Virtual Tech Summit 2025

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The National Network to End Domestic Violence Presents: Safety Net's Virtual Tech Summit 2025. See caption for quote from NNEDV President & CEO.

“Technology is not meant to replace us, it’s meant to enhance us, support our work, and expand our reach. As we imagine and plan for the future, we must advocate for a world where every platform and product is built with safety and privacy as its foundation.” - Stephanie Love-Patterson, NNEDV President & CEO

Last month, the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) Safety Net team welcomed 464 people to our Virtual Tech Summit 2025. This year, we celebrated 25 years of the Safety Net project’s work at the intersection of technology and domestic violence. Our 2025 theme, “25 Years of Tech Safety: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward,” highlighted a quarter-century of progress in tech safety, illuminated the tech landscape of the present, and set the stage for future innovation.

The energy and engagement on this virtual event were evident throughout the summit. For three days, participants strategized about tech safety issues coming up in their own work, listened to a variety of expert presenters, and built new ways to think and talk about how privacy and tech safety impact the lives of survivors of abuse and harassment. The summit featured 11 live sessions, and this year, for the first time, six pre-recorded sessions were made available to registrants to watch on demand in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language.

More than 30 passionate presenters led our 20 live sessions and six pre-recorded sessions, covering a vast range of content, such as:

  • Misuse of tech, old and new, against survivors;

  • Strategic survivor use of tech;

  • Agency tech use;

  • Tech safety risks for survivors in the short term;

  • Long-term privacy risks for survivors who have relocated;

  • Tech policy;

  • Evidence collection;

  • Stalkerware;

  • Safety by design in the tech industry;

  • Responding to AI-generated image abuse; and

  • Much more!

In addition to our expert presenters, we also had a large and impressive group of attendees. US attendees came from 42 states, Washington, DC, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico. International attendees came from Australia, Canada, Austria, Norway, and the United Kingdom. Advocates, technologists, attorneys, coalition staff, and others enriched the conversation as participants and presenters.

Many attendees came from programs providing emergency shelter, transitional housing, non-residential services, and crucial legal assistance. Others came from tribal nations, district attorneys’ offices, tech companies, universities, government agencies, task forces, law enforcement, and more. This geographic and occupational variety illustrates how Tech Summit provides attendees the chance to have interactions that they would rarely have opportunities for otherwise. In the context of the virtual setting, the Attendee Hub provided a chance for participants and presenters to connect and collaborate.

As it has for many years, Tech Summit featured a panel of tech company representatives. This panel and other tech company presentations allow front-line advocates an opportunity for a behind-the-scenes look at the technology industry, and access to experts in decision-makers in it. It also allows tech company representatives a rare opportunity to learn from an audience whose needs have too often been overlooked in the history of the modern technology industry. This year’s tech company panel included safety and corporate responsibility representatives from Uber, Meta, and Gen Digital.

We are thrilled that the conference was a success, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the participation of everyone involved and the support of our generous funders. We appreciate the support of Platinum Sponsors Amazon, Meta, Norton, and Uber; Silver Sponsor Airbnb; and Bronze Sponsor Match Group.

We look forward to taking back many great ideas on how to make next year’s conference even better. We are excited to continue to provide information in the coming year through technical assistance, new written materials, new e-learning content, and our ever-expanding training catalog.

We are already gearing up for Tech Summit 2026, from August 3-5, in Washington, DC! If you were unable to join us for Tech Summit this year, you can see a little of what it was like by looking at the agenda, or by or by scrolling through NNEDV’s content on Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Zoom screenshot featuring all eight members of NNEDV's Safety Net team, with names redacted