• The Art of Gathering: Bringing the Audience Experience into the 21st Century
  Ruth Hartt, CEO, Culture for Hire
  (In-session polls)
  
  
• The Big Idea: Balancing a Major Gift Campaign with Your Annual Fund
  Nuri Kye, Director of Development, Marin Symphony Association; Catherine Heitz New, Executive Vice President, RSC Fundraising; Jeremy Hatch, Principal Consultant, RSC Fundraising
  
  
• California Festival: Exploring Statewide Collaboration and Musical Innovation
  Marni Cook, Senior Director of Advocacy, Advocacy & Community Engagement, San Francisco Symphony, Veronika Krausas, Composer and Professor at USC Thornton School of Music; Meghan Umber, Senior Vice President Programming, LA Phil
  
  
• Community-Focused Donor Cultivation
  Tyler Rand, Managing Director, Advisory Board for the Arts
  
  
• Deepening Your Digital Marketing Impact
  Bailey Pasch, Senior Analyst, Capacity Interactive
  
  
• The Change-Up: Succession Planning Best Practices
  Shawn Ingram, Vice President, Arts Consulting Group; Anwar Nasir, Executive Director, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra; Nagham Wehbe, VP Research Practice Leader, Arts Consulting Group; Reggie Wilson, Board Vice President, Pasadena Symphony and POPS
  
  
• The (Constant Flux of the) State of the Arts
  Jonathan Moscone, Executive Director, California Arts Council
  
  
• Horrible Bosses
  Aubrey Bergauer, CEO, Changing the Narrative
  
  
• Improving Capitalization in the Arts: A Primer
  

  Tyler Rand, Managing Director, Advisory Board for the Arts, Kathryn R Martin, President and CEO, Santa Barbara Symphony; Elizabeth Shribman, Chief of Staff, San Francisco Symphony; Stephanie Stallings, Executive Director; Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra

• Musical Bridges: A Case Study in Building Partnerships Between Orchestras and Cultural Communities
  Issy Farris, Vice President of Operations and Education, Long Beach Symphony; Rong-Huey Liu, Principal Oboe, Long Beach Symphony; praCh Ly, KHMERASPORA writer, director, performer; Kelly Ruggirello, President, Long Beach Symphony; Facilitator: Chelsea Chambers, Executive Director, Peninsula Symphony of Northern California

• Opening Plenary: The Bre(a)dth of the Task
  Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

• Radical Relevance: Reclaiming Relevance to Rebuild Cultural Audiences
  Ruth Hartt, CEO, Culture for Hire
  
  

• Understanding, Identifying, and Interrupting Microaggressions in Orchestra Settings
  Jessica Schmidt, Principal Consultant, Orchestrate Inclusion

• The World Has Changed and So Must We
  David Taylor, Arts Entrepreneur, Coach & Consultant

Exhibitor Guide

• Click here to view the list of exhibitors from the 2023 Annual Conference