Identification of Top IT Priorities by Organization and possible Topic(s) for Networking Lunch Discussions

Participants will introduce themselves in alphabetical order by organization with accompanying slide from Pre-Summit Survey: Share One particular success from the last year; One Goal for the coming year.
 

DC Bar and Legal Aid Society will share examples of innovative and award-winning AI-driven applications offering constituents new services and capabilities.

More than ever, nonprofit organizations are facing unanticipated and rapid change. This panel of executive leaders will share how they are building resilience, enhancing their organization’s capacity to absorb unanticipated changes while staying true to mission and values.   

Optional topic-specific lunch table breakouts.

AI capabilities have now evolved to where they must be considered as co-workers who have access to each other and to connect with and update backend systems and data. This session will discuss the implications on information security and what must be done to appropriately safeguard data and systems in the world of Agentic AI.   

AI is generating a consequential transformation inside the IT division itself - in how work is organized, how talent is developed, and how a small team is learning to operate with dramatically expanded capability. What does it look like to build an AI-native team in a resource-constrained nonprofit environment? How are funders thinking about it?  What shared resources might be available to support this transformation? This session will share candid lessons from that journey: what worked, what didn't, what have we learned and what we are still figuring out.

• Why Data Governance Has Become a Leadership Issue  

• What “Good” Governance Actually Means for Nonprofits  

• How Governance Enables Safe, Scalable AI Adoption  

• What Leading Nonprofits Are Doing Differently  

• How to Get Started — A 90 Day Executive Roadmap

This session moves beyond the hype of generative AI to provide CIOs with a data-driven analysis of how "Answer Engines" are fundamentally re-wiring the modern donor journey. We will explore the technical shift from traditional search to an agentic discovery layer, focusing on the infrastructure and structured data required to maintain brand visibility. We will address the "Data Provenance Gap," offering a framework to ensure organizational impact remains machine-readable and authoritative for third-party LLMs. Ultimately, technical leaders will leave with a strategic roadmap to evolve their stack from "mobile-first" to "AI-native," ensuring long-term digital resilience with donors and the searching public.

Join us in the 2nd floor Pre-function space for a Happy Hour and networking with colleagues! 

A conversation on the latest thinking on how to effectively link data strategy to AI strategy and making this an organization-wide effort rather than a collection of individual side projects. The session will be grounded in real case studies: what problems organizations were solving, how they approached governance and data readiness, and how they engaged non-technical stakeholders. We will highlight practical lessons on building shared understanding, adoption, and organizational capacity so data and AI can create mission impact.   

As AI agents move from experimentation to everyday practice, nonprofit CIOs face a new challenge: understanding how these systems are designed and what that means for strategy, culture, and organizational change. This interactive workshop explores the design patterns that make modern AI systems effective, trustworthy, and scalable inside mission driven organizations. Drawing on real-world examples from nonprofits actively building AI powered tools, the session demystifies concepts like context engineering, skills, and agent orchestration—without requiring deep technical expertise.  

We will help you understand the opportunities in a concrete, principled, and structured way, and pave the way to re-think strategy where the constraints are so different than what they used to be while knowing where the ‘fault-lines’ lie in these tools.  

We will then discuss how Agentic AI will transform organizations, affecting structure, budgeting and staffing, and shifting work to more senior-level tasks. Blending short framing presentations with tablebased discussion, participants will apply these ideas to their own IT teams and organizational contexts. We will consider how to deal with significant divergence across teams and individuals who are fully embracing AI-precipitated change and those who aren’t yet ready. How do CIO’s redirect people’s focus, attention, and energy, leading to cultural change and positioning organizations to think bigger.   

What if you had triple the staff or could split your nonprofit into a second organization; or deploy a full new team quickly. Agentic AI must be thought of in these terms. 

The AI For Nonprofit Leaders Digital Impact Studio Agent Workshop focuses on leveraging AI to enhance operational efficiency and amplify impact within nonprofit organizations. Participants will learn to frame real problems, turn data into insights, and design AI agents that support human judgment. The workshop aims to help nonprofits scale their impact by automating routine tasks and freeing up time for mission-critical work, ultimately enabling them to do more with less.

Blackbaud AI for Good is a suite of purpose-built AI tools that leverage the world’s largest philanthropic dataset and deep sector expertise to provide actionable insights, automate complex workflows, and enhance operational efficiency. At the core of Blackbaud AI for Good are Agents for Good™, agentic AI virtual teammates that operate under human supervision to execute high-value tasks that were previously difficult or impossible to scale. The first agent, the Development Agent, embedded in Blackbaud’s Raiser's Edge NXT, helps organizations:   

• Identify and steward donors that fundraisers cannot reach manually  

• Deliver personalized, timely, and brand-aligned outreach  

• Unlock new revenue streams efficiently and cost-effectively  

• Scale engagement with mid-tier donors, a segment often underserved due to limited staff capacity   

Salesforce will share how AI capabilities, specifically AI agents, are being directly embedded in Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits and positioned to communicate and interact with applications and data across your ecosystem.