with Matt Eshleman, Chief Technology Officer
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, from 3-4pm Eastern, Noon Pacific
Confused about how to keep your nonprofit data safe and still use AI tools?
Matt will explain how to use AI tools safely and securely at your nonprofit.
Matt Eshleman, CTO and cybersecurity expert at Community IT, will lead our webinar on how to use AI tools safely.
If you don’t know the difference between using a public tool like Chatgpt and logging on to a more private enterprise tool at your organization like Copilot, or Gemini if you use Google Workspace, then this webinar is going to help clarify that for you.
We hear a lot about “make sure not to share your sensitive data with AI learning models,” but how do you know how to use them safely, and how do you check on the terms and conditions, and where do you begin?
Matt is going to demystify how AI enterprise tools work and give you some questions to ask at your own nonprofit to get the conversation around AI implementation and policy going.
As with all our webinars, this presentation is appropriate for an audience of varied IT experience.
Community IT is proudly vendor-agnostic, and our webinars cover a range of topics and discussions. Webinars are never a sales pitch, always a way to share our knowledge with our community.
Presenters:
As the Chief Technology Officer at Community IT, Matthew Eshleman leads the team responsible for strategic planning, research, and implementation of the technology platforms used by nonprofit organization clients to be secure and productive. With a deep background in network infrastructure, he fundamentally understands how nonprofit tech works and interoperates both in the office and in the cloud. With extensive experience serving nonprofits, Matt also understands nonprofit culture and constraints, and has a history of implementing cost-effective and secure solutions at the enterprise level.
Matt has over 22 years of expertise in cybersecurity, IT support, team leadership, software selection and research, and client support. Matt is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity topics for nonprofits and has presented at NTEN events, the Inside NGO conference, Nonprofit Risk Management Summit and Credit Builders Alliance Symposium, LGBT MAP Finance Conference, the Tech Forward Conference, and ITC Conferences. He is also the session designer and trainer for TechSoup’s Digital Security course, a member of NGO-ISAC, and our resident Cybersecurity expert.
Matt holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems from Eastern Mennonite University, and an MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University.
He is available as a speaker on cybersecurity topics affecting nonprofits, including cyber insurance compliance, staff training, and incident response. You can view Matt’s free cybersecurity videos from past webinars here. Matt is always happy to help nonprofits get smarter about how to use AI tools safely.
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