Please join us for this interactive and candid fireside chat featuring serial entrepreneur Natalie J. Egan (she / hers) where she will discuss her journey as an openly transgender tech CEO and founder raising venture capital and building her 2nd high technology start-up in a hetero-cis-white-male dominated industry. Natalie will share the story of her experience raising money both pre and post-transition as well as insights and strategies to help attendees build scalable venture-backed businesses. Natalie will be interviewed by Brad Zapp (he / him) Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Connetic Ventures, a VC firm dedicated to eliminating bias and discrimination in the investment process.

Speaker(s):

Natalie J. Egan
CEO & Founder, Translator, Inc.

Strategies to Fund Your Transition & Startup.

Speaker(s):

Maddie Stenger
Senior Corporate Finance Consultant

Allyship is a word, being an accomplice is an action. Learn more about how to show up and show out for the Transgender community.

Audience: Cisgender individuals wanting a better, yet, basic understanding of the trans community.

Speaker(s):

M. Greg Green
Author, Diversity & Inclusion Facilitator, and Community Advocate

Speaker(s):

Rich Richards
Operations Coordinator at Jamija and curator of S.A.F.E JA

Nikki Jax speaks on career opportunities in Live Event Production for the transgender individual, highlighted by stories from her 30+ years in the industry.

Speaker(s):

Nikki Jax
VP of Sales for ATD Audio Visual Mama Nikki of the House Of Jax

Civil Rights Attorney Jillian Weiss discusses best practices for protecting yourself against work discrimination.

Speaker(s):

Jillian Weiss
Civil Rights Attorney

Speaker(s):

Kim Watson-Benjamin
Co-founder & Executive Director, CKLife

This workshop talks about how to work “the grind” without grinding yourself to dust by outlining ways to avoid burnout and how to effectively maximize one’s talent in the gig economy.

Speaker(s):

Rhys Tirado
Junior Fullstack Developer

Life has taken many turns, stages, and chapters for Seven King… King finally opens up and shares a personal vlog interview that was focused primarily for the TransTech Summit. If you ever wondered what has happened to his viral project or him here’s a sneak peek, entitled: The Tape.

Speaker(s):

Seven King
Founder, Seven Kings Studios & Creator Eden's Garden TV

Confidence in their skill set and themselves.

Audience: Targeted for someone who is newly out in the workforce or questioning if they can be authentic in their chosen field.

Speaker(s):

Soléil McCants
SEM Specialist

“The App for Change” will explore a new tech company called COMMUNITYx. COMMUNITYx is the world’s first and leading social impact technology company, aimed at connecting likeminded changemakers around calls to action such as petitions, rallies, donations and more. The session will conclude with an overview of Angelica Ross’s Trans Kids Are Kids campaign, which is run on the COMMUNITYx technology.

Speaker(s):

Chloë Cheyenne
CEO, Community X

WordPress 5.9 FSE isn’t scary – in fact, it’s pretty amazing.

Audience: It’s for people who are already familiar with using WordPress, whether they are designers, developers, or just casual users.

Speaker(s):

D.J. Billings
Web Developer

How to start a business, vendors, funding options, how to pick your niche.

Audience: Older Black Trans Masculine folks

Speaker(s):

StephVon Smith
CEO, Qween Vee's Royalty

It may take a little creativity, but there’s a way to make room for trans people no matter what industry.

Audience: Anyone who has had to change their name before or feels like banking can never change.

Speaker(s):

Charlie Hunts
Senior Brand Marketing Manager

Speaker(s):

Gearah Goldstein
Inclusion and diversity consultant and nationally-recognized LGBTQ subject matter expert

Be inspired to use what you know as an engineer to move forward and do bigger things.

Audience: Anyone who writes code, plays games, and/or is interested in being their own boss.

Speaker(s):

Evie Salomon
Founder, BackBit

A guide on how to create content and experiences that go viral focused specifically on Queer creators. This workshop takes you through the history and growth of sites like Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, the Dodo, Axios and smaller projects by creators. Led by a trans feminine CEO, the workshop also talks about how to use your queerness as a super power in your career and as a creator.

