Call for Speakers
Natives in Tech Conference 2025
14 Oct 2025
16 Oct 2025
Online
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We’re inviting Indigenous technologists, creatives, organizers, educators, and employers to bring your voice, skills, and energy to this year’s Natives in Tech Conference. Whether you’re building code, sharing songs, teaching hands-on skills, or opening doors to career pathways, this space is for you.
What to Propose
- Talks & Panels: Share your work, ideas, research, or lived experience
- Skillshares: Teach a hands-on session in something you know well (tech, language, digital tools, etc.)
- Cultural & Music Presentations: Performances, teachings, or showcases rooted in Indigenous traditions and futurism
- Job Opportunities: Recruiters and employers are invited to present opportunities for Indigenous talent (must be aligned with our mission)
- Lightning Talks: Short (5–10 min) shares on any topic relevant to tech, sovereignty, or Indigenous knowledge
If your work connects Native life and technology in any form... you belong here.
Thematic tracks:
- Tech sovereignty & infrastructure
- Music & Culture
- Open source, land-based tech, and language tools
- Pathways for Native youth: skilled trades, coding, STEM
- Climate resilience, storytelling, and data
- Indigenous-led design, organizing, and creative work
- Intergenerational knowledge-sharing through tech
Support for Presenters
We offer support, optional slide coaching, and session support. No one is expected to be “polished”, just real. If you have questions, please contact natalie@nativesintech.org
Call for Speakers
11 Aug 2025
30 Sep 2025
- We center Indigenous voices. While we welcome collaborators and co-conspirators, we strongly encourage proposals from those who identify as Native American, First Nations, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Indigenous Peoples globally. You do not need to be enrolled or affiliated with a federally recognized Tribe.
- Collaborative sessions are welcome. Non-Native presenters may apply if they are presenting in collaboration with Indigenous community members or directly supporting Indigenous-led work.
- Honor and accountability. All presenters should demonstrate respect for Indigenous sovereignty, cultures, and values. This is not the space for performative allyship, tech colonialism, or extractive projects.
- Sales pitches, marketing, and product launch promotion about Native or Indigenous-supporting products are welcome, please pitch a Lightning Talk only.
- Recruiters sharing career opportunities for Indigenous professionals are welcome! Please just keep it values-aligned and informative, we're carving out a space for you, too. Folks need jobs and you have them
- Accessibility is key. Sessions should be clear, engaging, and respectful of varied learning styles and access needs. Pre-recordings are required for all but panels so we can provide captioning. We have an interactive conference and pair these up with live Q&A after your video runs.
- Support available. First-time presenters, youth, Elders, and community educators are encouraged to apply. We offer tech support, presentation coaching, and guidance if needed.
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