2026 Conference Sponsors
CivAll | Social News Desk - Grand Sponsor
CivAll by Social News Desk is the civic engagement platform built for the way government teams actually work. Built on 15+ years of experience serving 2,000+ organizations, CivAll gives cities, counties, and special districts one place to manage their website, social media, archiving, and compliance, replacing multiple vendors with a single, connected platform.
Whether you're pushing a routine update or responding to an emerging situation, CivAll keeps your team in control, publishing across every channel at once, gathering community feedback, and turning insights into action. With built-in accessibility and FOIA-ready public records archiving, compliance is covered from day one. And when you need help, a real human U.S.-based support team is there.
Trusted by 200+ government organizations through Social News Desk, CivAll is what modern local government communication looks like. Learn more at civall.com/connect or follow CivAll on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/civallco.
Citibot - Savvy Awards Sponsor
Local government communications professionals can increase citizen engagement while reducing the amount of communications their staff handles everyday with Citibot. Citibot builds AI-powered chatbot platforms for citizens and their governments to use for efficient and effective communication and civic change. Using smart text messaging and web chat technology, Citibot helps residents get answers to questions, report issues, send messages directly to staff, and receive real-time alerts. For more information visit http://citibot.io or connect with Citibot on Twitter (@citibot_io), Facebook (/citibotio) or Instagram (@citibot).
FlashVote - Innovation Forum Sponsor
FlashVote is the scientific way to survey and engage residents - so you can serve the many, not just the noisy. You get statistically valid community input in 48 hours on whatever topics you want. 3CMA members across the country rely on FlashVote data to solve problems, inform decisions, avoid mistakes and stretch their dollars.
Powerfront - Thursday Closing Session Sponsor
Powerfront is a technology company specializing in intelligent engagement solutions. Founded in 2001, the company is best known for its proprietary platform, INSIDE™, which replicates the personalized care of an in-person council office in the digital world. Powered by Agentic AI, INSIDE™ acts as a virtual concierge, using real-time data and customized council knowledge bases to create a seamless experience across all digital channels. Trusted by leading organizations worldwide, Powerfront helps councils elevate resident engagement, improve service efficiency, and deliver digital interactions that are effortless, intelligent, and truly inclusive.
Govstack by GHD Digital - Room Key Sponsor
Your residents expect fast, accessible, and transparent services. Govstack helps you deliver them with a modern, secure, and easy-to-manage platform designed specifically for municipalities and public organizations. From websites and forms to events and citizen portals, Govstack gives you everything you need to engage residents and streamline operations.
North Star Place Branding & Marketing - Welcome Event Sponsor
North Star Place Branding & Marketing is a national community marketing agency, passionate about the matchless qualities that define and shape each and every place. Using two decades of experience and perspective, North Star helps clients communities uncover and express their authentic story and inspire local action to achieve their preferred future. With offices in Jacksonville and Nashville, North Star brands and markets downtowns, towns, cities, counties, developments of regional impact, regions and states for the purposes of economic development, tourism talent attraction, citizen engagement and unification of community-wide public entities and partner organizations. For more information, please visit northstarideas.com.
Readyly - Closing Session Sponsor
Readyly is the most advanced Al-powered public service platform in the U.S., enabling cities and counties to automate citizen interactions across web, chat, email, and phone. Our Al agents handle 311 inquiries, process service requests, assist with records access, and integrate seamlessly with government websites and software systems. With multilingual and voice-enabled capabilities, Readyly delivers 24/7 accessible, efficient, and secure public services—reducing staff workload while improving response times.
Granite Sky Creative Group - Lanyard/Badge Holder Sponsor
Granite Sky Creative Group is a top-tier marketing firm highly specialized in citizen education and communications. With a rich 24-year history, their meticulous attention to detail and collaborative approach consistently delivers exceptional results for clients.
Clients depend on Granite Sky for comprehensive solutions to diverse citizen education and communication needs, including branding, website development, newsletters, program guides, and multi-channel public information campaigns. The firm's strategic planning and extensive experience guarantee the success of every project.
