True North kicked off its two-day series of #techforgood chats on Wednesday, June 19. Over the course of the conference, during talks with innovators in tech, foundations, organizations, and social enterprises, several trends and tensions emerged.

In order to meet and harness society’s rapid pace of change, the tech community could use help truly bringing everyone to the table — including Indigenous peoples, youth, women, and minorities. If we don’t have proper representation, bias and injustices find their way into all of the digital systems that get built, and we leave untapped, innovative potential on the table.

At True North, we also saw that data has the power to tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges, like human trafficking — but that unless we tak