2018 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 14

Around the World

• Diversity and inclusion with youth in technology - Atikah
• Advocacy at scale: big data and infrastructure - David
• Open Architecture Collaborative - Garrett
• Open Referral - Greg
• Sula Batsu - María José
• Pursuance - Claire
• Movement infrastructure - Jaime
• Eastside LEADS - Pamela
• Reproductive justice: policy and community action - Jazmyn
• OpenNews - Erika
• Oversight: OpenStreetMap US - Jaye
• Datakind: Data 4...good? - Ada

Working Sessions I

• Non toxic relationships between developers and managers - Suzi
• Healthy and sustainable organizations - Dirk
• Pipeline for underrepresented groups in STEM - Oakland Tech
• Data and consent - Christine
• Strategic visual communications - Sabiha
• Sharing knowledge in your organization - Ada
• Top reasons not to care about information security - Beatrice, Ali
• Movement infrastructure network: What we do and how to be part of it - Jaime
• Discord Leaks and how to research and use information against fascism - Freddy
• Agile mindset and software development - Kevin
• Static websites: tools and processes to manage content - Vivian
• Blockchain: Make it useful - Jared

Working Sessions II

• Well maintained information security curricula - Amanda, Soraya
• Translation: How to - Kate
• Antifa organizing: Bridging online and offline research - LJ
• How to build inclusion into organizations, projects, products - Bron
• AWS cloud - Maxwell
• Technology capacity building in Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English - Evelyn, Andrea
• Ways to conduct user research in open technology - Jane
• Vote engagement technology - Josh
• How to sustain your activism - Marty
• Open mapping - Kate C
• Istanbul 10: Storytelling - Ali, Laressa

Thursday, November 15

Working Sessions III

• Law enforcement and social media - Abraham
• Disinformation and what to do about it - Morgan
• Representing lived experience in data - Sarah
• Tech needs assessment for nontechnical people - Lisa
• Developing young leaders through storytelling - María José
• Ethical consulting and freelancing - John, Maxwell
• Building open source communities - Kevin
• How to design an effective Call To Action - Genevieve
• How to design workshops that enable learning - Dirk
• Distributing and decentralizing data - Rabble
• Diversity and inclusion in hiring - Andrea, Charles

Working Sessions IV

• Effective project management practices - Lisa
• How to deal with burnout - Ada, Marty
• I am angry, sick and tired: Reclaim space as marginalized folks - Lily, Bron
• Organizational strategies against legal threats - Abraham, Nash
• Radios as alternative ways of communication - Skyler
• CiviCRM - Tim
• Doxxing and how to protech against it - Jessie
• Gig economy through a justice-based lens - Dave, Erika
• Crisis. Before, during and after - Ali
• California Office of Innovation: How it works - Chaney
• How to build a VR educational tool - Laura
• Understanding cultural parameters for inclusion of indigenous folks - Kanyon

Friday, November 16

Working Sessions V

• Movement Technology network - Jack, Alice
• Leadership to enable collaboration and take down hierarchy - Dirk
• Strategic planning processes: Flow, implementation, impact - Genevieve
• Coaching as a community capacity practice - Marty, Jonah
• User research - Tiffany
• Creative process: Communications and craft - Ben J
• Continuous integration in software development - Bron
• Sex worker digital rights - Norman, Emmi
• Internet access: Where it's missing, local solutions - Adam
• Information architecture: How to structure, store, connect data - Scott
• Understanding financial markets - Brian

Working Sessions VI

• How to think about Internet architecture from a human rights perspective - Beatrice
• Resources to enable collaboration - Dirk
• Remote work tools - Kevin
• Building technology capacity in Spanish - Evelyn
• Information overwhelm - Marty
• From compliance to care: Demilitarizing information security - Jonah, Norman
• Git - Bill
• Open source hardware - Alex
• Technology cooperative round table - Mark
• How to deal with the aftermath of trauma and aftercare - Ali, Laressa
• Meditation: 3 easy steps - Bruce

Working Sessions VII

• User research 2.0 - Clayton
• Mental health and trauma - Atikah
• Medicinal plants and remedies - Chanaye
• Modern cryptography against capitalism - Jared
• Requests for proposal: How to - Dirk
• Direct action - Austin
• How to hold companies accountable with our community research work - Afsaneh
• Research in service of our organizational mission - Mariel
• Product management - Suzy
• How to develop commons oriented governance - Anthony
• Using the Twitter API to analyze misinformation networks - Emmi
• Sustainability of information security practice - Ali
• How to build and maintain a community land trust - Bruce