CiviCon Admin Training: program and presenters

CiviCon 2025 kicks off with a two-day Admin Training, May 19th and 20th, aimed at folks like you who need to manage CiviCRM on a day-to-day basis.

Here's the lineup of speakers (a great group of legitimate CiviCRM experts whom I've worked with for years), and topics:

Presenters:

Stuart Gaston

Known to friends as Stoob (MatterMost: @stoob), this is Stuart Gaston, with 17 years experience building CiviCRM and website solutions for nonprofits as an employee and self-employed contractor. He's also spent 10+ years as a teacher and is the member of the CiviCRM Core Team responsible for the creation of most of CiviAcademy — the online video tutorial service helping users get the most of CiviCRM.

Noah Miller

Noah (MatterMost: @noah) is a CiviCRM consultant and frequent contributor of improvements to the software. He studied cognitive science and music as an undergrad, then jumped into the world of nonprofit science journalism, where he built his first Drupal websites and CRM databases. He founded a project called outLoud Radio in 2002 to support LGBT+ youth in empowering themselves by telling their stories, and grew the organization over the next 12 years. For the last decade, drawing on his experience using CiviCRM and website platforms for his own social justice nonprofit, he has been helping other organizations get the most out of these powerful technologies.

Allen Shaw

Allen (MatterMost: @twomice) has been helping ambitious organizations meet their development goals with professional CRM solutions since 2001, first with custom-built solutions, and now – for over 15 years – focusing on CiviCRM as a platform that's built from the ground up for community-driven organizations. Allen is a regular contributor of improvements to CiviCRM, the Group Lead for the CiviCRM Extensions Working Group, and author of the Mastering CiviCRM 10-day email course. He also publishes daily mailings to his subscribers as a zero-cost source of inspiration, insights, and stories from the trenches for non-profit leaders.

Ben Walpole

Ben (MatterMost: @ufundo) is a freelance developer and member of the CiviCRM Core Team. He learned the ropes of CiviCRM while working in-house for a small public health charity, and has since worked with a range of UK campaigning/community groups. In his work with the CiviCRM Core Team he has been focused on the new ChartKit tool for no-code visualisations of CiviCRM data; and the relaunch of CiviCRM Standalone as a simpler option for deploying sites.

Program:

The Admin Training program lays out the major components and most common use cases for CiviCRM’s diverse features, covered in an orderly structure, with a mix of live demonstration, discussion, and hands-on exercises for participants.

Day 1, May 19th

09:00 - 09:15 Arrival with coffee
09:15 - 09:30 Introductions and ice-breakers
09:30 - 10:30 Session 1: Introduction to CiviCRM
10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: Organizing Data
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:15 Session 3: Custom data: organization and usage
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch (provided on-site)
13:30 - 14:00 Session 4: Finding data (Reports, Searches, SearchKit)
14:00 - 15:00 Session 5: Contribute management
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 Session 6: Event management
16:15 - 16:30 Closing Session
16:30 - 17:00 Extra time, to be used for 1-on-1 assistance and answering questions raised so far

Day 2, May 20th

09:00 - 09:15 Arrival with coffee
09:15 - 09:30 Brief recap of Day 1
09:30 - 10:30 Session 7: Duplicate contact management
10:30 - 11:30 Session 8: Communications: mass mailings, scheduled reminders, message templates, etc.
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:45 Session 9: Membership management
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch (provided on-site)
14:00 - 15:00 Session 10: SearchKit and FormBuilder: Advanced searching and data intake
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:15 Session 11: SearchKit and Charting: Data analysis and visualization
16:15 - 16:45 Session 12: Flexible breakouts: small groups on specific topics of interest to the group
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Session

If all that sounds interesting to you, you can still register online, for both the Admin Training on May 19-20, and for the main CiviCon event itself on May 21-22.

All the best,
A.