Warm Data Lab Nairobi: A Cross-Sector Invitation
Most of the problems we face in Nairobi are shared. But the people working on them rarely sit in the same room.
Tech teams build solutions. Community groups live the daily reality. Policy teams design programmes. Researchers study the patterns. Activists push for change.
Each group sees only one part of the system. So we keep producing partial solutions to whole problems.
Join Us for a Warm Data Lab.
A guided cross-sector conversation that bridges different worlds and contexts together, into the same room.
Participants move between small conversation circles, exploring one shared question from different angles. We will build relationships, widen perspective, and notice the patterns that are usually invisible.
If your work touches people, communities, or systems, this conversation is for you.
No panels. No presentations. No data collection.
Just story-sharing across the many contexts that shape real life, like family, economy, culture, technology, environment, and governance.
Who Should Attend
• Everyone is welcome to a Warm Data Lab. Like a jungle, the more perspectives in the space, the more Life is possible!
• Professionals working in complex social or organisational systems
• Community leaders and grassroots organisers
• NGO and foundation teams
• Policy makers and public servants
• Researchers and educators
• Tech and innovation teams
What to Expect
9:45-10:00 - Arrival, warming, and welcoming (with some intro music)
10:15-11:45 - The Lab itself (storytelling, moving between conversations)
11:45-12:00 - Closing circle and partner announcements
12:00-12:30 - Mingling and departing
12:30-1:00 - Clean up / break down / exit
How do I Register
Register early or support a community participant through the ticket options below. You can register here on Luma with a suggested donation of 1000 KES
Includes the full half-day lab experience and refreshments.
About the Hosts
Hosted by Joy Njeri, a Nairobi-based community and systems practitioner.
In collaboration with:
Wendy Moomaw, a Washington-based international leadership coach and Warm Data facilitator known for guiding cross-sector conversations that help people and organisations see systems in new ways. Also, a Warm Data Host.
Jessica Groopman, a San Francisco-based global technology strategist and founder of the Regenerative Technology Project, working with innovation leaders worldwide to align digital systems with human and ecological wellbeing. Also, a Warm Data Host.
Robert Wanalo, Nairobi-based Warm Data Host.
Isabel Nuesse, Nairobi-based Warm Data Host.
Contact
Joy Njeri
+254 724987887
For Sponsors
Join a guided conversation with professionals, community leaders, activists, researchers, public servants, and others.
Each corporate seat automatically sponsors the participation of one community member. This helps create a balanced room where professionals and grassroots voices sit in the same conversations as equals.
Includes:
• One staff seat
• One sponsored community seat
• Refreshments and facilitation
For organisations interested in hosting or sponsoring multiple seats, please contact the Joy directly.
More about Warm Data Labs...
Developed by Nora Bateson, these gatherings are like the best after-dinner conversations you’ve ever had, with people you may have never met. Participants share their stories and observations about a common question, moving between contexts to explore the day’s topic from different directions. Everyone moves whenever and wherever their curiosity takes them, listening to and creating new points of view. In the last half-hour we come back together as one group and share what we’ve noticed, weaving together the sense we’ve been making.
What is Warm Data? https://youtu.be/f8tTax7ad9g?si=UvGvVMdP2aNOxIDP&t=147
Warm Data Labs? As the many overlapping crises of this era intensify, so too does the imperative to meet them. The possibility for responding together is not based in how much people know, or who knows what. The possibility is in people improvising together.
To cope and thrive in the changing landscape of today’s world calls us forth to relate with each other in ways we have never done before. The cultivation of new collective possibilities begins with exploring the way we mutually learn as we perceive and make sense of our world.
While there are no straightforward solutions to our collective problems, when we pay attention to our senses, our relationships with one another, and our curiosity, the difference between how things combine within you and how they combine within me allows new collective perceptions to emerge.