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In this session, Polly will take you through her Top 10 tips for innovation. These tips are based on her last 12 years developing new products in the commercial and not for profit sectors.

Jack will share his insight on some of the new ways of connecting, giving, taking action and speaking out that he’s been a part of over the last 20 years or so, in the hope that it may help you see that innovation is an act of faith, is accessible to everyone, and works (when it does work) in many different ways.

In a 2-4-1 offer, in just 30 minutes you’ll learn how you can turn failures into success, and how to innovate when your budgets get cut.

In this session we’ll be taking you on an adventure through the highs and lows of developing a new regular giving product with Sustrans – the charity making it easier to walk and cycle.

Listen to the stories of two social entrepreneurs – who both happen to be women of colour – driving innovations towards inclusion.

Discover how Mental Health UK revitalized its Regular Giving Programme with an audience-first approach, creating a menopause-focused guide through expert insights and innovative testing methods.

In this informative session Magid, the director of data at Catch22 and co-founder of the charity-specific AI platform CauseCompanion AI, will show you how to use dashboards to bring your data to life.

In this inspiring plenary, Anne will share her personal journey of failure and success, illustrating that innovation is about persistent learning and adaptation. From her unique experiences, like fundraising in a bin bag dress and living penniless for 9 months, to her years of pioneering new propositions in charity fundraising, Anne’s stories highlight the importance of resilience, community, and the willingness to embrace failure as a stepping stone to success.

We will discuss all aspects of innovation from the perspective of 3 trailblazing Trustees.

We will share a clear process and practical exercises you can use to come up with insight-led ideas. We’ll discuss common ideation mistakes and how to fix them, and help you bridge that gap between information and inspiration.

This session will provide a brief history of the recent wave of large language models, illuminate some of their intriguing capabilities, and provide a broad overview of the social and ethical questions that they raise as they become part of mainstream human-computer interaction. Drawing upon her extensive experience working at the intersection of ethics, cognitive science, and AI, Winnie will provide a critical insight into how we might critically evaluate the role of conversational AIs in our lives.

Learn how to approach innovation in fundraising with realistic strategies, from building a business case and forecasting income to setting measurable milestones and embracing ‘positive failure.

In this session, with UNHCR, we’ll consider how innovation can be embedded into daily delivering helping you and your organisation build an experimentation culture that comes without huge cost.

In this session, join John Roberts to explore how charities – big and small – are leveraging the latest, AI-based tools to drive change – for the better – in a persistently challenging climate.

Have you ever wanted to launch a new fundraising campaign but wasn’t quite sure where to start? In this session, Muna will be taking you through several case studies of charities that have done exactly that.

Are you a fundraiser looking to navigate the changing political landscape? Watch this Q&A panel discussion that delves into the implications of the recent general election and the new Labour government on our sector and how we can build awesome campaigns within this new world.