NYS Digital Equity Network

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Join digital equity leaders from across New York State at Stony Brook University on August 5, 2025 for a high-impact day of learning, collaboration, and advocacy. The NYSDEN Annual Convening brings together practitioners, policymakers, funders, and grassroots organizations to explore bold solutions for expanding digital access and opportunity in every region.

This year’s theme, Advancing Access Through Collective Advocacy, highlights how through strategic and collective advocacy we can unlock funding, drive outcomes, and fuel meaningful, community-based change. Through interactive panels, skill-building workshops, and case-driven breakout sessions, attendees will dive into urgent issues including AI and digital inclusion, hardware affordability, infrastructure volatility, funding diversification, and reaching underserved populations like people with disabilities and those impacted by incarceration.

Whether you’re working in the field or shaping policy, this convening offers practical insights, real-world strategies, and powerful networking to help advance your mission—and the digital equity movement statewide.

Hosted at:

Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology
1500 Stony Brook Road 
Stony Brook, NY 11794-6040
Date: August 5, 2025
Time: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm – Conference / 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm – Networking Social Hour
Light Breakfast & Lunch Served

Agenda

Join us for a day of plenaries, panels, and workshops designed to educate, illuminate, and spur continued progress and innovation in digital equity throughout New York State

Time	Plenary Room	Breakout Room
8:00am – 9:00 am	Breakfast & Networking
9:00 am – 9:15 am	Welcome!
9:15 am – 10:00 am	Keynote with Dr. Revati Prasad
10:00 am – 10:50 am	From Coalition to Campaign — Turning Partnerships in to Advocacy Engines for Digital Equity
11:00 am – 11:50 am	The AI Equity Conversation: Nonprofits, AI, and the Future of Equitable, Ethical Service	Accessibility Is Equity: Centering Services for those with Disabilities in our Digital Inclusion Programming
12:00 pm – 12:50 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm – 1:50 pm	Cross-Sector Alignment for Impact: Integrating Digital Equity into Workforce, Healthcare, and Economic Systems	Workshop: AI For Non-Profits: Workshop on AI Agent Creation
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm	Workshop: Stronger Together: Strategic Casemaking to Power NYSDEN’s Collective Impact
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm	Funding in Freefall — Strategies for Sustaining Digital Equity in a Shifting Landscape
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Closing
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm	Networking Social

Accommodations

Lodging is available at the Hilton Garden Inn (Stony Brook) or Danford’s Hotel & Marina (Port Jefferson). We do not have any room blocks reserved or preferred rates at either establishment.