Speakers at
Christians In Web3 Summit

Jan
25-27th
2023
Location: In-Person & Online
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK & Online Experience
Christians In Web3 Summit Event 2023
Speakers
FORUM12 PRESENTS 35+ OF THE TOP LEADERS IN CHRISTENDOM

Ryan Collins
Ryan Collins is the Chief Executive Officer of Bethel School of Technology. A Christian Coding Bootcamp that married high skill with high character to launch Kingdom minded believers into the Tech Space. He has a passion to transform lives and communities through the love of Jesus and in-demand education that equips individuals for the marketplace. He is also the author of the book “the God of tech”.
Prior to his role at Bethel Tech, Ryan spent 12 years creating strategic partnerships between higher education institutions and Fortune-level companies to attract, retain and develop talent. He and his wife, Briana, have been married since 2005, and have three daughters.

Serial Entrepreneur, Founder of Web3 NYC Gallery
Nick Rotola
Nick is a member of the ORU alumni and former ORU baseball athlete. A serial entrepreneur and former professional baseball player, Nick has started businesses in real estate development, education tech, and crypto marketing.
Nick, along with his partners, launched Web3 NYC Gallery in June 2022 year as the world’s first IRL comprehensive Web3 store. The purpose of the company is to onboard the masses, close the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 through education. The store includes all aspects of web3 from crypto wallet setups to NFTs, the metaverse, and web3 gaming. This company also provides B2B services to develop the Web3 ecosystem by providing brands a targeted audience to market their projects in a brick-and-mortar retail environment.
In the first 4 months of operations, Web3 Gallery made over $2 million in revenue. The company continues to grow and is projected to have several new locations around the US launched in 2023 through a partnership with Simon Malls.

Founder, Kingdom Warriors
Eric Skeldon
Founder & visionary Eric Skeldon is a husband and dad of five daughters. He loves raising up bold brave daughters. Eric went into the army as an airborne soldier and then went and achieved a business degree from the University of North Texas. He ventured into tech and SaaS sales and learned to love code and software. Later Eric built a multimillion-dollar logistics business and exited that to go into entrepreneurship and has a passion for marketing, NFTs, emerging tech, and blockchain tech. He’s the founder of Kingdom Warriors.

Director of Innovation, Christian Vision
Stuart Cranney
Stuart Cranney is passionate about the future and how emerging technologies create new opportunities for mission impact. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Communications (Journalism and Public Relations), post-graduate qualifications in business research, and is presently undertaking PhD research in the field of digital transformation. In the role of Director of Innovation at CV, Stuart is responsible for identifying, developing and driving transformative initiatives that align with and bring to fruition CV’s organisational objectives, whilst fostering a culture of innovation that results in growth and increased impact. He has previously established CV Digital as a centralised technology and innovation division for CV globally, including the AI Lab team to pioneer new capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Stuart lives on the Sunshine Coast of Australia with his wife Christine and their two daughters, Michaela and Joanna.

COO & Co-founder, PublicSQ
Sebastian Harris
Sebastian Harris is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of PublicSq., a newly founded tech startup seeking to restore liberty to commerce in America. PublicSq. is an app and a website actively connecting businesses and consumers that share freedom-loving values. Sebastian is also the founder of Adoptable Babes NFTs, a project helping to support and fund adoptions around the world.

Spiritual Director, Bethel School of Technology
Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon was raised in South Africa where he married his beautiful wife, Libby, and completed his BSc in Computer Engineering and Masters in Electronic Engineering focusing on Cryptography for military telecommunications. He is internationally published for his work. He has had the privilege of working alongside some of the world’s best tech companies. Richard is the Spiritual Director over the Bethel School of Technology. The first and only Christian coding bootcamp with a vision to raise up Kingdom minded believes and launch them into the tech space. Bethel Tech offers programs in Cyber Security, Full Stack Web Development, Data Science and UI/UX Design. His dream is to raise up world-changers and influencers like Daniel, from the Bible, who will shape and shift culture, encountering and ushering in the Presence of God wherever they go. Richard and his wife also help oversee Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry’s Online program. Richard is an international speaker and comes alive, igniting the potential in people around him and seeing the Glory of God move across the earth!

Founder, Heavens Entrepreneurs Movement
Kurshin Joseph
Kurshin Joseph is the Founder of The Heavens Entrepreneurs Movement, Ecommerce Empire Builder, Founder of Heavens Digital Academy, The Kingdom Discovery Channel & Heavens Entrepreneurs TV Network. Prophetic Voice, Author of Rise of The Seer Prophets & Creator of best selling business & ministry programs, Australian Prophetic Kingdom Entrepreneur Kurshin Joseph is on a mission to raise Kingdom Leaders and call the sons of God into their prophetic calling by equipping them to expand the Kingdom through their digital businesses and life in the New Day. God uses Kurshin in the Apostolic and Prophetic with the aim to equip Kingdom believers and make the church wealthy again. You can learn more at www.kurshinjoseph.com.

Founder, The Institute For Innovation, Integration & Impact, Inc.
Brett Johnson

VP, Technology And Innovation At Oral Roberts University
Michael Mathews

Founder & Ceo, Dead Games & Founder Of Ethnos Digital
Brendan Thompson
Brendan is the CEO and Founder of Dead Games, a web3 technology company that built the popular rugzombie.io platform as well as the founder of Ethnos Digital, a web3 giving platform made to accelerate missions giving. Brendan has a background in ministries, tech, and game development.

Host of CrossPolitic Show, Media & PR Consultant, and Co-Founder of DropWave
Gabriel Rench
Gabriel is a media and PR consultant (www.PengoMedia.com), Co-Founder of the Fight Laugh Feast Network, and one of the host of CrossPolitic TV Show and Podcast (Airs on Direct Tv, Xfinity, streaming, and podcast), and cofounder of www.DropWave.io, a free speech podcast hosting platform.
Gabriel was arrested in September of 2020 for exercising his first amendment rights, singing Psalms outside of city hall in protest of the unconstitutional masks mandates. His arrest went viral, and has since landed him on the Laura Ingraham Show, Glenn Beck Show, The Todd Starnes Show, and more, and his arrest was even retweeted by then President Trump. He also serves as a Deacon at his church (King’s Cross), and serves on various non-profit boards. He lives on a small 10-acre farm with his wife, and three children.

