IDX Webinar: Qayak to Waka: Indigenous Intelligence in Motion

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:

Vanessa Raymond
Deputy Director for Strategic Initiatives
Alaska Center for Energy & Power
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Tapunu’u Vensel Margraff, (Samoan) PhD engineering student in tsunami preparedness and resilience 
Lauren Decker (Yupik) is an oceanographer and modeller who works with communities
Pera Barrett, (Maori) founder of Kaha Create (AI)

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