Tech Forward Updates
Thank you for joining us this year in Austin! Registration for next year's Tech Forward in Nashville, TN will open in January 2025.
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We had an amazing agenda full of innovative talks. Many of our speakers chose to share their presentation slides with attendees, please see below for those links:
Day 1 Talks
“Technology for Social Justice: Navigating New Digital Frontiers and Our True North” Sarah Davies, CEO, Alannah & Madeline Foundation
“Bridging the Gap: How mRelief is Revolutionizing Access to Public Assistance Through Technology” Nezia Munezero Kubwayo, Operations Director, mRelief
“Leveraging Cloud Infrastructure and AI for Malaria Control in Ghana” Derek Asamoah-Amoyaw, IT Infrastructure Officer, AngloGold Ashanti's Malaria Control (AGAMal) Initiative
"Technology and Social Impact" Narindi Chhan, Go To Market Industry Lead, Microsoft Tech for Social Impact
“Utilizing Identity Management To Keep Your People, Data, Community, and Systems Safe” – Taylor Whitfield, Manager, Tech for Good, Okta & Joaquin Campos, Program Manager, Nonprofit Success, Okta
“What Would You Do? Exploring AI Implementation for Social Good Organizations” - Ryan Harrington, Director of Strategy and Operations, Tech Impact’s Data Innovation Lab
“Managing a CRM Makeover: Strategies to Tackle the Refresh Your Users Deserve” – Lisa Firnberg, Information and Data Director, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
“Disaster Recovery/Incident Response” – Linda Widdop, Chief Innovation Officer, Tech Impact & Francis Johnson, Chief Technology Officer, Tech Impact
“Power Automate and Its Possibilities” - Mat St. Cyr, Application Architect, Tech Impact & Erica Blake, Senior Consultant Tech Impact
“From Metrics to Mission: Data Storytelling for Nonprofit Impact” – Alyssa Ford, COO, Tech Impact
“Change Management through Tech Transformations”- James Gadsby, COO, Desire Street Ministries
“Intune to Endpoint – Exploring Functionalities For Streamlined IT Support” – Karl Jones, IT Manager, SNJPC & Francis Johnson, Chief Technology Officer, Tech Impact
Day 2 Talks
“Unveiling Solutions to Societal Challenges Through Computer Simulation” - Paolo Gaudiano, Co-Founder, Aleria | Capital Ballroom
“Accelerating Advocacy: AI for Immigrant Justice” - Rodrigo Camarena, Director, Justicia Lab
“Using your Financials to Justify Technology Investments and ROI” Larry Fischer and Sean Hale, Nonprofits CFOs
“The Integration Equation: CMS + CRM = Data Power!” - Marcus Iannozzi, CDO, Tech Impact & Message Agency
“Generative AI Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations: Mastering Prompt Engineering” – Ryan Harrington, Director of Strategy and Operations, Tech Impact
“AI Readiness – Assessing Your Organization’s Tech, Data, and Staff Capacities to Leverage AI” – Linda Widdop, Chief Customer Officer & Erica Blake, Senior Consultant, Tech Impact
This is my third Tech Forward conference and I have enjoyed them all!
I really appreciated the "conference culture" that was developed. Sometimes, conferences can be extremely rigid and stuffy, but this one was laid back, interesting, the sessions were appropriately timed, and people were having FUN. I very much enjoyed my time!