2025 Southwest Regional Tribal Technology Forum

Breakfast on behalf of our sponsors.

Get ready for the day and meet the TribalHub team- pick up your badge and important forum materials. TribalHub Members grab your welcome gift!

Your official welcome to TribalHub's Regional Forum- a quick preview of what to plan for and how to make the most of your time here!

Always one of the most popular, interactive and meaningful sessions in our annual regional events, this is your opportunity to connect or reconnect with your peers at tribes from your region. In this roundtable style session, everyone will be given the opportunity to introduce themselves and to share information, questions, successes or challenges with the entire group in an engaging session that will be limited to only employees from tribes. One lucky attendee will walk away from this session with a visa gift card! Facilitated by TribalHub and Regional Ambassadors

New in 2025 tribes will be able to view findings from TribalHub that will be gathered from tribes nationwide throughout the year focused on two new areas of insight. IT dept wages and well as AI data including readiness, usage and products. Learn more about what you can expect and when for this great info and how you can be a part.

Event sponsors only - Join the TribalHub team to learn how to make the most of your time here.

Join together for lunch on behalf of your sponsors! PLUS hear briefly how our sponsors are currently supporting tribes.

Stop and quickly say "Hi" to each of the event sponsors at their table (and drop your drawing tickets) for more chances to win some cash!!

This presentation will provide discussion of the top priorities faced in cybersecurity for the coming year including those stemming from AI-based threats, workforce challenges, and vulnerable security approaches. With the constant shift in the cyber threat landscape, it’s important to ensure everyone is equipped with the necessary insights and measures to proactively respond to changes and challenges in order to avoid disruption. Attend this session to hear more.

Executive leadership at the host site will kick this session off with some highlights and discussion of recent projects and what's on the horizon and top of mind for this regional casino and tribe. Learning from your peers is one of the best parts of this event! Plus have the chance to see some of the highlights of the host property up close. You won't want to miss this!

In this dynamic session, we explore the evolving role of technology leaders within tribal communities and enterprises. Today’s tribal technology leaders are not only IT professionals tasked with leading technology initiatives and their departments, they are driving innovation while protecting and shaping a resilient future for their Tribes and enterprises. Today's leader requires not just technical knowledge but industry influence and critical people skills to be successful. Join us for this informative and important session!

It's time to make new friendships or strengthen existing friendships as we kick back in a fun casual setting in this event leading into dinner!

Enjoy wrapping up the day with a great dinner and conversation on behalf of our title sponsor.

Fuel up for another great morning!

Engaging non-technical leaders to understand their growing role in technology and cyber security - Join this session to learn more about the the opportunity being provided by the Tribal-ISAC for you to apply for a no cost tabletop cybersecurity exercise designed to engage and inform the critical non-technical leaders from legal, accounting, administration, communications, H/R and risk management of their critical role in your cybersecurity and technology plans and strategy. Discuss strategies for engaging and educating non-technical leadership whether you are a small, medium size or large tribe or tribal enterprise.

Don't leave early- this session alone is worth sticking around for! This eye-opening session will share some technology system and structure info specific to both your region AND in comparison to tribes across the U.S. One lucky attendee will be leaving this session with a $200 visa gift card as well - must be present to win!

By working together your region can achieve more! Don't wait a whole year to meet again. This is a great time to discuss key challenges and opportunities for you and other tribes in this region.