Blackbaud Advances a New Era of Platform Innovation Built With Developers at bbdevdays 2026
Three-Day Virtual Conference Highlighted Extensibility, Workflow Native AI, and Responsible Innovation Across the Blackbaud Platform
Charleston, S.C. (June 4, 2026) — Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world’s leading provider of AI-powered solutions for social impact, this week hosted bbdevdays 2026, its global virtual conference for developers, technologists and partners building solutions that support nonprofits, education institutions and social impact organizations. The three‑day virtual event brought together developers of all skill levels—from low code builders to professional engineers to a new class of MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrators —to explore extensibility, automation and responsible AI across Blackbaud’s ecosystem.
bbdevdays 2026 comes at a pivotal moment for the social impact sector, as AI is now part of daily work. Across fundraising, finance, education and grantmaking, organizations are looking for innovation that is not only powerful, but also embedded directly into trusted workflows, grounded in domain expertise, and built with transparency, governance and human oversight. Blackbaud’s platform strategy reflects that shift—designing AI as a native capability that developers can extend, compose and apply intentionally where work already happens.
“At Blackbaud, we’re focused on bringing powerful AI capabilities, like our recently launched Development Agent, directly into the trusted systems where customers already work, while also giving them flexibility in how they access and apply that intelligence,” said Mike Gianoni, president, CEO and vice chairman of the board of directors, Blackbaud. “Our developer community is central to this approach, collaborating with us to build an open, extensible platform designed with responsibility at its core. Together, we’re enabling organizations to move faster with confidence, solve real problems, and ultimately create greater impact.”
Throughout bbdevdays 2026, Blackbaud showcased new and recently released platform capabilities, including new APIs across key Blackbaud solutions, a new Power BI custom connector, and recently released Blackbaud SKY® add ins—all designed to give developers more flexibility to integrate data, automate workflows and build solutions that reflect the real‑world needs of the organizations they serve.
From AI features to Workflow Native Intelligence
A central theme of bbdevdays 2026 was the evolution of AI from isolated features into workflow‑native intelligence that is embedded directly into product experiences and designed to support end to end work. Sessions explored how Blackbaud is building AI capabilities that are context aware, permissioned and extensible, creating a foundation for more advanced, agent‑assisted workflows while keeping people clearly in control.
For developers, this shift opens new opportunities to move beyond point solutions and design outcome‑oriented in-product experiences where AI can work within governed platform boundaries to assemble context, surface insight, and support execution across a workflow. Responsibility, trust and explainability are treated as core design principles, not afterthoughts.
- Conference Highlights Included Sessions On:Platform extensibility in action: Learn how APIs, connectors, SKY add‑ins, automation, and AI work together across the Blackbaud platform
- Building with AI responsibly: Explore patterns for embedding AI into workflows with transparency, governance and human oversighz
- Opportunities for every type of builder: From pro‑code development to low‑code automation, discover how the “developer tent” continues to expand
- Community‑driven innovation: See real examples of how customers and partners are extending Blackbaud solutions to solve practical challenges
The two keynote speakers at bbdevdays 2026—both of whom are members of the AI Coalition for Social Impact, convened by Blackbaud—explored both the promise and responsibility of emerging technologies. Their sessions included “Responsible by Design: Building AI You Can Trust” by Rhea Saxena, technical & product lead at the Responsible AI Institute, and “No Code, Good Vibes: Using AI to Build Tools that Power Social Impact” by Richie Cotton, senior data evangelist at DataCamp.
bbdevdays 2026 featured more than 120 sessions, including demos, expert‑led panels and hands‑on Skills Labs, along with mainstage conversations focused on responsible AI and accessible innovation. The fully virtual event drew approximately 2,000 participants worldwide, with on‑demand content available following the conference. Presenting sponsors of this year’s event were BrightVine, Microsoft and Print Your Cause.
To learn more about bbdevdays 2026 and register for access to on demand content, visit blackbaud.com/bbdevdays.
Additional upcoming Blackbaud events will include the company’s K–12 User Conference July 15–17 in Boston, followed by bbcon 2026, taking place Sept. 29–Oct. 1 in Columbus, Ohio.
About Blackbaud
Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) is the world’s leading provider of AI-powered solutions for social impact. Serving nonprofits, educational institutions, companies committed to corporate social responsibility, and individual change makers, Blackbaud propels impact at scale with the sector’s most intelligent solutions for fundraising and engagement, education solutions, financial management and CSR and grantmaking. With the deepest expertise powered by the world’s largest philanthropic data set, the most connected workflows, and the most powerful impact network, Blackbaud’s solutions are building a future where resources are unleashed at the speed of need. Blackbaud has been recognized by Fast Company, Newsweek, Quartz, Forbes and more for AI innovation, responsible leadership and workplace excellence. Blackbaud has operations in the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India and the United Kingdom, supporting users in 100+ countries. Learn more at www.blackbaud.com or follow us on X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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