PROGRAM

Day 1  September 4  Saturday
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
17:30
18:00
18:30
19:00
19:30
20:00
Investigations Hall
11:00 - 11:30
Topic: Search for digital traces in cross-border operations of special services: the cases of Kremlinovich and Chaus Nicholas
Eugene Zaslavsky
MezhyhiryaFest organizer, Executive Director at Media
Development Foundation
Mr. Remi Duflot
Deputy Head of EU Delegation
U.S. Embassy
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Anna Babinets
MezhyhiryaFest organizer, Editor-at-Chief Slidstvo.Info
Gillian McCormack
Chief of Party at Internews Network
Allan Pagh Kristensen
Chief of Party at Internews Network
11:30 - 11:45
GRU Disinformation Operations in Ukraine
Pieter Van Huis
Bellingcat
11:45 - 12:10
Topic: Search for digital traces in cross-border operations of special services: the cases of Kremlinovich and Chaus Nicholas
Vladimir Thorik
Investigative journalist and Editor at RISE Moldova
Dmytro Replianchuk
Journalist at Slidstvo.Info
12:10 - 12:30
Here's what is changing after the FinCEN Files shook the world
Tanya Kozyreva
Investigative reporter. 2021 Pulitzer finalist
12:30 - 13:30
MDF Report presentation "The next wave of disruption: Emerging market media use of artificial intelligence and machine learning"
Alex Sabadan
The Fix
13:00 - 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 - 14:20
Circles of Evil: Human rights champion EU hosts spyware business that enables autocrats to target dissidents
Atanas Tchobanov
Chief Investigative Reporter of Bird.bg (Bulgaria)
14:20 - 14:40
Topic: The Heir Backstag
Maksym Kamenev
hromadske
14:40 - 15:00
Topic:
Ilya Lozovsky
Staff Writer and Senior Editor at OCCRP
11:00 - 11:30
Panel discussion "How we still can report what's going on in Belarus"
Moderator:
Nataliya Gumeniuk
Founder at PIJL
Dmitry Egorov
Deputy Head of EU Delegation
Dmitry Smirnov
Journalist at Tut.by/ Zerkalo.io
Boris Kharetskiy
Deputy Director at BAJ
Irina Michno
Journalist at Kyky
16:00 - 16:15
break
16:15 - 17:00
"Who and how controls the authorities in Ukraine"- the video story by Ukraїner about Ukrainian journalists
Karina Piliugina
Ukraїner
17:00 - 17:15
break
17:45 - 18:45
Main panel discussion "Dictatorship of Tech: Setting up new rules"
Moderator:
Anna Babinets
MezhyhiryaFest organizer, Editor-at-Chief Slidstvo.Info
Jan Strozyk
Ex-editor and president at Digiday Media, founder of a newsletter The Rebooting
Atanas Tchobanov
Chief Investigative Reporter of Bird.bg (Bulgaria)
Mykola Chernotytskyi
CEO at UA: PBC
Christo Grozev
Bellingcat
Kristina Berdynskykh
Bellingcat
17:45 - 18:45
Investigative Journalism Awards Ceremony 2021
Management Garden
11:30 - 12:00
The State of Sustainable Business Models for Journalism
Brian Morrissey
Ex-editor and president at Digiday Media, founder of a newsletter The Rebooting
12:00 - 12:20
Winning strategies for a more resilient future for news media companies
Alex Chapko
General Manager at Piano
12:20 - 12:40
Augmented Reality for Public Relations
Dmytro Kornilov
FFFACE.ME
12:40 - 13:00
What solutions you suppose to use?
Timur Aleksandrov
Product Management at Influ2
13:00 - 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30
Become a publisher with digital DNA
Gabor Boros
CEO of REFRESHER media
Martina Klárová
Research and Development Manager at FatChilli for Publishers
14:30 - 15:00
Open data: what threatens it and what threats may we expect from it?
Sergi Milman
Founder and CEO at YouControl
15:00 - 15:20
Open Data Doesn't Punish. But It Can Do Much More
Vasyl Zadvorniy
CEO at Prozorro
15:20 - 15:30
break
15:30 - 16:30
Panel discussion "New Tools For The New Age"
Moderator:
Andrey Boborykin
UA:PBC
Brian Morrissey
Ex-editor and president at Digiday Media, founder of a newsletter The Rebooting
Matej Borko
Head of Innovation & Marketing Technology FatChilli for Publishers
Alex Chapko
General Manager at Piano
16:30 - 16:45
break
16:45 - 17:15
9 controversial findings about the media business
Denys Zelenov
Head of Digital at 24tv
17:15 - 17:45
Telex. The story of the media in an illiberal democracy
Gergely Nyilas
Telex.hu
17:45 - 18:45
Panel discussion "Media Business in Time of Plague: what can Belarus media do to survive?"
