ADVENTIST TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT - DSM CONVENTION

Breakout Tracks

Seven concurrent tracks. One mission. Every track runs twice on Monday — once in the morning and again in the afternoon — so attendees can journey through multiple conversations across the Summit.

Grand Millennium Auckland · July 12–13, 2026

Track One

The Creator's Corner

Built for builders who broadcast the gospel.

A hands-on gathering for media makers, streamers, and social storytellers driving digital ministry on the front lines. Sessions tackle everything from OBS configurations and encoding settings to short-form content strategy and platform algorithms — all through a ministry lens. Come ready to compare setups, swap workflows, and leave with a technical toolkit that takes your content to the next level.

Presenters

Jef Nascimento

Manager of World Church Social Media, General Conference

Fernando Marroquin

Content Creator & Digital Evangelist

Track Two

A Sacred Trust

Stewarding Souls Means Stewarding Data

In ministry, personal data is never just information. Behind every record, form submission, prayer request, child registration, and digital interaction is a person made in the image of God. This track will equip DPOs, privacy leads, and ministry administrators with the frameworks, policies, and practical tools needed to build a culture of faithful data stewardship.

Presenters

Josue Pierre

DPO & Associate Treasurer, General Conference

Ernest Staats

Technical DPO, General Conference

Track Three

Built for the Body

One church. Many platforms. One mission.

The global Adventist technology ecosystem is expanding — and this track pulls back the curtain on every platform powering it. From ACMS and 7Me to Adventist+, AdventistEvents.org, and the infrastructure of Adventist.Cloud, each session shines a spotlight on a specific platform: what it does, where it's going, and how your organization can plug in. Built for the Body is the definitive afternoon for anyone who wants to understand the full architecture of the World Church Platform and the missional vision connecting every piece.

Presenter

Thembi Moyo

Director of World Church Platforms, General Conference

Track Four

Order in the House

Good governance is good stewardship.

Data without governance is a liability — but data governed well becomes one of the most powerful assets a ministry organization can hold. Order in the House explores the policies, structures, roles, and decision frameworks that bring clarity, accountability, and integrity to how the church manages its most valuable information. From data classification and ownership to retention schedules and cross-organizational data sharing agreements, this track gives attendees the tools to build governance systems worthy of the mission they serve.

Presenters

Stephen Filkoski

Director, Office of Data Governance

Annette Melgosa

Associate Director, Office of Data Governance

Track Five

Architecting the Agentic Church

From digitalized paper to natively AI-native operations.

Most church technology has been built to solve a client's problem without changing the underlying process. The result, as one practitioner put it, is digitalized paper — paper on screens. The arrival of agentic AI changes this equation entirely. Where traditional systems architect around users and interfaces, an AI-native organization must architect around operations — designing workflows that are natively understood by AI agents so they can act, reason, and coordinate as genuine participants in the mission. This track examines what it means for the church to move from software-as-solution to systems-as-strategy, and why the role of an Enterprise AI Architect is one of the most consequential positions the denomination could create.

Presenter

Italo Osorio

Systems Architect, General Conference

Track six

More Mission, Less Margin

Sustainable technology leadership in an era of constraint.

Across the world Church, technology leaders are navigating a quiet but growing crisis — expanding digital ministry demands colliding with shrinking budgets, aging infrastructure, and the relentless pressure to modernize without the resources to do it. This track creates a frank, practitioner-to-practitioner space for IT directors, administrators, and technology executives to examine sustainable funding models, shared services strategies, and the art of making a compelling missional case for technology investment to leadership that doesn't speak in server racks. Walk away with frameworks, language, and hard-won wisdom for leading technology organizations that are called to do more with less — and doing it faithfully.

Presenter

Dr. DP Harris

VP/CIO, Loma Linda University

Track Seven

Intelligence by Design

How AKAI is built — and why every decision matters.

Building an AI platform for the world's second-largest Protestant denomination is not a generic engineering problem — every architectural choice carries theological, organizational, and missional weight. Intelligence by Design examines the infrastructure decisions behind AKAI from first principles: why retrieval-augmented generation was chosen over fine-tuning, how the content corpus is curated and governed to reflect Adventist doctrine, what the integration architecture between the GC and Hope Channel International looks like under the hood, and how prompt governance and disclosure policy are enforced at the infrastructure level rather than left to user discretion.

Presenter

Justin Woods

Senior Director of Technology, Hope Channel International

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