Josh Burnett was the church planting pastor of Revolution Church in Annapolis, Maryland. He is also the CEO and co-founder of Church.tech, aimed at helping churches use technology to maximize effectiveness.

Yvonne Carlson is the chief technology officer at Global Media Outreach and has extensive experience in technology across multiple sectors. She is the former vice president of product at Unite Life and director of digital at Moody Radio. She is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society and chair of […]

Kenny Jahng is editor-in-chief at ChurchTechToday.com. He’s also the founder of AIforChurchLeaders.com and ChurchGrowthWorkshops.com. He’s served as church online pastor at one of Outreach Magazine‘s Top 100 Fastest Growing Churches in America. Jahng is also CEO of Big Click Syndicate, a strategic marketing advisory firm helping Christian leaders build digital engagement engines that work.

Scott Evans is founder and CEO of Outreach Inc., which owns and operates a range of physical and digital products, including church marketing tools, worship and sermon content, media and editorial, a speaker’s bureau, print products and publishing, and Christian interest content. These include Outreach.com, Outreach Magazine, SermonCentral.com, ChurchLeaders.com, Sermons4Kids.com and Sermon.ai.

Holly Walters is an anthropologist at Wellesley College whose work focuses on pilgrimage and politics in the Nepal Himalayas, as well as material culture, divine personhood and ritual practice in South Asia. Her current research addresses the roles of sacred landscapes and digital religious revival in the relationships between Hindus, Buddhists and Bonpos who venerate […]

Pauline Hope Cheong is a professor at Arizona State University. Her research interests are in the complex interactions between communication technologies and different cultural communities around the world — including the socio-cultural implications of artificial intelligence, robotics and big data.

Ulf Hermjakob is a research scientist at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute. He leads a project called Greek Room, which aims to improve the quality and efficiency of Bible translation with software tools that help translators and quality control consultants with spell-checking, terminology consistency, translation drafting and other tasks. 

Sheila Briggs is a theology professor at the University of Southern California and an expert on the Jewish Torah in the writings of Paul. Other projects include analysis of contemporary popular culture, such as how the AI genre intersects with religion in American popular culture. 

Sikhs for Humanity is an Edmonton, Canada-based non-profit providing free meals to all, regardless of background. They are one of numerous Sikh organizations across Canada, the US and the UK taking the traditional concept of the “langar”, or shared meal, out of the temple and onto the street.