Raiser’s Edge NXT Customers: Why You Need to Be in the Room at bbcon Sydney 2026

Unified View is no longer on the horizon. It’s nearly here.

For most Raiser’s Edge NXT customers, the announcement of Database View’s retirement date marks the beginning of an important transition.

Over the next year, organisations will move fully into the next generation of fundraising technology: a cloud-native, AI-powered platform designed to help fundraising teams adapt, grow and thrive in a rapidly changing environment.

And for many organisations, bbcon Sydney 2026, Blackbaud Pacific’s largest customer event on 19–20 October, will be the most valuable opportunity to understand the transition, learn from peers, and build a practical plan for the year ahead.

Here are 8 reasons why you need to be in the room:

  1. See the roadmap before it reaches you: Understand what’s changing, what’s being retired, and when. Leave with the clarity and timelines needed to build a realistic transition plan.
  2. The technology is the easy part: How this goes will be decided by change management: retraining database view aficionados, rewriting procedures, and keeping income steady while the ground shifts underneath the team.
  3. New features, seen first: Get an early look at the latest innovations, upcoming releases, and the features that will deliver the greatest value for your team.
  4. Leave with a plan, not a pep talk: Walk away with a practical readiness plan covering which data to clean up, which processes will change, who needs training, and what to tell your executive about timing, effort and cost.
  5. Peers who have already done it: Learn from customers working confidently in web view who will talk through their approach: what they moved first, the challenges they faced, the efficiencies they gained, and what turned out to be far easier than they expected.
  6. Partners to close the gaps: Where the platform doesn’t yet do exactly what you need, our partners will show what they have built. Explore solutions for reporting, dashboards, AI, digital fundraising, payments and integrations. Bring your challenges and leave with options.
  7. Everyone you need, in one place: Meet product leaders, roadmap teams, consultants, customer success managers, partners and support specialists. Conversations that take weeks over email can happen in minutes face-to-face.
  8.  Start now, stay ahead: Every month you delay means higher risk, more uncertainty and a longer queue for help if everyone moves at the same time.

 

Bring the Whole Team

The smoothest transitions happen when database administrators, frontline fundraisers, and executive leaders hear the same message at the same time.

Day 1’s multiple streams make it easy for team members to split up, explore the sessions most relevant to their role, and return with a shared understanding of what’s ahead.

When your technical, fundraising, and leadership teams leave aligned, planning becomes significantly easier.

Plus, teams of three or more can take advantage of discounted group pricing, making it easier to bring the right people together.

 

Your Route Through bbcon Sydney 2026

Day 1: Explore What’s Possible

 

Day 2: Turn Learning Into Action

Don’t Wait to Start the Conversation

The transition from Database View is about more than a product milestone.

It’s an opportunity to modernise workflows, improve data quality, embrace AI-powered fundraising capabilities and position your organisation for what comes next.

The organisations that realise the greatest value will be the ones that start learning, planning and preparing now.

bbcon Sydney 2026 brings together the people, expertise and community needed to make that journey easier.

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