Founder, Unhealthy No More Inc., Project Manager of Seal Society NFT
Vanessa Cunningham
Vanessa Cunningham has worked for three Fortune 500 financial services companies during her 8 years on Wall Street. She worked as a Business Analyst, Project Manager, and a Regulatory Operations Associate. In 2018, Vanessa embarked on her entrepreneurial journey and founded Unhealthy No More, Inc. As a nutrition and wellness coach, she helps busy professionals reduce stress, banish unhealthy cravings, lose weight and get back to their formerly robust energy levels. Vanessa has been featured on HuffPost, Essence.com, MindBodyGreen, U.S. News World & Report, and Prevention Magazine. In 2022, Vanessa joined an NFT project on the Cardano Blockchain, The Seal Society, as their Project Manager. With the experience gained from being a part of a Web 3 project, she plans to transition her business endeavors into the Web 3 space.

CEO, INDXCoin
Eli Regalado
Eli Regalado is an ordained Marketplace Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. His purpose is to walk in step with his heavenly Father by bringing heaven to earth. He operates in a financial anointing and is the founder of INDXcoin.
Before INDXcoin, Eli was the CEO of Grace Led Marketing. A global advertising agency specializing in seven-figure crowdfunding and viral product launches. Before Grace Led Marketing Eli worked as a business consultant to a private business magazine and was tasked with networking with some of the world’s top inventors, CEO’s, and government leaders.

Founder, Giver Marketing
Timothy Morgan
Timothy Morgan has started, built, bought, sold businesses for two decades, while helping nonprofits as a way to give time and talent for legacy impact. From that came a new kind of marketing agency, Giver Marketing, and the network naturally emerged from the focus on collaboration to maximize specialized marketing talent while reducing costs of hiring these professionals.

Author, Speaker, & Founder of Kingdom Influencer
Dr. Coylette James
Dr. Coylette James has been in Ministry since 1992 Teaching the Word of God, conducting Kingdom Empowerment Seminars since 2005, Hosted her own podcast since 2005 and her own television broadcast since 2017. She is the founder of Kingdom Influencer, helping people around the world unlock their Kingdom brilliance.

Marketing Director, Forum12
Sonny Gonzales
Sonny is a seasoned sales & marketing executive with 10+ years of experience as a marketing and sales leader working with companies like AAA, BeInCrypto, Eevelle, Welk Resorts, and more. Sonny uses data, marketing best-practices, and unique ideas to help companies grow and expand.

Senior Professor & Chair of Computing & Mathematics Department, ORU
Dr. Andrew Lang
Dr. Andrew Lang is a Mathematical Physicist and Data Scientist with Extensive Experience in Using Virtual Worlds for Academics at Oral Roberts University. A frequent publisher in scientific journals, Dr. Lang is an advocate for Open Science and other Open Knowledge Initiatives. For his work in this area he has been recognized by The White House, Google, Cambridge University, and The DaVinci Institute – of which he is a fellow. He also has a very active undergraduate research program that has resulted in several students being co-authors on peer reviewed journal articles.

UFC Fighter, Speaker, Web3 Marketer
Ian Heinisch
Ian Heinisch is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional since 2015, he has also competed for the World Series of Fighting and Legacy Fighting Alliance, where he is the former Interim Middleweight Champion. Ian is also a crypto marketer and influencer working with many cryptocurrency and NFT projects all around the world. He leads a crypto shark tank project on his twitter.

Founder, Lumi & Serial Entrepreneur
Julie Zhu
Julie Zhu is the founder of Lumi. She started her first company in 2014, the top SNS account clusters in China with 3,000 accounts and accumulated 300 million followers. She was evaluated ‘Forbes Asia 30 under 30’ in 2017 and reported by ‘China Daily’. In her spare time, she used her expertise to help the poor. She has 1 million fans in poverty-stricken areas in China and was awarded the China Charity Foundation Love Ambassador. Determined to spread love, faith and hope in Web3, she started Lumi. On Lumi, Christians can better realize cross-regional intercession and mutual aid. The zkp technology used by Lumi allows people to protect privacy while verifying identity, thus avoiding fraud. You can learn more at Lumi.top.

Cofounder of Rookie LLC, CMO of Glory Coalition, & Author
Dominic Laureano
Dominic Laureano is the author of “Digital Harvest”, Co-founder/COO of ROOKIE LLC, inventor of SportsFi web3 sports tech, and CMO for Glory Coalition – creators of the Gloryverse. Often called a “Web3 Evangelist’, he unites, educates, and inspires believers to take dominion in the Web3 space and fully utilize the technology to fulfill the great commission.

Head of Innovation, Dunham+Company, Author of Crypto for Good, Co-Founder of Crossover Collectibles
Nils Smith
Nils Smith is the Head of Innovation for Dunham+Company, a fundraising and marketing agency with offices in the United States and Australia.
Nils has been on the forefront of Web 3 having written the book, Crypto for Good, in 2018 and partnering with Engiven to bring crypto donations to nonprofit organizations globally. He is also the co-founder of the sports collectibles company, Crossover Collectibles, helping amateur athletes build NFT communities through digital collectibles.
Before joining Dunham+Company, Nils worked as the Innovation Pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, Texas, one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the country. While there, Nils pioneered Web 2.0 ministry building OnlineChurch.com and pioneered the use of social media, mobile apps and TV apps to build a global online church community.
He is also the author of The Social Media Guide for Ministry (2012) and The Social Media Guide (2020), and his work has been featured in a wide range of publications.
Nils has a Business Management degree from Texas State University and holds a Masters in Ministry Leadership from Rockbridge Seminary. He and his wife live in New York City with their two daughters.

Founder, Gravity Jack & Co-founder Forum12
Jennifer Richey
Jennifer has been steeped in technology since her college years studying law. She eventually shifted her focus in order to help kick-off a tech startup in 2004 as the CFO of Tometa Software, which was eventually acquired in 2007. From there, Jennifer took on the same role at a PC gaming company, and Jennifer’s knowledge in the tech sector eventually led her to become one of the founders of one of the first US augmented reality companies in 2009, Gravity Jack. Now as Gravity Jack’s Chief Strategy Officer she focuses on the future of the company and the industry at large.

