2026 Leaders Summit | Agenda

Day 1: Wednesday, March 18

Field Immersions: require sign-up before

• Option A | Asombrosa: Step into Asombrosa, a nature-inspired space designed to grow ideas and deepen connections. During this resilience-centered experience, explore how our relationship with money shapes impact, reflect on sustaining resilience in high-stakes work, and engage in intentional conversations that inspire collaboration and thoughtful strategies for meaningful social change.

• Option B | Courage Museum: ​Be among the first to go behind the scenes of the Courage Museum, an interactive exhibit opening in Spring 2027. This is not a public museum tour, but an exclusive preview of the ideas, design process, and creative vision shaping the exhibit before it opens.

Registration Opens (3:00 - 4:00 PM)

Opening Program (4:00 - 4:05 PM)
Philip Yun, GPF Steering Committee Chair and Co-CEO and Co-President of Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)
Peter Hill, Board Chair, Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)

Opening Context Setting (4:05 - 4:10 PM)
Sarah Howard, Managing Director, Global Philanthropy Forum

Fireside Chat (4:10 - 4:35 PM) | Institutions in a Fractured World: Power, Responsibility, and the Future of Global Cooperation
At a moment of rising geopolitical tension, weakening norms, and growing distrust in global institutions, the role of philanthropic and policy leadership is being redefined. In this fireside conversation, Tino Cuéllar reflects on how institutions can operate with legitimacy, responsibility, and strategic clarity in an increasingly fragmented world. Drawing on his work at the intersection of law, governance, and global policy, the conversation will explore how power is shifting across states, markets, and civil society—and what this means for those seeking to advance cooperation, stability, and democratic values. As philanthropy confronts new constraints and expectations, the discussion will examine how institutions can adapt their operating logic to remain credible, effective, and aligned with a rapidly changing international order.

Speakers:
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
In conversation with, Sarah Howard, Managing Director, Global Philanthropy Forum

Keynote Presentations (4:35 - 5:00 PM) | The State of Generosity: Global Data on Power, Policy, and Philanthropic Flow
Around the world, philanthropic capital is moving through increasingly complex terrain — expanding in some regions, constrained in others, and reshaped by policy, politics, and public trust. In this dual presentation, leaders from the Charities Aid Foundation and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy present the latest data on cross-border giving, enabling environments, and bold philanthropic action. In a moment when capital is increasingly contested, politicized, and concentrated, understanding these global patterns is not academic — it is strategic.

Speakers:
Mark Greer, Managing Director, Charities Aid Foundation 
Amir Pasic, Eugene R. Tempel Dean of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Fireside Chat (5:00 - 5:20 PM) | : Fit for Purpose: Philanthropy in the Transformation Era
We are entering a period of structural transformation—marked by geopolitical fragmentation, technological acceleration, and growing pressure on global institutions. In this context, philanthropy faces a central question: is the sector designed for the scale and complexity of the moment ahead? This opening conversation sets the frame for the Summit, exploring how philanthropy must evolve to remain relevant and effective. From how capital is structured and deployed to how institutions build trust, interpret emerging signals, and support new forms of cooperation, the discussion introduces the core ideas woven throughout the program. At its heart is a simple but urgent challenge: what would it take to make philanthropy truly fit for purpose in the transformation era?

Speakers:
Sarah Howard, Managing Director, Global Philanthropy Forum In conversation with, Ana Rold, Founder & CEO, Diplomatic Courier & World in 2050

Panel (5:20 - 5:45 PM) | First Movers: Philanthropy and the Next Architecture of Global Cooperation
Periods of geopolitical rupture often create the conditions for institutional change—but solutions rarely emerge in the moment of crisis itself. They must already exist, tested and ready, when the system becomes open to change.This conversation explores how philanthropic capital can act as a first mover in complex governance landscapes, supporting experiments that governments and multilateral institutions are often unable to initiate. From new diplomatic coalitions to innovative climate governance mechanisms, these early bets help cultivate practical solutions before the political window opens. Bringing together leaders working at the intersection of policy, philanthropy, and global coordination, the discussion will examine how philanthropic risk capital can help prototype the connective tissue for the next generation of cooperation—ensuring that when moments of disruption arrive, workable models are already on the table.

