Where people and ideas come together to explore technology's role, possibilities and barriers for social impact.

A gathering for changemakers working at the confluence of technology, data, community, open-frameworks, and ecosystem strengthening.

Practioner-led and systemtic view on how the social sector experience and use technology today.

As software gets easier to write, the weight shifts to problem definition.

Open questions about AI, its possibilities, implications, separating signals from the noise.

Agenda

This year, we're bringing together a delightful, inspiring bunch of session leads and speakers to explore ways to build meaningful technology in the age of AI while preserving agency to enable DIY (Do it yourself) tech for changemakers. We want to create a stubborn room that isn't afraid of asking the hard questions or engage in discussions that don't always end with a neatly acceptable conclusion.

Through games, particpatory discussions and fireside chats, we're diving into what it takes to build good, useful, participatory technology for social change.

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Time	Session Lead	Session Description
9:00 - 10:00AM	Check in
10:00 - 10:10AM	Rinju Rajan & Akhila Somanath Co-founders, T4GC	Booting Up A welcome note to set the momentum for the day and share T4GC’s role in the ecosystem.
10:10 - 10:50AM	Dr. Kailash Nadh Co-founder, Rainmatter and Samagata Foundation; CTO, Zerodha Akhila Somanath Co-Founder and COO, T4GC	Grounded with Kailash Nadh Frugal engineering & the real signal vs. noise What "DIY" technology looks like at scale
10:50 - 11:10AM	Abhijit Sinha Founder-CEO, Project DEFY	Brief Dispatches Code is cheap, what does this mean for the sector?
11:10 - 11:25AM	Beverage and Banter
11:25AM - 11:55PM	Titiksha Vashist, Co-founder and Lead Researcher, The Pranava Institute	Tech Privacy & Responsibility in Social Systems
11:55AM - 12:35PM	Dr Mittali Sethi IAS District Collector, Nandurbar Rinju Rajan Founder and CEO, T4GC	How Bhili taught AI to listen A powerful showcase of how communities in Maharashtra contributed to building a native AI language support system to access their rights.
12:35 - 1:15PM	Lunch
1:15 - 1:50PM	Prashanth B Head of Engineering, T4GC	The Room is the Model Inviting the room to reflect on data, models and intelligence through games.
1:50 - 2:20PM	Sruthi Krishnan Co-founder, Tarkam	Weaving Stories from Data A participatory workshop on ways to communicate using data for on-ground action.
2:20 - 2:50PM	Rakshita Swamy Founder and Director, SAFAR Kuldeep Dantewadia. CEO & Co-Founder, Reap Benefit	Did anyone ask the users? Tech, participation and the people it's built for
2:50 - 3:00PM	Yashaswi BG, Programme Head Pranav Prabhu, Head of Growth T4GC	Postcards from the Room & Thank you Note The room ends the day by looking forward, and the cards become a collective statement of hope that T4GC can hand back at the next summit.

Speakers

We’re bringing together people who build, fund, question, use and wrestle with technology for social change.

Dr. Kailash Nadh

CEO, Rainmatter Foundation and Samagata Foundation; CTO Zerodha

Rakshita Swamy

Founder and Director, SAFAR

Abhijit Sinha

Founder and CEO, Project DEFY

Titiksha Vashist

Co-founder and Lead Researcher, Pranava Institute

Sai Rahul Poruri

CEO, FOSS United

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