Programme Side Events 2025

wednesday 9

meet-up

09:00 - 18:00
Spazio Modu

Reference Circle and Journalism Value Project meeting

meet-up

12:00 - 18:00
Hotel Giò

Journalism Cloud Alliance annual meeting

meet-up

17:00 - 20:00
Spazio Modu

IJSC mixer for gender justice journalists

aperitivo

17:30 - 19:00
Indigo Art Gallery and Café

People, Planet, Pint: IJF aperitivo edition

aperitivo

17:30 - 19:30
La Prosciutteria

JournalismAI aperitivo: connect & unwind time

aperitivo

18:00 - 20:00
Il Birraio

Journos and techies aperitivo

aperitivo

18:30 - 21:00
Hotel Priori Secret Garden

Aperitivo with journalist support hubs

thursday 10

meet-up

12:00 - 14:00
Ristorante del Sole Living Cafè

How to sustain independent and inclusive journalism in times of increasing political pressure?

aperitivo

14:30 - 16:30
Indigo Art Gallery and Café

Sustaining journalism: a fresh take on media viability in the era of AI

aperitivo

14:30 - 15:30
Hotel Priori Secret Garden

New trends in audience innovation and non-traditional news distribution

meet-up

14:30 - 16:45
Hotel Sangallo

Amnesty Tech meet-up: thinking of collaborative ways to do tech investigations with journalists

meet-up

15:00 - 17:00
Umbrò

Sip & sustainability: crafting journalism's future over fika!

workshop & aperitivo

15:00 - 18:00
Hotel Sangallo

Upholding trust: protecting our content and brands with media provenance

aperitivo

17:00 - 19:00
La Prosciutteria

CUNY/J+ Happy Hour

aperitivo

18:00 - 20:00
Ristorante del Sole Living Cafè

Display Europe networking event: ethics, power, and trust in the digital age

meet-up

18:00 - 20:00
Ristorante Mandela

75 years defending press freedom: a gathering for members and partners of the International Press Institute

aperitivo

18:00 - 21:00
Il Birraio

Networking drinks reception hosted by One World Media and Rory Peck Trust

aperitivo

18:30 - 20:30
Hotel Brufani

Microsoft cocktail reception

aperitivo

18:30 - 21:30
Hotel Priori Secret Garden

OSINV Community Social

meet-up

18:30 - 20:30
Indigo Art Gallery and Café

Impact Network meet-up: an open invite to anyone interested in journalistic impact, hosted by The Examination and TBIJ

aperitivo

19:00 - 21:00
OMÀ Lounge Bar

Independent European media apéro with Sphera Network and Médianes

meet-up

20:30 - 22:00
Café Timbuktu

Project Oasis meet-up: a networking event opportunity for digital native media entrepreneurs

friday 11

meet-up

10:00 - 16:00
Biblioteca degli Arconi

RuralCiak Edizione III. Il concorso che premia le produzioni video dello sviluppo rurale realizzati dalle Regioni e Province autonome italiane

meet-up

10:00 - 12:00
Spazio Modu

International reporting: yet another colonial tool for “geopolitical Europe”?

meet-up

14:00 - 15:30
Hotel Brufani

At the epicenter of the storm: conversation with Ukrainian journalists at IJF

meet-up

14:30 - 16:00
Spazio Modu

Resilience through collaboration: navigating the press freedom crisis and political turmoil in Central and Eastern Europe

meet-up

15:00 - 18:00
Hotel Sangallo

TRANSMIXR: come and experience how XR and AI are transforming news!

meet-up

15:00 - 18:00
Hotel Priori Secret Garden

Let’s talk about your tech stack!

meet-up

15:30 - 17:00
Umbrò

The right to information: a value rooted in Chinese culture, a necessity for tomorrow's China

meet-up

15:30 - 17:30
Hotel Sangallo

Protecting journalists from government overreach

aperitivo

18:00 - 19:30
Hotel Priori Secret Garden

Al Jazeera Media Institute networking reception

aperitivo

18:00 - 20:00
Indigo Art Gallery and Café

Jnomics Media lounge: insights & drinks

aperitivo

18:00 - 20:30
Hotel Sangallo

Oversight Board’s 3rd annual IJF cocktail reception

aperitivo

18:00 - 22:00
La Prosciutteria

Aperitivo with friends, hosted by Bonn Institute, EJC and SJN

meet-up

18:00 - 21:00
Café Timbuktu

MigraVoice: fostering a more representative European media

aperitivo

18:30 - 20:30
Hotel Brufani

An exclusive reception with you.com

aperitivo & presentation

18:30 - 19:30
Spazio Modu

Shaping the future of journalism: lessons, challenges and policy paths

aperitivo & presentation

18:30 - 20:00
Il Birraio

The State of Media Development: report launch

aperitivo & presentation

18:30 - 20:30
Umbrò

Mastodon | social media empowering independent journalism

book launch

19:00 - 20:30
La Biblioteca del Conte

Book launch of A Duel of Bulls: Hemingway and Welles in Love and War

aperitivo & party

19:30 - 01:00
Spazio Modu

COMMUNITY(d)J: reception and party with experimental investigative & community journalism

saturday 12

meet-up

09:00 - 11:00
Hotel Brufani

CORRECTIV.Europe and Journalismfund meet-up: visibility and support for local journalism

meet-up

12:00 - 13:00
TBC

Meet-up of Houses of Journalism

meet-up

13:00 - 15:00
Hotel Priori Secret Garden

How have tech companies changed and been changed by news

meet-up

13:30 - 15:00
Hotel Brufani

How to build a journalism fund

meet-up

14:30 - 15:30
Hotel Priori Secret Garden

Student activism in Georgia

meet-up

15:00 - 16:30
Umbrò

Ukraine and the global public sphere. How journalists may contribute to the future of Europe

meet-up

15:30 - 17:30
Hotel Brufani

Drop-in clinic: explore ICFJ's Online Violence Alert and Response System tools

aperitivo

17:30 - 19:30
Ristorante del Sole Living Cafè

Aperitivo with the JSK Stanford community

party

22:30 - 01:00
La Biblioteca del Conte

Valigia Blu party

sunday 13