Speaker: Jerren Wright (Amazon Studios)

This workshop explores Jesus (the Logos) as the perfect expression of God’s creativity. More specifically, the course will demonstrate how Jesus’ identity and His words give us the tools we need to harness supernatural creativity. The course will also utilize scripture and biblical principles to help sharpen the craft of developing and creating scripted and unscripted audio-visual content.

Speaker: Martrell Harris (Mt. Zion)

As global members of the body of Christ, we know that we have the answer that the world is looking for and that answer is CHRIST! However, there are strategies and proven methods that help us disseminate our message to the world. This session will help you discover excellent ways to effectively communicate with your internal and external audiences. Whether you have a large audience or you’re just beginning, this session has been designed to inspire the creative communicator in you.

Speaker: Griffin McCravy (Church of the Highlands)

LED Tape can be a huge visual game changer for stage designs. As an often cost-effective and easy to setup tool for stage designs, let’s dive in to how we can use LED tape to easily lift the visual look and feel of our designs.

Speaker: Darrel Girardier (Brentwood Baptist)

We will explore strategies and tactics for managing your work and the work around you. We’ll discuss what you can do immediately to alleviate your workload, gain control of your workday, and reclaim your days off. You will learn how to maintain as sense of accomplishment without having to feel like you must get all done.

Speaker: Zach Snyder, Caleb Weidman, Nick Meo (BLK.BAR)

Since it was created in 2005, YouTube has become one of the most popular websites of all time. For years leading up to the climactic online shift of 2020, churches primarily used it at a hosting site for weekend services and sermons, but what if that’s only the beginning of the vast potential of your YouTube ministry? This breakout will teach you how to best leverage YouTube as a sustainable and growing platform for your ministry beyond your weekend livestream.

Speaker: Tyler Hirth (Long Hollow)

Now is the time to talk about the future of your church’s video system. The last few years have greatly increased the need for all of our videos systems to take a jump to the next level. Not only are we worried about just what’s on the screens in the room; we are now feeding multiple sources and online streams. In this session we will talk about what to look for when designing your system. We’ll look at routers, audio embedding/de-embedding, switchers, etc., and how these things can create greater flexibility and help your church take things to the next level.

Speaker: Mark MacDonald (Be Known for Something)

So much noise! Drowning out your communication and keeping people from discovering you. Is there any reason to communicate if no one’s hearing? Let’s fix this. Church Comm sage, Mark MacDonald, shares 4 simple steps to cutting through the noise. Finally, be heard!

Speaker: Dennis Choy (Tech Director)

You’ve been running sound or another technical position for your church and now they are asking you to be the Leader of the team. Or you’re the Worship pastor or Senior pastor and you are asking your sound tech to become the tech Leader. Either way, come hear tips on how to develop a sound technician into the Tech leader your church needs. Dennis has developed leaders for North Coast, Saddleback, and other churches for many years and brings a practical, real life approach.

Speaker: David Henry (Learn Stage Lighting)

Have you heard about DyLOS, but aren’t sure what all the fuss is about? Join David Henry from Learn Stage Lighting as we show you what DyLOS can do, and the basics of how it works so that you can begin using it at your church!

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Johnston (Leadership Coach)

Evaluating staff and volunteers’ performance is one of the toughest and least appealing parts of the job for most leaders but giving this kind of feedback and direction is essential to good stewardship and meaningful ministry. In this session, Dr. J demystifies the art of effective performance review and evaluation and prepares you to set and achieve high expectations for the individuals and teams you lead.

Speaker: Mike Chow (LED Technician)

Discover the wide variety of setups and scenarios for creative uses of LED displays, as well as a general technical overview of technical design and implementation used in productions the world over. Mike will help de-mystify the hurdles of LED and spark the creative process for attendees on how they could use LED walls in their unique environments.

Speaker: Tessa Voccola (Graphic Designer)

Learn about the mindset and systems you should have in place to develop a team that is collaborative, sustainable, and consistently growing in the work they are doing.

Speaker: Kierre Lindsay (Celebration Church)

Inspired by Isaiah 54. In this this passage the land of Israel is described as a barren woman. Then God gives the instruction to sing in that land.

Singing is transcending. It can speak to where you are and speak to the future. Our words have power and melodies heal. Don’t let the wilderness steal your worship/praise. Understand there is a song for every season but sometimes we have to really search for the song of the season. And ultimately how obedience and faith in all forms, move the heart of God.

Speaker: Jeremiah Adkins (Eagle’s Nest Church)

Everybody always blames the sound guy. A mic cuts out in the middle of Pastors message. Blame the sound guy. Keyboard falls off the stand. Blame the sound guy. A singer points their mic at the monitor creating feedback. Blame the sound guy. Deacon Johnson comes in Sunday morning with a decibel meter and yells that the sanctuary is louder than a Boeing 737 airplane… ok that’s probably the sound guy. But you get the picture. When you’re a “sound guy,” you’re going to get blamed for a lot. This course, Blame The Sound Guy, is designed to give you practical skills that you can take with you to your church to prevent common mistakes that inevitably result in someone blaming the sound guy.