Founder, MINAS Academy
Erwin Garcia
Erwin Garcia is a 7-figure crypto entrepreneur and the founder of MINAS Academy. He has been in Retail I.T. Consulting for 15 years. Since 2014, Erwin has been involved in different facets of cryptos. He is also an ordained Pastor, married to a CfAN-ordained evangelist, and blessed with 6 beautiful children. Erwin has been called to serve people over 50 intrigued by the rapid rise of cryptos. He regularly talks through the process on how to position yourself to GET the Supernatural Great Abundance Transfer/God Airdrop. He loves helping people know how to sow resources in a smart place to see massive growth through cryptos. You can learn more about Erwin’s challenges here.

NFT Artist & Leader in Christian NFTs
Bonnie Brooks
Bonnie has a Masters in Fine Art and has been an artist and educator for over 40 years. Her paintings have been in many juried art exhibits around the country. She began minting her original artworks to stay relevant in the art market and Web3. She has spoken on podcasts and is helping artists around the world to become NFT artist. Bonnie is on 6 different NFT platforms with 4 different crypto currencies. She created the Twitter spaces a week “Christian NFT Lounge”, which she hosts twice a week to build up Christians in the NFT marketplace and Web3. Bonnie also has a Christian art gallery in the metaverse and hosts many events in that space. You can learn more at Brooks Gallery.

Singer, Songwriter, Speaker
Elizabeth Clark
Elizabeth Clark is a Singer, Songwriter, Vocal Coach, Mentor, and Speaker for over 20 years. She has written and released many musical pieces at Elizabethclarkmusic.com. Elizabeth has led worship for many conferences, churches and events from the USA to Australia. Known best for her original song “When I Speak Your Name”, co-written with Klaus Kuehn. Her desire is to make Jesus known around the world to as many people as possible.

Director of PR, Patmos
Megan Greene
Megan graduated from Colorado Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree but quickly veered her career into the software industry focused on client relations, marketing, and sales to help companies increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction. Megan is currently the Director of Public Relations at Patmos. Patmos provides protection from big tech censorship and opposition with web hosting and infrastructure solutions. Megan focuses on supporting freedom of speech both on and off the internet. Megan also serves on various non-profit boards and is a youth flag football coach. She lives in San Tan Valley, Arizona with her husband and three children. You can learn more at www.Patmos.Tech.

Chief Growth Officer, Forum12, Consultant/Advisor
Jason Fleagle
Jason has a background in helping businesses grow, generating $50mil+ in revenue over the last 10+ years. Jason has a background in biological sciences, software development, digital marketing, sales, and content marketing working with companies like John Maxwell, Ziglar Inc., Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank, the Original Red Power Ranger, Autism Power, the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and many more.

Founder, Gravity Jack & Co-founder Carbon12
Luke Richey
Richey began coding software at the age of 14 and created many successful startups up till 2009. In November of 2009, Richey founded Gravity Jack, Inc. with the vision of mobile based Augmented Reality and quickly established the company as a leader in that space, with a strong patent portfolio and dedicated research team.

Web3 Business & Media Consultant
Michael Morgan
Michael Morgan is currently engaged in International Business and Web3 Media Consulting in China, Nigeria, and India. He is home-based in Hollywood, California who has worked with Disney, the University of Southern California, Warner Bros., and DreamIt Ventures and Untapped Ventures as an Web3 entrepreneur who helped pioneer Music NFTs in 2011 (over 10 years ago)! He now is the head of Kingdom Warriors Music and works side by side with Eric Skeldon on Kingdom Warriors NFT. You can learn more at kingdomwarriorsnft.com

Serial Entrepreneur, Host, & Growth & Marketing Leader
Roger Gauthier
Roger Gauthier is known as The Entrepreneurial Composer, with more than 20+ start-ups under his belt. He has a background in executive coaching, and organizational growth with an emphasis in strategy, marketing, business development, networking, community building, personal growth and 21st century leadership. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Advancing the Kingdom’s Vision, SSM, and is the host of the Walking Out Your Destiny, and Atomic Minute podcast where he helps weary warriors and eager entrepreneurs walk out their destiny—as well as creator of the Warriors Wealth Network, an online training and resource center to help individuals develop the 4 Wealth Sets to accomplish the vision they are tasked with. His greatest accomplishment is to be a husband to his dream wife and father to three amazing children. You can learn more at https://SunShineBlue360.com

Web3 Researcher & Leader
Aaron Cole
Aaron Cole is a Web3 researcher and owner of a market research and strategic alignment business, he has extensive experience working with crypto brands and NFT projects, including CoinMarketCap, NFT LA, and the Edge of NFT Podcast. He has also worked with Ghost of Frank Dukes, a music composer known for producing for major artists like Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Kendrick Lamar, on an Audio/Visual NFT project aimed at licensing his 20-year music library. In addition, he has experience with Sequence, an all-in-one web3 developer platform and smart wallet supported by Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft.
His main areas of expertise in Web3 include decentralized finance (DeFi), the creative industry, sports, music, gaming, lifestyle, and venture capital and capital raising.

Founder & CEO, XARA Capital
Brigette Marx
Dr. Brigette Marx is the founder and CEO of XARA CAPITAL. She was in business in the corporate world and later established her own ministry and obtained a doctorates degree in Ministry, developing courses, writing books and presenting Multiple Workshops and Seminars. Brigette has always worked with business leaders and has a keen sense for the economy and business. Brigette has traveled to more than 25 countries obtaining, much valued, experience within the Business and Ministry world.
Several years ago, the new economic world of Blockchain, De-Fi and Crypto became an interest and that lead to Brigette studying and researching this fast growing economy. She soon realised the importance and potential this economy brings to people yoked with financial oppression and slavery. This was the inspiration for the birth of XARA CAPITAL, an aggregation and education platform assisting members to engage in this world of opportunities, become financially free, occupy the seats within this sphere and economy and live their life’s destinies. You can learn more at www.xaracapital.com

