Inside the Investigation: How a Senior OSINT Analyst Actually Uses AI
Ali Bissoondath has spent ten years inside online harms work. She built cyberintelligence frameworks for European law enforcement, founded the Global Network on Extremism and Technology at King's College London, ran intelligence for global gaming and social platforms at Alice, and led investigations teams at the International Online Crime Coordination Center. In June she founded Sparx Intelligence, an intelligence agency that tracks how coordinated harm networks operate online, from child exploitation to violent extremism and cyber threats.
She is going to walk us through a real case.
What we will actually do
The road to founding an agency. Ali did not plan this. Ten years, digital forensics for law enforcement, through academia and platform intelligence, to founder. We start there, because the question underneath most people's careers is how you get from good analyst to the person who decides how the analysis gets done.
The case teardown. The main event. Ali walks through a real investigation, sanitised, from cold start to finding. Where AI genuinely accelerated the work. How her team mapped what they found. And where AI fails.
The hard parts right now. What is actually breaking in this field in 2026. Attribution is getting harder. Synthetic content. Platforms closing off access. And the quiet one, how you stay employable as an analyst when the tools get better every quarter.
The thing she wishes people knew. One question, saved for the end, and she gets it in advance so it is a real answer and not a polite one.
Then we split into breakout rooms so you can actually talk to each other. Half the value of a room like this is the other people in it.
Who this is for
Investigator, analyst, moderator, policy or ops, threat intel, T&S, whether that's your field already or the one you're working toward.
If you've run a case and know what a dead end feels like, you'll recognize it here. If you haven't yet, you're about to see what one looks like, and how somebody works their way out of it.
How it will run
One hour, camera optional, come as you are. Ruby interviews, Ali walks through the case, chat stays open the whole time, and we finish in small breakout rooms so you meet the people in the room with you. Bring a case that you are stuck on.