Purpose
The National Board of Medical Examiners manages a complex grant portfolio comprising proposals which can be utilized as a qualitative data source to better understand changing needs in the medical education assessment community – particularly those changes that have been impacted by emerging technologies. 

Methods
This abstract uses 2 years’ worth of data across three assessment-based grant programs run by NBME: The Stemmler Grant Program, Emerging Innovators Grant Program, and the Latin America Grants Program. A comparative, thematic analysis was conducted on 60 proposals submitted in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 grant cycles examining both ways that DEI were embedded in the proposals and the ways in which new technologies were going to be explored or utilized in the project. 

Results
Proposals with DEI as a primary focus fell along 4 primary themes related to bias: Training, Pipeline, Participation, and Assessment. Understanding the ways in which these themes interact with the found themes of how new technologies are viewed: as a solution, with suspicion, or as a threat. 

Conclusions
This abstract provides an international snapshot into the ways in which schools are grappling with the intersection of DEI efforts and emerging technologies. What are the challenges that schools have identified in this intersection? Where are possible avenues for success? This proposal will provide recommendations to institutions looking to explore these issues.