About This Event
Join digital equity leaders from across New York State for a high-impact day of learning, collaboration, and advocacy. The NYSDEN Annual Conference brings together practitioners, policymakers, funders, and grassroots organizations to explore bold solutions for expanding digital access and opportunity in every region.
Hosted in collaboration with CEWIT:
Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology
1500 Stony Brook Road
Stony Brook, NY 11794-6040
Date: August 5, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM - Conference / 4:00pm to 5:30 - Social Hour with Cocktails
Light Breakfast & Lunch Served
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 conference offers practical insights, real-world strategies, and powerful networking to help advance your mission—and the digital equity movement statewide.
Help NYSDEN by supporting this annual conference of critical stakeholders!
We welcome event sponsors!
Corporations or other interested parities seeking to spotlight their business and promote digital inclusion can contact Don Matteson for sponsorship information. Email: dwmatteson@wnydigitalequity.org
Cost of Sponsorship: $2,500
We also welcome donations to cover NYSDEN's work. Please consider making a gift of any amount!
Suggested Donation: $50 per person
Pending NYSDEN’s complete formation as a 501(c)(3), The STEM Alliance is serving as a fiscal sponsor for this event. All donation and/or sponsorship monies are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. All donations are held in a dedicated fund to cover the costs of NYSDEN work.
About This Event
Join digital equity leaders from across New York State for a high-impact day of learning, collaboration, and advocacy. The NYSDEN Annual Conference brings together practitioners, policymakers, funders, and grassroots organizations to explore bold solutions for expanding digital access and opportunity in every region.
Hosted in collaboration with CEWIT:
Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology
1500 Stony Brook Road
Stony Brook, NY 11794-6040
Date: August 5, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM - Conference / 4:00pm to 5:30 - Social Hour with Cocktails
Light Breakfast & Lunch Served
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 conference offers practical insights, real-world strategies, and powerful networking to help advance your mission—and the digital equity movement statewide.
Help NYSDEN by supporting this annual conference of critical stakeholders!
We welcome event sponsors!
Corporations or other interested parities seeking to spotlight their business and promote digital inclusion can contact Don Matteson for sponsorship information. Email: dwmatteson@wnydigitalequity.org
Cost of Sponsorship: $2,500
We also welcome donations to cover NYSDEN's work. Please consider making a gift of any amount!
Suggested Donation: $50 per person
Pending NYSDEN’s complete formation as a 501(c)(3), The STEM Alliance is serving as a fiscal sponsor for this event. All donation and/or sponsorship monies are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. All donations are held in a dedicated fund to cover the costs of NYSDEN work.