CEO, LOOR TV
Marcus Pittman
Marcus Pittman is the current CEO of LOOR TV, and the Former Head of Video Production for Pure Flix’s advertising agency. He has many years of experience in the production, streaming, and media and entertainment space. He has also worked with many Christian platforms, shows, and radio institutions helping them to level up their production quality. You can learn more at loor.tv

Senior Pastor & CEO, Ben Lim Ministries
Dr. Ben Lim
Dr. Ben Lim is the Senior pastor of Open Heavens World and CEO of Ben Lim Ministries. He is a dynamic Millennial preacher who has traveled to nearly fifty countries in the last ten years since his born-again experience. He spent his earlier years in the mission fields of Asia and Southeast Asia, preaching the Gospel to unreached people groups. He is the CEO of Ben Lim TV and Ben Lim Ministries. His ministry is accompanied with notable signs, wonders, and miracles. He has ministered in evangelistic crusades in Pakistan, Dubai, and Africa seeing hundreds of thousands come to Jesus! He is ordained by Pastor Benny Hinn and the WHF (World Healing Fellowship) and is a trusted voice and a regular feature on the Elijah List and many other prophetic channels. You can learn more about Pastor Ben at https://www.benlimglobal.com/.

CEO, BMCFerrell
Ben Ferrell
Ben has over 50 years working with ministries in ministry. He has had the privilege of working with countless trailblazing ministers such as Joyce Meyer, Bayless Conley, Hillsong, Rhema Bible Church, Rick Renner, Randy Morrison, and so much more. Ben’s fun fact: He won the 2001 ASCAP Song of the Year Award for his worldwide gospel hit “You Bless Me”. You can learn more about Ben and his team at bmcferrell.com.

Founder, Contender Esports
Brett Payne
Brett Payne is an American businessman and entrepreneur who is best known for creating Contender Esports, a video game center franchise with locations found throughout the world. He also worked in developing the franchise for Classic Rock Coffee and expanding the growth of that brand to such places as Pakistan, Nigeria, UAE, Jordan and many others outside of the US. Prior to his work in business, Brett spent 25 years in non-profits and lived 7 of those in the Ukraine building 26 university campuses. You can learn more about Brett and his businesses at contenderesports.com & brettcpayne.com.

Founder, Kingdom Flame Studios
David Cranfill
David Cranfill has 37 years experience as a technology specialist and entrepreneur, with executive experience both with startups and with fortune 100 companies. He currently holds executive positions in a startup Insurance and financial company and with his non-profit Christian Internet TV station, kingdomflame.com, which has been delivering videos and private schools and conferences via live stream since 2010, and 24/7 live streaming internet TV since 2013. As a technologist and engineer, he was the pioneer of the first smartphones, for which he has 14 United States Patents and over 20 additional publications. Kingdom Flame, started in 2006, was a very early pioneer in Web Streaming Christian content. Kingdom Flames operates Kingdom Flame Studios, where they film and live stream Christian and non-Christian events having produced over 100 conference live streams on-site in locations in the USA and Canada. You can learn more at https://kingdomflame.com/

General Manager, KGEB TV & GEB TV
David Groves
David Groves has over 25 years of media and management experience and currently serves at Oral Roberts University as an Adjunct Media Faculty member and the General Manager of GEB.tv. Under his leadership, GEB has grown to reach over 65 million potential households. He has overseen the implementation of Web3/Blockchain and Smart Contracts at GEB, digital marketing and promotions, and innovations in new media technology. His experience spans across the media and technology industry and for years was a radio personality, a consultant, director, public speaker, and traveled to over 30 countries as a TV producer/videographer. David has a passion for Leadership Studies, Web3 Education, and researching Crypto/Blockchain investment projects. He is an ORU graduate and holds a degree in Communications and MBA in Leadership. Connect with him on Twitter @davidgroves, Insta @mrdaveg or LinkedIn. You can learn more at https://geb.tv/ & https://kgeb.net/.

Founder, StaaS Fund, Serial Entrepreneur
Peter Saddington
Peter Saddington is a 3x startup founder, angel investor, and Certified Scrum Trainer who has been in software development for 20+ years. He has 3 Masters degrees (Counseling, Education, MDiv) and is a published author of the book The Agile Pocket Guide (Wiley, 2012). He is the Founder & General Partner of StaaS Fund, a Web3 venture studio that invests in continuous yield platforms in digital currency staking and Bitcoin mining. He also serves as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at VINwiki. He offers experience from multiple successful startup exits, angel investments, and consulting roles. He’s also a Racecar driver and avid gokart Dad. You can learn more at staas.fund.

Founder & CEO, LifeVerse
Jeremy Lamont
Jeremy has dedicated his career to serving people. In the special events industry, he produced thousands of engagements ranging from conferences to original stadium shows with a single focus on audience response. The content Jeremy created caused him to be hired by clients ranging from Qualcomm to Morgan Stanley and even the late U.S. President George H.W. Bush called Jeremy’s work, “Great entertainment!” For decades, Jeremy has utilized technology to move large audiences.
As the founder and CEO of Godspeed magazine, Jeremy was blessed to hire and then serve alongside TIME magazine’s David Aikman to build a digital publication completely focused on God in action. Jeremy’s interviews with Ben Carson, Franklin Graham, Alveda King, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others provoked invitations into the Israel Embassy and White House in Washington D.C. God used these experiences to show Jeremy the need for a global unity movement in the body of Christ and the result was Lifeverse. You can learn more at LifeVerse.com

Vice President, BMCFerrell
Sean Cline
Sean’s passion for people first found it’s expression in media through traditional television. As a student at the University of Minnesota, then as a television production company owner and also as media director for a large worldwide ministry in Minneapolis, Sean has always focused on the ability of media to reach people and develop relationships. As a vice president with BMCFerrell Sean works daily to leverage the power of all forms of media helping ministries reach people, develop relationships and expand financial partnerships. BMCFerrell has a 50-year track record of innovation in media ministry. From the early days of Oral Roberts on national television to advancing today’s opportunities in the metaverse, innovation is our tradition. You can learn more at BMCFerrell.com.
Christians In Web3 Summit Event 2023
Speakers
FORUM12 PRESENTS 35+ OF THE TOP LEADERS IN CHRISTENDOM

