
We invite Indigenous Nation Citizens, members, and representatives to register for this webinar on April 29, 2026 at 2pm AZ.
Note: You will not receive the webinar information immediately following your registration. The webinar planning team will be manually approving registrations for attendance to this webinar. This is in response to a previous Zoom webinar being recorded by an AI bot and posting the webinar to an AI podcast website without the consent of the team or the participants.
Webinar Description
Qayak to waka will bring together Indigenous experts (Māori, Yupik, and Samoan) who are actively building tools, services, and governance approaches grounded in Indigenous data sovereignty and community priorities.
This will be a practitioner-focused conversation centered on applied, real-world experience where the conversation moves beyond principles and highlight the real challenges, opportunities, and futures being shaped right now by people like yourself.
Featured Speakers:

Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives
Alaska Center for Energy & Power
University of Alaska Fairbanks



This webinar is a collaborative effort involving the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, the Indigenous Data Exchange (IDX), the IndigeLab Network, the Indigenous Data Law Lab (NYU), and the Indigenous Data Alliance (IDA).
