Blackbaud’s annual tech convention is in Seattle September 24–26, and it is going to be full of inspiring keynotes, thought-provoking breakout periods, and how-to workshops for change-makers throughout the training, nonprofit, and social good group.
New to bbcon? The periods highlighted beneath are only a pattern of greater than 50 related to greater ed. This is a chance to study out of your friends, share concepts, and delve deeper into leveraging expertise at your establishment.
Peer-Led Larger Ed Classes
- Constructing a Tradition of Innovation & Breaking Down Silos in Larger Training
Alex Campomanes of the College of Manitoba will talk about grappling with tradition change at a 146-year-old establishment whereas driving expertise adoption. He’ll reveal the framework they created to interrupt down limitations and nurture belief throughout schools and administrative departments and share key learnings from their profitable and important digital transformation journey.
- Driving Operational Excellence: A Low-Code Method for Nonprofits and Training Establishments
Microsoft Energy Platform can considerably and securely improve operational excellence inside academic establishments. That includes his personal use instances, Dan Snyder of Bennington Faculty can be joined by Microsoft’s Jim Ballou to discover low-code growth and workflows, customized apps, AI integration, and information administration optimization. Plus, they may exhibit the way you don’t should be a developer to do it!
- Unveiling Effectivity: Harnessing the Energy of Blackbaud Award Administration™
Be a part of friends from Indiana College and the College of Alberta who’ve leveraged Blackbaud Award Administration to unleash the transformative potential of software-driven scholarship administration practices. Achieve views to streamline information sources throughout campus, consolidate approaches, improve software charges, expedite processing instances, enhance the reviewer expertise, improve campus engagement, and optimize processes.
- The Larger Training Trifecta: Leveraging Blackbaud Award Administration to Drive Institutional Sustainability
On this session, Lacey Worth of Sam Houston College shares how her establishment constructed and maintains the scholarship “trifecta”—a profitable partnership between stewardship, lecturers, and monetary support—and the way they foster communication to align each constituent within the scholarship course of.
Blackbaud-Led Larger Ed Classes
- Awarding Automagic: Leveraging Imports and APIs to Remove Handbook Effort
This session will present ideas and methods for utilizing automation and APIs to share data between a number of programs and Blackbaud Award Administration, starting with automating the import of scholar information from a number of sources and utilizing APIs to share award data with the programs that have to know—with the least quantity of IT help attainable.
- Leveraging Stewardship Administration to Ship Steady Dividends
On this session, we’ll handle greater training challenges, pair them with solutions-based approaches, and floor ideas and methods to make the most of your tech stack to successfully steward donors and maximize funding alternatives. You’ll uncover easy methods to harness the ability of Blackbaud merchandise and companions to maximise worth, but decrease the enter required of your crew.
- Streamline Award Administration with Blind Critiques, Bulk Renewals & Report Constructing
Be a part of Blackbaud Award Administration’s resident implementation skilled to learn to streamline your awarding processes with blind opinions, bulk renewals, and report constructing to drive awarding efficiencies. You’ll study ideas for leveraging performance that’s lesser identified, however extremely highly effective in serving to you save time and award extra with much less effort—no matter your establishment sort or crew construction—to optimize use of your system.
Associate-Led Classes
- Information Migration for Innovation: Learn how to Make the Most Out of AI
Training, nonprofit, and mission-driven organizations world wide are at a pivotal crossroads. With AI all over the place, how is it attainable to maintain up, not to mention keep forward? The reply lies in your information. Be a part of Microsoft’s Sergio Victorio Queija to discover a roadmap for assessing your present information infrastructure, figuring out areas for enchancment, and implementing finest practices.
- Balancing Acts: Navigating Fund Administration and Honoring Donor Intent
Within the dynamic panorama of fundraising, fund administration is essential in your mission, sustainability, accountability, monetary stability, impression, and donor confidence. On this session, Chelsea Lamego of FundMiner will cowl methods and finest practices for managing funds whereas respecting donor intent and sustaining moral requirements.
Can’t-Miss Fundamental Occasions
- Training in Transition: Methods for Pupil and School Recruitment and Retention
We’re bringing collectively specialists in greater training and Okay–12 colleges to speak about recruitment, retention, and alter administration that considerably impacts each sectors. From declining scholar populations and school attrition to disruptive technological evolution, the training panorama is going through unprecedented challenges. Our panel will share their setbacks, success tales, and strategic plans used to beat these challenges. College leaders will depart with actionable methods to construct communities the place their college, employees, and college students are motivated to hitch and keep.
- Keynote Deal with by Sheryl Lee Ralph
Emmy award-winning actress, producer, and advocate Sheryl Lee Ralph will grace the principle stage. Her ardour for training led her to the position of “Barbara” on ABC’s smash hit comedy sequence Abbott Elementary and her distinctive use of the humanities in HIV/AIDS activism earned her the primary Pink Ribbon Award on the UN. She was not too long ago appointed as an AIDS Ambassador for Jamaica’s Ministry of Well being and is founding director of DIVA (Divinely Impressed Victoriously Anointed) Basis 501(c)(3), created in reminiscence of the buddies she misplaced to HIV/AIDS.
- 2024 Blackbaud Impression Awards
Dwell at bbcon, we’ll announce the first-ever Blackbaud Impression Awards, celebrating the unbelievable achievements of consumers throughout the globe who’ve demonstrated artistic and strategic problem-solving and achieved audacious targets. Try our 2024 finalists and be a part of us on the essential stage to see who wins!
- Go to the Blackbaud Training Sales space!
Be sure you go to the Training Sales space within the expo corridor, a one-stop store to attach with Blackbaud employees together with the Buyer Success and Product groups. Ask questions, get product assist, play video games, win swag, and seize some snacks. We’ll be there all through the convention!
Registration is Open!
Blackbaud’s annual convention for good is your probability to make useful connections, uncover new business developments, and improve your tech abilities. Look past the Larger Training Monitor and also you’ll discover related periods in these classes, too!
- Accounting
- Information Intelligence
- Donor & Prospect Intelligence
- Deal with Tech
- Fundraising & Donor Administration
- Grantmaking
- Advertising & On-line Giving
- Cost & Buying Companies
- Peer-to-Peer
- Sector Management & Tendencies
Register for bbcon 2024 at present and be a part of us in Seattle September 24–26!