conference.qideas.orgQ Ideas Culture Summit : Building Resilient Communities

Tickets Speakers Details Participate About April 28-29, 2022 Nashville, TNThe Seventeenth Annual Q Ideas Culture Summit All Main Sessions Available Now Purchase A Digital Pass THINK WELL & LEAD OTHERS Our annual Culture Summit provides you with the wisdom and confidence you need to faithfully lead in a complex and urgent moment. The season ahead will require your most creative leadership — a vision for building resilient communities and the courage to stand with conviction. Our inspiring, concise and practical talks will equip you for influence and inspire conversations among those you lead. Will you join us and bring your important perspective to the conversation? The time is now. RESERVE YOUR SEATS SPEAKERS & ESSENTIAL TOPICS With your leadership in mind, we invite experts, creators, practitioners, thought and visionary leaders from all 8 channels of culture to address the most critical issues of our time. Our no topic off-limits approach, 9 and 18-minute talk format and commitment to discerning biblical faithfulness for this cultural moment allows you to learn, reflect and respond with other leaders in the room. THE GIFT OF CURIOSITY MALCOLM GLADWELL JOURNALIST & AUTHOR SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More THE TIME IS NOW OS GUINNESS AUTHOR GOVERNMENT Learn More THE IDOL OF PRODUCTIVITY FELICIA WU SONG WESTMONT COLLEGE EDUCATION Learn More THE HIDDEN YEARS RUTH CHOU SIMONS GRACELACED ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Learn More CONFRONTING DEMONS FATHER CARLOS MARTINS HOST, THE EXORCIST FILES CHURCH Learn More UFOS & THE PARANORMAL LUKE RODGERS BLURRY CREATURES MEDIA CARING FOR THREE LIVES CHRIS WHITFORD AVAIL SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More VISUAL DANCE RYAN GREEN ANOINTED MVMNT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Learn More THE TRAJECTORY OF GEN Z WILL CHUNG BELOVED CHURCH CHURCH Learn More INSPIRATION IN STORYVILLE DELISA GUERRIER STORYVILLE GARDENS BUSINESS Learn More The Morality of ChatGPT JON FRENDL CAPPITAL MEDIA Learn More GRID DOWN SCENARIO WILLIAM FORSTCHEN MONTREAT COLLEGE GOVERNMENT Learn More HOW TO CONNECT WITH GOD ADDISON BEVERE MESSENGER INTERNATIONAL & SONS AND DAUGHTERS CHURCH Learn More TAKING BACK CONTROL OVER TECHNOLOGY JOEY ODOM ARO MEDIA Learn More FOSTERING RESILIENCE TORI HOPE PETERSEN BELOVED INITIATIVE SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More THE STATE OF POLICING NICHOLAS SENSLEY INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN POLICING REFORM GOVERNMENT Learn More ENTERTAINMENT THAT INSPIRES BUTCH HARTMAN ANIMATOR & PRODUCER ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WHAT IS REVIVAL? TEÓFILO HAYASHI DUNAMIS MOVEMENT CHURCH Learn More UNDERSTANDING GENERATIONS Dr. JEAN TWENGE SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION Learn More HOW TO FOCUS IN CHAOS JESSICA HOOK COMPETITIVE SHOOTER & FINE ARTIST ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DISCIPLESHIP FOR CULTURAL DISCERNMENT MATT WHITLOCK CAPO BEACH CHURCH CHURCH Learn More WHO DO I TRUST WITH MY HEALTH? JORDAN RUBIN ANCIENT NUTRITION SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More BUILDING FAMILY ECONOMIES RORY GROVES THE GROVESTEAD SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More SIMPLE EVANGELISM DANIEL MACLEOD FIREPLACE CHURCH THE FUTURE OF ART AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JAKE WEIDMANN MASTER PENMAN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Learn More WHO IS TEACHING YOUR KIDS? SUZANNE PHILLIPS BEACON PARENT EDUCATION Learn More FRESH FOOD SYSTEMS JOEY LANKFORD CUL2VATE SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More WISDOM OF THE AGES GRANT SKELDON Q IDEAS SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More GOD IN THE GARDEN DARREN WHITEHEAD CHURCH OF THE CITY CHURCH Learn More EMBRACE ADVERSITY REBEKAH LYONS AUTHOR & Q IDEAS CHURCH Learn More HOW TO THINK WELL GABE LYONS Q IDEAS SOCIAL SECTOR Learn More THE GIFT OF CURIOSITY MALCOLM GLADWELL JOURNALIST & AUTHOR SOCIAL SECTOR Joining virtually, Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation. THE TIME IS NOW OS GUINNESS AUTHOR GOVERNMENT Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People’s Suicide, The Global Public Square, Last Call for Liberty, Carpe Diem Redeemed , and The Magna Carta of Humanity. His latest book is The Great Quest: Invitation to the Examined Life and a Sure Path to Meaning , published in 2022. Since moving to the United States in 1984, Os has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter in 1988, a celebration of the bicentennial of the US Constitution, and later of The Global Charter of Conscience,” which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012. Os has spoken at many of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences across the world. He lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington DC area. THE IDOL OF PRODUCTIVITY FELICIA WU SONG WESTMONT COLLEGE EDUCATION Felicia Song is a cultural sociologist who studies the place of digital technologies in contemporary life. Having trained in History, Communication Studies and Sociology from Yale, Northwestern, and University of Virginia, her research is oriented around the rapidly evolving digital technology industry and how the adoption of social media and digital devices fundamentally alters the landscapes of family, community, and organizational life. She is author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence and Place in the Digital Age and Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together . She regularly speaks on digital practices, social media, the digital media industry, parenting in the digital age, and spiritual formation at universities and colleges, churches, schools, parent groups, and conferences. Dr. Song lives in Santa Barbara CA with her husband and two children. When she is not working, she enjoys reading children’s chapter books, gardening, doing the NYTimes crossword puzzle, and daydreams about becoming a bass player. THE HIDDEN YEARS RUTH CHOU SIMONS GRACELACED ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Ruth Chou Simons is a Wall Street Journal bestselling and award-winning author of several books and Bible studies, including GraceLaced, Beholding and Becoming , and When Strivings Cease . She is an artist, entrepreneur, podcaster, and speaker, using each of these platforms to spiritually sow the Word of God into people’s hearts. Through her online shoppe at GraceLaced.com and her social media community, Simons shares her journey of God’s grace intersecting daily life with word and art. Ruth and her husband, Troy, are grateful parents to six boys—their greatest adventure. CONFRONTING DEMONS FATHER CARLOS MARTINS HOST, THE EXORCIST FILES CHURCH Father Carlos Martins is a leading exorcist of the Catholic Church. Throughout his two decades of ministry and service, he has helped set people free all over the world. Father Martins also leads Treasures of the Church, a ministry of evangelization of the Catholic Church helping people experience God through encounters with Relics. CARING FOR THREE LIVES CHRIS WHITFORD AVAIL SOCIAL SECTOR Chris is a founding member of Avail. Before joining Avail as CEO, Chris served at Columbia University as Campus Ministry Director for Cru...