September 4 2026 Agenda

Day One of the 2026 Global Gathering Agenda | ➤➤➤ Next Day

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September 4 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: 09:00 - 11:30: Security for Beginners Workshop 10:00 - 11:30: Interactive TFGBV Networking Salon 10:00 - 11:30: Break into the Firewall: A War Game RPG 10:00 - 11:30: Demystifying End-to-End Encryption ... So You can Better Evaluate Tools for Your Threat Model

	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. 🌸 9:30 - 11:00. Catalyst Coaching Group

September 4 GG Activities | 12:00 - 21:00

	12:00 - 13:00 | Networking Hour and Featured Meetups 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. 🌿🌿 Regional meetups will take place today! Don't miss them! 🌿🌿
Where	Meetup
	Asia Meetup
	Africa Meetup
	Eastern European and Central Caucasus Meetup
	Latin America Meetup
	North America Meetup
	Russia Meetup
	SWANA Meetup
	Western Europe Meetup

	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 4
	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Circle 1	Researchers Meetup	Age Verification and Digital Identity Systems: The Mapping and Actors (Part 1)	The Future of DSA: A Global Perspective
Circle 2	Journalism Meetup	Cross-Borders Storytelling: Device Searches, Metadata, and Collective Preparation	We See, We Archive, We Remember: Preserving Digital Evidence Against Erasure
Circle 3	Policy Advocates Meetup	Digital Transnational Repression: Connecting Across Regions	Digital Authoritarianism and Forced Exile: Mapping Experiences and Strategies
Circle 4	Participatory Defense Meetup	How to Design and Build Digital Infrastructure that Works for Your Community	Criminalization Is a Design Condition: Building Most Resilient Tech from the Margins
Circle 5	Influence Operations Investigators Meetup	On the Horizon: AI-enabled Technology and its Gendered Harms	Leaving Big Tech: From Common Blockers to Collective Solutions
Circle 6	OSINT in the Open Meetup	Mobilizing Around Convention 193: The First Global Treaty Establishing Labor Standards for the Platform Economy	Creative Refusal: Experimental Artistic Methods to Radically Refuse Surveillance
Circle 7
Villages
	13:30 - 14:30	15:00 - 16:00	16:30 - 17:30
Calyx Village	reserved	reserved	Clawing Back Your Data in the Age of Social Surveillance
APC Village
Digital Security Village	Security Practioners Meetup	Beyond Borders: How Authoritarian States Use Digital Tactics to Target Diaspora and People in Exile	Auditing AI on the questions that matter to you: learn a simple, repeatable method for testing how LLMs handle politically contested topics.
Circumvention Tech Village	Technologist Meetup	MANTA: Measuring Tunnel Health in Censored Environments	Working Around Max: Brainstorming Civil-Society Resistance to Russia's State Messaging App
Spyware Village	Spyware Researchers Meetup
Secure Communications Village		How to Approach Community-Rriven Development Beyond Git	Secure Messaging in 2026 and What Comes Next
Regional Views Village		15 Things We Learned from Auditing 15 Brazilian Media Organizations	Advancing Collective Responses to Mis- and Disinformation in the Iran and Palestine Contexts
Queer Rights Village		Tech Justice Promenade: Gathering of LGBTQI+ and Allies	Inappropriate Bodies: Sex Workers & Queer People Pushed to the Digital Margins
Ecosystem Resilience		U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities	U.S. Foreign Policy and Human Rights: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities
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 4 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
Needs to be added
Needs to be added

September 4 Global Gathering After Hours | 18:00 - 21:00

The Digital Rights Drag Show

Time: 18:00 Location: Center of venue Join us for a night of drag with Valencia and Drive and xxxx. The (Un)official drag queen of the digital rights community - Valencia Drive - is your commercial-free hotmix of the 80’s, 90’s and today, here to serve you more fashion, more comedy, and more cartoonish nonsense than ever before. Valencia returns to Global Gathering mainstage this year with yet another iconic, legendary, and absolutely flawless performance, proving yet again why she’s your favorite threat model. (Valencia Drive's IG: @thevalenciadrive). xxxxxx

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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.

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 Rights Village	Resident NGO, TCU	This is a space for security practitioners and trainers to discuss securing our communities from digital threats from both the ground and the tech
Ecosystem Resilience
Regional Views Village
Secure Communications Village
Spyware Village
Queer Rights Village

Circle Title	Circle Description

Booth Descriptions

Booth	Run by	Booth Description