September 5 2026 Agenda
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September 5 Pre-GG Morning Activities | 9:00 - 12:00
These activities occur in the morning, before the start of the Global Gathering
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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:
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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.
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September 5 GG Activities | 12:00 - 21:00
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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. | |
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Circles, Villages and Offsite Meetups
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| Circle 1 | Internet Shutdown Contingency Planning Help Desk (+ shutdown circumvention trainer meetup) | Running and Using Local LLMs With Hardware You Already Own | Backing Up for the Machine? Independent Data Preservation in the Age of AI Scraping |
| Circle 2 | Co-Designing Practical AI Bias Detection Tools with Journalists in the Global South | Knowing What You're Looking for: AI Slop and OSINT Work in Conflict Zones | Algorithmic Harms & Activist Resilience: Lessons from the Netherlands and Spain |
| Circle 3 | Spill the Tea! What Digital Threats Are You Seeing? | When the World Moves On: Breaking the Silence After Crackdowns and Elections | |
| Circle 4 | Deleted, Demoted, Disappeared: Now What? | How to Stop Social Media Companies from Financing Threat Actors | |
| Circle 5 | Exploring Models and Best Practices of Building Sustainable Tech Collective Infrastructure | Alternative Technologies and Infrastructure for Newsrooms and Investigative Networks | |
| Circle 6 | You Own Infrastructure! Great! How to Protect it from the Bad of the Internet With the Help of Scenarios | ||
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| Calyx Village | Reserved | Reserved | |
| APC VIllage | Navigating AI Use and Ethics in CSOs | ||
| Digital Security | Living in the Crosshairs: Operational Survival Under Ubiquitous Surveillance | Driving Action From Collective Alerting | Starlink Best Practices |
| Circumvention Tech | Strengthening Rapid Response Efforts to Censorship Events | Lights in the Tunnel: Co-Creating an Accountability Framework for VPN Transparency | |
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| Secure Communications | Can Signal Become Phishing-Resistant? | What Does a Girl Gotta Do Around Here to Get People to Download the Tool Before the Internet Shuts Down? | Reserved |
| Latin American Village | Hackear y Crear: Cesafíos y Estrategias Feministas Para Enfrentar Las Infraestructuras Tecnopolíticas Que Amenazan a las Democracias en América Latina | Illegal Trade in Personal Data: Presentation of a Report and Stories to Raise Awareness | Digital Territory: Rethinking Security for Environmental Defenders in Latin America |
| Regional | Holistic Security for Immigration Rapid Response Work in the US | ||
| Ecosystem Resilience | Practical Security and Safety Strategies for Events and Community Spaces | ||
| Offsite Meetups | Please note that these meetups are being organized by participants themselves, and the TCU/GG staff have no oversight on these activities. | ||
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Booths, Sept 5You 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". | ||||
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September 5 Global Gathering After Hours | 18:00 - 21:00
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Calyx Institute Karaoke Party! |
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Time: 18:00 |
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| Digital Rights Game Night
Time: 18:30 Location: Meet at reserved picnic tables in venue near food vendors.Join us for a game night featuring a variety of digital security and digital rights games! Bring your own games to playtest and get feedback, or play one of ours. Whether you're an avid gamer, a digital security trainer, or this is your first time picking up a deck of cards, you are welcome to join |
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| If you would like to organize an evening social to add to thist list, 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. | ||
Partners
Village and Circle Descriptions
Villages are "all-day hubs" focused on specific topics. They house both Booths and Circles.