Speakers:
Tom Pravda, Principal, Climate Hub 
Bri Treece, Co-founder & President, Fathom 
Sarah Howard, Managing Director, Global Philanthropy

Keynote (5:45 - 6:00 PM) | “We Are Each Other’s Harvest”: Putting the Moral Imagination in the  Service to Humanity
What will it take to place beauty, conscience, and the full force of human feeling in the service of humanity? Through the public moral education project Being Human, we explore a core wager: that the moral imagination — our capacity to feel the reality of other lives as fully as our own — is not a privilege of stable times but the most urgent act of solidarity available to us now.

Speakers:
David Kyuman Kim

6:05 PM - 6:30 PM | Signals & Invitations 

Speakers:
Erika Gregory, President, Horizon 2045
Seth Cochran, Founder, TheSidebar 

Sidebar Introduction
Throughout the Summit, we are creating intentional space for emergent community conversations led by TheSidebar. These sessions are designed to surface what is most alive in the room, the tensions, insights, and questions that formal programming cannot fully anticipate. From these dialogues, one community-selected topic will rise to the main stage on Friday.

Welcome Reception (6:30 - 7:30 PM)

Day 2: Thursday, March 19

Meditation (7:45 - 8:30 AM)

Registration Opens (8:30 - 9:00 AM)

Opening Remarks (9:00 - 9:05AM)

Speakers:
Sarah Howard, Managing Director, Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF)
Stephanie Fine Sasse, Founder, The Plenary Co.

(9:05 - 11:00 AM) | Capital as Code: Rearchitecting the Rules of Ownership, Power, and Agency

Lightning Talk (9:05 - 9:20 AM) | Capital as a Designed System: From a Mechanistic to a Wholistic Worldview 
In this opening talk, John Fullerton examines the deep logic embedded in today’s capital systems — from extraction and growth to separation and control. He will reveal how philanthropy often replicates the very patterns it seeks to counteract, and invite the audience to imagine what a regenerative capital operating system might look like. This sets the stage for exploring alternative models that align capital with purpose, agency, and resilience.

Speakers:
John Fullerton, Founder & President, Capital Institute

Deep Dives
How Alternative Capital Logics Actually Operate (Two Panels | 50 mins)
The sessions move beyond theory to explore capital in action. Through two panel conversations, speakers show how redesigned ownership, governance, and trust reshape real-world systems, revealing what happens when capital is treated as a tool for agency, purpose, and accountability rather than just wealth.

Panel (9:20 - 9:45 AM | Who Owns the Future?
This panel examines how ownership, governance, and purpose can be embedded directly into capital — not as a bonus, but as a structural feature. Speakers explore how aligning capital with people’s agency transforms long-term success, reshapes accountability, and sets new standards for enterprise and philanthropy. Through real-world examples, the conversation reveals what it takes to design capital that hard-codes dignity, purpose, and impact into the systems we rely on.

Speakers:
Margot Brandenburg, Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation 
Anna-Lisa Miller, Executive Director, Ownership Works 
Sarah Schwimmer, Co-Lead Executive, B Lab Global
Moderator: Gina Dalma, Chief Development Officer, Global Fund for a New Economy

Panel (9:45 - 10:10 AM) | Trust as Infrastructure
This panel explores how trust is often treated as a value in philanthropy, but rarely as a design principle. This conversation explores what happens when trust becomes part of the architecture of systems—shaping how decisions are made, how accountability is structured, and how power is shared. From venture design to participatory governance, speakers examine how institutions can move beyond control-based models toward approaches that expand agency and enable more collaborative decision-making among funders and communities alike. The discussion highlights what it takes to build resilient systems where responsibility and authority are distributed, and where shared governance strengthens—not weakens—accountability and impact.

