Beyond Inevitability: Shaping Technology with Cultural Wisdom
An Oakland Tech Week exclusive!
Technology isn't inevitable. It's shaped by the people who build it, use it, and imagine what's possible.
Join us for a conversation about how cultural wisdom, shared ownership, and the solidarity economy can help us create technology that advances equity, strengthens community, and supports both human and environmental wellbeing.
Together, we'll imagine what a more just technological future could look like, explore real-world examples that are already moving us in that direction, and reflect on the role each of us can play in bringing that future closer. You don't need to be an engineer to help shape the future of technology.
Location
California Endowment Oakland Regional Office
2000 Franklin Street, 4th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612
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.
About Oakland Tech Week
Oakland Tech Week is a citywide celebration of technology, entrepreneurship, and community, bringing together founders, technologists, investors, creatives, students, policymakers, and neighbors to explore how innovation can strengthen Oakland. Through panels, workshops, networking events, and hands-on experiences, the week creates opportunities to learn, collaborate, and build technology rooted in community, culture, and purpose.
Whether you work in tech or are simply curious about its future, Oakland Tech Week is for anyone who believes technology should serve communities, not extract from them.