Upcoming events
Tackling violent extremism and terrorism content online: A practical workshop
Join us in Munich for a hands-on, expert-led workshop designed to deepen your understanding of the challenges and strategies in addressing violent extremism and terrorism content online. This interactive session, spread across an afternoon and the following morning in Munich, brings together those professionally tasked with responding to content relating to violent extremism and terrorism with practical insights to inform relevant strategies.
Register now to secure your spot!
AGENDA
Day 1
12:15 - 13:00 Networking lunch
13:00 - 13:15 Welcome and Introductions
13:15 - 15:15: Understanding and investigating the landscape
How and where different terrorist/extremist actors currently operate online (Islamist/far-right/Nihilist)
How extremist actors navigate or evade platform policies
Tracking volume and spread of content across networks and within the broader online ecosystem
15:15 - 15:45: Break
15:45 - 17:00: Impact dilemmas
The ‘whack-a-mole’ approach to content removal versus strategic deplatforming
Evaluating effectiveness through statistics vs. longer-term impact
Navigating emerging regulatory and legal challenges
Day 2
09:00 - 10:00: Emerging threats
What’s here now, and what’s next? (including synthetic media, AI-generated content, and evolving tactics)
10:00 - 11:00: Wellbeing, resilience, and secure practices
Managing exposure to harmful content
Reducing professional risk, supporting teams, and sustaining resilience
Safe and secure investigations
11:00 - 11:15: Break
11:15 - 12:45 Live simulation exercise
Apply insights in a guided, team-based exercise focused on real-world decision-making under time pressure
12:45 - 13:45 Roundtable: Reflection and next steps
Identify key takeaways and future workshop needs
Discussion on reporting challenges (with a brief introduction to a planned long-term series covering particular topics in-depth, such as AI-generated content, gaming platforms, and chatbot-facilitated extremism)
Additional opportunity for informal peer networking
Why Attend?
Gain cutting-edge insights from leading researchers in the field
Gain practical frameworks for assessing impact
Engage in practical exercises to enhance decision-making skills
Network with peers across regulatory, legal, investigative, policy, and tech sectors tackling similar challenges
Whether newly in role or an experienced practitioner, this workshop offers cutting-edge insights and up-to-date strategies
Contribute to shaping future training initiatives
Important Note
This workshop is essential for those professionally tasked with responding to content relating to violent extremism and terrorism and seeking to stay ahead in this ever-evolving landscape.
Email info@voxpolinstitute.org for any questions.
Registration
Chatbots and Extremism: Risks, Policies, and Opportunities
The VOX-Pol Institute is hosting a one-hour closed webinar examining the intersection of conversational AI and violent extremism, at 16:30 (Dublin/London time). Chatbots have rapidly entered mainstream use, raising urgent questions about their potential misuse as well as their promise for prevention and countering violent extremism (P/CVE).
This session will feature short expert inputs on:
Assessing the threat of extremist exploitation of chatbots
Platforms’ policies and safety mechanisms
Positive use of chatbots for P/CVE
The event will open with a short introduction, followed by 7–10 minute contributions on each theme, and conclude with Q&A and discussion.
Why attend?
Gain insight into emerging risks, platform responses, and constructive uses of chatbots in the P/CVE space.
Important note:
This webinar is invite only, and specifically for tech sector participants.
email info@voxpolinstitute.org for any questions.
Tackling violent extremism and terrorism content online: A practical workshop
Join us for a hands-on, expert-led workshop designed to deepen your understanding of the challenges and strategies in addressing violent extremism and terrorism content online. This interactive session, spread across an afternoon and the following morning, brings together experienced researchers to equip those professionally-tasked with responding to content relating to violent extremism and terrorism, with practical insights to inform relevant strategies.
For further details and to register, see Eventbrite.
Early bird discounts are available - secure your spot now!
The Current Threat Landscape: Networks, platforms, and technologies
Join our expert workshop on evolving IS networks, emerging extremist choice of online platforms, and new tech threats. Stay informed!
This focused workshop will provide participants with an insightful briefing on recent developments within violent extremist ecosystems, particularly:
Current IS networks and provinces: An up-to-date review of the current tactics, organisational structures, and capabilities of IS networks online, and how they operate across a range of online platforms and services.
Right-wing extremism and violence-obsessed communities online: Exploration of the latest trends in how right-wing violent extremist groups and networks are using digital platforms, and their connections to violent communities with less clear ideological motivations.
Engagement and experimentation with emerging technologies: Insight into how extremist actors are leveraging and experimenting with emerging technologies (such as generative AI, encrypted communication tools, and decentralised blockchain-based platforms) for recruitment, propaganda dissemination, and operational planning.
Join us to understand the rapidly shifting threat environment and enhance your preparedness.
Register now on Eventbrite to secure your spot! Discounted early bird rates are on sale.