HOPE belongs to those who claim it.

Steve Bowman, OEF

Partner, Model Technology Solutions

Sine Proprio

What can a centuries-old Franciscan practice teach us about living with artificial intelligence? In Sine Proprio (“without possessing”) Steve explores how releasing our illusions of ownership and control can help us use technology without allowing technology to possess us.

Will Conaway

President, Tuxedo Cat Consulting

Navigating Spiritual Questions in a Digital World

Will argues that AI is a tool, not a being, and that the moment we forget the distinction, we start assigning moral authority to something that has none.

Eric Kreuter, OEF, Ph.D., CASAC

Addiction counselor, artist, and retired forensic accounting executive

Psychological and Emotional Use of AI to Achieve Intimacy

Dr. Kreuter explores the psychological and emotional risk inherent with excessive indulging of an AI-created avatar for the purpose of forging an intimate relationship. Psychological, emotional, and spiritual damage follows prolonged and reliant use. Counseling has been shown t be effective.

Cris Cooper

Regional President 94X Movement

Being Good Stewards

Chris shares practical insights from his years of enterprise cybersecurity experince and overcoming personal challenges that led to his powerful gift stewardship framework and insignts

Derlene Hirtz

CEO - You Empowered Services

I Surrender. I Release. I Simply Am.

Derlene shares her powerful story of overcoming fear and darkness through authentic surrender from 9/11 to today

Michael Erickson

Founder - Forward Thinking

Convenience vs. Connection: The Human Cost Remains

Michael shares how his years as a missionary in the Phillipines influences his sterardship concerns about AI for: young people, the envrioment, and employment.

Stu Blank

Founder & Managing Partner Kingdom Bridge Consulting

Artificial Wisdom

Stu present that in an age where Artificial Intelligence can imitate insight, relationships, and even spiritual guidance, discerning God's voice requires faith, wisdom, community, and the courage to pause at life's crossroads.

Victor Baldinger

Co-Founder & President, Energy Concepts & Solutions, Inc.

Trusting the Lord to run His Business: How to be a Good Steward

Vic shares how a series of dreams and courageous choices transformed both his personal and professional life, leading him to follow a 10-step journey of change centered on surrendering control and allowing God to lead.

Matt Barbey

CEO and Founder Time for Success, LLC

Distraction or Discernment: Truth in the Age of AI

Matt explores how AI’s speed and apparent authority can blur the line between distraction and discernment and why staying grounded in our deepest values may be the only way to know what, and whom, we should trust.

Randy Jenkins

Infrastructure Architect: Driving infrastructure costs down through hardware and software rationalization.

Artificially Intelligent Shadows

Randy warns us to use AI deliberately without letting its agreeable answers capture our attention, shape our beliefs, or trap us in someone else’s ideological cave.

Steve Denny

Principal at Innovative Business Advisors LLC

Knowledge That Builds Up: AI and the Work of Human Flourishing

As AI places nearly limitless knowledge at our fingertips, the real question is whether we will direct it with the wisdom and love needed to advance human flourishing.

Dr. Greg Sanders

SI (Super Intelligence) or Super AI. Super Killer, or the Gift of an Intelligent Designer?

Dr. Sanders makes the case that AI should be approached neither as a savior nor a monster, but as a powerful gift that demands courageous stewardship, moral clarity, and the wisdom to keep human beings in the pilot’s seat.

Bob Kolf

Founder/Job Seekers' Garden Club of St. Louis

Imago Dei

Bob offers that we are all created in the image and likeness of God, and must find a way for our humanity to co-exist with technology.

Kathy Henrich

Board Director M3 Insurance

Miracles in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

Kathy explores miracles in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

Rabbi Yonason Goldson

The Ethics Ninja · Nationally Syndicated Columnist

The Enduring Faith of Human Exceptionalism

Rabbi Goldson explores what truly makes human beings exceptional, arguing that conscience, moral responsibility, mercy, and the freedom to choose what is right are capacities no machine can genuinely possess, no matter how intelligent it becomes.

Pastor Terry Norris

Lead Pastor at Temple Baptist Church

Words without Flesh: AI, Spiritual Formation, and the Call to Stay Human

Pastor Norris warns that AI’s greatest spiritual danger may not be giving Christians wrong answers, but subtly shaping who they become without the embodied relationships, sacrifice, and love that form us in Christ.

Karen Fox

Founder of the Extraordinary Success System and AI Discovery Lab, and RQ Impact™️

When AI Sounds Human, Whose Voice Will We Follow?

Karen explores why AI can imitate understanding without truly caring, and why preserving human connection, spiritual discernment, and the courage to wait may matter more than ever in an age of instant answers.

Maryana Hado

Junior at Missouri S&T

Embracing AI Without Losing Ourselves

Maryana explores how we can embrace AI as a powerful creative and professional tool without surrendering the judgment, voice, critical thinking, and human experience that make the work, and the person behind it, uniquely our own.

Ron Gold

Keynote Speaker & Thought Leader on Resilience, Reinvention & Leadership | Creator of The New Gold Standard™ | CEO, LeanOnWe

What Holds Us Up

Ron explores how tragedy, disability, family, and Jewish belonging reshaped his understanding of strength, revealing that real human flourishing is built not on independence, but on the relationships and mutual support that hold us up.