Inspired City Summit

Smarter Growth: Scaling nonprofits with AI
David Olsson 

Discover five practical, easy-to-use workflows for integrating generative AI into your daily tasks. In this session, David will guide you through AI-powered strategies to enhance efficiency, creativity, and decision-making. Whether you're streamlining content creation, automating processes, or improving problem-solving, you’ll leave with actionable insights to start leveraging AI immediately.

Secure Your Cause: a Non-Profit's Guide to Cyber Threats
Robert Harrison

Cyber threats can put your nonprofit’s mission, data, and donors at risk. This session provides an essential overview of cybersecurity risks, emerging threats, and practical solutions tailored for nonprofits. Learn how to identify phishing emails, strengthen network security, and apply user-level best practices to protect your organization. Equip yourself with the knowledge to safeguard your cause in today’s digital landscape.

Demystifying impact measurement and harnessing its power.
Segun Fatudimu, Natalia Hahn

Learn how to simplify impact measurement with actionable tools and practical strategies. Discover the risks of not measuring your impact, explore five essential measurement practices, and learn to turn your stories and testimonials into measurable indicators. Whether you're new to impact measurement or looking to refine your approach, this session offers insights and examples to help you track and show your organization’s impact effectively.

Building the Future: A Practical Guide to Succession Planning
Monisha Mothilal

Don't leave your nonprofit's future to chance. Effective succession planning is essential for board members, volunteers, staff, and executive directors to ensure stability, maintain organizational knowledge, and sustain your mission. This session will explore strategies for identifying and developing future leaders, ensuring seamless transitions, and preserving your vital community development work—so your impact continues for years to come.

Evaluation: Secret Sauces for Success and Sustainability
Eugene Krupa, Kate Woodman

​​​​​​Unlock the key ingredients for effective program evaluation! This interactive session will explore major evaluation methods, their purposes, and common challenges—illustrated with real-world examples. Learn how evaluation helps keep your nonprofit on mission, measure impact, and ensure your programs produce the results you intend. We’ll share proven strategies for success, pose critical questions, and address participant-submitted questions for a tailored discussion.

Reframing BC's Diversity
Shiren Van Cooten

Explore examples of BC’s historical diversity to help reframe our understanding of diversity and inclusion in the province today. This historical approach helps audience members become aware of unconscious biases while understanding historical trends that contributed to these views. It encourages participants to better foster inclusion, belonging and safe spaces and can be applied on a personal level or in DEI educational efforts.

Stronger Together: How Workplace Well-being Unlocks the Full Potential of Social Purpose Organization
Mauricio Rojas, Amanda Sheehan

Burnout and emotional exhaustion don’t have to be the norm in social impact work. A thriving workplace culture isn’t a luxury—it’s the foundation for lasting impact. This session challenges outdated approaches to workplace well-being, shifting the focus from self-care to collective and organizational care. You'll gain a research-backed framework, practical tools, and space to reflect on building a culture where people and impact thrive.

The Empowered Empath: Prevent Emotional Overwhelm & Reclaim Your Weekends
Anessa Collins

Learn to decode emotional intelligence (EI) and explore how to use it effectively to prevent emotional overwhelm in social impact roles. Through experiential learning and group knowledge-sharing, participants will gain practical strategies to navigate high-pressure situations. You'll also receive Anessa's signature EI tool—designed to help you maximize your emotional intelligence for greater resilience and impact.

Being Heard: Holding Difficult Community Conversations
Naomi Woodland, Norah Bowman, Annika Kirk

Difficult community conversations can be transformational spaces for deep connection. Ideal for community connectors and coalition builders, this workshop equips participants to facilitate meaningful community listening. We explore how presence and preparation can create environments of trust and openness, ultimately leading to genuine engagement and collaboration. We draw on teachings from Octavia E. Butler and adrienne maree brown, who emphasize presence, relationship, intentionality, and interconnectedness.