Many fundraising/marketing efforts aren't connecting with audiences in a meaningful way (this despite the 1,001 new tools and bright shiny objects we have to sell to client organizations). Why have donors and members stopped listening? In this keynote, we'll explore the fundamental shifts in how audiences perceive and relate to the issues/campaigns that you promote.

As a business storyteller, Michael Margolis has consulted to dozens of leading institutions and world-changing initiatives. With a background in entrepreneurship and cultural anthropology, Michael has been featured in Fast Company, Brandweek, and Storytelling Magazine. As the President of Get Storied, Michael delivers keynotes, workshops, and learning programs around the globe. He teaches Brand Storytelling at the business school level and is the author of the book Believe Me: Why Your Brand, Vision, and Leadership Need a Bigger Story.

Anthony Elischer, FInstF, Managing Director, Think Consulting Solutions
Futurology 2010: Focus, Determination & Transformation

Time to reflect, be amazed, challenged and delighted by some of the trends that are shaping the way people live, think and give. Elischer will share his latest showcase of thinking that will help you look at the bigger picture and the wider world. No one can predict the future, but marketers agree that watching for trends can help. If you believe in transformation, positive thinking and imagination this plenary is unmissable!

Tony, an internationally regarded expert on fundraising, has more than 27 years hands-on experience in the not-for-profit sector globally, including several senior roles within charities. His motivational style ensures that he presents sessions at all the leading fundraising conferences around the world each year. He is on the board of the Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing and is special advisor to the International Fundraising Congress and the International Resource Mobilisation Workshop.

Welcome to the Future: Bridge 2030 - Time Travelers' Perspective!

Jon Duschinsky, Founder, bethechange
Alphonce Brown, Director of Development, National Minority AIDS Council
Jo Sullivan, General Manager, CDR Fundraising Group

A team of three time travellers from the future (2030) will be ‘beaming in’ to Bridge 2010 to share unique insights into what the next twenty five years will hold for not-for-profit marketing. They have come back from the future to warn us, to congratulate us and to try to change some of the simply dumb things we are doing! Using their futuristic technology, they will transport us to other parts of the galaxy to meet aliens and gurus from inside and outside our sector who can tell us what did and didn’t happen. They will help us prepare for the next twenty five years and perhaps reshape our futures. You may believe the old maxim that ‘there is nothing new’, but this presentation will prove that there is and there will be.

Arrive with an open mind, leave with a spinning, challenged and alternative view of the world that could be!