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Breaking Bread and Building Bridges

NYC dinner conversations around the future of society through perspectives of empathy and tech

October 24, 2025  • Time: 6-9pm EST • New York

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Joint fundraiser by HighFive and SET University

Joint fundraiser by HighFive and SET University

This event will be a unique opportunity to collaborate with a private network of changemakers around the world focused on moving the future of humanity forward, through discussions and builders

We will have 4 discussion topics, that you will get to choose from, during the hors d'oeuvres start of the evening

These topics will be facilitated by Highfive and SET University hosts in between each entree of the dinner event.We will be having each table have rotating hosts that you will have the opportunity to be heard and discuss the topic at the table or to just actively listen, we will be doing this through the ancient framework of restorative circles.

The discussion topics will include:

How increasing a sense of belonging can reduce violence and give young leaders the courage to rebuild their communities.

How the future of cybersecurity leaders can lead with empathy and ethics.

How technology can coach humans to be more empathetic.

What does it mean to innovate ethically in an age when technology can shape minds, values, and even identities?

Each person will have 2 minutes to share if they choose or can pass to just listen, we go in a clockwise direction and then each person will get a 30 second and 10 second warning by a wave of 3 and wave of 1 while you are sharing.  If more time is open at end, you can ask to add more from host.

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Highfive

Highfive

SET
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SET University

Closing panel discussion where Nathan Maynard, Highfive’s Founder, and Iryna Volnytska, President of SET University, will discuss the same topics as the table conversations

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Joint fundraiser Highfive (the US) and SET University (Ukraine)

Two nations. One evening. A shared mission.

The future depends on the changemakers we educate today

two countries, one belief: the future depends on the changemakers

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Highfive:
Expanding Opportunity for the Underserved

Highfive is reimagining education by focusing on creating connected school communities. We focus on teaching empathy, belonging for educators and students, and using the tools of forgiveness and logical accountability for discipline in schools.

The mission is to have safe schools, emotionally and physically, that enable well-being and support positive relationships within every school community.

Highfive has had success in some of the most complex and high violence schools across the US. This event will support expanding the impact across high need schools.

Through attending and funding this program, schools across the US will be able to apply for funding to launch projects that change lives:

Building safe connected classroom communities

Supporting students and families with complex needs

Funding programs that give students tools of the future, like teaching empathy, to succeed after school and measuring metrics such as belonging for students and educators.

Our Goal

Raise $1.25 million to launch the grant program so more schools: from New York to small towns across America, can give educators the resources they urgently need.

SET University:
Grants That Educate Today. Camp That Transforms Tomorrow.

Founded days before the full-scale invasion, SET (Science, Entrepreneurship, Technology) University is Ukraine’s nonprofit, most innovative tech university.

We prepare leaders in cybersecurity, AI, and innovation engineering, where:

Students launch startups instead of Master’s theses

Two impact-driven cybersecurity startups protect most vulnerable organizations like hospitals and NGOs, and share Ukrainian hard-earned cybersecurity experience as the most attacked country on Earth with the democratic world

300+ founders have graduated from our accelerators.

Our Goal

Raise $1.25 million to fund scholarships for Ukraine’s brightest minds in 2026 — giving them the chance to stay in Ukraine, study, and build the future. We will also launch R&D innovation labs that turn ideas into solutions Ukraine, and the world, urgently need.

This is the first step toward our long-term vision: building SET University’s first tech campus in Kyiv: the hub where leaders will turn ideas into startups and startups into industries that strengthen democracy worldwide.

Supporting SET University means turning scholarships into startups,
and students into changemakers of the world

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