TAG2026 Conference Agenda

• AI for Philanthropy Leaders – Sponsored by Occams Group
• Community Foundations: Shared Tools, Solutions & Strategies
• Cybersecurity Strategies for Grantmakers – Sponsored by Novus Insight
• Emerging Leaders: Rewriting Your Leadership Inner Narrative
• Hack-a-Thon – Sponsored by Plinth
• User Group: Foundant
• User Group: Salesforce

Pre-Conference Sessions: $50 (covers refreshements during the session)

• Bookstore
• Coffee Lounge – Sponsored by Submittable
• Headshot Station – Sponsored by Visionet Systems
• Sponsor Showcase: AkoyaGo
• Sponsor Showcase: Esri
• Sponsor Showcase: Fluxx
• Sponsor Showcase: Foundant

• Beyond the Security Program: Personal Digital and Physical Safety Habits for Foundation Staff
• Building Nonprofit Data & Learning Infrastructure: Lessons from Coffee & Quality
• Building Your Foundation’s AI Learning Plan
• Configuring AI Securely: Encouraging Experimentation while Limiting Shadow AI
• Fine, We’ll Make an AI Policy: A Community-Informed Approach to Making Decisions About AI
• Go Where the Give Is: Finding Your Influence Inside the Organization
• The Connected Foundation: Breaking the Enterprise Silo for Good
• What Does “Good Data” Actually Look Like for Nonprofits? A Collaborative Conversation

• Beyond the Login: A Human-Centered Blueprint for Work-Where-You-Are Grantmaking
• Designing Learning Systems Rooted in Community Experience
• Developing Human AI Literacy
• From Research to Real Talk: The Power of Vodcasting
• Generative AI for Philanthropic Workflows: Learnings from MIT Solve
• Tech & Risk Strategies that Win DAF Donors
• Values in Operation: How Lever for Change Powers Participatory Review at Scale

• Before It Hits the Fan: The Case for a Red Binder
• Defending the Defenders: Building Digital Resilience for Grantees
• Same Mission. New Tools. How to Lead Your Team Through What Comes Next
• Scaling Human Empathy With AI: What Empower Work Learned Building a Counselor Assistant
• Six Billion People Saw This Grant Programme
• Started from the Spreadsheet, Now We’re Here: Building AI-Supported Workflows Around the GMS
• When 8 Million Farmer Questions Become Your Best Impact Data

• Dine Around: Cindy’s Rooftop
• Dine Around: Gibson’s bar & Steakhouse
• Dine Around: RPM Italian

Dine Arounds: $175 (spaces limited / first come, first served)

• Lightning Talk: Light Through Leaves: Before We Lead in Technology
• Lightning Talk: The Weekend that Built a Framework

• Amplifying Impact through Cross-Sector Collaboration
• Building a Funder-Grantee AI Governance Framework: Co-Designing the Missing Middle
• Data Cleanup to Data Confidence
• Designing Grants Systems That Support Learning, Not Just Reporting
• From Data to Decisions: Building Better Reports in Salesforce for Grantmakers
• Play the Dilemma: A Live Ethics-Tech-Policy Simulator for Foundation Tech Leaders
• Scaling Up Without Tuning Out: AI and the Future of Funder Listening
• We’ve Been Hacked! An Interactive Incident Response Tabletop for Grantmakers

• Bookstore
• Coffee Lounge – Sponsored by Submittable
• Headshot Station – Sponsored by Visionet Systems
• Sponsor Showcase: Digital Science
• Sponsor Showcase: ImagineCRM
• Sponsor Showcase: Kindsight

• From “Don’t” to “How”: Rewriting Our AI Policy Around Principles, Not Prohibitions
• Operationalizing Knowledge Management (KM) for Optimal Impact
• Passkeys Instead of Constant Vigilance: A Modern Approach to Phishing
• The Data Visualization Checklist: How to Transform Your Charts from Boring to Brilliant
• The Illusion of Safety: Moving from Compliance Thinking to Real Resilience

• Bookstore
• Coffee Lounge – Sponsored by Submittable
• Headshot Station – Sponsored by Visionet Systems
• Sponsor Showcase: RSM
• Sponsor Showcase: Submittable
• Sponsor Showcase: Temelio

• Beyond the (Tech) Stack: What it Takes to Build an Organizational AI Platform
• From AI Fluency to Everyday Practice: A Practical Planning Session
• From Fragmentation to Flow: Seeing the PDC in Action
• Growing IT Management Capacity at Nonprofits: Best Practices and Models for Funders
• It’s Supposed to Be This Hard: Implementing Mission-Critical Systems
• The Four Bridges: From Reactive Tech Support to Strategic Leadership in Philanthropy Tech
• The Great AI Debate

• AI for Whom? Centering People in Philanthropy’s Digital Transformation
• Data You Can Actually Trust: A Practical Guide for Grantmakers
• Failure Club: Stepping Up Before You Feel Ready
• If We Started Today: Designing an AI‑Native Grantmaker
• The AI Journey at 3 Foundations: Joyce, Kauffman, and Lumina Executives Share Their AI Story
• The Bot Stops Here: Cognitively Engaging Staff During Agent-assisted Grantmaking Due Diligence

• Lightning Talk: From Records to Relationships: The Next Operating System for Philanthropy
• Lightning Talk: How I Explained Azure AI Search to a Program Officer (17 Times)
• Lightning Talk: I Said Hell No: A Writer’s Conversion from AI Skeptic to AI Collaborator

• From Reporting to Shared Learning: How Cohorts Change the Job of Data
• How Does AI Actually Work? – Prompt, Token, Response, Demystified
• Make Your Dollar Holler: Thinking of New Ways to Spend a Buck
• Multiplying Impact: How to Strengthen Grantee Capacity Through Cohort-Based Investments
• The Trillion Dollar Question: To AI or Not to AI?