Speakers:
Jessyca Dudley, Founder & CEO, Bold Ventures
Fyodor Ovchinnikov, Co-Founder & Director, Evolutionary Futures Lab
Audrey Selian, Director, Artha Impact
Moderator: Kristin Hayden, Founder, Vision Powered Ventures

Lightning Talk (10:10 - 10:20 AM) | Direct Capital: Rethinking How Philanthropy Delivers
What happens when philanthropy removes intermediaries and delivers capital directly to people? This session offers a practitioner’s perspective on building large-scale direct cash systems in the real world. Drawing on GiveDirectly’s work delivering over $1 billion to more than 2 million people across 15+ countries, the speaker will explore how unconditional cash transfers challenge long-standing assumptions about aid, authority, and institutional control. The session will demonstrate how capital can move faster, reach people more precisely, and respond earlier to crises. But operating these systems also requires navigating regulatory constraints, replacing traditional intermediaries, and confronting the limits of existing philanthropic infrastructure. The result is both friction and opportunity—revealing what happens when redesigned capital models encounter the legacy architecture of philanthropy

Speakers:
Nick Allardice, President & CEO, GiveDirectly

Panel (10:20 - 10:50 AM) | Architectural Reckoning: When New Code Meets Old Philanthropy
Bold models of ownership, trust-based funding, and shared governance are gaining ground. But when they enter philanthropy’s existing infrastructure — payout norms, fiduciary culture, compliance regimes, and embedded risk aversion — friction follows. This segment examines where redesigned capital collides with legacy architecture, who absorbs the risk, and what must actually change for new approaches to operate at scale. The focus is not on whether innovation works, but whether the system it runs on is fit for the future

Speakers:
Nick Allardice, President & CEO, GiveDirectly
Sid Efromovich, Co-Founder & CEO, Regeneration Group
Taj James, Co-Founder, ​​Full Spectrum Group
Jennifer Risher, Co-Founder, #HalfMyDAF
Moderator: Sarah Howard, Managing Director, Global Philanthropy Forum

Lightning Talk (10:50 - 11:00 AM) | The Open Question: Shared Protocols for a New Operating System
Roshan Ghadamian explores how philanthropy’s current structures often reproduce scarcity and limit organizational resilience. He will share principles for designing regenerative capital that strengthens authority, gives organizations space to govern themselves, and weaves trust and autonomy into funding systems. The session invites the audience to imagine shared protocols that make philanthropic resources interoperable, resilient, and purpose-driven.

Speakers:
Roshan Ghadamian, Principal Researcher, Institute for Regenerative Systems Architecture

Break (11:00 - 11:10 AM)

Breakout Panel (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM) | Narrative as Infrastructure: Culture, Media, and Power in a Multipolar World | 2nd Floor
In a fractured media landscape and an increasingly multipolar world, narrative has become a form of infrastructure. The stories societies tell about power, identity, and possibility shape public trust, political imagination, and the conditions in which philanthropy and social change operate. This session brings together voices from global media, social research, movements, and the creative economy to examine how narratives are created, contested, and amplified across cultures. As institutions face declining trust and global alliances shift, storytelling is no longer just about communication—it is about shaping what futures feel possible.

Speakers:
Derrick Feldmann, Managing Director, Ad Council
Lynn Maxcy, Screenwriter and Co-founder of Creators Coalition on A.I.
Máximo Mazzocco, Founder, EcoNews
Nisaa Jetha, Founder & CEO, Global Creative Economy Institute
Moderator: Kevin Rutkoski, Founder & Principal Director, This is Good People 

Breakout | Centering Ethics & Responsibility in AI Use: A Practical Workshop | 3rd Floor
AI is reshaping the way we work and expanding our potential for impact. The markets will determine how to make our work more efficient. The social sector must ensure that the way we use AI tools reflects our values, our commitment to responsibility, and our human dignity. From streamlining operations to scaling impact to building strong AI policies, this workshop encourages delegates to learn from each other through practical applications and structured discussions. This session was curated in partnership with Fast Forward.

Breakout | Sidebar Sessions | 1st Floor Library
Throughout the Summit, we are creating intentional space for emergent community conversations led by TheSidebar. These sessions are designed to surface what is most alive in the room, the tensions, insights, and questions that formal programming cannot fully anticipate. From these dialogues, one community-selected topic will rise to the main stage on Friday.

