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2025 Speaker Series


Mandisa Thomas
February 12, 2025

Join the Center for Social Impact Strategy (CSIS) and Penn Center for Inclusive Innovation & Technology for our 2025 speaker series! We have an outstanding lineup of speakers who will discuss various topics within the social impact space. To register, please visit https://bit.ly/SPEAK25.

All sessions are Mondays, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, hosted meeting-style virtuallyđź’».

February 24. Dan Lammot & Lina Perez will demonstrate b.world, an AI-powered platform focused on impact reporting for social purpose organizations.

March 3: Sam Fankuchen demonstrates Golden, an AI platform for volunteer relations + management.

March 17. Ravit Dotan, PhD offers a participatory simulation game in which we can practice assessing the ethics of AI use in social purpose organizations.

July 28. David Rhode, NPL faculty and author of Passion Isn’t Enough, A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Leaders. Needs guidance HMW make talk relevant for folks in any sector.

August 18. Kaveh Sadeghian will discuss continuous learning in teams and social impact work.

September 29. Nick Martin, CEO at TechChange. Runs a very popular social impact job board, very involved with helping folks in the international development space find new meaningful work in 2025.

October 6. Michael Running Wolf will speak about community technology

November 10.  Chaz Howard on Uncovering Your Path