Moreover, Granite Sky Civic proudly offers a seamless online portal for print procurement for multi-department organizations. This system allows users to effortlessly order various collateral items, enforce brand consistency, simplify proofing, track orders efficiently, and receive customized billing.
Canva - Notebook Sponsor
Create secure, citizen-ready content at scale.
Canva brings security, collaboration, and brand control into one platform for government teams. From social campaigns to emergency notices, departments can quickly create compliant, on-brand content at scale. Built-in approvals, locked templates, and integrations with tools like SharePoint help streamline workflows while protecting data. No design bottlenecks—just clear, accessible content that builds public trust.
GOGov - Coffee Cup Sponsor
GOGov specializes in providing Citizen Requests, Code Enforcement, Citizen Notifications, Online Permitting & Licensing and Mobile Software to local governments of all sizes.
Go Vocal - Pen Sponsor
Go Vocal is the #1 community engagement platform — independently ranked, trusted by 600 governments worldwide. We empower you to turn engagement into action by integrating all feedback channels, streamlining tool stacks and processes, and distilling deeper insights for decision-making faster. With AI-powered insights, robust reporting, and strategic guidance, we help cities build trust, foster inclusive conversations, and create lasting cultures of engagement.
Pantheon - Session Break Sponsor
Pantheon is the integrated operations, workflow, and governance platform for Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites. Pantheon is where web teams build, scale, and deliver exceptional digital experiences. From lightning-fast sites to seamless workflows and scalable infrastructure, we empower you to achieve more with less. Pantheon consolidates every aspect of web operations—building, hosting, security, and performance—into a single, powerful platform. Centralized management means your team works smarter, delivers faster, and innovates without limits. Let us handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on creating digital experiences that engage and inspire.
Orlo - Session Break Sponsor
Orlo is the comprehensive social media management and archiving platform built exclusively for the public sector. We empower government communicators to manage every digital channel—including Nextdoor—from one secure, unified dashboard.
Orlo streamlines your workflow by combining outbound publishing, inbox management, and legal archiving into a single budget line item. Our unlimited license model allows you to centralize all agency accounts in one tool, providing superior security, oversight, and cost predictability.
Beyond day-to-day management, Orlo helps you build a data-driven communications plan through our "Listen, Understand, Act" process. With integrated social listening, media monitoring, and surveying, we provide the insights you need to understand resident sentiment and build lasting trust within your community.
SoSu.TV - Session Break Sponsor
SoSu.TV is a full-service video production company based in Reno, Nevada. We specialize in government, community, and commercial storytelling. We handle everything; livestreamed public meetings, A/V system installations, motion graphics, PSAs, and documentary film making. Our team blends broadcast experience with creative production, offering reliable support and hands-on collaboration across every step of the process. At our core, we believe in the power of good communication—and we use video to make it happen.
Revize - Audio Visual Sponsor
Revize is the Government Website Experts that opens government information for Resident Engagement, Staff Communications, Economic Development, Parks and Recreation, and Tourism that is secure and ADA compliant. Revize Website Designs, AI Apps, and Government CMS allows non-technical city/county staff to edit the website without knowing anything about website programming and create a totally new digital experience for their constituents. Revize also enables AI apps on government websites to deliver faster, more personalized, and efficient public services—helping citizens get the right information at the right time while reducing administrative burden.
Catalis - Pre-Conference Luncheon Sponsor
Advancing Government. Engaging Citizens.
Thousands of governments trust Catalis' solutions to automate workflows, accept payments, and engage citizens. Intuitive tools that facilitate public requests, resource planning, and local communications are crucial to support a connected community.
Catalis’ customer-driven solutions empower urban and rural municipalities with best-in-class capabilities. Our highly experienced team of experts understands the unique challenges faced by local governments and provides ongoing training and support to our customers.
Tightrope Media Systems - Super Supporter
For more than 25 years, Tightrope Media Systems has been providing video distribution and media accessibility solutions that help government and community organizations deliver timely messaging to the right people in the right place at the right time. Its Cablecast community media multiplatform playout automation simplifies video distribution for cable channels, websites, and mobile and OTT streaming devices. And its MediaScribe platform provides comprehensive video accessibility for live and on-demand content—including live captions, real-time translation, meeting transcription, and audio descriptions—helping government teams meet ADA Title II compliance requirements.
