Our Agenda
IGNITE isn't a room you sit in. It's a room you build in. Leaders shape a blueprint together, stress-test it, and leave with named commitments.
One event, two days, built for different work.
IGNITE: Summit
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
IGNITE: Summit convenes 150 cross-sector leaders to define the future of pro bono service and what’s needed to get there. Participants from the nonprofit, corporate, philanthropic, civic, and social impact sectors will work through Three Big Bets: The AI Leap, Service as a Workforce Engine, and New Models for Catalytic Change, to identify what's working, what's standing in the way, and where the field goes next.
This is a room for leaders ready to challenge norms and build a stronger future where pro bono service is a force multiplier for nonprofit impact.
Summit Agenda
IGNITION We set the goal: multiply what pro bono can do, and how far it reaches, until every nonprofit can count on it.
THE BURNING PLATFORM A nonprofit leader, a workforce voice, and an AI voice make the case for why incremental change isn’t an option
PROOF IT’S POSSIBLE A movement builder keynote: the inside story of a 10X leap already built
THREE BIG BETS Name the three big bets: The AI Leap, Service as a Workforce Engine, and New Models for Catalytic Change. Expert voices, room dialogue, and small group discussion
DESIGN THE BLUEPRINT Working teams design the big plays that get the field to 10X and reveal the assembled Blueprint
COMMIT Every stake becomes a commitment: my play, my first action, by when
IGNITE: Corporate Action Forum
Thursday, November 5, 2026 | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
IGNITE: Corporate Action Forum convenes corporate social impact and L&D leaders to build what comes next. Participants will activate their talent, platforms, and expertise to lead the next era of pro bono service.
The day is designed for action. Leaders leave with concrete actions they can take in the next 12 months — ones that level up the field, and their own organizations.
Corporate Action Forum Agenda
CHOOSE TO LEAD Name what’s true; leadership is a choice this room makes right now
YOU ARE THE FIELD Operator to leader: what it means to lead now
KEEPING UP? An AI provocateur pushes the room with a corporate-specific gut check on where AI is taking the work
WHERE WILL YOU LEAD Pick a frontier: early talent pipelines, human skills and L&D, measurement and storytelling, or nonprofit-centered partnership design
PROGRAMS TO SYSTEMS Design thinking warm-up: build the next system, not the next program
BUILD LAB Prototype a 12-month move. If it doesn’t move in 90 days, it doesn’t count
TAKE A STAND Leadership Contracts written and exchanged
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