Interested in learning more about the different areas of innovation across the value chain in food sustainability? Please join the NY +Acumen Impact Circle on World Food Day for a discussion on the future of food sustainability. We will explore different perspectives across the various parts of the value chain, including investment, production, distribution and waste/renewability.

The Austin Forum on Technology & Society brings people together to learn about emerging and pervasive technologies and their importance, influence and impact on society. Hundreds gather every month as the Austin Forum brings together technology leaders, advocates, and the public to share information and stimulate collaborations to promote technology applications that advance society.

Typically early stage startups raise a convertible note from angels followed by Series A, B, C, etc., hoping to continue to seek funding or to arrange an exit. Early stage fundraising can be very challenging and discouraging as entrepreneurs ‘pound the pavement’. This is even further the case for social enterprises. Join us for a discussion on the best practices of opening and closing a round from the entrepreneurs who have executed successful fundraising rounds to learn how they have raised capital to fund their solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.

In the spirit of our October Chat’s theme — challenges — we're talking to Kathy, a powerful female leader, on how she navigated the various challenges of pursuing an entrepreneurial lifestyle from co-founding P.Terry's to launching the first social giving app, inLieu.

Once a month, a group of successful and career established Women in Tech who work, start & fund tech companies and reside in a City near you come together to connect, mentor, support, and empower each other! At each event we invite unique speakers to cover entrepreneurship and technology.

Founded in 2015, Radical Networks is an annual conference that promotes artistic, grassroots activist, and experimental work in telecommunications, including the internet and world wide web. As a summit for investigators and instigators from all disciplines, the event facilitates the open exchange of ideas and collaborations, centering marginalized and underrepresented communities.

Hacks for Humanity, sponsored by Project Humanities at Arizona State University (ASU), is a 36-hour hackathon for the social good, challenging participants to create technologies to address local and global issues. The finished products must embody these seven Humanity 101 principles: kindness, compassion, integrity, respect, empathy, forgiveness, and self-reflection. This annual event draws some 150-200 students, faculty, staff and community members, each with their individual talents and backgrounds of expertise.

The Gooddler Social Innovation Youth Summit inspires a new generation of technology-oriented youth to invest their entrepreneurial brainpower into solving the world’s acute humanitarian problems.

For 15 years, Inneract Project has worked directly with youth from communities of color to provide access to foundational learning and career readiness opportunities in design. Setting our sights forward, we dedicate our 15th Year Celebration theme to “Empowering the Next Generation of Black and Brown Designers,” as we aspire to broaden our work to impact communities everywhere. We hope you will join us to celebrate this major milestone in our quest for more diversity in design and to ensure a bright future for Inneract Project and the communities we serve.

SOCAP hosts the world’s largest gathering of thought leaders and practitioners of impact investing for conversations that focus on the why and the how of unlocking global markets for impact. Sessions cover the state of the field, new product innovation, infrastructure and service providers, impact measurement and evaluation and range from tangible case studies to wide-ranging philosophical discussions on the purpose of capital.

A casual and fun networking opportunity for professionals interested in social impact careers with nonprofits, government, or socially responsible businesses. Whether you're currently employed, looking to grow your team, or searching for new opportunities, come out to meet new people, build your network, and learn more about social sector work happening in the Washington, DC area.

Come to Community Action Night if you’re interested in starting an open source project, finding a project, starting a working or learning group, or to learn more about open gov, open data, and civic technology in Austin. We encourage developers, designers, writers, data analyst, policy wonks, government workers, and citizens of all skill levels to join us.

Hack Homelessness is UC Hastings' design challenge/hackathon, bringing together lawyers, developers, designers, builders and thinkers with the objective of finding technology solutions to some of the most pressing legal issues that keep the homeless population of San Francisco on the streets. Teams will compete to implement technology solutions for a legal issue related to one of several identified causes of homelessness.

Are you an entrepreneur? Interested in plant-based solutions and technologies? Join us for an evening of networking and a panel on the state of plant-based entrepreneurship at General Assembly. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Our collaborative three-day gathering is designed for everyone from grassroots activists to software developers, bringing together participants from around the world to share knowledge, build relationships, and collectively envision the future of free and open technology to support social change.

Local startup Civitech is creating software with the aim of making it easier for people to register to vote and get their friends and neighbors registered to vote. They are hosting monthly happy hours with the goal of outreach to other activist organizations in town. We are encouraging EFF-Austin members and followers to join us for November's happy hour - if you have opinions and ideas about how technology can be leveraged to increase civic participation, this would be a great event to come out to and have conversations with the technologists working in this space.

AfroTech The groundbreaking, revolutionary experience for Black techies, startups and entrepreneurs returns! Come join 6000+ of your fellow founders, entrepreneurs and engineers as we scale our collective power in culture, innovation and tech.

All Tech Is Human: NYC is an all-day ethical tech summit with 200 technologists, academics, advocates, students, org leaders, artists, designers, policymakers, and YOU. Join us for an impactful mix of lightning talks, topical panels, strategy sessions, tech/humanity art performance, and meeting others in the thoughtful tech movement! Reserve your spot today (this fills up).

Women Impact Tech (WIT) is an event series that aligns hundreds of top women engineers with companies who are committed to inclusion and innovation. Centered as a celebration of women in tech, attendees will have a chance to network with companies and other female engineers working on cutting edge technology. Through panels, keynotes and presentations, companies and attendees alike will engage in meaningful and actionable conversation surrounding the past and future impact of women in tech.

The Austin Impact Accelerator is an acceleration program that develops and brings to market a cohort of solutions focused primarily and purposefully on affordability and workforce development. On Community Showcase Day, accelerator participants will present their solutions to a room full of investors, subject matter experts, entrepreneurs and leaders from government, nonprofit and business sectors. Come and help us celebrate and be inspired by the heart and hard work of our impact accelerator.

Energy data used to be boring. The utility read your meter 12 times a year, and no one cared much about seeing your utility bill history. Nowadays, things are very different. As the $10+ trillion energy transition to renewables ramps up to fight climate change, private energy data access is a critical requirement to deploy and manage distributed energy resources like solar, battery storage, electric vehicles, demand response, and energy efficiency. So how do we make the switch to a carbon-free future without compromising energy data privacy? What will the future of energy data privacy look like?

GIS Day is an international forum for geographic information system (GIS) users to share their knowledge and applications of GIS technology. GIS day provides an opportunity for students of all ages, professionals, businesses and the public to discuss the impact GIS has on our daily lives.

The AppFair will include ten or more presentations by City agency representatives, describing their current GIS efforts. It will be a unique opportunity to learn about the GIS programs and initiatives of your colleagues. Agencies that have already agreed to participate include Buildings, City Planning, Design and Construction, Emergency Management, FDNY, Finance, Health, Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation, MTA, NYPD, and NYU CUSP.

Women Impact Tech (WIT) is an event series that aligns hundreds of top women engineers with companies who are committed to inclusion and innovation. Centered as a celebration of women in tech, attendees will have a chance to network with companies and other female engineers working on cutting edge technology. Through panels, keynotes and presentations, companies and attendees alike will engage in meaningful and actionable conversation surrounding the past and future impact of women in tech.

Tech Intersections is an affordable conference for the womxn of color most underrepresented in tech to come together and learn from each other’s successes, challenges, and experiences.