GG26SandBox
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GG Agenda SandBox
This page is ONLY to coordinate between TCU and participants leading circles, booths, and workshops. The official agenda of the Global Gathering 2026 can be found here.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT your activities description at the bottom..
| Sept. 3 | Times | Sept. 4 | Sept. 5 | Sept 6 |
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| Pre-Registration will run from
16:00 - 20:00 |
9:00 - 12:00 | Satellite Events and Workshops
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Satellite Events and Workshops
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Satellite Events and Workshops |
| 9:00 - 12:00 | Wellbeing Morning Activities
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Wellbeing Morning Activities
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Wellbeing Morning Activities
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Networking Hour | Networking Hour | Networking Hour | |
| 13:00 - 18:00 | Circles, Villages, Meetups and Booths | Circles, Villages, Meetups and Booths | Circles, Villages, Meetups and Booths | |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | The Drag Show: Valencia Drive | Karaoke Extravaganza | DJ Boom Boom Boom |
September 4
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12:00 - 13:00 Networking Hour
Come to the venue to have lunch and explore our amazing food vendors, while meeting new folks. In addition, some meetups will be taking place during this time as well. Do you not have to be part of a meetup to join us! |
| Where | Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | Africa Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | Asia Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | Eastern European and Central Caucasus Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | Latin America Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | North America Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | Russia Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | SWANA Meetup |
| Venue / xxx | Western Europe Meetup |
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Circles and Villages | Sept 4 | ||
| Circle 1 | Researchers Meetup | Tech Justice Promenade: Gathering of LGBTQI+ and Allies | |
| Circle 2 | Jourmalism Meetup | ||
| Circle 3 | Policy Advocates Meetup | ||
| Circle 4 | Participatory Defense Meetup | ||
| Circle 5 | Influence Operations Investigators Meetup | ||
| Circle 6 | Countering Disinformation Meetup | ||
| Circle 7 | OSINT in the Open Meetup | ||
| Circle 8 | Security Practioners Meetup | Self-Organized TBD | Self-Organized TBD |
| Offsite Meetups | |||
| Calyx Village | |||
| Circumvention Tech | Technologist Meetup | ||
| Security | Digital Transnational Repression: Connecting Across Regions | ||
| Spyware Village | |||
| Autonomous Infrastructure | |||
| Regional | |||
| Regional | |||
| Ecosystem Resilience | |||
| Rotating | |||
September 5
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12:00 - 13:00 Networking Hour
Come to the venue to have lunch and explore our amazing food vendors, while meeting new folks. In addition, some meetups will be taking place during this time as well. Do you not have to be part of a meetup to join us! |
| Where | Meetup |
| Caribbean + Diaspora Meet Up | |
| South Asian Digital Liberation Meetup |
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Circles and Villages | Sept 5 | ||
| Circle 1 | |||
| Circle 2 | |||
| Circle 3 | |||
| Circle 4 | |||
| Circle 5 | |||
| Circle 6 | |||
| Circle 7 | |||
| Circle 8 | Self-Organized TBD | Self-Organized TBD | Self-Organized TBD |
| Offsite Meetups | |||
| Village 1 | |||
| Village 2 | |||
| Village 3 | |||
| Village 4 | |||
| Village 5 | |||
| Village 6 | |||
| Village 7 | |||
| Village 8 | |||
| Village 9 | Self-Organized TBD | Self-Organized TBD | Self-Organized TBD |
September 6
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12:00 - 13:00 Networking Hour
On the first day of the event, we will be featuring Regional Meetups during our networking hour. |
| Where | Meetup |
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Circles and Villages | Sept 6 | ||
| Circle 1 | |||
| Circle 2 | |||
| Circle 3 | |||
| Circle 4 | |||
| Circle 5 | |||
| Circle 6 | |||
| Circle 7 | |||
| Circle 8 | Self-Organized TBD | Self-Organized TBD | Self-Organized TBD |
| Offsite Meetups | |||
| Village 1 | |||
| Village 2 | |||
| Village 3 | |||
| Village 4 | |||
| Village 5 | |||
| Village 6 | |||
| Village 7 | |||
| Village 8 | |||
| Village 9 | |||
Descriptions
Villages are "all-day hubs" focused on specific topics. They house both Booths and Circles.
