Catch Starling Lab on the Road: Join us in Perugia and Brussels!
Our sessions at the Int'l Journalism Festival and the annual Web Archiving Conference
It’s going to be a busy and exciting couple of weeks! Over the next ten days, we are out and about in Europe to discuss the critical intersections of journalism, digital evidence, and accountability.
Whether you are attending the International Journalism Festival or the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s conference, we would love to connect with you. Here is where you can find us:
International Journalism Festival
We will be participating in crucial conversations about how reporters can protect the integrity of the data they collect in conflict zones.
Public Panel: Witness to war: how journalists can safeguard digital evidence for justice
From Ukraine to Sudan, journalists are often among the first to document human rights abuses and war crimes. This panel will explore the technical, ethical, and logistical realities of capturing and safeguarding sensitive digital evidence in conflict zones so that it can eventually be used for justice.
We are also co-hosting a closed-door session discussing how journalistic documentation of atrocity crimes can be preserved, verified, and managed to support future accountability efforts. In partnership with: Airwars, IrpiMedia, Paper Trail Media, and Videre.
IIPC General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference
Location: Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels | Dates: 20–23 April 2026
We are honored to be leading the Closing Keynote Panel at this year’s IIPC event, and to bring to the event a fresh perspective on web archiving: the rapidly evolving, high-stakes use case of using web archives as a critical tool for legal accountability and human rights documentation.
Closing Keynote: Archiving for accountability: new frontiers in open source intelligence and digital evidence
Starling Lab’s own Basile Simon will be chairing the session, and we have invited Emily Tripp (exec director of Airwars), Marvin Milatz (researcher / OSINT expert at Der Spiegel), and Friedhelm Weinberg (director of programmes at Mnemonic).
If you plan on attending either of these events, please reply to this email or send us a message so we can find time to connect. We are always looking forward to meeting with fellow technologists, journalists, and legal experts to share knowledge and build better standards for digital evidence.
Safe travels, and we hope to see you there!