The Beyond Cause Marketing Summit is committed to defining the future of how organizations engage individuals to solve social problems. This half-day summit will begin with a rapid-fire gauntlet of 1-on-1 interviews with leading practitioners and thought leaders, in which I am excited to take part. My interview is likely to focus on visual storytelling and some tips from an operations standpoint on how to effectively work with creative talent, but who really knows. Fire away!

Building on this energy, the summit will then harness the collective innovative wattage to fashion solutions to real problems by forming into cross-disciplinary teams and taking on the problems brought to the table by others. To cap the half-day, these solutions will be presented to the larger group with critiques and feedback on the spot. After the event, key outcomes will be shared with all attendees and through media partners.

The Beyond Cause Marketing Summit is organized by the exceptional folks at CauseShift, who we try to work with at every turn. Last year we teamed up with CauseShift to produce “Hunger and Obesity,” a data-rich infographic which shows areas of the United States which have high obesity rates despite high-levels of food insecurity.Knowing the bright minds at CauseShift and their ambitious goals for the Beyond Cause Marketing Summit, this is not an event to be missed. The Beyond Cause Marketing Summit is the fifth and final day of FutureM, a week-long intellectual marketing event designed to shape and display the future of marketing.

For the Beyond Cause Marketing Summit on Friday, September 16, tickets are only $59 apiece. If you use the discount code “ThankYou” at this link, though, you can get $10 off the registration fee. What do you say? I mean, besides “ThankYou.” Want to join me in Boston for a visionary look into the future of cause marketing?