2019 Agenda

Aspiration events are first and foremost convened to strengthen the ties and social networks of technology practitioners in the nonprofit/nongovernmental sectors.

The #npdev session list is co-developed with participants, facilitators, and partners in the time leading up to and during the Festival. We strongly encourage you to join in the fun at this unique and interactive gathering!

The agenda is designed and facilitated using Aspiration's unique participatory model, in an environment where powerpoint slides are discouraged and dialogue and collaboration drive the learning.

Our philosophy centers around getting participants into small-group discussions where they can discuss topics they are passionate about and get answers to their questions and curiosities. Sessions at Aspirations have particular traits; we de-emphasize presentations and lecture, and instead focus on "break-out" sessions that are self-organized whenever possible .

Wednesday November 6

Working Sessions I

• Building a Culture of Consent
• Open Projects
• Facilitating Productive Conversations
• Case Management
• Moving into Technical Leadership Roles
• Giving Away Your Skills
• Radical Networks
• Security First Conversations
• Supporting Young Folks
• Controlling Your Data
• Tech Needs for the Sector
• Negotiation and Narrative

Working Sessions II

• Data Stewardship
• Human Rights Security and Privacy
• Security Practitioner Conversation
• Developer Operations
• Backdrop and the Open Source CMS Ecosystem
• Educating Youth on Tech in Costa Rica
• Index Funds and Why You Should Understand Them
• Principles of Collaboration Between Unlikely Allies
• IT
• Governance of Decentralized Communities
• Hacking State Government

Thursday, November 7

Working Sessions III

• How to be a Good Ally

• Student Surveillance

• Governing Shared Resources

• How Can We Do Language Well

• Privacy Designs for Websites

• VPN Privacy

• Writing Technical Documentation

• Capacity Building 2019

• Organizing Tech Policy

• Control Your Technical Destiny

• How to Follow Up on Your Security List

• Virtual Reality as a Learning Tool

• Building Equitable Volunteerism

Working Sessions IV

• Post Drupal 7

• Digital Rights Network

• Knowledge Centric Network

• How to Create a Tech Plan

• Funds, Fundraising, and Finance

• CiviCRM 2019

• Ethical Consulting 2019

• Remote Working / Distributed Teams

• Accessing Spatial Data

• Scuttlebutt

• Tech Censorship

• Voter Engagement Clinic

Friday, November 8

Working Sessions V

• Border Search and Intellectual Property

• Indigenous Technology

• Security Best Practices in Tanzania

• Analyzing Disinformation at Scale

• Facilitative Leadership

• Open Source Lessons Learned

• Shrink Down All Platforms

• Remote Work - Part 2

• Anarchistic Handtools

Working Sessions VI

• Digital Security 2019

• Allied Media Consensual Technology

• Greening IT

• Community-Based Response to Surveillance - Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

• Access Relationships

• Tech Co-ops 2019

• Signal Boost Working Session

• Designing For/With People With Low Bandwidth

• GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)

• Building Data Culture

• Tech Intuition

Working Sessions VII

• New and Emerging Web Tech

• Telephone Hacking

• Brainstorm Design Thinking

• Politics of Operations

• Surfacing Knowledge Through Play

• Git Version Control

• Unplugging and Self Care

• Post Dev Summit Conversations

• No BS Spirituality

• Hacking Dog Training

• Make Volunteer Management More Efficient

• Why We Decentralize

• Implications of Tech We Use

• Media Outlet on Movement Ecology/Technology

• Virtual Reality for Public Good

Job Board and Book Recommendations

• Job Board

• Book Recommendations