Technology can help nonprofits do more. But choosing a tool is often the easy part.
The harder work is figuring out what problem you are actually trying to solve, whether your data and systems are ready, how to make a new approach work in practice, and what you can learn from others who have tried it before.
That’s the thinking behind upcoming events across Project Tech4Dev, Glific and Dalgo this September and October.
There are opportunities to learn about data and AI, hear directly from organisations working through real data challenges, explore last-mile communication, and build new technology around a real programme need.
Here’s what’s coming up.
Understanding the Data + AI Lifecycle
Focus area: Data readiness for AI
Webinar | 10 September | 5–7 PM IST | Online
A practical session on understanding your organisation’s data and AI lifecycle, identifying where things break down, and prioritising what needs attention. The session will help participants build a roadmap towards better reporting, better decision-making and responsible AI adoption.
Driving Beneficiary Impact from Data: Lessons from 1000 Days Fund
Focus area: Data for programme impact
Webinar | 11 September | 2–3 PM IST | Online
1000 Days Fund shares its journey with Dalgo, looking at how its data systems evolved and what changed along the way. A useful conversation on how stronger data foundations can support better programme decisions and beneficiary impact.
AI-Assisted Assessments for NGOs
Focus area: AI for assessments and learner feedback
Webinar | 16 September | 3 – 4 PM IST | Online
How can NGOs evaluate large volumes of student submissions without compromising on quality or meaningful feedback? This session explores an AI-assisted assessment pipeline that can evaluate text, image, audio and video submissions, generate rubric-based scores and multilingual feedback, while keeping educators in control of reviewing and overriding AI outputs. The session will also share learnings from early pilots with partner NGOs.
GlificConnect | Community. Collaboration. Conversations.
Focus area: Last-mile communication for social impact
Event | 25 September | All day | Bengaluru
What makes communication work when you’re working with communities? GlificConnect brings together practitioners, funders and technology partners to explore last-mile, two-way communication across WhatsApp, chatbots, apps, AI and non-digital approaches, with field stories, practical sessions and examples from the sector.
Registrations close 15 September.
Data Decoded with Dalgo | Turn data into decisions
Focus area: Data strategy and decision-making
Strategy Sessions | All Day | 6 October: Bengaluru | 29 October: Delhi
These sessions offer organisations a structured space to examine how data is currently collected, managed and used across their work. Participants will identify gaps in their data systems, clarify priority challenges and define practical next steps towards a stronger data strategy and more effective decision-making.
Bengaluru applications close 15 September. Delhi applications close 20 September.
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Glific Launchpad | Build your first AI-powered WhatsApp chatbot
Focus area: Building WhatsApp chatbots
Workshop | 26–27 October | All day | Bengaluru
Bring a real use case you’re trying to solve and spend two days turning it into a working AI-powered WhatsApp chatbot. The programme combines guided building, support and peer learning to help participants move from an idea to something they can actually use and test.
Applications close 25 September.
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Different routes to the same goal
These opportunities look quite different on the surface.
One explores responsible AI adoption. Another looks at a real organisation’s data journey. GlificConnect focuses on communication at the last mile. Data Decoded helps nonprofits work through their own data challenges. Launchpad puts technology directly into participants’ hands.
But there is a common thread: technology becomes useful when people have the capability to understand it, question it, build with it and apply it to the problems that matter.
That takes more than access to tools.
It takes opportunities to learn from peers, work through real challenges, experiment, and understand what actually works in practice.
That’s the kind of capacity-building ecosystem Project Tech4Dev is working towards.
