Would you like to be a speaker at NIO Summit?

First, a bit about our process…

NIO is intentionally designed as a single-track experience, bringing every attendee into the same room for the same conversations. Instead of splitting the audience across competing sessions, we curate one shared lineup of speakers covering the topics nonprofit leaders need most right now – from AI and writing to data, digital strategy, content, and growth. The result is a more focused event, a stronger collective experience, and a program built to help teams think bigger across disciplines.

We feel that our content is one of the key differentiators for our event.

For that reason, we are very selective when it comes to our main sessions. Typically, we go out and find the speakers we want to bring…folks with the right message, aligned to our digital fundraising theme, with topics that we feel will help our attendees improve their online fundraising efforts.

We are looking for information focused on broad-based digital fundraising.

We will also consider for-profit marketers when the principles shared are clearly transferable to and relevant for nonprofit fundraising. We don’t allow sales pitches from the stage, and talks must be vendor-agnostic and actionable. We also prefer that the content is based on data-driven conclusions.

Most submissions fail to meet one or more of our criteria.

We get 100+ requests every year, and have about 13 main slots to fill from outside speakers. That having been said, we DO evaluate every submission, and every once in a while we find a gem that we think would fit in well. We would welcome your ideas for a speaking session. We can’t promise you’ll get selected, but we can promise we’ll give it a look.

Other ways to speak at NIO Summit

We also have two opportunities for speaking in our sponsorship area as well. For more details about what’s available, please fill out the sponsorship form.

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