Lunch + Sidebar (12:15 - 1:10 PM)

Welcome Back (1:15 - 1:20 PM) | Philip Yun

Panel (1:20 - 2:20 PM) | Practitioner Signal: Field-Built Futures
This session surfaces how practitioner-led models are born, protected, and tested under real-world constraints — and what funders and institutions must do differently to recognize signal before it looks like success. The conversation focuses on emergence: the conditions, choices, and tradeoffs that allow new approaches to take shape and begin to travel across systems.

Option A: Breakout Workshop (2:30 - 4:00 PM) | Building Anticipatory Infrastructure for Philanthropy | 2nd Floor
This interactive workshop invites the broader GPF community into the ideas and tools at the heart of our foresight pilot. Designed for funders who have not yet engaged with the methodology, the session offers both reflection and practice. Pilot participants will share what shifted in their own thinking—how engaging in structured foresight changed the way they assess risk, allocate capital, and interpret signals in a rapidly changing environment. Participants will then experience a hands-on introduction to the core tools themselves, gaining a practical feel for how anticipatory thinking can inform strategy and governance. The workshop will conclude with a forward-looking discussion: what would it take to build shared anticipatory infrastructure across philanthropy? If we are serious about architecting operating systems fit for a new era, how do we embed foresight not as a one-off exercise, but as collective capacity? And who in the room is ready to help design and resource that future?

Option B Breakout | Reimagining Development: Power, Pathways, and Locally-Led Leadership | 1st Floor
The global development system is at a crossroads. Traditional ODA is under strain — from geopolitical shocks, fiscal retrenchment, rising nationalism, and declining institutional trust — while multiple new pathways are emerging in parallel: state-led blocs, private capital–driven models, regional financing architectures, community-rooted alternatives, and hybrid philanthropic-public experiments. At the same time, commitments to locally-led and community-led development — including those articulated in the Donor Statement on Supporting Locally Led Development nearly four years ago — risk being sidelined. Global development cannot be reimagined without centering the voices, expertise, and agency of communities and leaders in the Global Majority. This curated, off-the-record roundtable brings together a small group of leaders to explore these converging dynamics. The goal is not immediate consensus, but clarity: naming what is actually unfolding, highlighting opportunities to act and operationalize locally led development, and building a shared understanding of how to support development that is both effective, equitable, and sustainable in this moment of systemic change.

Option C | Sidebar Sessions | 3rd Floor
Throughout the Summit, we are creating intentional space for emergent community conversations led by TheSidebar. These sessions are designed to surface what is most alive in the room, the tensions, insights, and questions that formal programming cannot fully anticipate. From these dialogues, one community-selected topic will rise to the main stage on Friday.

Break (4:00 - 4:15 PM)

Welcome Back | Sarah Howard

Lightning Talk (4:15 - 4:30 PM) | Trust at Scale: Where Platforms Meet Emergency Infrastructure
As philanthropy rethinks capital, power, and agency, it must also grapple with a parallel reality: some of the most influential operating systems shaping trust, access, and coordination at scale are often platforms. Drawing on Airbnb’s experience activating its global network in moments of crisis, including how hosts become frontline responders by offering shelter, stability, and local knowledge during disasters, the speaker explores how corporate competencies such as trust systems, identity verification, and distributed logistics can rapidly function as emergency infrastructure. The talk examines what these moments reveal about design, governance, and accountability, and what philanthropy can learn, and where it must be cautious, when private platforms and communities step into civic and humanitarian roles.

Speaker:
Christoph Gorder, Executive Director, Airbnb.org

Fireside Chat (4:30 - 5:00 PM) | Networked Humanitarianism: Building Operating Systems Under Fire
This fireside conversation brings together global advocacy and frontline civilian leadership to examine what happens when the formal systems that underpin protection and humanitarian response fail. Drawing on Crisis Action’s work coordinating collective political action and the organically formed, community-led structures of the Sudan Emergency Response Rooms, the discussion explores how legitimacy, coordination, and protection are built under extreme constraint — and what philanthropy can learn from systems that arise from necessity rather than design.