Ryan Collins
Ryan Collins is the Chief Executive Officer of Bethel School of Technology. A Christian Coding Bootcamp that married high skill with high character to launch Kingdom minded believers into the Tech Space. He has a passion to transform lives and communities through the love of Jesus and in-demand education that equips individuals for the marketplace. He is also the author of the book “the God of tech”.
Prior to his role at Bethel Tech, Ryan spent 12 years creating strategic partnerships between higher education institutions and Fortune-level companies to attract, retain and develop talent. He and his wife, Briana, have been married since 2005, and have three daughters.
Serial Entrepreneur, Founder of Web3 NYC Gallery
Nick Rotola
Nick is a member of the ORU alumni and former ORU baseball athlete. A serial entrepreneur and former professional baseball player, Nick has started businesses in real estate development, education tech, and crypto marketing.
Nick, along with his partners, launched Web3 NYC Gallery in June 2022 year as the world’s first IRL comprehensive Web3 store. The purpose of the company is to onboard the masses, close the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 through education. The store includes all aspects of web3 from crypto wallet setups to NFTs, the metaverse, and web3 gaming. This company also provides B2B services to develop the Web3 ecosystem by providing brands a targeted audience to market their projects in a brick-and-mortar retail environment.
In the first 4 months of operations, Web3 Gallery made over $2 million in revenue. The company continues to grow and is projected to have several new locations around the US launched in 2023 through a partnership with Simon Malls.


Founder, Kingdom Warriors
Eric Skeldon
Founder & visionary Eric Skeldon is a husband and dad of five daughters. He loves raising up bold brave daughters. Eric went into the army as an airborne soldier and then went and achieved a business degree from the University of North Texas. He ventured into tech and SaaS sales and learned to love code and software. Later Eric built a multimillion-dollar logistics business and exited that to go into entrepreneurship and has a passion for marketing, NFTs, emerging tech, and blockchain tech. He’s the founder of Kingdom Warriors.
Director of Innovation, Christian Vision
Stuart Cranney
Stuart Cranney is passionate about the future and how emerging technologies create new opportunities for mission impact. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Communications (Journalism and Public Relations), post-graduate qualifications in business research, and is presently undertaking PhD research in the field of digital transformation. In the role of Director of Innovation at CV, Stuart is responsible for identifying, developing and driving transformative initiatives that align with and bring to fruition CV’s organisational objectives, whilst fostering a culture of innovation that results in growth and increased impact. He has previously established CV Digital as a centralised technology and innovation division for CV globally, including the AI Lab team to pioneer new capabilities in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Stuart lives on the Sunshine Coast of Australia with his wife Christine and their two daughters, Michaela and Joanna.


COO & Co-founder, PublicSQ
Sebastian Harris
Sebastian Harris is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of PublicSq., a newly founded tech startup seeking to restore liberty to commerce in America. PublicSq. is an app and a website actively connecting businesses and consumers that share freedom-loving values. Sebastian is also the founder of Adoptable Babes NFTs, a project helping to support and fund adoptions around the world.
Spiritual Director, Bethel School of Technology
Richard Gordon
Richard Gordon was raised in South Africa where he married his beautiful wife, Libby, and completed his BSc in Computer Engineering and Masters in Electronic Engineering focusing on Cryptography for military telecommunications. He is internationally published for his work. He has had the privilege of working alongside some of the world’s best tech companies. Richard is the Spiritual Director over the Bethel School of Technology. The first and only Christian coding bootcamp with a vision to raise up Kingdom minded believes and launch them into the tech space. Bethel Tech offers programs in Cyber Security, Full Stack Web Development, Data Science and UI/UX Design. His dream is to raise up world-changers and influencers like Daniel, from the Bible, who will shape and shift culture, encountering and ushering in the Presence of God wherever they go. Richard and his wife also help oversee Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry’s Online program. Richard is an international speaker and comes alive, igniting the potential in people around him and seeing the Glory of God move across the earth!


Founder, Heavens Entrepreneurs Movement
Kurshin Joseph
Kurshin Joseph is the Founder of The Heavens Entrepreneurs Movement, Ecommerce Empire Builder, Founder of Heavens Digital Academy, The Kingdom Discovery Channel & Heavens Entrepreneurs TV Network. Prophetic Voice, Author of Rise of The Seer Prophets & Creator of best selling business & ministry programs, Australian Prophetic Kingdom Entrepreneur Kurshin Joseph is on a mission to raise Kingdom Leaders and call the sons of God into their prophetic calling by equipping them to expand the Kingdom through their digital businesses and life in the New Day. God uses Kurshin in the Apostolic and Prophetic with the aim to equip Kingdom believers and make the church wealthy again. You can learn more at www.kurshinjoseph.com.
Brett Johnson


VP, Technology And Innovation At Oral Roberts University
Michael Mathews
Founder & Ceo, Dead Games & Founder Of Ethnos Digital
Brendan Thompson
Brendan is the CEO and Founder of Dead Games, a web3 technology company that built the popular rugzombie.io platform as well as the founder of Ethnos Digital, a web3 giving platform made to accelerate missions giving. Brendan has a background in ministries, tech, and game development.


Host of CrossPolitic Show, Media & PR Consultant, and Co-Founder of DropWave
Gabriel Rench
Gabriel is a media and PR consultant (www.PengoMedia.com), Co-Founder of the Fight Laugh Feast Network, and one of the host of CrossPolitic TV Show and Podcast (Airs on Direct Tv, Xfinity, streaming, and podcast), and cofounder of www.DropWave.io, a free speech podcast hosting platform.
Gabriel was arrested in September of 2020 for exercising his first amendment rights, singing Psalms outside of city hall in protest of the unconstitutional masks mandates. His arrest went viral, and has since landed him on the Laura Ingraham Show, Glenn Beck Show, The Todd Starnes Show, and more, and his arrest was even retweeted by then President Trump. He also serves as a Deacon at his church (King’s Cross), and serves on various non-profit boards. He lives on a small 10-acre farm with his wife, and three children.
Founder, Unhealthy No More Inc., Project Manager of Seal Society NFT
Vanessa Cunningham
Vanessa Cunningham has worked for three Fortune 500 financial services companies during her 8 years on Wall Street. She worked as a Business Analyst, Project Manager, and a Regulatory Operations Associate. In 2018, Vanessa embarked on her entrepreneurial journey and founded Unhealthy No More, Inc. As a nutrition and wellness coach, she helps busy professionals reduce stress, banish unhealthy cravings, lose weight and get back to their formerly robust energy levels. Vanessa has been featured on HuffPost, Essence.com, MindBodyGreen, U.S. News World & Report, and Prevention Magazine. In 2022, Vanessa joined an NFT project on the Cardano Blockchain, The Seal Society, as their Project Manager. With the experience gained from being a part of a Web 3 project, she plans to transition her business endeavors into the Web 3 space.


