Dataharvest 2015: Full Schedule

Dataharvest/EIJC, the European Investigative and Data Journalism Conference organised by Journalismfund.eu, is the most relevant networking event for investigative and data journalists in Europe. Dataharvest/EIJC15 will take place on Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday morning 10 May 2015, with a pre-conference Hackaton on Thursday 7 May. Like the previous years, the conference will take place in the centre of Brussels.

11:00 CEST

Keynote: Why Cross-Border Journalism Matters

Cross-border journalism is considered the innovative method these years. The recent Lux and Swiss Leaks stories have caused a stir and draft legal adjustments in Europe. Marina Walker from the ICIJ is the coordinator behind the tax leak stories of the recent years. She’ll make a point on why cross-border collaborative investigative journalism is necessary in our time.

Moderators

Ides Debruyne

Managing director/co-founder, Journalismfund Europe

Ides Debruyne is the co-founder and managing director of Journalismfund Europe (Brussels) and co-founder of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists (VVOJ). He is also the founder and chair of "SciMingo" (promotes science communication in the Flemish region) and... Read More →

Speakers

Marina Walker Guevara

Deputy Director, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Marina Walker Guevara is deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, an independent network of reporters headquartered in Washington, DC. A native of Argentina, her investigations have won and shared more than 25 national and international awards... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2015 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
1.21 Erasmushogeschool, 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Cross-border, Keynote

Host Organization ICIJ
Audience all
Subject tax, finance, tax avoidance, tax evasion
Tags cross-border

12:00 CEST

LuxLeaks and how to unveil tax havens in Europe

From LuxLeaks and onwards: the impressive and award-winning LuxLeaks revelations carried out by the ICIJ pointed out the problem of access to tax avoidance in the heart of Europe. But Luxembourg is not the only country with such provisions. Also other EU countries assist companies to avoid paying taxes in the country of activity, as recent research by Dutch think-tank SOMO shows. While LuxLeaks had a leak as starting point, SOMO started from scratch. Hear the methodology of both examples and learn how to unravel tax avoidance schemes.

Moderators

Margo Smit

ombudsman, GIJN/ICIJ

Margo Smit is news ombudsman since August 1, 2015, overseeing the journalistic output of the Dutch public broadcasters at NPO since january 1, 2017.Smit has been working in journalism since 1989. She was successively a desk editor at commercial and public broadcasters, parliamentary... Read More →

Speakers

Mar Cabra

Member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Mar Cabra, is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Until last year, she was the head of the Data & Research Unit which produces the organisation's key data work and also develops tools for better collaborative investigative journalism. She... Read More →

Kristof Clerix

Journalist, Knack

Kristof Clerix (°1978) works as a reporter for the Belgian weekly news magazine Knack . He is specialized in security reporting and long term investigative projects.Clerix is member of ICIJ and collaborates with OCCRP, Forbidden Stories and Lost in Europe. Together with Belgian daily Le Soir he broke the EU Parliament corruption scandal ("Qatargate... Read More →

Minna Knus-Galán

Yle, Finnish Broadcasting Company

Katrin McGauran

Senior Researcher, SOMO

Katrin McGauran is a member of SOMO’s Economic Justice and Production & Consumption teams and coordinates SOMO’s Tax Justice Programme. Before joining SOMO as a researcher in 2009, Katrin worked for a number of NGOs on issues ranging from human rights to EU justice and home affairs... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2015 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
1.19 Erasmushogeschool, 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Cross-border, Panel

Audience all
Subject tax, finance, tax avoidance, tax evasion
Tags cross-border

14:00 CEST

SwissLeaks: How to turn a big leak into game-changing journalism

A collaborative investigation that exposed how the Swiss branch of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, profited from doing business with tax dodgers and criminals around the world. Team members talk about how they reconstructed and mined the leaked financial data to find the patterns of wrongdoing that made headlines around the world and triggered official inquiries in several countries. Also: why the French journalists who obtained the data decided to share it with colleagues around the world rather than scoop them?

Speakers

Lars Bové

Journalist, De Tijd

Lars Bové has been a journalist for the newspaper De Tijd since 2003. As a justice and investigative journalist, Lars has already exposed countless scandals, for which he has been awarded several times. Bové is a member of the international network ICIJ, which brings together the... Read More →

Mar Cabra

Member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Alexandre Léchenet

Data Journalist

Journaliste spécialisé dans l'analyse de données, la réflexion sur de nouveaux formats ainsi que sur les sciences, les données personnelles et les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (réseaux sociaux, données personnelles, données publiques... Read More →

Roman Shleynov

Julia Stein

Chairwoman / Editor, Netzwerk Recherche / NDR

Julia Stein ist Leiterin der trimedialen Redaktion Politik und Recherche im NDR Landesfunkhaus Schleswig-Holstein. Bis 2016 war sie stellvertretende Leiterin im NDR Ressort Investigation. Sie hat die internationalen Rechercheprojekte PanamaPapers, Luxleaks, Offshoreleaks und Swissleaks... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2015 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
1.21 Erasmushogeschool, 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Cross-border, Panel

Host Organization ICIJ
Audience all
Subject tax, finance, tax avoidance, tax evasion
Tags cross-border, data

15:15 CEST

The tools of the tax leaks stories

Learn about the technical tools used for the Lux Leaks and the Swiss Leaks researches: Open documents and data from the two investigations, and private tools used by the team to communicate, coordinate and share documents.

Speakers

Mar Cabra

Member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

Friday May 8, 2015 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
1.26 Erasmushogeschool, 70 Zespenningenstraat, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Cross-border, Workshop

Host Organization ICIJ
Audience all
Subject tax, finance, tax avoidance, tax evasion
Tags cross-border, data

18:30 CEST

Macht Ohne Kontrolle (Power Without Control) -- !! Registration required !!

The English version of Harald Schumann's documentary 'Macht Ohne Kontrolle' will be screened.

!! Make sure you register for this session as an attendee, since there are only 100 seats available !!

Speakers

Harald Schumann

Journalist, Investigate Europe

Journalist since 1983 with- „tageszeitung“ (2 years),- „Der Spiegel“ (18 years) -- "Tagesspiegel" (since 2004) and Investigate Europe (since 2016)My main interest is to help to overcome the narrow minded national perspective in reporting about European affairs and issues... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2015 18:30 - 20:30 CEST
Press Club Brussels Europe Press Club Brussels, 95 Rue Froissart, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Documentary, Screening

Audience all
Subject EU, finance, political economy
Tags documentary, storytelling