Map It Before You Automate It: An AI Workflow Lab for Nonprofits

​Most nonprofits have touched AI. Very few have changed how the work gets done.

​Join Nithin Jilla, Founder & CEO of Dreams for Schools and The Meraki Collective, for a hands-on lab on rebuilding the nonprofit work week.

​Get a live, behind-the-scenes look at how Dreams for Schools rebuilt its operations around its own data model, turning paper attendance for thousands of students into one tap. Then map one of your own workflows with a simple one-page method, side by side with technologists from the OC Tech Week community.

​You’ll leave knowing a workflow to automate first, and how your team might use the hours it gives back.

​Who it’s for: tech folks, builders, nonprofit leaders and staff, funders, and builders who want to put their skills to work for good.

​What to bring: one workflow you repeat every week (a report, a sign-up, an intake form). A laptop is a nice to have!

​Agenda
3:30 Arrive and settle in
3:40 A quick AI experiment and why it matters
3:55 Live demo: inside an AI-native nonprofit journey
4:10 Workflow mapping lab, in pairs
4:45 Share-outs and Q&A, Close

​Free. Seats are limited.

​Part of OC Tech Week 2026.