April 2022 Meetup - Hybrid Mini unconference (VIRTUAL ON ZOOM)

We’re excited to be back for our first event of 2022! It’s going to be hybrid, and it’s going to be a mini-unconference. Because we like a challenge :)

To us, ‘tech for good’ is the intentional use of technology to drive positive outcomes for people and planet. The tech for good movement continues to evolve and grow in the face of ongoing upheaval and transitions across politics, society and the environment.

Over the last two years, we’ve welcomed many people into our virtual events who wouldn’t have been able to join in person. We can’t wait to connect with some of you over drinks and nibbles in a physical space once more - but we also still want to include members who don’t live in London, or who face barriers to attending, because our community and collective wisdom are stronger for this diversity.

This event is for all entrepreneurs, nonprofits, funders, technologists, policy people and corporations, or folk working on or interested in tech for good. It’s your space to get to know each other and explore whatever questions, ideas and conversations feel most important to you right now.

If you haven’t been to an unconference or an agendaless meeting before, this is what to expect:

• At the outset, anyone can propose a topic or question they’d like to talk about in a 30-minute session
• Sessions can be either a facilitated group discussion or a presentation with Q&A
• People vote on the session ideas they’re most interested in
• We’ll collate, group and prioritise ideas based on the votes, and assign them to spaces (physical in the room or in breakout rooms online, running in parallel)
• If your proposed session is selected, you can either hold the space for it yourself or ask one of the organisers to help
• After 30 minutes, we’ll wrap up the first sessions and begin the second
• Once the second round of sessions ends, we’ll bring physical and virtual audiences together and hear briefly from each group about the key points they talked about.

After that, we’ll have community announcements, which is your chance to speak for 1 minute about any project, request, an offer of help, job opening, product launch or cool thing you’ve seen. We’ll write these up and share them with our 10,000+ meetup members.

If you'd like to attend in person rather than virtually, check out our page for that here: https://www.meetup.com/techforgood/events/284801324/

We look forward to seeing you there!