Ohpynez - Super Supporter
Ohpynez is a new social polling platform that uses non-categorical open-ended questions to quantitively define and compare opinions. Survey results are fully customizable, include multiple statistical analyses, and are available in real time.
Q1Media - Super Supporter
Founded in 2004, Q1Media is an industry-leading digital advertising company serving businesses and agencies. On local, regional, and national levels, Q1Media reaches custom audiences through high-performing, highly viewable programmatic, social, search, SEO, and location-based ad inventory. With premium partnerships and tenured experience, Q1Media's unique approach offers the reach and precision needed from awareness through advocacy.
CivicPlus - Super Supporter Sponsor
Thousands of high-performing civic leaders rely on CivicPlus® as their trusted partner for impact-led government. With CivicPlus, leaders can finally overcome the perpetual tradeoff between the demand for better services and the realities of operational resources, leveraging the unique Civic Impact Platform to deliver both unmatched end-to-end automated efficiency and truly unified, delightful resident experiences. 
Backed by over 25 years of experience and leveraging the insights of more than 900 team members, our solutions are chosen by over 10,000 organizations and are used daily by over 340 million people in the U.S. and Canada. For more information, please visit civicplus.com.
MindMixer - Super Supporter Sponsor
MindMixer is a social media management, engagement, and archival solution built for local governments and public organizations. Our technology helps teams plan, publish, manage, and securely archive social content while gathering meaningful community feedback through surveys and engagement tools.
Powered by AI and backed by the Social Assurance family of brands, MindMixer makes it easier to analyze sentiment, understand public input at scale, and turn insights into action—helping communicators share information, listen effectively, and build trust with the communities they serve.
Zencity - Super Supporter Sponsor
Zencity is the platform for community trust that is revolutionizing community engagement for local and state governments. By eliminating barriers to participation and amplifying diverse voices, Zencity’s AI-powered platform drives comprehensive community input and more informed decision-making.
Chandlerthinks, LLC - Super Supporter Sponsor
Chandlerthinks provides a number of place marketing services designed to help destinations learn what makes them appealing and unique and how to promote themselves in order to grow their local economy. Most projects are related to research, strategic planning, branding and communications development.
CASTUS - Super Supporter Sponsor
CASTUS provides reliable, easy-to-use video streaming, playout/scheduling, and accessibility solutions for broadcasters of all sizes.
Our new VideoYo service, powered by CASTUS AI, provides both Standard and Extended Audio Descriptions with clear, natural-sounding narration of on-screen actions, speakers, and key visual elements to increase accessibility for people who are blind or visually-impaired.
For on-premise workflows, QuickRoll, QuickCast, and Mini offer a web-based user interface with scheduling and live event management for your channel operations, all with zero transcoding. Our servers are easy to manage and built to run 24/7.
Broadcasters choose CASTUS for dependable performance, flexible workflows, and exceptional customer support. Proudly supporting broadcast operations across the U.S. Visit castus.tv to learn more or contact sales@castust.tv to schedule a demo. We’d love to learn about your operations and show CASTUS in action!
Certified Public Communicator Program at TCU - Super Supporter Sponsor
The Certified Public Communicator® Program at TCU is a post-baccalaureate, graduate-level residential program for two summers (one week each in summer 1 and summer 2), plus a two-day winter session with strategic communication professors from TCU’s Department of Strategic Communication, the Bob Schieffer College of Communication and other experts and professionals.
The program offers leadership training and rigorous post-baccalaureate education for public information managers and communication professionals working for cities, counties, school districts and other public-sector, non-partisan agencies and organizations. With the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers as the founding partner, the program encompasses the complexities, challenges, and importance of public communication to residents and other stakeholders. Other partners include the National Association of County Information Officers, the Texas School Public Relations Association and the City-County Communication and Marketing Association.The Certified Public Communicator® Program at TCU is a post-baccalaureate, graduate-level residential program for two summers (one week each in summer 1 and summer 2), plus a two-day winter session with strategic communication professors from TCU’s Department of Strategic Communication, the Bob Schieffer College of Communication and other experts and professionals.