CEO, INDXCoin
Eli Regalado
Eli Regalado is an ordained Marketplace Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. His purpose is to walk in step with his heavenly Father by bringing heaven to earth. He operates in a financial anointing and is the founder of INDXcoin.
Before INDXcoin, Eli was the CEO of Grace Led Marketing. A global advertising agency specializing in seven-figure crowdfunding and viral product launches. Before Grace Led Marketing Eli worked as a business consultant to a private business magazine and was tasked with networking with some of the world’s top inventors, CEO’s, and government leaders.
Founder, Giver Marketing
Timothy Morgan
Timothy Morgan has started, built, bought, sold businesses for two decades, while helping nonprofits as a way to give time and talent for legacy impact. From that came a new kind of marketing agency, Giver Marketing, and the network naturally emerged from the focus on collaboration to maximize specialized marketing talent while reducing costs of hiring these professionals.


Author, Speaker, & Founder of Kingdom Influencer
Dr. Coylette James
Dr. Coylette James has been in Ministry since 1992 Teaching the Word of God, conducting Kingdom Empowerment Seminars since 2005, Hosted her own podcast since 2005 and her own television broadcast since 2017. She is the founder of Kingdom Influencer, helping people around the world unlock their Kingdom brilliance.
Sonny Gonzales
Sonny is a seasoned sales & marketing executive with 10+ years of experience as a marketing and sales leader working with companies like AAA, BeInCrypto, Eevelle, Welk Resorts, and more. Sonny uses data, marketing best-practices, and unique ideas to help companies grow and expand.


Senior Professor & Chair of Computing & Mathematics Department, ORU
Dr. Andrew Lang
Dr. Andrew Lang is a Mathematical Physicist and Data Scientist with Extensive Experience in Using Virtual Worlds for Academics at Oral Roberts University. A frequent publisher in scientific journals, Dr. Lang is an advocate for Open Science and other Open Knowledge Initiatives. For his work in this area he has been recognized by The White House, Google, Cambridge University, and The DaVinci Institute – of which he is a fellow. He also has a very active undergraduate research program that has resulted in several students being co-authors on peer reviewed journal articles.
UFC Fighter, Speaker, Web3 Marketer
Ian Heinisch
Ian Heinisch is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional since 2015, he has also competed for the World Series of Fighting and Legacy Fighting Alliance, where he is the former Interim Middleweight Champion. Ian is also a crypto marketer and influencer working with many cryptocurrency and NFT projects all around the world. He leads a crypto shark tank project on his twitter.


Founder, Lumi & Serial Entrepreneur
Julie Zhu
Julie Zhu is the founder of Lumi. She started her first company in 2014, the top SNS account clusters in China with 3,000 accounts and accumulated 300 million followers. She was evaluated ‘Forbes Asia 30 under 30’ in 2017 and reported by ‘China Daily’. In her spare time, she used her expertise to help the poor. She has 1 million fans in poverty-stricken areas in China and was awarded the China Charity Foundation Love Ambassador. Determined to spread love, faith and hope in Web3, she started Lumi. On Lumi, Christians can better realize cross-regional intercession and mutual aid. The zkp technology used by Lumi allows people to protect privacy while verifying identity, thus avoiding fraud. You can learn more at Lumi.top.
Cofounder of Web3 Sports company, Rookie LLC, CMO of Glory Coalition, & Author
Dominic Laureano
Dominic Laureano is the author of “Digital Harvest”, Co-founder/COO of ROOKIE LLC, inventor of SportsFi web3 sports tech, and CMO for Glory Coalition – creators of the Gloryverse. Often called a “Web3 Evangelist’, he unites, educates, and inspires believers to take dominion in the Web3 space and fully utilize the technology to fulfill the great commission.


Head of Innovation, Dunham+Company, Author of Crypto for Good, Co-Founder of Crossover Collectibles
Nils Smith
Nils Smith is the Head of Innovation for Dunham+Company, a fundraising and marketing agency with offices in the United States and Australia.
Nils has been on the forefront of Web 3 having written the book, Crypto for Good, in 2018 and partnering with Engiven to bring crypto donations to nonprofit organizations globally. He is also the co-founder of the sports collectibles company, Crossover Collectibles, helping amateur athletes build NFT communities through digital collectibles.
Before joining Dunham+Company, Nils worked as the Innovation Pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, Texas, one of the largest and fastest-growing churches in the country. While there, Nils pioneered Web 2.0 ministry building OnlineChurch.com and pioneered the use of social media, mobile apps and TV apps to build a global online church community.
He is also the author of The Social Media Guide for Ministry (2012) and The Social Media Guide (2020), and his work has been featured in a wide range of publications.
Nils has a Business Management degree from Texas State University and holds a Masters in Ministry Leadership from Rockbridge Seminary. He and his wife live in New York City with their two daughters.
Founder, Gravity Jack & Co-founder Forum12
Jennifer Richey
Jennifer has been steeped in technology since her college years studying law. She eventually shifted her focus in order to help kick-off a tech startup in 2004 as the CFO of Tometa Software, which was eventually acquired in 2007. From there, Jennifer took on the same role at a PC gaming company, and Jennifer’s knowledge in the tech sector eventually led her to become one of the founders of one of the first US augmented reality companies in 2009, Gravity Jack. Now as Gravity Jack’s Chief Strategy Officer she focuses on the future of the company and the industry at large.