Speakers:
Hanin Ahmed, External Communications Coordinator, Emergency Response Rooms/Local Coordinating Committees
Nicola Reindorp, CEO, Crisis Action
Moderator: Nadir Shams, Senior Strategy Officer, Integral / Dalberg Catalyst

Fireside Chat (5:00 - 5:30 PM) | Who Gets to Belong: Story, Land, and the Architecture of Power
Land is often treated as legal or economic infrastructure, but it is also a narrative one—shaped by stories about who belongs, whose histories are recognized, and whose futures are imagined. Across societies, the way land is owned, governed, and inhabited reflects deeper architectures of power, identity, and legitimacy. In a moment of rising polarization, contested histories, and renewed struggles over territory and migration, questions of belonging are increasingly central to social cohesion and institutional trust. This conversation explores how narratives about land and identity shape political possibility—and how storytelling can either reinforce exclusion or help reimagine more inclusive systems of belonging.

Speakers:
Chitra Hanstad, Global Ambassador, Landesa
Julia Quinn, Goodwill Ambassador, Landesa
Moderator: Sarah Howard,Managing Director, Global Philanthropy Forum

Fireside Chat (5:30 - 5:40 PM) | The Evolution of Giving: Insights from 25 Years of GPF
As the Global Philanthropy Forum marks its 25th anniversary, this fireside conversation reflects on the evolution of philanthropy over the past quarter century. The discussion highlights lessons learned, shifts in global giving, and the challenges and opportunities that have shaped the sector. Looking ahead, it explores how philanthropic leadership can respond to an era of disruption, geopolitical realignment, and technological change — and what it will take to make philanthropy truly fit for purpose in the decades to come.

Speakers:
Jane Wales, Founder, The Global Philanthropy Forum
Philip Yun, GPF Steering Committee Chair and Co-CEO and Co-President of Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)

Closing (5:45 PM)

Distributed Dinners (6:30 - 9:30 PM)
Hosted at venues near the Summit, these dinners provide an ambient setting for networking and thought-provoking discussions. It’s the perfect opportunity to connect in a more personal and reflective space.

Day 3: Friday, March 20

Meditation: (7:45 - 8:30 AM)

Opening Remarks (9:00 - 9:05 AM) | David Kyuman Kim

Lightning Talk (9:05 - 9:15 AM) | Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Catalyzes Systemic Change from the Global South
This session explores how philanthropy can catalyze systemic change by backing locally rooted, globally scalable solutions — using Nepal’s trail bridge model and its uptake by Ethiopia as a case study. It highlights how South-South collaboration and early philanthropic risk-taking can unlock long-term government ownership and reshape infrastructure for impact. It will challenge philanthropy to rethink its role from funding projects to backing systems-level change — especially by trusting and scaling Global South-led innovations. By spotlighting a successful South-South collaboration, it will offer a concrete example of how catalytic capital can de-risk government adoption, inspire new models of cross-border learning, and shift power toward locally driven solutions.

Speakers:
Ansu Tumbahangfe, Director, Transformative Rural Access Catalyst for Change by Helvetas

Panel (9:15 - 10:05 AM) | New Funds, New Rules: How Global South–Led Collaborations Are Leading | 2nd Floor
This panel will focus on hearing from leaders from Global South initiatives as well as funders who are developing new collaborative models that drive locally led, proximate programming. Operationally, strategically - these voices are meeting a new moment in philanthropy - challenging the status quo and reckoning with the inequity in the sector. We'll explore their models and how they are critical examples for building sustainable solutions in this new era, going beyond traditional grantmaking and funder driven mandates.

