Agenda

Nathan Chappell, MBA, MNA, CFRE

Nathan Chappell is a thought leader, public speaker, author, and AI inventor, recognized globally as an expert on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and generosity. As a 20-year nonprofit veteran, Nathan has served in executive leadership roles at several national nonprofit organizations, including Associate Vice Chancellor at UC San Diego.

Nathan serves as Chief AI Officer at Virtuous Software where he supports AI integration to help nonprofit organizations amplify mission at scale. In 2018, Nathan founded Fundraising.AI, a global advocacy organization for Responsible and Beneficial AI in the nonprofit sector. Additionally, he is author of two books, Nonprofit AI: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing Artificial Intelligence for Social Good and the 2022 award-winning book, The Generosity Crisis: The Case for Radical Connection to Solve Humanity’s Greatest Challenges, which has been deemed “required reading for this generation of fundraisers”.

His work has been featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, NPR, Forbes, Fast Company and more. His podcast, Fundraising AI, is among the top nonprofit technology podcasts worldwide.

Mary Uhl-Bien

Mary Uhl-Bien, Ph.D. is the BNSF Railway Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Neeley School of Business at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to that she was the Howard Hawks Chair in Business Ethics and Leadership at the University of Nebraska. Her research, focusing on complexity leadership, relational leadership and followership, has been honored with numerous best paper and two decennial awards. She was noted as the #6 Most Influential Leadership Scholar from 1990 to 2017 (Zhou & Lin, LQ, 2019) and a Top 50 Undergraduate Professor in Poets & Quants in 2018. Uhl-Bien is active in executive education nationally and internationally and was a regular commentator for CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from 2013 to 2018.

Brett Yormark

Recognized as one of the most dynamic and innovative executives in sports and entertainment, Brett Yormark began his tenure as the fifth commissioner of the Big 12 Conference on Aug. 1, 2022. He previously held positions at Roc Nation, Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment and NASCAR.

In his brief time as Commissioner of the Big 12, Yormark has elevated the Conference to new heights. He executed a media rights deal with ESPN and Fox that will run through 2030-31. Additionally, Yormark has placed an emphasis on marketing, brand building and storytelling that has resonated across the college athletics landscape. In the first two years of his tenure, he has overseen the early departure of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas as well as the integration of eight new Big 12 members. Additionally, he led a revamping of the Big 12 Football and Basketball Championships that resulted in revenue and digital engagement highs. Yormark has taken an innovative approach to ensure the Conference resides in places it never has before, creating the first-ever Big 12 Business Advisory Board, executing a partnership with the National Football League to operate a conference-wide Pro Day, teaming up with New York City Parks Department for a summer activation at historic Rucker Park, and bringing celebrity talent such as Fat Joe, Ashanti, Shaq and DJ Khaled into the Big 12 marketing fold.