiality: Digital Security Lessons from Ukraine's Blackouts	Hands off my stuff! Tactics and strategies against physical device searches
Circumvention Tech
Spyware Village
Ecosystem Resilience	Closing the Loop: Lessons from Sunsetting an Organization	What Does a Win Look Like in Our Ecosystem?
Regional A
Regional B
Regional C
Offsite Meetups	Please note that these meetups are being organized by participants themselves, and the TCU/GG staff have no oversight on these activities.

	Booths, Sept 6 You can find detailed Booths descriptions at the bottom of this page. In the venue (IRL), each booth has a number, found on the top-center of each booth's "window".
	13:00 - 15:00			15:30 - 17:30
Location	Name	Run by		Name	Run by
Booth 4a
Booth 4b
Booth 5
Booth 6
Booth 7
Booth 8
Booth 9
Booth 10
Booth 11
Booth 12
Booth 13
Booth 14
Booth 15
Booth 16
Booth 17
Booth 18
Booth 19
Booth 21
Booth 22
Booth 57
Booth 78
Booth 79
Booth 80
Booth 81
Booth 82
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September 6 Global Gathering After Hours | 18:00 - 21:00

	Closing Party
	Time: 18:00 Location: Center of venue

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Other Evening Socials
If you would like to organize an evening social, please follow these instructions. This can be dinners, hangouts, or visits to nearby locations. In some cases, we may be able to accommodate your request in the venue itself.

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Village and Circle Descriptions

Villages are "all-day hubs" focused on specific topics. They house both Booths and Circles.

Village	Run by	Village Description
APC Village
Calyx Village
Circumvention Tech Village
Digital Security Village
Ecosystem Resilience Village
Spyware Village
Regional A
Regional B
Regional C

