Collaboration & Strategy: Leading with Intention

For: Executives, leaders, and strategists looking to align mission with strategy

Purpose-driven leadership demands clarity, connection, and courage. This track explores how today’s social sector leaders are aligning mission with strategy, strengthening cross-functional and cross-sector collaboration, and making bold, intentional decisions that drive systems-level change. Sessions reveal how intentional leadership can strengthen communities, inspire teams, and accelerate progress toward a more just and effective social ecosystem.

From aligning vision and operations to navigating interagency dynamics and cultural change, this track is designed to surface the tools and mindsets that help leaders move from intention to impact.

Insight & Impact: Using Data to Power Purpose

For: Compliance professionals, program officers, analysts, and impact communicators who transform data into informed decisions

Share your perspective on how to translate data into understanding and understanding into action. Explore practical frameworks for measuring outcomes, tracking compliance, and communicating value through data-driven storytelling. Sessions should explore frameworks and real-world reporting strategies that help organizations — from foundations to public charities to state, local, and tribal agencies — to evaluate performance, demonstrate accountability, and advance meaningful outcomes.

Technology & Operations: Reshaping the Backbone of Grantmaking

For: IT leaders, operations directors, digital transformation champions, system administrators, and change agents modernizing how grants are managed, tracked, and shared

Technology and operations are the twin engines driving the future of grantmaking. This track explores how innovation, integration, and intentional design can strengthen the backbone of your organization: connecting people, process, and purpose. Dive into practical strategies and success stories that showcase how automation, AI, and modern systems streamline compliance, improve transparency, and enable smarter, faster decisions. Sessions will highlight lessons learned from experimentation, adoption, and scaling new tools for good alongside operational insights that build accountability, audit readiness, and long-term sustainability.

Choose Your Own Adventure: Rethinking What’s Possible

For: Changemakers across roles who are testing bold new ways to drive impact

Bring your unconventional ideas and boundary-breaking experiments. Whether it’s a new giving model, a reimagined partnership, inter-agency collaboration, or a creative community initiative, this track celebrates unconventional thinking. Share the pivots and prototypes that inspire fresh approaches to social impact and public service.