Blogging While Brown is more than a conference, it is a community - an incubator of creativity, collaboration and sustainability for emerging leaders in digital media and social change. We've been around since 2007 and our evolution has mirrored the explosion of social media's impact in our daily lives.
ESSENCE®, the Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund and #YesWeCode will launch our first hackathon in New Orleans, LA during the ESSENCE FESTIVAL ™ weekend. Our hackathon will gather innovators, coders, and designers to build and design apps that drive real solutions for our communities, educators, and families. The Festival will also host the #YesWeCode TechContinue reading "YESWECODE at Essence Festival"
FIREWORKS WON’T BE THE ONLY THINGS LAUNCHED THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY. PowerMoves.NOLA will launch July 4th weekend as part of the 20th anniversary ESSENCE Festival™ presented by Coca-Cola®. Featuring pitch competitions, networking events, a tech boot camp and fellowship opportunities, PowerMoves.NOLA will showcase and support talented minority entrepreneurs, and connect them to a national network ofContinue reading "Power Moves NOLA"
SOCAP14 is the world's leading conference on impact investing and social enterprise. It will unite innovators in business tech, the sharing economy, health, philanthropy and more to advance environmental and social causes. This year's theme. "Ignite Vibrant Communities" challenges us to look for vibrant communities when seeking evidence of successful impact.
Voto Latino's Power Summit is a leadership conference to educate, empower, & engage Latino Millennials to create positive change in their communities. Each Power Summit brings together nearly 300 Latino Millennials to network, sharpen their organizing skills, and learn about tools they can leverage to galvanize their communities into action.
New Heights for College Access and Success Blue skies and warm welcomes. Palm trees and mountain ranges. Join NCAN in the Valley of the Sun to network with college access/success professionals from higher education, nonprofit, K-12, policy and philanthropic communities. Attend sessions that will offer opportunities for professional development and best practice sharing around increasing post-secondary enrollmentContinue reading "2014 NCAN National Conference"
The annual Summit is when the Code for America civic innovation community gathers in person for three days of collaborating, connecting, and learning. It's a roll-up-your-sleeves kind of event that convenes innovators from dozens of local governments and mixes it up with civic-minded technologists, designers, community organizers, and entrepreneurs. Register today to participate — andContinue reading "The CFA Summit"
The Latinas Think Big™ Innovation Summit, hosted at Google’s campus in Silicon Valley, sparks a national dialogue on the current state and future of Latinas in STEM careers, with an emphasis on technology and innovation. This full-day event convenes a group of talented Latina innovators – along with a carefully vetted group of innovative leaders, techContinue reading "Latinas Think Big Innovation Summit"
FOCUS100 is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. This October 3rd-4th in New York City, digitalundivided brings together diverse startups, innovative companies like Facebook, Google, AMEX and Microsoft, and top investors from firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Comcast Ventures, Box Group, Gen Y Capital, Techstars, and more for the most diverse techContinue reading "FOCUS100"
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is the World's Largest Gathering of Women Technologists. It is produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with ACM.