Young people spend as much as 8 hours consuming video content per day. Communicating effectively with these audiences requires a strategy to work with creators and influencers in an authentic and strategic way to share your message on new platforms. Understanding and leveraging the power of social media, digital media, and content creators is essential to reaching a growing portion of consumers, employees, and voters.

BRIAN DERRICK is an expert in using digital storytelling as a way to change real world behavior. Over the last five years, Brian has reached tens of millions of people and raised millions of dollars without a single dollar of paid advertising by sharing moving and thoughtful stories about building community and collective power. This session focuses on strategies that can help you craft online narratives that advance your goals. 

BRIAN DERRICK is known for his upbeat attitude and dedication to what he calls "optimistic activism." Much of modern politics is motivated by anger and opposition, but Optimistic Activism changes the paradigm to ground us in what is possible when we work together strategically. Drawing on lessons from the Civil Rights movement and the fight for LGBT equality, Brian channels a new kind of activism that finds strength in hope. 

More than 600 anti-LGBT bills were introduced in state legislatures in 2023. But why now? What do they do and what can be done about it? BRIAN DERRICK provides the simplest breakdown out there of what any LGBT allies need to know about the newest front in the fight for equality and what to expect next. 

Inspiring organizer BRIAN DERRICK motivates audiences of all kinds in this powerhouse talk. Derrick breaks down major headline issues – from policy to human right issues – and reveals how people can get involved and make change on a local level by investing right where they are in their own communities.

Leveraging the lessons from his work with campaigns at every level, political strategist BRIAN DERRICK offers an uplifting outlook on the work ahead to protect and expand voting rights. Offering inspiring examples of local organizing, Derrick shares insights about using data, community service, and relational organizing to make an impact.