Circle and/or Meetup Title	Description
Age Verification Systems and Digital Identity Systems: The Collaborations and Strategies (Part 2)	This is part 2 of a two part Circle focused on Age Verification and digital Identify Systems This Circle focuses on age verification, the harm-reduction pathways that civil society and technologists can advance, and how to respond to the narratives of privacy and safety that are often used to justify these systems. Participants will identify opportunities for cross-regional collaboration and co-develop strategies for engaging with the evolving digital identity ecosystem, with attention to both policy advocacy and the design, deployment, and implementation of technical systems.
AI Disinformation in Pre-Election Contexts Across The Global South	AI-generated disinformation is becoming a defining feature of election cycles across the Global South, and while policy responses are underway, citizens need ways to stay alert to disinformation that threatens electoral integrity. With Kenya's 2027 general election as a case study, this circle seeks to bring together digital rights defenders, fact-checkers, journalists, and researchers to co-develop practical verification habits that outlast the detection hacks AI keeps outpacing, and to close the gap between existing fact-checking resources and public awareness of them.
Availability Over Confidentiality: Digital Security Lessons from Ukraine's Blackouts	During Ukraine's long blackouts, supporting journalists and human rights defenders meant constantly looking for compromises between availability and security. Being able to work at all often came first, but security stayed part of every decision, and the work never stopped - we just had to adapt. This Circle shares real, hands-on lessons on backup power, staying online, and the hard choices teams had to make.
Building Stronger Digital Security Communities: A Conversation Between Moldova, Ukraine and Beyond	Civil society organizations across the world are facing increasingly complex digital threats, yet many countries are still developing the local communities and partnerships needed to provide sustainable digital security support. Moldova and Ukraine offer complementary perspectives: Ukraine has built a strong digital security community through years of responding to cyber threats, while Moldova is strengthening collaboration between civil society and digital security practitioners to build local capacity. This Circle will bring together participants to discuss how digital security communities can grow through collaboration, peer learning and cross-border partnerships. Rather than presenting a single model, the discussion will invite participants to compare experiences, identify common challenges and explore practical opportunities for regional and international cooperation.
Care for the docs! Challenges and Concerns within Digital Security Documentation Community	Digital security documentation is core to the community strategies to protect HRDs and at-risk groups under surveillance, threats and attacks. Documentation maintainers now compete with AI-generated content to deliver accurate, reliable, and localized information. What critical topics and attack trends need further documentation? Is the community willing to use AI to streamline maintenance tasks and, if so, how to safeguard content's accuracy?
Closing the Loop: Lessons from Sunsetting an Organization	Using our own recent decision to sunset the Center for Digital Resilience as a starting point, this circle will look at what goes into sunsetting an organization. How do you decide it’s time? How do you plan for it? Come with your own questions or experiences: this is meant to be as much a conversation as a case study.
Deeply Rooted: Co-Creative and Relational Practices for Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural and Natural Heritage	Cultural and natural heritage are under threat from a convergence of crises, and the digital governance frameworks meant to safeguard them often replicate the same extraction and erasure they claim to prevent. This Circle invites participants to co-build a living set of relational governance principles, material that will directly shape an open-access zine on safeguarding digital cultural heritage, currently being developed through an ongoing cross-sectoral collaboration.
Do You Sleep at Night? How to Not Wear Out Your Sysadmin	Runing infrastrucure is not easy. There can be hardware or power issue and your application is offline. Or there can be a failed software upgrade and your application is offline. There can be a storm and the WiFi antenna of your mesh network is collapsed. The neighbor complaining it can not access instragram. End users often quickly get frustrated - building pressure on sysadmins and operators. How to find the balance, how to set the right expectations for end-users.
Games for Digital Rights & Security Education	Calling all practitioners and enthusiasts for interactive and play-based education! In this circle, we'll exchange ideas and lessons learned in creating and facilitating educational games. You're welcome whether you have created your own games, designed creative training tactics, or are just interested in how to elevate digital literacy and raise awareness in fun activities.
Hands off my stuff! Tactics and Strategies Against Physical Device Searches	An open discussion about the latest tactics and strategies to protect our devices and the data they hold against physical searches. We'll discuss tools, good practices, and threat models like border searches, lost/stolen devices, abusive domestic situations, etc.
Intergenerational Conversation: Resisting Digital Authoritarianism Across Contexts	In this Circle, participants will explore how state-sponsored and tech-driven authoritarianism impacts different communities through shared experiences of digital surveillance, harassment, and censorship. We will intentionally bring an intergenerational lens, looking at how tech threats target different age groups, and how youth-led digital tactics can blend with seasoned organizing experience to build stronger collective defenses. Rather than focusing solely on regional differences, participants will identify common patterns and exchange community-led strategies that defenders can immediately adapt to their local realities.
Mapping the Militarisation of Tech	The battlefield is coming to our towns and cities, as technologies that we rely on every day are militarised. In turn, civilian technologies driven by our data and our lives, are moving onto the battlefield. The very same companies who build tools of war are expanding to deliver civilian infrastructure, and vice versa. We are being pushed into a militarised future we don't want. This circle will explore strategies to counter the narrative that data-intensive military tech will lead to better protection for civilians, by highlighting the risks to our rights to privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression.
Moderation, Maintenance, and Money: The Care Work of Community-Governed Tech	Community-led technology is often built around values like openness, access, privacy, and participation, but keeping it alive requires much more than shared principles. This Circle asks what it really takes to sustain community-governed infrastructure: who moderates harm, who maintains the code, who pays for hosting and security, who makes decisions, and how care work can be recognized before people burn out.
Secure and Private Design and User Research for Human Rights Tech Meetup	This Circle brings together design and research practitioners to discuss the state of user centered design and user research in the human rights technology and support/training space. Participants will define, discuss, debate and ideate what good and great looks like for users and beneficiaries of human rights technology as heard by designers, user researchers and digital security trainers that work directly with them.
What Does a Win Look Like in Our Ecosystem?	In resource-constrained, high-pressure environments, and our present day doom and gloom narrative, communities that don't pause, reflect on their progress and celebrate their wins are more prone to burn out. This Circle brings participants together to define, share, and circulate what a "win" looks like in the Digital Rights and Tech Justice community - across regions, contexts, and scales. In preparation for the circle, we will gather stories  from partners and members of the community, explore their main elements and invite participants. Participants will collaborate with a guide to recognize 'wins' and contribute to guidelines on how to tell these stories. The circle will also have as a result different narrative strategies that can help participants describe their work differently and potentially refine the goals of certain projects.|
Your Email, Delivered! Lets start a Discussion on Email Compliance and Deliverability	Newsletters, campaign updates, and calls to action: many individuals and organizations in the digital rights space need their email delivered in order to reach their goals. There are many-technical and non-technical-mechanisms that affect the "deliverability" of your email. We'll discuss non-technical strategies and explain what SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, TLS-RTP, and MTA-STS can do for non-profits, activists, freelancers and solopreneurs. Access to some of these technologies is prohibitively expensive. Can we count on your support to advocate for cheaper access to the most cutting edge email standards?

Booth Descriptions

Booth	Run by	Booth Description