Famally Summit
November 12-14, 2026
A three-day celebration of non-birthing families
Famally is a platform and community for parents who didn't birth their children, including adoptive parents, intended parents via surrogacy, and others navigating non-traditional paths to parenthood.
Non-birthing parents represent a large and largely untargeted consumer audience. They're making significant financial and emotional decisions and they're doing it without a community built for them. Famally is building that community. This launch is the starting gun.
Format
3 days of focused programming
Access
Free, open to all, no barrier to entry
Primary Audience
Adoptive and surrogate parents at all stages
Sponsorship Opportunities
Every dollar raised goes into producing an event that serves these families well.
Event platform hosting: virtual event infrastructure with registration and live streaming
Promotion and paid social: driving registrations and reach beyond our exisiting audience
Post-event content: session recordings, recap content, and distribution to families who register but cannot attend live
Famally is founder-funded and mission-driven. Sponsorship is not subsidizing our overhead; it is what will make this event happen at a level this community deserves.
Presenting Sponsor - $5,000
Your brand is woven into the full event experience across all three days.
Name/logo in all event marketing
Dedicated email send
Featured in all email + social campaigns
Speaking or panel opportunity
Dedicated brand moment each day
Access to attendee directory through Circle
Day Partner - $1,500
Own a single day aligned with your audience: adoption, surrogacy, or all non-birthing parents.
Named sponsor of your chosen day in all event marketing
Logo in day-specific communications
Brand mention in live programming
Option to include a giveaway item
Community Sponsor- $500
Your brand supports all three days of programming.
Name/logo in all event marketing
Mentioned in all email + social campaigns
Access to attendee directory through Circle
Giveaway Partner
Donate products or services to be gifted directly to families attending the event.
Brand featured in giveaway promotion
Social shoutout + community post
Direct exposure to your target buyers
Authentic placement
Our Audience
Who is in this community:
Parents and families who have adopted, are in the adoption process, or are exploring adoption
Intended parents pursuing surrogacy at any stage
LGBTQ+ families and single parents building families through third-party reproduction
Anyone navigating parenthood without a pregnancy
This is a high-intent group actively spending on legal services, agency fees, child development resources, mental health support, and family products. They are mid-decision and looking for providers they can trust.
Where we are:
Famally launched in 2026. We are in early community-building and targeting 500 registrants for this event. Our audience is small and deliberately cultivated.
Every person in this community is here because this path is personal to them. That is exactly what makes this sponsorship valuable. You are not buying reach into a broad parenting audience. You are buying direct access to a niche, high-trust, high-intent group at the moment this community is being built, before it scales.
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Adoption
Each day includes live 45-minute sessions with expert speakers, a virtual community mixer, and sponsored giveaways. We are programming 5 to 10 sessions per day and filling speaker slots on a first-come, first-served basis. Confirmed speakers are noted below. Open slots indicate active recruitment in that topic area.
Confirmed: Navigating Open Relationships with Birth Families
Ashley Mitchell, Mad Creator, Co-Founder, Knee to Knee Post Placement Care, Birth Mom, @bigtoughgirl
Seeking: Adoption Attorney
A legal overview, rights, timelines, expectations
Seeking: Financial Planning Expert
Adoption Tax Credits 101
Seeking: Transracial Adoption
Practical guidance and family culture
Seeking: International Adoption
The current landscape and process
Seeking: Foster-to-adoption
What families need to know
Seeking: Attachment & bonding after adoption
Seeking: Adoptee Panel
A panel on lived experiences
Friday, November 13, 2026
Surrogacy
Each day includes live 45-minute sessions with expert speakers, a virtual community mixer, and sponsored giveaways. We are programming 5 to 10 sessions per day and filling speaker slots on a first-come, first-served basis. Confirmed speakers are noted below. Open slots indicate active recruitment in that topic area.
Confirmed: How Journey Type Affects Surrogate Relationship
Jessica Butcher and Amanda Konko, Co-Founders, Little Seed Match
Seeking: Mental Health for Intended Parents
The emotional road to surrogacy
What to know before you sign
Seeking: Legal Contracts
Seeking: Finding & Matching
Before you finalize, what to know
Seeking: The Landscape of Grants
What to know before you apply
Seeking: Embryo donation and third party reproduction
An introduction
Seeking: Insurance needs for surrogacy
What to get and when to get it
Saturday, November 14, 2026
Non-Birthing Parenthood
Each day includes live 45-minute sessions with expert speakers, a virtual community mixer, and sponsored giveaways. We are programming 5 to 10 sessions per day and filling speaker slots on a first-come, first-served basis. Confirmed speakers are noted below. Open slots indicate active recruitment in that topic area.
Confirmed: Bringing Mindfulness to Your Journey as a Non-Birthing Parent
Urvi Shah, Coach, Inner Serenity Life Coaching
Seeking: Adoption or Surrogacy
How to figure out which path is right for you
Before, during, and after your placement or journey
Seeking: Building your support system
Seeking: Preparing for birth when you’re not giving birth
Hospital protocols, bonding from day one and what to ask your care team
Comparing costs across platforms and what to know before pursuing an option
Seeking: The financial landscape
Need-to-knows for the first year of non-birthing parenthood
Seeking: What to expect in your first year
Processing the emotional weight of a non-traditional path
Seeking: Mental health for non-birthing parents
Options available when you didn’t give birth
Seeking: Feeding babies
How to know what’s available to you, advocate for yourself, and what you need to know before you start your journey
Seeking: Parental Leave when you didn’t give birth
Become a Speaker
This community has been waiting for something built specifically for them. Non-birthing parents navigate one of the most significant journeys of their lives largely without a platform that speaks directly to their experience. Famally is building that platform, and this event is where it begins.
Speaking at the Famally Summit launch event puts you in the room at the start of something, as a trusted voice that this community will remember.
What you get:
Audience that is actively mid-decision. These are not casual browsers. They are people in the process of building their families, looking for experts they can trust and refer back to.
Recorded session. Your talk lives beyond the three days. It becomes a resource Famally distributes to new community members, extending your reach long after November.
Directory listing. Speakers are featured in the Famally Resource Guide, our free directory used by families searching for providers in these spaces.
Social and email promotion. You and your work are promoted to the Famally audience before, during, and after the event as part of our speaker spotlight series.
Community introduction. The mixer format means you are not just presenting to an audience, you are meeting families directly in a small group setting.
Ready to be part of our launch?
Whether you are interested in sponsoring, want to donate a product or service for a giveaway, or are ready to apply as a speaker, the next step is a 20-minute intro call. Book a call with Kelsey. Or reach out directly at famallyresource@gmail.com