Release Date
6/30/2026
When: Sunday, July 26th
Time: 10am - 4pm
Location: 131 Varick St, New York, NY 10013
Price: $150 scholarships available upon request
Session Summary
A hands-on workshop and hackathon designed to help nonprofit leaders and social impact professionals become more comfortable using AI, while developing a practical solution for their organization, or bring a new concept to life. Participants will (1) identify a real operational challenge or a new project they want to create, (2) design an AI-enabled app or workflow, and (3) build a working prototype they can continue developing after the workshop. Come with an idea you already want to build, or just your curiosity about what you can build using these new tools.
Agenda
10am-1130am: Intro to AI & Prompting
1130am-130pm: Working Lunch (30 min) & Design thinking workshop (collaborative with readout) plus generate plan
130pm-2pm: Intro to Zapier (automation tool)
2pm-330pm: Guided prototype build or design deeper proposal (choose comfort level)
330pm-4pm: Showcase & conclusion
Led By: Kristen Brown and Ashley Taylor
Kristen Brown is an AI strategist who helps organizations navigate change at the intersection of business strategy and emerging technology. Over the course of her career, Kristen has advised executives, investors, founders, and operators on how to evaluate, commercialize, and adopt new technologies. She spent a decade at IBM in roles spanning corporate development, market intelligence, strategy, and business development, supporting more than $7 billion in transactions and helping bring technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, IoT, and edge computing to market. Now, Kristen works with venture capital firms, startups, and small businesses to develop AI strategies, build agentic workflows, and identify practical opportunities to improve productivity and operations. Her work focuses on helping organizations move beyond experimentation and integrate AI into day-to-day decision-making and execution. As a non-technical builder, Kristen specializes in translating complex concepts into plain English. Her approach is simple: start with the business problem, not the technology, and identify where AI can create meaningful value for people, teams, and organizations Kristen holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, where she specialized in Finance and Entrepreneurship & Innovation, and dual bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Duke University.
Ashley Taylor is a social innovation systems designer and impact entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Radiical Systems and Good Standing. She was the first employee at ConsenSys, where she helped launch Ethereum — defining the new products that blockchain technology would enable and building the teams and community to create them. She developed the first cybersecurity framework for implementing UN Security Council sanctions regimes with CCSI, delivering 50+ workshops across 14 countries, and founded and operated two community collaboration hubs and event venues in Brooklyn (ReGenCy and Jupiter House). In 2023 she founded Radiical Systems, a venture studio and consultancy focused on social impact, which built Good Standing — a platform for fostering collective action and social impact at scale. She holds a BA from Duke University and completed the NYU Tandon Bridge program in computer science.
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