Speaker(s):

Andrea Breanna
CEO, Rebel Mouse

Empower intersectionally marginalized people to take up space online and optimize the usage of digital organizing so we can efficiently put our increased visibility to good use. Also, to offer our learned lessons and national community insights so that everyone can come together in support of crucial advocacy and activism goals for the liberation of Queer & Trans People of Color.

Audience: Anyone who wants to increase their understanding of how to successfully navigate online advocacy. This workshop was envisioned to be accessible to people of all experience levels because one is constantly learning ourselves and want to share his/her/their process transparently as we all learn together.

Speaker(s):

Elle Halo
LGBTQ+ Health Equity Advocate

Do you have a vision for a LGBTQ community-based or an individual project? Is there an idea for an event, conference, video, campaign, or that you want to carry out by yourself? As part of the LGBTQ community we are often placed in leadership positions where we have to create innovative projects that support our community with very limited resources, along with having to deal with external barriers. Whether you are part of an institution, starting your own project solo or with a team you need a few tools up your sleeve to successfully carry it out. From finding funding, spaces, to building effective teams, communication to DIY skills, learn the project management tools and skills needed to carry out an idea from start to finish.

Audience: Queer and trans people who want to run their own conferences, solo projects like videos, photoshoots, etc. with limited resources.

Speaker(s):

Robbie Ahmed
Artist, Writer, & Activist

Speaker(s):

Angelica Ross
Emmy-Nominated Actor, Star of Pose & American Horror Story on FX / Producer & Writer / Human Rights Advocate

E.C. Pizarro III
Executive Director, TransTech Social

Speaker(s):

AJ Scruggs
Founder and Executive Director of Visible Truth 365. National HIV Trainer w/ The Elevate Program

Increase your value as a designer to an organization by knowing how to advocate for web accessibility and being able to suggest 3-5 action items demonstrating proficiency.

Audience: Designers who are interested in web accessibility, engineers who want to learn more about design, and people who work in product development who want to learn how to better advocate for web accessibility.

Speaker(s):

Alexis Lucio
Senior Accessibility Lead

Get paid to share your story and create financial freedom in your life.

Audience: My workshop is for healers, social workers, speakers, experts, diverse leaders who want to learn how to get paid to speak and create digital assets.

Speaker(s):

Evolve Benton
Speaker, Founder of MAR Media, LLC

Empower and excite people to start a career in tech. Personal story will be shared so each attendee walks away with a list of tools they can use to begin their careers in tech.

Audience: The workshop is for anyone looking to start a career a tech. This can be students or this can be experienced professionals looking to make a career change. Ultimately, it will provide attendees with a list of resources to use, take advantage of to access technology, to network, to develop tech skills, and to start learning to code for free.

Speaker(s):

Z Ortiz
Technical Writer

Featuring Forbes Top Transgender Entrepreneurs: This panel conversation will center Black Trans & Non Binary folks who are current business owners and entrepreneurs. We will have dynamic moments of truth, vulnerability and tip and tricks on how to start and maintain a successful business. Experience ranging from direct to consumer, finance, and media; we invite you to join us.

Speaker(s):

StephVon Smith
CEO, Qween Vee's Royalty

Jayla Roxx
CEO of The Remidi Television Network and BatMe Cosmetics

Stoney Michelli
Founder/CEO, Stuzo Clothing

Braxton Fleming
Founder/CEO Stealth Bros & Co.

K. Kenneth Davis
CEO, The Trans Capitalist

Whether you’re a seasoned professional or interviewing for your next job opportunity, there are ways to “read between the lines” to assess an organization’s true commitment to creating a safe, equitable, and welcoming environment for trans and GNC individuals to thrive at work. Trans and GNC folx are rethinking what it means to live authentically both in life and at work. This intention is leading many individuals to seek employment that is purposeful and affirming. Commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and accessibility in the workplace have become some of the main criteria for building and sustaining an environment that is safe for our community to thrive at work. Related, the difficulty employers are facing as they try to fill open positions can be a smokescreen for ongoing unfair labor practices. How can a DEI practice go beyond the performance of numerical metrics to truly serve the well-being of trans and GNC telent?In this 30-minute learning session, Nico Calvo Rosenstone, Global inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility business partner at Twitter and Félix Endara, technical assistance consultant at the Transgender Strategy Center, will outline what to look out for when trans people are seeking employment in an environment that will support their well-being and professional growth. Calvo Rosenstone will address what to look for in the corporate and tech sectors, while Endara will cover the nonprofit sector. Together, they will help participants “read between the lines” of DEI.

