Professional Development

Join us to experience everything you have come to love about the Blackbaud Conference — two days of exclusive content dedicated to your specific needs and unprecedented opportunities to network and interact with your peers and industry experts!

The Blackbaud Conference offers delegates fantastic product sessions, training and networking opportunities. We bring together leading speakers and domain experts that provide insight into product updates, hints & tips, best practise and ideas to help communication plans, database management and fundraising initiatives. There is so much going on, the programme can be found by visiting the links on the conference pages.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
The conference is recognised by leading associations as providing Professional Development and to that end we are delighted that the IDM (Institute of Direct Marketing) and CIM (The Chartered Institute of Marketing) have attributed the conference with CPD. More information can be found below. Furthermore, we are equally pleased that the Institute of Fundraising will be attending the conference and will be on hand to assist in their CPD programme. Paul Marvell, Director of Learning & Development is presenting at the conference to expand on the programme.



The Institute of Direct Marketing (The IDM) have awarded the Blackbaud European Conference 2011 14 hours CPD (Continuing Professional Development).



We're also please to confirm that The Chartered Institute of Marketing are also awarding the conference 10 hours CPD.


Not-for-profit leaders need to keep up with a changing environment so they can achieve their missions. Technology is changing the way that many not-for-profit organisations accomplish their daily tasks and long-term goals. The Conference offers many opportunities to learn about these issues; from keynote speakers, technology experts, Blackbaud staff and peers from the not-for-profit sector. We recognise the investment that delegates place when they attend conferences and we see ourselves responsible in giving back not only a first class conference experience but also tangible value that enhances personal development.