Moderator:
Daryna Shevchenko
Jnomics
Paulyuk Bykowski
Ex-editor and president at Digiday Media, founder of a newsletter The Rebooting
Aleksandra Pushkina
Head of Innovation & Marketing Technology FatChilli for Publishers
Aleksandra Zvereva
Crowdfunding expert
Day 2  September 5  Sunday
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
13:00
13:30
14:00
14:30
15:00
15:30
16:00
16:30
17:00
Investigations Stream
11:00 - 12:00
Panel discussion: How Bellingcat Investigates Ukraine
Moderator:
Anna Babinets
Slidsvo.Info
Christo Grozev
Bellingcat
Pieter Van Huis
Bellingcat
12:00 - 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00
Panel discussion: Attacks on Regional Investigative Media
Moderator:
Oleksandr Voloshyn
Slidsvo.Info
Lyudmyla Pankratova
RPDI
Oleg Oganov
The Center of Investigative Journalism (Mykolaiv)
Anton Kushnir
Digital Security Lab
Antonina Torbich
Project manager, producer of investigations, journalist at "Chetverta Vlada"
14:00 - 14:30
break
14:30 - 15:30
Panel discussion "Main COVID investigations of the year"
Moderator:
Yevheniia Motorevska
Editor-at-Chief at hromadske
Yuriy Nikolov
Editor at NashiGroshi
Andrii Borovyk
CEO at Transparency International Ukraine
Maksym Opanasenko
Editor at Bihus.Info
Yanina Korniienko
Journalist at Slidstvo.Info/OCCRP
15:30 - 16:30
Panel discussion: Ukraine as the last outpost of democracy in the region
Moderator:
Pavlo Kazarin
Ukrainian Public Broadcaster
Inna Kuznetsova
RFE/RL (Ukraine)
Elizaveta Surnacheva
former Deputy Editor of Proekt (Russia)
TBA
TBA
16:45 - 17:15
Closing Remarks
Management Stream
11:00 - 12:00
Will the Rise of Reader Revenue Models Make a Revolution?
Moderator:
Ira Hoiuk
Project Manager MDF
Sevgil Musaieva
Editor-in-Chief of Ukrayinska Pravda
Boris Davidenko
Editor-in-Chief of LIGA.net
Gergely Nyilas
Telex.hu
12:00 - 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00
Why are publishers making native ads?
Moderator:
Tetiana Kulkova
PaySpace Magazine
Yaroslav Kobzar
Babel
Kateryna Venzhyk
Media Manager
Alyona Nevmerzhytska
Kyiv Post
Denys Zelenov
Head of Digital at 24tv
Mykola Balaban
The Village Ukraine
14:00 - 14:30
break
14:30 - 15:30
Panel 3 - Management
of youtube channels
Moderator:
Anastasiya Borema
Slidsvo.Info
Danylo Mokryk
MokRec
Saveliy Barashkov
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Andrii Dikhtiarenko
head of Realnaya Gazeta, news chief editor of Suspilne
Antonina Torbich
Project manager, producer of investigations, journalist at "Chetverta Vlada"
15:30 - 16:30
Panel 4 - Head of Product in Media
Moderator:
Gaygysyz Geldiyev
Senior Partner at Jnomics media
Artem Arutyunyan
Head of Product at hromadske.ua
Timur Alexandrov
Product Manager at Influ2
Artem Ipatov
Head of Digital at ShoTam
Training Stream
The pit stop
11:00 - 12:00
Training: How to turn financial documents into investigative story
Liubomyra Remazhevska
Slidstvo.Info
Maksym Savchuk
Schemes: corruption in details
12:00 - 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00
How to find a story in Excel
Roman Kulchynsky
Texty.org.ua
14:00 - 14:30
break
14:30 - 15:30
Master class: Media reputation
Sergi Milman
YouControl
Veronika Boyko
YouControl
15:30 - 16:30
Workshop: "How to find out how much was spent on Independence Day using Prozorro?"
Kateryna Rusina
DOZORRO
Workshop Stream
Yard
11:00 - 12:00
Topic: Make changes
Denys Bihus
Bihus.Info
12:00 - 13:00
LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00
Presentation from Centre for Journalism at the KSE
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14:00 - 14:30
break
14:30 - 15:30
Presentation 1.How to pitch story to OCCRP
Presentation 2.How to make complicatedstory simple
Ilya Lozovsky
Staff Writer and Editor at OCCRP
15:30 - 16:30
Presentation. Data Journalism
Jan Strozyk
Data Editor at OCCRP
JEP Conference
Helicopter Parking
12:00 - 13:00
LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30
break
Moderator:
Elina Kochenko
Slidsvo.Info
11:30 - 11:45
Intro
15:00 - 15:30
Discussion about freelancing in media
Maria Smyk
freelance journalist
Nataliya Zasyadko
freelance journalist
15:30 - 16:00
Discussion about native advertising
Mykola Ohotnyk
Head of Native Advertising at Vector
Vlada Shevchenko
Head of Sales at Na Chasi
16:00 - 16:30
Discussion about radio and podcasts
Nazar Mochula
Urban Space Radio
16:30 - 17:30
Successful management of media
Maksym Serdiuk
Editor-in-Chief at SLUKH
Novi Petrivtsi village, Kyiv Oblast | Ukraine