Audience: Trans and GNC people interviewing for new roles

Speaker(s):

Félix Endara
Filmmaker, philanthropic consultant, arts administrator

In information security, we are focused on ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our data and systems. We often monitor systems and services health for over utilization, packet loss and swapping, but we do not do the equivalent for people. When we attempt to measure people, we expect that they operate at full capacity all the time, hitting KPIs without considering the personal cost. Do we blame the server when it’s overloaded or has too many services running on it, competing for the same resources? No. We don’t give the engineers and analysts maintaining our infrastructure and products the same level of consideration that we give our critical systems. This session will propose ways to monitor people availability, ensure psychological safety, and proactively avoid burnout.

Attendees will gain perspective and a greater understanding of how the normalization of heroics is negatively affecting their teams.

Attendees will gain knowledge about mental labor and why this work needs to be recognized.

Attendees will learn strategies to ensure people’s availability and psychological safety.

Audience: People leaders/managers of engineering teams, engineers, and anyone unfamiliar with a humanistic approach.

Speaker(s):

Jamie Tomasello
Vice President of Operations

Practical practices, action steps and strategies people can incorporate across their company\/organization to center racial equity and justice; with a particular focus on supporting + centering BIPOC people with additional intersecting identities that are marginalized, i.e. LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, etc. What Anti-Racism means + looks like in ACTION.

Audience: People in the business/corporate/non profit space looking to make their organization more equitable; folks interested in learning more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, ERG leaders/managers/business leaders interested in racial justice.

Speaker(s):

Bryce J. Celotto, M.A.T
Founder and Head of JEDI Strategy

This workshop will address what self-care is. Breaking down what self-care looks like, feels like, and why is it necessary to have self-care practices. Participants will be given language, tools, and attachments they can walk away with so that they can love themself more.

Speaker(s):

Phoenix TK Gayle
Activist, Organizer

Embracing your own uniqueness as trans person is key to unlocking creativity, courage, and empathy as your workplace “superpowers.”

Audience: Trans professionals and allies.

Speaker(s):

Aiden Yang
Sr. Marketing Manager, Employer Brand and Author of The Spineless Porcupine

A foundational self-care routine and strategy for approaching working in tech that empowers you.

Audience: Trans people in tech, transitioning, or finding their footing in their career.

Speaker(s):

Ashley Adamson
Speaker Writer Product Designer

Help people defining a new stretch goal and actionable steps they can take right away.

Audience: This workshop is for people who are looking to gain more confidence in taking the next step in their business or career. This could mean searching and applying for a new job or starting their own venture.

Speaker(s):

Sebastian Nemec
Life Coach

How to improve the representation of trans people on the English Wikipedia.

Audience: Anyone interested in learning a bit about how Wikipedia works.

Speaker(s):

Pax Ahimsa Gethen
Wikipedian

The ability to make a REEL or TIKTOK to introduce themselves and their brand to their social media audience.

Audience: For people who want to learn how to make REELS and TIKTOKs that engage their audiences.

Speaker(s):

Sir Lex Kennedy
Producer

The art and healing of after sex work: Healing and Intimacy; reconnecting with our bodies in intimate relationships and understanding the healing process after transactional love and intimacy.

Speaker(s):

Yannick Taylor
Musician

Mataoe Aiden James Nevils
Program and Membership Coordinator, TransTech Social

Identifying what aligns with your values prevents burnout, establishes a trustworthy rubric for decisions, and empowers you to achieve specificity that is grounded in internal motivators rather than external circumstances.

