November 7-9, 2025
NAATW 2025 Program
NAATW 2025 Members Meeting Minutes
NAATW 2025 Crowd Sourced Notes
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FRIDAY, November 7, 2025
Tech – Will You Be Left Behind?
4:40pm || Presenter: Virginia M.
Center the experience of members who feel left behind by technology and show how group conscience, clear roles, and welcoming practices can make digital meetings safer and more inclusive.
Applying AA’s Principles to Online and Hybrid Meetings
5:00pm || Presenter: Allise B.
How AA’s Twelve Traditions and Twelve Concepts guide virtual meetings, emphasizing spiritual principles, inclusivity, group conscience, accessibility, and the balance between safety and openness.
Colossus of Communication: A Cultural History of Technology in A.A. 1935–2025
7:00pm || Presenter: Jackie B.
Traces AA’s 90-year evolution alongside changing communication technologies—from early telephone calls and kitchen-table sponsorship to mass-media breakthroughs.
Using AI Tools in AA Service
7:55pm || Presenter: Terry P.
How AA members can responsibly use AI tools to simplify service work, improve communication, support hybrid meetings, assist with translation, and enhance accessibility—while still protecting anonymity and honoring AA’s Traditions.
AI Agents and A.A.: Exploring Technology Through Our Traditions
8:55pm || Presenter: Pierre C.
Explores how conversational AI agents could support AA by providing accurate, principle-based information to newcomers and families—especially in moments when no human is available.
SATURDAY, November 8, 2025
Simplifying the Digital Basket 2.0
9:35am || Presenter: Christina V.
How AA groups can safely and responsibly adopt digital payment tools like Venmo, PayPal, and Cash App while protecting anonymity and avoiding personal liability.
Connecting Your A.A. Webstore to QuickBooks Online
10:05am || Presenter: Robin T.
How one central office integrated its WooCommerce web store with QuickBooks Online to streamline bookkeeping, automate inventory updates, and reduce manual data entry.
Tech 12 Demo
10:40am || Presenters: Mike W. and Matt C.
Tech 12 present a short, hands-on demo showing how they build reliable, high-quality hybrid AA events like NAATW.
A.A. World Services Presentation
10:55am || Presenter: A.A. World Services (AAWS)
Highlights ongoing work in cybersecurity, infrastructure, and staff support, along with efforts to improve contribution tools and information access.
A.A. Grapevine / La Viña Presentation
12:45pm || Presenter: A.A. Grapevine & La Viña
The Grapevine/La Viña digital publishing team presents updates on their expanding digital tools, including redesigned websites, mobile apps, podcasts, social media channels, and a growing YouTube presence featuring stories, ASL videos, and member-submitted content.
WordPress Site Security (On the Cheap)
1:15pm || Presenter: Sean R.
Practical, low-cost steps to strengthen WordPress security for AA service websites, including common risks—data loss, access misuse, downtime, and automated attacks—and simple measures any webmaster can implement.
A.A. Tech Talk: An NAATW Interview Series
1:30pm || Presenter: Kerri K.
Launch of AA Tech Talk, a new interview series from NAATW designed to highlight technology projects across the AA tech community and explore how they support AA’s primary purpose.
From Clunky to Clear: How Good Design Supports A.A.
2:15pm || Presenter: Lois L.
How clear, thoughtful design directly supports AA’s ability to carry the message by removing barriers to communication in flyers, websites, forms, and digital materials.
Reaching the Still Suffering Alcoholic Through Digital Platforms
3:00pm || Presenter: Dawn H.
How AA service committees can responsibly use digital public-service announcements—primarily the existing PSAs from AA.org—to reach suffering alcoholics who search for help online, especially on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
Digitizing the Spirit of Service: A Modern Third Legacy Tool
3:50pm || Presenter: Adam M.
Demonstrates a purpose-built electronic voting tool for A.A. service bodies that supports motions, simple majority votes, two-thirds majority votes, and Third Legacy elections while reducing time, confusion, and trusted-servant burnout.
AI Pair Programming
4:35pm || Presenters: Tim R., David V., Matt B.
Overview of how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT learn from public data, generate text, and occasionally produce errors or “hallucinations”, while encouraging AA members to treat AI as a tool, not a source of AA guidance.
Connect the Districts: Scalable Websites and Google Workspace in Area 07
6:55pm || Presenters: Michael P. and Carrie J., Area 07
Describes how the Area 07 Technology Committee built a scalable, no-cost district website program using shared WordPress templates, subdomains, and Google Workspace.
Immersive 3D A.A. Meetings: Bridging In Person & Online
8:00pm || Presenters: Paul H. & Jake C.
Features members of AA in VR demonstrating how immersive virtual-reality meetings create meaningful fellowship, accessibility, and anonymity for alcoholics worldwide.
SUNDAY, November 11, 2025
Bringing Your Website In House
9:35am || Presenter: Sean S.
How an Area moved its AA website from an expensive outside web agency to an in-house, volunteer-managed WordPress site, highlighting lessons learned, reflections on service growth, and ongoing efforts to ensure continuity as responsibilities pass to the next trusted servants.
Clarity through Emotional Sobriety: Evolving the 12 Statements of Technology
10:25am || Presenter: Buck R.
Explores newly proposed updates to the 12 Statements of Technology, explaining how they were revised to align more clearly with AA’s Traditions, Concepts, and spiritual principles while honoring the original statements.