June 25, 2026

ISS World Europe is one of the biggest dates in the calendar for intelligence agencies and technology vendors. Widely considered the largest of the ISS World Series conferences, which are held elsewhere during the remainder of the year, DarkOwl was busy (re)connecting with customers old and new – from exhibitors to guests.

In what was DarkOwl’s 10^th year exhibiting and speaking at the event, a booth team of 4 DarkOwlers were on hand at the 2026 edition. For three days the team explained DarkOwl’s role in OSINT workflows, demoing a new structured marketplace feature, collecting product feedback, meeting customers and holding a DarkOwl Vision platform workshop for police officers.

Figure 1: DarkOwl Team talking to ISS World attendees

ISS World Europe – held in Prague – is the world’s largest gathering of regional Law Enforcement, Intelligence and Homeland Security analysts, Telecoms, Financial (and Cyber) Crime investigators and electronic surveillance professionals.

Real estate in the exhibitor halls proved to be at a premium, with many exhibitors filling dead space in corridors, entrances and even service areas to meet this year’s unprecedented demand.

In addition to enabling public-private partnerships in the exhibition halls, ISS World runs exclusive workshops for law enforcement guests. DarkOwl is a regular fixture. DarkOwl held a workshop to educate law enforcement and government analysts managing intelligence and investigations in the digital realm. We spoke about the DarkOwl Vision practitioner journey: from using our technology to accelerate criminal investigations, to educating our practitioners about navigating internal procurement for darknet monitoring tools.

Figure 2: A photo of DarkOwl’s ISS Workshop this year

A notable theme from the conference included the application of agentic AI to investigative workflows. Also, lawful interception in the age of encryption and privacy configuration.

The challenge of harnessing OSINT at-scale was another topic. As OSINT becomes relevant across all intelligence disciplines, there’s a choice to be made: Do we upskill the general population of analysts with OSINT tradecraft, or focus on fusion cells and labs to concentrate OSINT expertise in government?

Overall, whether it was listening and learning from the 15+ exhibitors that are already using DarkOwl, to the young LEA analysts from various EU police forces seeking to do so, ISS World Europe was a reminder of why it’s one of our favorite shows.

Interested in meeting DarkOwl? See where we will be in-person and virtually and request some time! We would love to meet up.