Audience:
Mid-career professionals who may be satisfied at their job, but are seeking deeper ways to connect to purpose within their role, give meaning to the function of their workflow, and create autonomous growth through how they show up in the workplace regardless of the company structure.

Career transitioners who are looking to level up in their next role/industry, but are unsure how to connect their immediate actions to sustainable long-term career development.

Job seekers who struggle to articulate what they are passionate about or how to communicate the motivation behind their work to employers.

Speaker(s):

Juliet Barrett
Creative Coach & Facilitator

That the future of film is inclusion, don’t give up on goals to make it in the industry of filmmaking.

Audience: Aspiring filmmakers and directors.

Speaker(s):

Aaron Harris
Film Director & Documentarian

3-4 measurable learning objectives will include a modern-day walkthrough of what medical facility/office staff needs are in regards to:

• Intake guidelines
• Primary Care Consideration (Physician/nursing team)
• Specialty Clinic Referrals
• Medication Guidelines
• Components on how to self advocate with HealthCare Team via MyChart App
• Other Digital Insurance Providers

Speaker(s):

Jennifer Barnes-Balenciaga
LGBTQ Liaison for State Rep. Park Cannon Director of Crystal La'Beija Organizing Fellowship

Asher McQueen
Financial Controller/Community Leader/Entrepreneur

An understanding of how to go about choosing open source packages for their projects. By showing what mistakes other developers have made the attendee will leave with an understanding of what you should be looking for when considering open source.

Audience: Junior to mid-level developers. All levels can get good information from this.

Speaker(s):

Michaela Demeter
Security Researcher

If technology companies/departments want to diversify their teams and welcome members of the LGBTQIA community, they need to look outside traditional hiring and training processes to accomplish this. For underrepresented groups, it can be difficult to find spaces that are welcoming and safe. In this session, Michelle will discuss how companies can diversify their workforce and the importance of doing so. They will share actionable steps such as incorporating apprenticeships, removing background checks, and share proven and effective hiring approaches for increasing representation.

Audience: Leadership, team managers, human resources teams, and anyone interested in diversifying the workforce

Speaker(s):

Michelle Skoor
Chief Workforce Officer

Explore design trends and how-tos, marketing tips, and branding wisdom to make your content stand out.

Audience: Designers/Educators/Business

Speaker(s):

Dezjorn Gauthier
Founder & CEO, Dezjorn International

Speaker(s):

Angelica Ross
Emmy-Nominated Actor, Star of Pose & American Horror Story on FX / Producer & Writer / Human Rights Advocate

Build solid financial systems in your business using my 6 pillar framework.

Audience: Small business owners wanting to scale their businesses from 5 to 6 figures.

Speaker(s):

Jillian Todd
Finance Coach for Creatives

How to use the knowledge and wisdom gathered surviving this world as a minoritized person, and translate them on your resume for a tech job.

Audience: All folks, BIPOC encouraged.

Speaker(s):

Lazarus Letcher
Consultant, Writer, Musician

Resources & tips to feel more confident in making a presentation for any talk in a tech space.

Audience: Anyone who has to present in their role, make presentations or want to get into public speaking.

Speaker(s):

T Sripunvoraskul
Product Designer

A StoryMap uses online tools and maps to interactively communicate with an audience. Even if you’ve never made a website or a map before, sharing a story you care about using custom maps and web tools is completely within reach.

This workshop will teach you how to use a freely available, web-based application to create an engaging, interactive online StoryMap that can include maps, websites, text, and multimedia. We will explore and discuss a variety of examples. Then you can make your own basic StoryMap using sample data, resulting in your own editable, publishable StoryMap. These skills can be applied to make other, more complex StoryMaps. Basic references for further research/skill development will be provided. No coding is required; the workshop leverages public data.

Audience: This workshop is for those of us engaging audiences through data, creating awareness around key issues, or inspiring action; it’s for those of us experimenting with our own storytelling practices, looking to build spaces representing our communities, and who want to explore technology and learn a new web-based skill.

Speaker(s):

Chris MacDougall
GIS Specialist

A method for organizing project work using low-code tools such as Airtable or Excel.

