Secure & Sovereign: Tech Safety and Equity for BIWOC Founders

​An Oakland Tech Week exclusive!

​In a digital world that can feel overwhelming and exclusionary, Secure & Sovereign creates a welcoming space for BIWOC founders and allies to explore cybersecurity through a lens of equity, empowerment, and community care. This interactive workshop breaks down the basics of tech safety in plain language — helping participants understand what “tech equity” means and how it impacts their daily work. Together, we’ll identify which current digital practices are secure (and which aren’t), learn about accessible tools and strategies to strengthen online protection, and build confidence in managing our digital presence. Participants will leave with practical tools they can implement immediately and a renewed sense of connection and collective power with other BIWOC entrepreneurs navigating today’s digital landscape.

​Location

​West Oakland Public Library

​1801 Adeline Street, Oakland CA 94607

​Meet your Hosts

​Just BE is a community of multiracial and multicultural micro-entrepreneurs on a journey toward healing, restoration, and shared prosperity. Just BE centers the needs, well-being, and brilliance of women of color and their families, co-creating purposeful opportunities for learning, healing, and collaboration. 

​Tercero Solutions, founded by Nahua Pipil/Kʼiche Maya womxn, is a boutique consulting firm located in unceded Ohlone territory. At Tercero Solutions, we champion empathetic design and adopt an agile approach to operations and technology, harnessing our organizational development expertise, grounded in promoting equity and justice. Our team has over 30 years of combined experience guiding social and racial justice organizations through tailored capacity-building processes.

​The Town's First Tech Week

​Oakland Tech Week is a citywide celebration featuring panels, workshops, grassroots events, and matchmaking designed to connect startups with investors, policymakers, and partners committed to building inclusive tech ecosystems. Oakland Tech Week is for anyone who believes technology should serve community, not extract from it. Whether you're a founder, investor, technologist, creative, student, or just Oakland curious—there's a place for you here.