Founder, MINAS Academy
Erwin Garcia
Erwin Garcia is a 7-figure crypto entrepreneur and the founder of MINAS Academy. He has been in Retail I.T. Consulting for 15 years. Since 2014, Erwin has been involved in different facets of cryptos. He is also an ordained Pastor, married to a CfAN-ordained evangelist, and blessed with 6 beautiful children. Erwin has been called to serve people over 50 intrigued by the rapid rise of cryptos. He regularly talks through the process on how to position yourself to GET the Supernatural Great Abundance Transfer/God Airdrop. He loves helping people know how to sow resources in a smart place to see massive growth through cryptos. You can learn more about Erwin’s challenges here.
NFT Artist & Leader in Christian NFTs
Bonnie Brooks
Bonnie has a Masters in Fine Art and has been an artist and educator for over 40 years. Her paintings have been in many juried art exhibits around the country. She began minting her original artworks to stay relevant in the art market and Web3. She has spoken on podcasts and is helping artists around the world to become NFT artist. Bonnie is on 6 different NFT platforms with 4 different crypto currencies. She created the Twitter spaces a week “Christian NFT Lounge”, which she hosts twice a week to build up Christians in the NFT marketplace and Web3. Bonnie also has a Christian art gallery in the metaverse and hosts many events in that space. You can learn more at Brooks Gallery.


Singer, Songwriter, Speaker
Elizabeth Clark
Elizabeth Clark is a Singer, Songwriter, Vocal Coach, Mentor, and Speaker for over 20 years. She has written and released many musical pieces at Elizabethclarkmusic.com. Elizabeth has led worship for many conferences, churches and events from the USA to Australia. Known best for her original song “When I Speak Your Name”, co-written with Klaus Kuehn. Her desire is to make Jesus known around the world to as many people as possible.
Director of PR, Patmos
Megan Greene
Megan graduated from Colorado Christian University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree but quickly veered her career into the software industry focused on client relations, marketing, and sales to help companies increase revenue and improve customer satisfaction. Megan is currently the Director of Public Relations at Patmos. Patmos provides protection from big tech censorship and opposition with web hosting and infrastructure solutions. Megan focuses on supporting freedom of speech both on and off the internet. Megan also serves on various non-profit boards and is a youth flag football coach. She lives in San Tan Valley, Arizona with her husband and three children. You can learn more at www.Patmos.Tech.


Jason Fleagle
Jason has a background in helping businesses grow, generating $50mil+ in revenue over the last 10+ years. Jason has a background in biological sciences, software development, digital marketing, sales, and content marketing working with companies like John Maxwell, Ziglar Inc., Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank, the Original Red Power Ranger, Autism Power, the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and many more.
Founder, Gravity Jack & Co-founder Carbon12
Luke Richey
Richey began coding software at the age of 14 and created many successful startups up till 2009. In November of 2009, Richey founded Gravity Jack, Inc. with the vision of mobile based Augmented Reality and quickly established the company as a leader in that space, with a strong patent portfolio and dedicated research team.


Web3 Business & Media Consultant
Michael Morgan
Michael Morgan is currently engaged in International Business and Web3 Media Consulting in China, Nigeria, and India. He is home-based in Hollywood, California who has worked with Disney, the University of Southern California, Warner Bros., and DreamIt Ventures and Untapped Ventures as an Web3 entrepreneur who helped pioneer Music NFTs in 2011 (over 10 years ago)! He now is the head of Kingdom Warriors Music and works side by side with Eric Skeldon on Kingdom Warriors NFT. You can learn more at kingdomwarriorsnft.com
Serial Entrepreneur, Host, & Growth & Marketing Leader
Roger Gauthier
Roger Gauthier is known as The Entrepreneurial Composer, with more than 20+ start-ups under his belt. He has a background in executive coaching, and organizational growth with an emphasis in strategy, marketing, business development, networking, community building, personal growth and 21st century leadership. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Advancing the Kingdom’s Vision, SSM, and is the host of the Walking Out Your Destiny, and Atomic Minute podcast where he helps weary warriors and eager entrepreneurs walk out their destiny—as well as creator of the Warriors Wealth Network, an online training and resource center to help individuals develop the 4 Wealth Sets to accomplish the vision they are tasked with. His greatest accomplishment is to be a husband to his dream wife and father to three amazing children. You can learn more at https://SunShineBlue360.com


Web3 Researcher & Leader
Aaron Cole
Aaron Cole is a web3 researcher and owner of a market research and strategic alignment business, he has extensive experience working with crypto brands and NFT projects, including CoinMarketCap, NFT LA, and the Edge of NFT Podcast. He has also worked with Ghost of Frank Dukes, a music composer known for producing for major artists like Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Kendrick Lamar, on an Audio/Visual NFT project aimed at licensing his 20-year music library. In addition, he has experience with Sequence, an all-in-one web3 developer platform and smart wallet supported by Take-Two Interactive and Ubisoft.
His main areas of expertise in Web3 include decentralized finance (DeFi), the creative industry, sports, music, gaming, lifestyle, and venture capital and capital raising.
Founder & CEO, XARA Capital
Brigette Marx
Dr. Brigette Marx is the founder and CEO of XARA CAPITAL. She was in business in the corporate world and later established her own ministry and obtained a doctorates degree in Ministry, developing courses, writing books and presenting Multiple Workshops and Seminars. Brigette has always worked with business leaders and has a keen sense for the economy and business. Brigette has traveled to more than 25 countries obtaining, much valued, experience within the Business and Ministry world.
Several years ago, the new economic world of Blockchain, De-Fi and Crypto became an interest and that lead to Brigette studying and researching this fast growing economy. She soon realised the importance and potential this economy brings to people yoked with financial oppression and slavery. This was the inspiration for the birth of XARA CAPITAL, an aggregation and education platform assisting members to engage in this world of opportunities, become financially free, occupy the seats within this sphere and economy and live their life’s destinies. You can learn more at www.xaracapital.com


CEO, LOOR TV
Marcus Pittman
Marcus Pittman is the current CEO of LOOR TV, and the Former Head of Video Production for Pure Flix’s advertising agency. He has many years of experience in the production, streaming, and media and entertainment space. He has also worked with many Christian platforms, shows, and radio institutions helping them to level up their production quality. You can learn more at loor.tv
Senior Pastor & CEO, Ben Lim Ministries
Ben Lim
Dr. Ben Lim is the Senior pastor of Open Heavens World and CEO of Ben Lim Ministries. He is a dynamic Millennial preacher who has traveled to nearly fifty countries in the last ten years since his born-again experience. He spent his earlier years in the mission fields of Asia and Southeast Asia, preaching the Gospel to unreached people groups. He is the CEO of Ben Lim TV and Ben Lim Ministries. His ministry is accompanied with notable signs, wonders, and miracles. He has ministered in evangelistic crusades in Pakistan, Dubai, and Africa seeing hundreds of thousands come to Jesus! He is ordained by Pastor Benny Hinn and the WHF (World Healing Fellowship) and is a trusted voice and a regular feature on the Elijah List and many other prophetic channels. You can learn more about Pastor Ben at https://www.benlimglobal.com/.