| Africa Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the African region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse African projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Africa digital rights community. |
| Asia Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the Asia region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Asian projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Asian digital rights community. |
| Caribbean + Diaspora Meet Up | This meetup brings together human rights defenders from the Caribbean. We will discuss how we can create ""digital safety in numbers"" across our region and share examples and stories of our digital rights experience. We will also explore mutual support and collaborative resources. |
| Countering Disinformation Meetup | Come meet colleagues from across the disinformation frontlines. We'll share learnings, tactics, and war stories - as we seek to learn from one another on what works best, and what can inadvertently backfire in the fight against disinformation. |
| Digital Transnational Repression: Connecting Across Regions | This meetup will bring together people working on digital transnational repression (TNR) across different regions. While our work focuses on digital TNR originating from Russia and Belarus and affecting Europe, we would like to connect with practitioners and experts working on similar challenges involving other countries and regions. The meetup will provide an informal space to exchange experiences, identify common challenges, share approaches, and build relationships that can support future collaboration. |
| Eastern European and Central Caucasus Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the Eastern European and Central Caucasus region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Eastern European and Central Caucasus projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Eastern European and Central Caucasus digital rights community. |
| Influence Operations Investigators Meetup | A space for people who research and track influence operations across different regions to meet, connect, and build trust. Many of us investigate influence operations in relative isolation, often under risk, and rarely get to meet peers facing similar challenges. This meetup is a chance to put faces to names, share where we are working and what we are up against, and lay the groundwork for ongoing cross-regional collaboration that continues well beyond the GG. We especially want to connect investigators from underrepresented regions, including the Global South, where influence operations are often under-documented but increasingly consequential. |
| Jourmalism Meetup | Connect with other journalists and media professionals in the digital rights field. This is a fantastic opportunity to foster meaningful connections, share your concerns and seek support, and expand your professional network. |
| Latin America Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the Latin America region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Latin American projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Latin America digital rights community. |
| North America Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the North American region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse North American projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the North American digital rights community. |
| OSINT in the Open Meetup | OSINT practitioners share methods and missions but rarely get to share a room. This meetup is a dedicated space for open-source intelligence professionals to meet, swap stories, and build the kind of relationships that make the work more sustainable and less lonely. |
| Participatory Defense Meetup | This meetup is for people working on participatory defense and advocacy for individuals who have been imprisoned-to share strategies, tactics, and build up a stronger network for defense. |
| Policy Advocates Meetup | Connect with individuals working at the intersection of policy and digital rights. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn from fellow policy advocates from across the world, and learn about current policy initiatives related to the impact of technology on human rights. |
| Researchers Meetup | Connect with fellow researchers investigating digital rights topics and subjects such as internet freedom, security and technology. Participants will share insights, discuss recent findings, and explore emerging trends in the field. Whether you're a seasoned researcher or new to the field, this meetup provides a supportive environment to enhance your work and impact. |
| Russia Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in Russia This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse Russian projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Russian digital rights community. |
| Security Practioners Meetup | Meet security practioners from around the world - from cybersecurity professionals conducting audits to digital security trainers. Whether you’re looking to share your expertise, learn from others, or expand your professional network, this Circle is a great place to learn about new developments, and find opportunities for collaboration. |
| South Asian Digital Liberation Meetup | This meetup brings together folks from South Asia, who has served as one of the largest markets for global digital platforms, but at the same time, some of the most egregious cases of digital violence have come out of South Asia, whether that is fueling disinformation, hate speech, or extremism. This meetup will bring together South Asian human rights defenders within the region and in the diaspora working at the nexus of tech and justice. |
| SWANA Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the SWANA region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from diverse SWANA projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the SWANA digital rights community. |
| Tech Justice Promenade: Gathering of LGBTQI+ and allies | This meetup provides a strategic space for LGBTQI+ technologists, policymakers, digital rights activists, and allies to connect and build actionable pathways for increasing queer representation in the global tech ecosystem and examining the rapid expansion of Artificial intelligence. strategising on how our communities can move from passive consumers of these technologies to critical operators who can shape its future and counter algorithmic bias. |
| Technologist Meetup | Meet technologists from across the world who are working in digital rights, or in other public interest technology areas. Whether you’re looking to share your expertise, learn from others, or expand your professional network, this Circle is a great place to learn about new developments, and find opportunities for collaboration. |
| Western Europe Meetup | Connect with individuals actively working in the Western European region. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about different projects, gain valuable insights, and expand your professional network. This meetup is designed to foster meaningful connections and enrich the Western European digital rights community. |
