Events

We regularly participate in events and webinar to shed the light on our work and projects, together with partners, NGO, policy makers, journalists and other stakeholders tackling disinformation. Here are every details about our agenda, but also upcoming and past disinformation related events from our partners.

Events

September 2025

17

Global Summit on Disinformation

The Global Summit on Disinformation is an annual online event where journalists, researchers, academics, fact-checkers, media and government representatives, civil society organizations, professors, and students meet to discuss, and present actions, proposals, and success stories on the challenges of fighting disinformation at the global level.

18

Seminar: “Media Literacy and Democracy Education for Societal Resilience”

The conference will be highlighting the European Year of Digital Citizenship Education by Council of Europe. It will be held in Helsinki.

18

Webinar “Operation Overload: Smarter, Bolder, Powered by AI”

Don’t miss this webinar with insights from Reset Tech and CheckFirst on how this influence campaign has hit record numbers on all metrics – including content creation, multi-level impersonation, number of targets – and how it has developed new Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) to embed itself in the public information space.

27

Open Data Camp

The 10th edition of the conference dedicated to open data will be held at University of Edinburgh Business School, on September 27 & 28, 2025.

October 2025

01

ENISA CTI Conference

The ENISA Cyber Threat Intelligence Conference is an annual event dedicated to exploring the latest advancements, best practices, and challenges in the field of cyber threat intelligence (CTI).

03

Workshop “Hack the DSA”

The French research chair on content regulation organises the “Hack the DSA” hackathon next October 3rd. This workshop aims to analyse the reports and data made available under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

08

Digital Frontlines 2025 Conference

This year, the conference’s agenda will cover the future of social media, AI’s influence on judgment and rational thinking, vulnerabilities in the gaming space, strategies for reaching audiences in closed-off information environment, and more.

10

Climate Arena 2025

Climate Arena is a hands-on, working conference on European climate reporting aimed at sharing knowledge and building connections across Europe in a friendly, collaborative environment. This year, it will be held at the Gellert Campus of Corvinus University in Budapest, Hungary.

13

APAC Summit 2025

Based in Singapore, this event will explore how trust and safety teams across APAC (Asia-Pacific) are not only responding to today’s threats, but also shaping the strategies, structures, and standards that define the future of the field. 

15

Disinfo2025

Diana Wallis, President of the EU DisinfoLab, has announced that the 2025 edition of the annual conference will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 15-16 October 2025.

20

Communications Policy & Regulation Week 2025

The International Regulators Forum will be hosted by the Commission for Communications Regulation of Colombia (CRC) on 20-21 October 2025.

23

IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival

Under the theme “Defending the Future of Free Media”, this year’s World Congress also marks IPI’s 75th anniversary.

23

Capital Series Denmark

Capital Series events are single-day, high-level policy gatherings dedicated to advancing open source policy priorities in alignment with the objectives of the member states holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU.

29

2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-Checking

This event will address the growing need to study disinformation and fact-checking in the media and public discourse in the context of technological advancements, focusing on critical topics such as artificial intelligence, social media influence, civic engagement, and crisis communication.

29

European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-Checking 

The 2nd European Congress on Disinformation and Fact-Checking, organized by UC3M MediaLab, will take place on October 29-30, 2025, under the subtitle “Beyond 2025: Emerging threats and solutions in the global information ecosystem”.

November 2025

05

Sofia Information Integrity Forum

The Sofia Information Integrity Forum aims to discuss questions about threats on democracy from a specific regional perspective – that of Southeast Europe and the Black Sea region.

05

Mozilla Festival 2025

Three days of workshops, debates, and hands-on collaboration to reimagine the role of technology in our lives.

20

2025 Global Investigative Journalism Conference

The conference will host over 150 state-of-the-art sessions, with expert panels, cutting-edge workshops, and networking.

February 2026

16

The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2026

The event will take place at the Amsterdam Law School on 16-17 February 2026. The conference will reflect on the DSA and European platform regulation, including in its broader legal and political context, under the overall theme of platform governance and democracy.

About us

Check First is a leading Finnish software and methodologies company, spearheading adversarial research techniques. We believe that everyone should be able to understand how and why content is presented to them. We advocate for online clarity and accountability, building solutions to attain this goal. Partnering with leading institutions, regulators, NGOs and educators, we aim at curbing the spread of disinformation and foreign influence manipulations.

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