Speakers:
Jenn Gudebski, Philanthropist
Naghma Mulla, CEO Edelgive/Grow Fund
Deborah Philbrick, Senior Program Officer, MacArthur Foundation
Moderator: Sheena Agarwal, Chief Partnerships Officer, Myriad USA

Lightning Talk (10:05 - 10:20 AM) | Creating Connection: The Culture for Collective Action
What if the key to solving our most complex social problems isn't better strategy, more funding, or smarter technology—but simply learning how to truly connect? The social sector widely recognizes that collaboration is essential, yet most collaborative efforts fail because we force partnerships through frameworks, deadlines, and transactional relationships. In this session, you'll discover why you can't toolkit your way to genuine collaboration—but you can intentionally create the conditions where connection flourishes. In this talk, the speaker will share how her work leading the Solutions Insights Lab revealed four simple principles that transformed collaboration across vastly different contexts—from uniting 25 youth mental health organizations, to bringing indigenous leaders across continents together at COP30, to changing government policies that now serve 800 million people struggling with presbyopia.

Speaker:
Ambika Samarthya-Howard, Managing Director, Solutions Insights Lab

Fireside Chat (10:20 - 10:40 AM) | Architecting the Integrated Capital Organization: Designing Capital Supply to Better Serve Impact Demand
Impact doesn't have a capital shortage problem — it has a capital design problem. Most capital is deployed on the supply side's terms: the structures, timelines, and constraints that funders find comfortable, rather than what impact actually needs. The communities, ecosystems, and transitions that need capital rarely get to set the terms. This session uses NextWorld — a $1.1 billion ecosystem where investment and philanthropic advisory work are structurally integrated — as a live case study in what it looks like to redesign capital supply around impact demand. Drawing on Integrated Capital research conducted by CSP in partnership with Stanford PACS, host Erin Duddy and NextWorld Investment Director Eric Sipf examine the structural decisions, governance innovations, and honest tradeoffs involved in building an organization where capital is designed to fit the mission — not the other way around.

Speakers:
Erin Duddy, Senior Director, Center For Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth
Eric Sipf, Investment Director, NextWorld Evergreen

Lightning Talk (10:40 - 10:55 AM) | Designing the Capital Stack: How Philanthropy Unlocks System Change
Scaling circular, low-carbon supply chains isn’t limited by technology. It’s limited by how capital is designed. At Canopy, the work of protecting the world’s most carbon-dense and biodiverse forests revealed that the real leverage sits upstream in the materials that global industries rely on. This session explores how philanthropic capital can help shift those systems by aligning industry demand, innovation, and manufacturing around new materials made from agricultural residues and recycled textiles, transforming large waste streams into climate-friendly alternatives that reduce pressure on forests. By the end, funders will gain practical insights on how catalytic capital can move beyond funding projects to shaping the market conditions that allow sustainable industries to scale

Speaker:
Nicole Rycroft, Founder and Executive Director, Canopy

Coffee Break (10:55 - 11:00 AM)

Breakout Sessions (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

Option A | Governing in Flux: Accelerating Delivery and Forging New Partnerships in a Changing Global Landscape | 2nd Floor
The current global environment demands a pivot from traditional approaches. With institutional decline and the rise of populism, the failure of governments to deliver is a critical threat to democratic values. This session is centered on the imperative to support governments to deliver as the most effective path to stability and accountability. The session will explore the new opportunities a changing landscape presents, recognizing that previous adversarial positions may have shifted and discussing what this means for civil society actors. The discussion will focus on: the governance imperative; a changing position for civil society; new alliances and support, and adaptability and principle.

Speakers:
Joseph Asunka, CEO, Afrobarometer
Dr. Ruth Levine, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Packard Foundation
Ana Patricia Munoz, Executive Director, International Budget Partnership
Maleine Niang, Country Director, Senegal, International Budget Partnership
Moderator: Catherine Cheney, Senior Editor, Special Coverage, Devex

Option B | Workshop (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM) |  Unconstrained: A Civic Imagination Workshop for Envisioning Futures | 3rd Floor
Philanthropy operates within real constraints—regulatory, cultural, institutional. These constraints, approached deliberately, can become creative fuel. This workshop explores ways to turn fixed limits into starting points for creative reimagining. Combining the science of why our minds attach to the familiar with a survey of imaginative philanthropic models emerging around the globe, we'll explore what it takes to think beyond the status quo. Participants will then engage in a guided exercise in civic imagination, building shared stories of what an unconstrained future for giving, funding, and collective action could look like. We're building from a simple, well-researched yet often overlooked truth: it's easier to drive change if we know where we're going.

