OSINT Workshops. Sunday, May 1, 2022 from 1:00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Description: Hands-on workshops to start doing OSINT, or deepen your skill level and expertise. Please pick one from each session.

Session A - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

OSINT 101- Alexa Koenig & Brian Ngyen from the Human Rights Center will introduce the audience to introductory open-source intelligence techniques to verify online information.

Vessel Tracking & Network Analysis - Stephanie Croft will teach how to track marine vessels and boats, as well as analyzing the corporate ownership behind them.

Session B - 3:15 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

OSINT on the Blockchain - Brenna Smith from the New York Times will walk the audience through the basics of cryptocurrencies and how to investigate and fact-check the Bitcoin blockchain.

Investigating Supply Chains: The Rainforest Connection - The Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN), an initiative launched by the Pulitzer Center in 2021, is leading collaborative, transnational journalism to uncover the causes of the uninterrupted destruction of the planet's major tropical rainforests: the Amazon, the Congo basin and Southeast Asia. In this workshop, network editor Gustavo Faleiros and fellows, Andrew Lehren, from NBC's investigative unit, and Manuela Andreoni, a reporter in Brazil for the New York Times, will go behind the scenes of their investigative reporting on powerful supply chains that connect remote areas of the Amazon and Southeast Asia with major U.S. and European carmakers and fashion brands. The journalists will demonstrate how they used satellite images, traceability data, and public and confidential documents to follow commodities from cattle ranches and forest plantations through a host of intermediaries to major retailers in the U.S and Europe. They will address issues of source protection, data limitations and cross-disciplinary work.

Geolocation and Chronolocation - Michael Elsanadi from Mnemonic, an organization that verifies social media videos and images in conflict zones around the world, will teach us the basics of using satellite imagery and shadows to confirm where and when things were posted.

Due to space limitations, individuals who have not registered through the event page will not be allowed admittance.

In accordance with UC Berkeley Covid-19 guidelines, masking indoors, full vaccination and recent testing are strongly recommended.

Unfortunately, due to the sensitive nature of materials being shared, the event will not be live streamed or recorded.

Thank you for your understanding!

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