Breakout Speakers
Saturday afternoon, two breakout sessions. Choose the track that speaks to your work, your questions, or your doubts.
Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
Professor of Art and Art History, Covenant College Author, Redeeming Vision
Bijan Mirtolooi
Senior Pastor, Redeemer West Side
Judy Cha
Executive Director, Redeemer Counseling Services Author, Who You Are
Paul Taylor
Co-founder, Bay Area Center for Faith, Work & Tech Director, Transforming the Bay with Christ
Taniya Mishra
Founder & CEO, SureStart
Albert Chen
CEO, Anago
Five tracks, two sessions
- Track A
Discovering Your AI-Proof Calling (Andy Crouch)
As AI reshapes jobs, skills, and expectations, how do we think about calling without tying our identity to tasks that may change or disappear? This session will explore work, vocation, and human distinctiveness, helping us ask what is worth cultivating, what should remain deeply human, and how to pursue faithful work amid technological change.
- Track B
Irreplaceable: The Art and Science of Human Connection in an AI Age (Judy Cha)
As AI companions and emotionally responsive chatbots become increasingly capable of simulating empathy, friendship, and care, what makes human relationships irreplaceable? Drawing on the art and science of human connection, this session explores why we need one another, what distinguishes genuine relationships from artificial intimacy, and how we can cultivate meaningful, embodied relationships in an AI-shaped world.
- Track C
What Happens to Creativity When Machines Generate? (Elissa Weichbrodt)
AI is changing not only how artists create, but how all of us make, imagine, and experience the creativity of others. This session will explore how AI might expand or diminish our capacity to create, whether it inevitably borrows at the expense of human makers, and whether engaging it wisely might actually deepen our appreciation for distinctly human creativity. Together, we’ll ask what a Christian vision of making, beauty, and human creativity can offer in an age of AI.
- Track D
Embodied Practices: Spiritual Formation for the AI Age (Bijan Mirtolooi)
AI can pull us toward speed, disembodiment, frictionless relationships, and constant optimization. This practical session will explore how embodied Christian practices can help us resist those pressures, recover a fuller vision of what it means to be human, and become people more rooted in God, one another, and the world around us.
- Track E
Working in AI: Perspectives from Practitioners (Panelists)
Christians working across AI, technology, research, and innovation reflect on the questions and opportunities emerging across their fields. This panel will explore how practitioners are engaging the broader changes AI is bringing and how principles such as responsibility, stewardship, and human flourishing can shape the way we approach our work.