First Look: Explore the bbdevdays 2026 Agenda

Erik Leaver

The bbdevdays 2026 session lineup is live! bbdevdays is your gateway to finding new ways to extend your Blackbaud solutions, learn new skills, and build your community. For advancement, alumni relations, and IT teams in higher education, bbdevdays 2026 includes sessions focused on data integration, reporting, automation, and AI‑assisted workflows. 

You’ll find real examples of connecting systems like Blackbaud Award Management™, CRM, and finance platforms, building Power BI dashboards that support decision‑making, and using APIs to reduce manual work across departments. Sessions balance big‑picture thinking with practical implementation details that teams can realistically adopt. 

Highlights include: 

• Extending Blackbaud Award Management™ with the SKY API: Enabling Digital Scholarship Creation and Integrating Banner with Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® 
• Automating Gift Entry: A GiveCampus Giving to Blackbaud CRM™ Integration Using SKY API and Power Automate  
• PIM Copilot: Scaling Prospect Intelligence with Generative AI  
• What You Need to Know to Build Better Fundraising Analytics  
• Power BI & Blackbaud: Dashboards that Matter  

Whether you support fundraising, finance, admissions, or analytics, the higher ed sessions are designed to help teams work more connected and more efficiently. 

Explore the higher education session lineup in the bbdevdays agenda.