Sam Venable

Data Intelligence Product Management at Blackbaud

Sam Venable serves as manager of the data intelligence product management team at Blackbaud, where he has worked since 2018. His team has been laser-focused on building the infrastructure to support outcomes-driven intelligent software solutions (Prospect Insights™ being the first product leaning on the technology).

His professional focus is on the intersection between narrative and data to drive outcomes. Over the last decade, this intersection has been dramatically influenced by the impact of artificial intelligence on society. In his free time, he loves to mountain bike, read, and dabble in personal health experiments validated by biometric data.

Articles by Sam Venable

Digital Marketing

Making Sense of the Buzz Around ChatGPT

The Analytics team at Blackbaud has been playing around with ChatGPT over the past few months and we thought it might [...]

April 19, 2023 | 6 min Read

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Donor Management

How to Use Data to Build Stronger Relationships

Before we discuss how to use data to build stronger relationships for your nonprofit, let’s start with a philosophical question: [...]

December 12, 2022 | 7 min Read

artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence: The Hotdog Conundrum

HBO’s Silicon Valley is a not-too-far removed parody of work at a small technology startup. In season four, Jian Yang [...]

July 8, 2022 | 3 min Read