The program offers leadership training and rigorous post-baccalaureate education for public information managers and communication professionals working for cities, counties, school districts and other public-sector, non-partisan agencies and organizations. With the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers as the founding partner, the program encompasses the complexities, challenges, and importance of public communication to residents and other stakeholders. Other partners include the National Association of County Information Officers, the Texas School Public Relations Association and the City-County Communication and Marketing Association.
Raftelis - Super Supporter Sponsor
Raftelis helps local governments and utilities thrive by providing management consulting expertise to help transform local governments and utilities. We’ve helped more than 600 organizations in the last year alone. We provide a wide range of management consulting services including: finance, assessment, communications, technology, executive recruitment, strategic planning, stormwater utility services, and solid waste services.
Rep'd - Super Supporter Sponsor
Rep'd is a video storytelling platform for local governments, powered by AI.
Rep'd "humanizes" local government with an AI-based video toolkit that makes storytelling easy, fast, and troll-proof for communities of all sizes.
Siteimprove - Super Supporter Sponsor
Siteimprove.ai is an agentic content intelligence platform that brings together accessibility, analytics, SEO/AEO, and content strategy into a single, continuous flow.
Open Point - Super Supporter Sponsor
Open Point is the only engagement platform designed for all stakeholders, helping organizations move from input to insight to impact.
Through its community engagement and stakeholder relationship management products, Open Point enables organizations to capture meaningful participation, manage stakeholder relationships, and maintain a clear, transparent record of engagement.
By connecting engagement and stakeholder communication in one platform, Open Point helps organizations deliver community and infrastructure projects with greater confidence, accountability, and trust.
Polimorphic - Super Supporter Sponsor
Polimorphic partners with governments to manage the uniquely complicated demands of service delivery, improving experience for staff and residents. Our hundreds of government customers across the country use Polimorphic's AI platform to provide more accessible government services from request to resolution, while improving internal efficiency. Polimorphic customers save resources, have happier residents, and continuously improve service. Learn more at polimorphic.com.
Your Very Favorite - Conference Supporter
Activity books that bring your city and public services to life!
We’re Your Very Favorite, a fun little publisher creating activity books that celebrate the heart, humor, and history of YOUR hometown! We believe every kid deserves to feel like they live in the greatest place on earth!
Cities use our books to celebrate milestones, showcase community identity, explain public works, promote sustainability, support public health, teach safety, highlight local services, and connect with residents of all ages.
Unlike outreach that ends up in the trash, our books look and feel like a treasure you'd find in your favorite bookstore. We design to engage all ages, so don’t be surprised when your senior residents come back asking for MORE!
Check out our work at yourveryfavorite.com, and PLEASE become our new BFF at the conference!
Telephone Town Hall Meeting - Conference Supporter
TTHM partners with public-sector and mission-driven organizations to deliver large-scale, interactive outreach. Through Telephone Town Halls, text alerts, and custom virtual engagement programs, we help clients reach the people who matter most. Our team combines communication technology with hands-on support to make important conversations accessible, timely, and effective.
Digital Accessibility by WeCo - Conference Supporter
Digital Accessibility by WeCo provides ADA Title II Web Rule, and WCAG guidance to government, small and large. Our Accessibility Specialists and Testers live with disabilities. We specialize in website manual audits, accessible document assistance as well as training, and coaching. Our goal is to make you accessibility independent. No fees for software, just real expertise from experts with disabilities. We are members of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals. We provide a Free Accessibility Assessment so you can get to know us before you engage us.
Granicus - Conference Supporter
Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve — driving meaningful change for communities around the globe with comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
PublicInput - Conference Supporter
Trusted by hundreds of communities, governments, and consultants in the U.S. and Canada, PublicInput provides software solutions for public meetings, community engagement, and communication.