CEO, BMCFerrell
Ben Ferrell
Ben has over 50 years working with ministries in ministry. He has had the privilege of working with countless trailblazing ministers such as Joyce Meyer, Bayless Conley, Hillsong, Rhema Bible Church, Rick Renner, Randy Morrison, and so much more. Ben’s fun fact: He won the 2001 ASCAP Song of the Year Award for his worldwide gospel hit “You Bless Me”. You can learn more about Ben and his team at bmcferrell.com.
Founder, Contender Esports
Brett Payne
Brett Payne is an American businessman and entrepreneur who is best known for creating Contender Esports, a video game center franchise with locations found throughout the world. He also worked in developing the franchise for Classic Rock Coffee and expanding the growth of that brand to such places as Pakistan, Nigeria, UAE, Jordan and many others outside of the US. Prior to his work in business, Brett spent 25 years in non-profits and lived 7 of those in the Ukraine building 26 university campuses. You can learn more about Brett and his businesses at contenderesports.com & brettcpayne.com.


Founder, Kingdom Flame Studios
David Cranfill
David Cranfill has 37 years experience as a technology specialist and entrepreneur, with executive experience both with startups and with fortune 100 companies. He currently holds executive positions in a startup Insurance and financial company and with his non-profit Christian Internet TV station, kingdomflame.com, which has been delivering videos and private schools and conferences via live stream since 2010, and 24/7 live streaming internet TV since 2013. As a technologist and engineer, he was the pioneer of the first smartphones, for which he has 14 United States Patents and over 20 additional publications. Kingdom Flame, started in 2006, was a very early pioneer in Web Streaming Christian content. Kingdom Flames operates Kingdom Flame Studios, where they film and live stream Christian and non-Christian events having produced over 100 conference live streams on-site in locations in the USA and Canada. You can learn more at https://kingdomflame.com/
General Manager, KGEB TV & GEB TV
David Groves
David Groves has over 25 years of media and management experience and currently serves at Oral Roberts University as an Adjunct Media Faculty member and the General Manager of GEB.tv. Under his leadership, GEB has grown to reach over 65 million potential households. He has overseen the implementation of Web3/Blockchain and Smart Contracts at GEB, digital marketing and promotions, and innovations in new media technology. His experience spans across the media and technology industry and for years was a radio personality, a consultant, director, public speaker, and traveled to over 30 countries as a TV producer/videographer. David has a passion for Leadership Studies, Web3 Education, and researching Crypto/Blockchain investment projects. He is an ORU graduate and holds a degree in Communications and MBA in Leadership. Connect with him on Twitter @davidgroves, Insta @mrdaveg or LinkedIn. You can learn more at https://geb.tv/ & https://kgeb.net/.


Founder, Kingdom Flame Studios
Peter Saddington
Peter Saddington is a 3x startup founder, angel investor, and Certified Scrum Trainer who has been in software development for 20+ years. He has 3 Masters degrees (Counseling, Education, MDiv) and is a published author of the book The Agile Pocket Guide (Wiley, 2012). He is the Founder & General Partner of StaaS Fund, a Web3 venture studio that invests in continuous yield platforms in digital currency staking and Bitcoin mining. He also serves as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at VINwiki. He offers experience from multiple successful startup exits, angel investments, and consulting roles. He’s also a Racecar driver and avid gokart Dad. You can learn more at staas.fund.
Founder & CEO, LifeVerse
Jeremy Lamont
Jeremy has dedicated his career to serving people. In the special events industry, he produced thousands of engagements ranging from conferences to original stadium shows with a single focus on audience response. The content Jeremy created caused him to be hired by clients ranging from Qualcomm to Morgan Stanley and even the late U.S. President George H.W. Bush called Jeremy’s work, “Great entertainment!” For decades, Jeremy has utilized technology to move large audiences. As the founder and CEO of Godspeed magazine, Jeremy was blessed to hire and then serve alongside TIME magazine’s David Aikman to build a digital publication completely focused on God in action. Jeremy’s interviews with Ben Carson, Franklin Graham, Alveda King, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others provoked invitations into the Israel Embassy and White House in Washington D.C. God used these experiences to show Jeremy the need for a global unity movement in the body of Christ and the result was Lifeverse. You can learn more at LifeVerse.com


Vice President, BMCFerrell
Sean Cline
Sean’s passion for people first found it’s expression in media through traditional television. As a student at the University of Minnesota, then as a television production company owner and also as media director for a large worldwide ministry in Minneapolis, Sean has always focused on the ability of media to reach people and develop relationships. As a vice president with BMCFerrell Sean works daily to leverage the power of all forms of media helping ministries reach people, develop relationships and expand financial partnerships. BMCFerrell has a 50-year track record of innovation in media ministry. From the early days of Oral Roberts on national television to advancing today’s opportunities in the metaverse, innovation is our tradition. You can learn more at BMCFerrell.com.
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- Breakfast & Worship
- Opening Session
- Keynote & 2 Main Talks
- Lunch
- 3 Breakout Tracks (9 total talks)
- 2 Panel Track Discussions
- Networking Dinner & Presentation from ORU
- Breakfast & Worship
- Opening Session
- Keynote & 2 Main Talks
- Lunch
- 3 Breakout Tracks (9 total talks)
- 2 Panel Track Discussions
- Dinner
- Project Pitch Night & Award Voting
- Breakfast
- Presentations & Award Ceremony
- Hackathon Information
- Closing Send Off
- Open Networking