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The Beta 2025 program

Welcome home to Splice Beta, and two days of learning, sharing, and celebration with the kindest, smartest media community in the world.

Here’s the Beta program across November 25-27, 2025.

All times listed are Chiang Mai time.

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Day 1

Wednesday, November 26

Wednesday, November 26

9.00 - 9.45 am

Goodcery Ground Floor + Lawn

Coffee

Wednesday, November 26

10.00 - 10.45 am

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Sannuta Raghu, Scroll.in

10.00 - 10.45 am

I talk to machines about journalism all the time. Here’s what they don’t understand, and what we can do about it

Goodcery 1B

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Eva Constantaras, Lighthouse Reports

10.00 - 10.45 am

Global funders come with agendas. We avoided those, and used our funding for community-driven investigations

Goodcery 2A

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Nicolás Ríos, Documented

10.00 - 10.45 am

How Documented rebuilt its infrastructure and workflows to allow immigrant voices in every decision-making process

Darley Hotel Conference Room

Wednesday, November 26

11.00 - 11.45 am

Jayashree Arunachalam, Newslaundry + Talha Ahad, TCM News

Moderated by Chitranshu Tewari

11.00 - 11.45 am

The days of mass audience traffic are over: What we’ve learned in Pakistan and India, and what we’ll do in 2026

Goodcery 1B

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Michael J. Oghia, Journalism Cloud Alliance

11.00 - 11.45 am

Why you should support alternative tech infrastructure for journalism – and how

Goodcery 2A

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Shereen Daver, climateXchange

11.00 - 11.45 am

Why media needs advanced tools to re-shape climate coverage — and that's where tech comes in

Darley Hotel Conference Room

Wednesday, November 26

12.30 - 2.00 pm

Lunch

Wednesday, November 26

2.00 - 2.45 pm

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Khalil A. Cassimally

2.00-2.45 pm

Here’s how to build independence from the expertise you already have

Goodcery 1B

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Sanne Breimer, Inclusive Journalism

2.00-2.45 pm

How a leadership reset toolkit can rebuild your team's well-being

Goodcery 2A

Samuel He, Nanyang Technological University + Pang Xue Qiang, Meantime

2.00-3.45 pm

What a small, focused little zine from Singapore can teach us about building community

Darley Hotel Conference Room

Wednesday, November 26

3.00 - 3.45 pm

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Jacque Manabat, Amber Studios

3.00 - 3.45 pm

How I dropped out of traditional media to build my own creative lab

Goodcery 1B

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Devansh Mehta, Ethereum Foundation

3.00 - 3.45 pm

How investigative journalists can get funding after their stories result in outcomes

Goodcery 2A

Attila Mong, DW Akademie

3.00 - 3.45 pm

News isn’t free — even for the bots. Here are 5 ways to monetise in the age of AI

Darley Hotel Conference Room

Wednesday, November 26

4.00 - 4.45 pm

Saumya Kalia, BehanBox + Bashar Deeb, Lighthouse Reports

Moderated by Preethi Nallu, Report for the World

4.00 - 4.45 pm

2025 showed us the limits of journalism. We have better ideas on how to actually make it useful for our audiences

Goodcery 1B

Altanzul Batochir, Positive Dadal

4.00 - 4.45 pm

How a psychologist turned a mental health project into Mongolia’s first well-being media startup

Goodcery 2A

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Madeline Earp, Good Commons + Ceej Tantengco-Malolos, Go Hard Girls

4.00 - 4.45 pm

How to stop reporting on your community and start working with them (feat. Go Hard Girls)

Darley Hotel Conference Room

Wednesday, November 26

6.00 pm onwards

Dinner

Goodcery Ground Floor + Lawn

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Day 2

Thursday, November 27

Thursday, November 27

9.00 - 10.00 am

Goodcery Ground Floor + Lawn

Coffee

Thursday, November 27

10.00 - 10.45 am

Jacopo Ottaviani, Code for Africa

10.00 - 10.45 am

How to recalibrate your grant work in the post-USAID era

Goodcery 1B

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Marga Deona,
317 Group

10.00 - 10.45 am

What you can learn from Swifties and BTS Army about turning communities into diehard fans

Goodcery 2A

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Tessa Pang, Lighthouse Reports

10.00 - 10.45 am

Your reporting is nothing without impact. This is how you stand up for a community through journalism

Darley Hotel Conference Room

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Thursday, November 27

11.00 - 11.45 am

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Darshini Kandasamy, Trident Media

11.00 - 11.45 am

How I took over a media business while grieving — and somehow made it work

Goodcery 1B

Neringa Jurciukonyte, Media4Change.co

11.00 - 11.45 am

How we’re rebuilding local media through trust and connection

Goodcery 2A

Clare Cook, International Media Support

11.00 - 11.45 am

Media needs money. Here's how to incentivise and activate local capital

Darley Hotel Conference Room

Thursday, November 27

12.30 - 2.00 pm

Lunch

Thursday, November 27

2.00 - 2.45 pm

Carl Javier,
AI Ethicist

2.00-2.45 pm

How I reset my life, found myself in AI ethics, and stumbled back into media

Goodcery 1B

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Adriana Lacy, Influencer Journalism

2.00-2.45 pm

How I’m rebuilding journalism’s trust infrastructure by working with creators

Goodcery 2A

Kyaw Tun Sein + Linn Htet Win, SOZO LAB

2.00-3.45 pm

Workshop

How to use AI to create testable prototypes for your community

Darley Hotel Conference Room

Thursday, November 27

3.00 - 3.45 pm

Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, Tatkala.co

3.00 - 3.45 pm

How a literary community in Bali survives the media apocalypse

Goodcery 1A

Intan Febriani, Pulitzer Center + Pongpan Suriyapat, Multidisciplinary artist and curator

3.00 - 3.45 pm

What the vanishing Thai mackerel taught us about rethinking journalism, action, and art

Goodcery 1B

Venkatesh HR, BOOM FactCheck

3.00 - 3.45 pm

Can journalists build products? What I learned making a word game

Goodcery 2A

Kyaw Tun Sein + Linn Htet Win, SOZO LAB

2.00-3.45 pm

Workshop

How to use AI to create testable prototypes for your community

Darley Hotel Conference Room

The Splice Beta cXc reCulture Climate Startup Pitch Stage

Reculture climate. Five minutes. Five slides. Five thousand dollars.

Come cheer on some of our sparkliest minds as they pitch their fresh news media ideas around how culture can better include climate and nature.

See you at the reCulture Climate Pitch Stage!

4.00-5.30pm

The Goodcery Lawn

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Thursday, November 27

4.00 - 5.30 pm

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Thursday, November 27

6.00 pm onwards

Farewell dinner and drinks + krathong

Sai Ping Bar & Restaurant

89 Charoen Rat Road, Wat Ket Subdistrict, Mueang Chiang Mai District Chiang Mai 50000

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Day 3

Friday, November 28

Beta folks fly home

Thanks for coming!

Now go forth and be rebuilding. Be relearning. Be resharing. Be teaching. Be listening. Be leading. Be prototyping. Be user. Be need. Be empathy. Be retesting. Be collab. Be failing. Be winning. Be transparent. Be kind. Be hospitality. Be repocalypse. Be tuktuk.

In short, be Beta. We’ll see you next year — but in between, we’re always here for you ❤️

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