This session will extend into part of the lunch hour; lunch will be available on the third floor for participants attending the session.

Speakers:
Stephanie Fine Sasse, Founder & Director, The Plenary, Co.
Jasmine Hiroko McAdams, Imagination Researcher, UC Berkeley

Option C | Sidebar Sessions | 1st Floor
Throughout the Summit, we are creating intentional space for emergent community conversations led by TheSidebar. These sessions are designed to surface what is most alive in the room, the tensions, insights, and questions that formal programming cannot fully anticipate.

Lunch + Sidebar (12:00 - 12:55 PM)

Private Roundtable (12:00 - 1:00 PM) | Philanthropy, Narrative, and Public Trust

Welcome Back (1:00 - 1:05 PM) | Sarah Howard

Panel (1:05 - 2:00 PM) | Who Codes the Future? AI, Power, and the Next 24 Months
This session examines the emerging architecture of power surrounding artificial intelligence — the incentives, governance gaps, and capital flows shaping its trajectory. What design principle must we get right — now? We will open with a preview from The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, grounding the conversation in the emotional reality of this moment — urgency and possibility held at once. Then we move past familiar AI debates. AI is code. Governance is code. Capital is code. What are we encoding?

Speakers:
Kay Firth-Butterfield, CEO, Good Tech Advisory
Aza Raskin, Co-founder, Center for Humane Technology
Anamitra Deb, Vice President, Omidyar
Phil Chow, CEO, Humanitas AI
Moderator: Sheila Warren, Board Chair, Advanced AI Society

Panel (2:00 - 2:30 PM) | TheSideBar Panel
This session is shaped by the emergent conversations that arose during the first two days of the Summit. The speakers will be drawn from those discussions, practitioners, funders, and leaders whose perspectives reflect the signal unfolding in real time. Rather than offering a polished conclusion, this session honors collective intelligence. It asks: What is this room ready to confront? What patterns have surfaced? And what responsibility follows? This is the Summit listening to itself, and responding

Speakers:
TBD
Moderator: Seth Cochran, Founder, TheSidebar

Fireside Chat (2:30 - 3:15 PM) | CONTROL: Why Big Giving Falls Short — and How to Address It
In a conversational session, Glen Galaich, Stupski Foundation CEO and author of CONTROL, and Terry Gamble Boyer, author and cofounder of the Caldera Foundation, will discuss the most urgent issue in philanthropy and how to address it: control. In Glen’s new book, released March 17, he shares his personal conversion story from believing in strong, consolidated donor power to understanding how it limits and derails social change. Terry’s focus on how we build a more just, secure and cleaner world informs her philanthropy today for tomorrow’s generations. Their discussion will consider: financial and legal systems, combined with outdated traditions, that have kept private foundations and donor-advised funds from comprehensively engaging communities; roles that donors really want to play and recognition that it’s likely not this role of control, and how we created, or allowed for, this system — and how we can change it.

Speakers:
Terry Boyer, Co-Founder and President, Caldera Foundation
Glen Galaich, CEO, Stupski Foundation

Closing Keynote (3:30 - 3:50 PM) | Another Future is Possible
The son of a refugee, Dex Hunter-Torricke spent fifteen years advising some of the world's most powerful leaders - from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg - before walking away from Big Tech in 2025. Not because he'd lost faith in technology, but because he'd seen firsthand how the world's most consequential institutions were sleepwalking into AI's transformation of society. In this closing keynote, the founder of the Center for Tomorrow draws on that insider experience to make the case that the questions now facing humanity are not technical ones in search of technical solutions - and that the future is not something that happens to us. AI is arriving into a world already fracturing under the weight of rising inequality, eroding democracies and climate breakdown. But another future remains possible - and this generation of philanthropists holds unique power to determine whether the greatest technological transformation in history lifts everyone, or only a few.

Closing Reflections (3:50 - 4:00 PM) Sarah Howard & David Kyuman Kim

25th Anniversary Celebration (4:00 - 6:00 PM)

Afterparty Harbor Court Hotel (6:00 - 7:00 PM)

Thank you to our partners!