Global Gathering Summit Agenda

Summit Working Groups

The foundation of the three-day summit will be small-group discussions focused on topics developed by direct Summit participant feedback.

Read through all of the working group topics below and take note of which groups you would like to take part in at the Summit. When you arrive at the event, you will be asked to join one of these groups (on a first come, first served basis) and collaborate in that group for the three days of the Summit.

Group 1. Community Health: Events: Tackling Travel, Visa and Border Crossings

Group 2. Community Health: Improving Equity and Collaboration

Group 3. Security: Improving Threat Information Sharing and Collaboration With Existing Resources

Group 4. Security: How to Better Confront Evolving Surveillance, its Historic Impact on HRDs, in the Face of Inadequate Capabilities

Group 5. Security: Defending our Organizations from Increasing Cyber Attacks

Group 6. Technology: How to Collectively Prepare and Brainstorming Solutions for Emerging Censorship Threats While at Capacity

Group 7. Policy: Influencing Critical Multilateral Decision-Making Opportunities Ensuring that the Needs of the Most At-Risk Are Included

Group 8. Policy: How to Collectively Address Local Policy Challenges in the Global Majority that are Causing Major Roadblocks and Oppression

Group 9. Socio-Political: Talking about China, Ukraine & Emerging Threats

Group 10. Socio-Political: Pressuring Corporations to Do Better

Group 11. Sustainability of Organizations: Improving Our Financial Resilience in a Austere Climate

Group 12. Sustainability of Organizations: Attracting New Talent

Group 13. Organizational Health: Reducing the Impact of Burnout on Our Bottom Line

Group 14. Organizational Health: Addressing HIstoric Management Challenges

Group 15. Bringing in New Funders to Digital Rights

Group 16. Digital Security: Increasing Capacity Locally

Group 17. Digital Security: Supply Chain Issues

Group 18. Tools: Building for Technologies in Highly Censored Regions

Group 19: Tools: Maintenance, Recreating the Wheel, and Increasing Talent with Local Context Expertise

Daily Summit Agendas

Sep 15 - Day One
Time	Activity
7:30:00 AM	Registration - Coffee - Breakfast
9:00:00 AM	Opening + Welcome
9:15:00 AM	Culture Setting
9:35:00 AM	Oveview of the Field
10:05:00 AM	Purpose and Objectives
10:10:00 AM	Networking Activity
10:25:00 AM	Contest - Org Health
10:45:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00:00 AM	Introductions of Excercises Instructions for First Workshop
11:05:00 AM	Workshop 1: Context, Treaths and Trends
12:05:00 AM	Coffee Break
12:20:00 PM	Intro to Second Workshop: Team Roles
12:25:00 PM	Workshop 2: Identification of the impact of Threats now and in the future.
1:00:00 PM	Sharing - Report Back
1:30:00 PM	Wrap Up of the Day
1:35:00 PM	Lunch

Sep 16 - Day Two
Time	Activity
7:30:00 AM	Registration - Coffee - Breakfast
9:00:00 AM	Opening
9:10:00 AM	TCU Recap
9:15:00 AM	House Rules and Resources
9:25:00 AM	Day Program Presentation
9:30:00 AM	Context and Objectives
9:45:00 AM	Workshop 3: Challenge identification based on Threats
10:00:00 AM	Serious Game on Challenges
10:15:00 AM	Mini Workshop 4: Conceptualisation
10:45:00 AM	Workshop 5: Ideation of Solutions
11:15:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:25:00 PM	Workshop 6: Idea Viability
12:00:00 PM	Process Sharing
12:30:00 PM	Workshop 7: Collective Action Plan Drafts
1:10:00 PM	Sharing + Questions
1:40:00 AM	Lunch

Sep 17 - Day Three
Time	Activity
7:30:00 AM	Registration - Coffee - Breakfast
9:00:00 AM	Welcome and Recap
9:10:00 AM	House Rules and day Resources
9:20:00 AM	Collaboration Market
10:15:00 AM	Sharing
10:45:00 AM	Feedback and preconclusions
11:00:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:15:00 AM	Collaboration Market
12:00:00 AM	Conclusions on challenges
12:30:00 AM	TCU to share steps forward. What comes next in 2024.
13:00:00 PM	Gratitude Exercise