Audience: Technical people who need a process for tracking tasks and projects, but who may not have a formal PM education.

Speaker(s):

Jaime Maron MBA PMP
Technology Manager

Inspire people to walk away with less pressure on themselves to show up online. If they do decide to show up online, they do so with confidence in their own boundaries.

Audience: LGBT+ folks who are in the workforce who find it hard to show up authentically online in the professional space, whether to network or not. This workshop is for those who want to challenge their fear of social media by starting with a powerful tool: boundary building.

Speaker(s):

Rocio Sanchez
Digital Marketing Brand Strategist and CEO of Marketing by Rocio

Practical information on the energetics of overcoming internalized glass ceilings in the context of business.

Audience: LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs of color, entrepreneurs with disabilities, women entrepreneurs

Speaker(s):

Ira Briones
Coach, energy healer

Generate deeper understanding on how current advances in small-dataset machine learning apply to the trans community and for communities of color, including benefits and harms.

Audience: Specifically, this workshop is informative for queer (and especially trans) people of color in tech, with an emphasis on those interested in research. However, this workshop is open for all people interested in tech research and regulation as a major point of consideration.

Speaker(s):

Jeffrey Xiong
Undergraduate Researcher

Beauty Means Business: The Service, The Experience, The Brand and we will be discussing different ways you can show up and show out in the industry, what experiences you can provide clients, how media supports and amplifies trends and how to market yourself in the beauty industry.

Speaker(s):

Angelica Ross
Emmy-Nominated Actor, Star of Pose & American Horror Story on FX / Producer & Writer / Human Rights Advocate

EJ Jamele
CEO & Founder of crowdMGMT, Elite Talent & Brand Manager, Producer

Simone "Japan" Tisci
Model, Dancer, Celebrity Makeup Artist HBO Max’s Legendary Season 2

Merrell Hollis
Emmy-Nominated Celebrity Makeup Artist, Skin Care Product Inventor, Beauty Product Developer

Andrés Felipe
Makeup artist: fashion, celebrity & editorial & cosmetics collection Owner & founder of MUBA

Speaker(s):

Courtney Knight
Strength and Conditioning Coach

How to navigate the PhD application process as a trans person.

Audience: trans people who are considering graduate school in tech/computing fields.

Speaker(s):

Oliver Haimson
Assistant Professor

MAJOR! explores the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.
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Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader and human rights activist. She is simply “Mama” to many in her community. Her personal story and activism for transgender civil rights intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons.

We’ve compiled a Study Guide for educators and community leaders who would like to learn more about the legacy of Miss Major’s work for trans advocacy and the abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex.

THE BOI DOC
THE BOI DOC utilizes dialogue to break the silence created by racism, sexism, gender expression insensitivity, heterosexism, homophobia, and transphobia. It is our belief that when people are shown images of people they can relate to or see positive and productive members of society who look or live like them, they will aspire to do the same, but even more, they’ll see the humanity of the people whose story they’re hearing and see their own humanity reflected back. Furthermore, we believe when people see themselves reflected in the media, whether someone looks like them or is experiencing a similar situation, they not only feel accepted, but also affirmed and empowered.

THE BOI DOC is an artistic manifestation of the filmmakers desire to add their honest, uniquely provocative, and eloquent narratives about gender and gender expression through the Masculine and Masculine of Center queer voice of the people of the African diaspora to the world.

TherActvist: They/Them/Theirs
The TherActivist: They/Them/Theirs book and documentary project shines a light on the intersections of identity, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; gender expression and social justice activism against the backdrop of anti-Black racism, anti-LGBTQIA violence, and social exclusion. A combination of Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA+ rights, equity and more! The TherActivist embodies a “therapeutic activism” approach, while servicing and empowering people of color, LGBTQIA+ communities, and marginalized populations.

Speaker(s):

Evolve Benton
Speaker, Founder of MAR Media, LLC

Sir Lex Kennedy
Producer

Dana TherActivist Johnson, MSW
LGBTQ+ Activist, Author, Filmmaker, DEI Consultant

Devin Niecy
Advocate, Therapist