How does a mission-driven foundation balance the potential of AI with the imperative to protect sensitive data and donor trust? The Jerome L. Greene Foundation’s roadmap offers a practical model for intentional adoption: prioritizing governance, human-centered review, and clear impact over technological novelty.
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Are you stuck in a fire drill cycle?
Is your staff in a constant “fire drill,” scrambling to keep up with your organization’s IT needs without a structured approach? Organizations that experience rapid change often find themselves in this situation, where IT teams are swallowed by tedious, manual tasks and lack the capacity to focus on strategic initiatives.
Discover how a seamless IT process can help you escape this cycle, cut operational drag, and empower your business to execute with speed, confidence, and focus.
When lack of IT strategy creates unforced errors
Frank, the founder of an innovative e-commerce, direct-to-consumer business, hired a talented and capable web developer to redesign the company’s website. As they were drawing close to launch, the web developer requested credentials for the domain registration service to make a few minor DNS updates and switch from the old website to the new, beautiful one. A well-intentioned project manager provided the web developer with the domain management account’s super admin credentials before taking off for a long weekend.
Later that night, a few staff members realized they were no longer getting emails, and their customer service team started reporting bounced messages and automated systems failing. Even worse, marketing and sales emails were generating embarrassing flurries of messages and confused inquiries as attempts to reach them failed.
Inside the Tame the Tech Beast launch party
Recap the electric launch of Tame the Tech Beast! Relive the night featuring an insightful interview with legendary founder Cindy Gallop, a unique tech art installation, and the strategic blueprint for turning IT from a burden into a growth engine.
Beyond the Firewall: A Talk on State-Sponsored Hacking
Last November’s Tête-à-Tech event dove deep into a world of global tech policy, cutting-edge surveillance and cyber threats, and the essential fight for human rights online. Our guest, Ciprian Iancu (formerly of New America’s Open Internet Tools Project), offered his perspective informed by his nine years working at the US State Department on the Internet Freedom Program, a unique initiative that used technology development—specifically open-source tools—to advance and protect human rights all over the world.
Lannan’s new, office and community space in New York’s historic Bayard-Condict Building
When Lannan Foundation closed operations in Santa Fe and set up new operations in New York City at the end of 2024, Macktez was given an opportunity to help design technical solutions for its new headquarters in the historic and landmarked Bayard-Condict building (the only building in NYC designed by renowned architect Louis Sullivan) in downtown Manhattan.
Tête-à-Tech: AI and Consciousness: What Is Actually Happening In There (According to Mathematics)?
Macktez Founder and CEO Noah Landow joins physicist Jeffrey Berger, Ph.D., to explore AI and consciousness: whether AI is truly “thinking,” the math behind transformers, and limits like data poisoning.
AI and Consciousness: What Is Actually Happening In There (According to Mathematics)?
While AI products and marketing often use the term “thinking” we will dive into what these models are doing mathematically — probabilistic token generation and the sophisticated patterns of the Transformer architecture.