Registration is now open to the public for this webinar featuring Jane Anderson and Zam DeShield on March 25, 2026 at 2-3pm AZ.
Due to team time limitations, any registrations received after March 24 at 5pm AZ will not be reviewed.
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
This hands-on webinar demonstrates how to set up and run AI models on your own hardware – no cloud services, no data leaving your control. You’ll watch a live installation and see how accessible this technology actually is: it runs on standard computers and requires no specialized technical background to get started. Whether you want to explore AI capabilities personally, propose solutions for your organization, or simply understand what’s possible when you control your own infrastructure, you’ll leave with practical knowledge you can apply immediately. This is about spreading the tools and knowledge that put data sovereignty into practice, not just theory.
In our continued effort to prioritize and provide Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) and Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) tools and insights, the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network roots our practices in service to Tribes and Indigenous Nations in what’s currently called the United States and its territories.
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Jane Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and a Global Fellow in the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy in the Law School at New York University. Jane has a Ph.D. in Law from the Law School at University of New South Wales in Australia. Their work is focused on the philosophical and practical problems for intellectual property law and the protection of Indigenous/traditional knowledge resources and cultural heritage in support of Indigenous knowledge and data sovereignty. See more…
Zam DeShield is a member of the Chickasaw Nation and previously served as Planning Director for both Samish Indian Nation and Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, where they developed expertise in tribal governance and policy frameworks. As a contractor, they established Microsoft’s Indigenous Program Office, working with Indigenous communities globally to develop AI machine translation tools and replicable processes for low-resource languages, while coordinating cross-company efforts on Indigenous language integration in products and technology. Zam holds a Master’s in Urban & Regional Planning from Eastern Washington University and is currently pursuing graduate studies in Rehabilitation Counseling at Western Washington University.
This webinar is a collaborative effort involving the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, the Indigenous Data Exchange (IDX), the Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation Coordinating Hub (ENRICH), and the IndigeLab Network.