Debra Brown, Brown Governance

Debra is President and CEO of Brown Governance. In her capacity as President of Brown Governance, Debra works closely with senior leaders in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Debra is Chair of The American Tract Society, Chair of The Hughes Foundation and a member of the Executive Committee of The Internet Evangelism Coalition.

She has authored a variety of nationally and internationally published works on corporate governance. She has planned and facilitated global, national and multi-stakeholder governance conferences and seminars, and spoken on a variety of corporate and personal development issues.

Prior to forming Brown Governance, she spent several years in the Canadian financial sector, working most recently as CEO. Debra holds a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Sessions:

• Discipleship in Second Life

Rick Devos, TheCommon.org

Rick DeVos is cofounder of TheCommon.org and is an active web entrepreneur and investor in West Michigan. He is passionate about community, the Church embracing the communications power of the web, and great products and design. In addition to cofounding TheCommon, Rick has also cofounded Spout.com, an online movie recommendation community. Rick is a graduate of Calvin College, living and working in Grand Rapids.

Sessions:

• Community...Your Biggest Asset

Benjamin Gott, TheCommon.org

Benjamin Gott is a 26 year old business-creative currently residing in Grand Rapids, MI and a native to the South Chicago-land area. The internet has been his conduit and outlet for business and creative pursuits for the past 9 years bothprofessionallyand personally. Fromdeveloping and leading web-based international supply chain tools for 'big-business', co-founding an esoteric taste-making blog with anaccidental niche-following in thebrilliance.com, founding and operating new-industry music site indistr.com, co-founding and operating the mission based social community TheCommon.org, along with various new media and internet related work in amyriadof industries.

Sessions:

• Community...Your Biggest Asset

Dr. Richard Krejcir, Into Thy Word

Richard Joseph Krejcir is the Cofounder and Director of Into Thy Word Ministries, a missions and discipling ministry. He is the author of several books, is also a pastor and speaker. He is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Practical Theology from London (Ph.D.). He has garnered over 20 years of pastoral ministry experience, and he has been doing web ministry before the web since 1988.

Sessions:

• Content Driven Discipleship that Works

Ray Pelletier, Willow Creek Association

Ray Pelletier is a pastor, leader, and networker who can't stop thinking about what the church can become. After serving 13 years in church-based ministry, Ray has recently joined the staff of the Willow Creek Association as the Emerging Media & Ministry Specialist. He is focused on finding new ways for the association to use technology to reach out in conversation and partnership with church leaders in America and around the world. He is focused on all things Web 2.0 (blogging, social networking) and on emerging church leaders who find themselves leading in an increasingly postmodern world.

Prior to serving in the Willow Creek Association, Ray was the Pastor for Emerging Generations (18-34) at University Baptist Church in Miami, Florida. Ray graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield Illinois with a Masters of Arts in Religion. After Trinity, Ray served for two years in Axis (Willow's ministry to 18-twentysomethings) in a variety of roles including leader of the college ministry, weekend service producer and web architect.

Ray's loves hanging out with his wife Julie and their two-year-old son, Jackson. He also loves Steve Job's keynotes, exploring downtown Chicago, and all kinds of Venezuelan food.

Sessions:

• Developing Leaders Online - 5 Case Studies

David Russell, National Community Church

David has been involved in digital communications since the early 1990s when local-dial bulletin board systems hooked him into playing "door games". When the World Wide Web emerged in the mainstream in 1996, David was hyperlinking to and from pages of content and found joy in the source of Web documents. He quickly learned HTML and later mastered the infamous Microsoft FrontPage.

In 2003, David began to learn of innovations on the Web that were forming around "user-generated" content, started snapping up domain names and established his first Web server. A couple of years later, while overseeing web communications for a legal organization, David stumbled upon Web Standards. Since then, he has crafted hand-coded, usable and accessible Web sites for many companies and organizations. David is the Digital Pastor for National Community Church in Washington, DC and pushes pixels and code at http://theaterchurch.com. He is also a now-and-then blogger at http://davidrussell.org.

Sessions:

• Internet Discipleship: Beyond the Static Noise

Cynthia Ware, The Digital Sanctuary

Cynthia Ware is a new media enthusiast with a passion to see the Church embrace online communication technologies to serve the Kingdom of God. She holds a B.S. in Radio, TV & Film and a M.S. in New Media Technologies & Mass Communications. Her blog, The Digital Sanctuary, is an extremely popular and valuable resource for pastors and ministry leaders using the new media in ministry. Cynthia and her husband, Bob, have served the Foursquare Church in numerous pastoral capacities for the last 20 years. They live in Southern California with their two teenage children.

Sessions:

• Blogging and Your Spiritual Gift Mix