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Next‑Gen Connectivity: Innovations in Network, Cloud & Cellular Communications
In today’s fast‑moving world of church production and ministry, staying ahead means being able to adapt quickly. In this Lunch & Learn, you’ll discover how network‑deployed systems, cloud‑based, and cellular wireless solutions make it easy to keep up with ever‑changing production communication needs.
Vic Lombardi
Regional Sales Manager, Clear-Com
Mixing for Worship with Waves Plugins & the LV1 Classic
Join acclaimed live sound engineer Jeff Sandstrom (Chris Tomlin, Lauren Daigle, Grace Church, MxU) and Waves Live Specialist Jeremiah Clever, for an in-depth masterclass highlighting audio processing tools from Waves. Learn to use plugins to tackle EQ, dynamics, harmonic enhancement and coloration, and corrective processing like pitch correction. You’ll also hear from Jeff on workflows, best practices, and setting your audio teams up for success. Learn how these tools can help harness your worship team’s performance and create engaging worship that sounds great!
Jeff Sandstrom
Co-Founder, MxU
Jeremiah Clever
Live Product Specialist, Waves Audio
From Burnout to Buy-In: Leading Volunteers Who Stay
Volunteers are the backbone of every ministry — especially in tech, where skill, creativity, and reliability actually matter. Recruiting is hard, training takes time, and losing great people is exhausting. This session cuts through the fluff and shows you how to build a culture that keeps volunteers engaged for the long haul. You’ll walk away with practical leadership shifts that reduce burnout, strengthen your team, and make serving something people want to keep doing. If you lead a church tech team, this is about building people — not just filling positions.
Dennis Choy
General Manager of Design and Project Management, HouseRight
Try This: Breakthrough Creative Solutions for Teams & Leaders
Packed with practical, “try this” ideas, this session gives attendees actionable strategies they can implement immediately in their own teams and leadership contexts. Walk away with creative solutions you can use right away to inspire collaboration, innovation, and impact.
Phil Bowdle
Author, Creative Coach, Director of Marketing, Slingshot Group
One Team, One Workflow: Using Riedel’s Ecosystem to Simplify Sunday Production
This session explores how churches can build a simple, easy to use production ecosystem that helps production crews work together more effectively on Sundays. Using tools like Riedel RiCapture, Bolero, Artist, Hi, and MediorNet, we will look at how communication, signal transport, and content capture can come together into one connected workflow that simplifies Sunday production.
Jeremy Pellegrine
Sales Manager for Live Production, Riedel
Cinematic Broadcasts: Production That Brings People into the Room
Most worship broadcasts show people what’s happening. The best ones make them feel like they’re actually there. The difference isn’t budget, it’s intention. In this session, Chad Vegas breaks down what it takes to build a cinematic worship broadcast: how a service gets called, camera techniques that capture what’s really happening, and how to build a production culture that serves your congregation and your online audience. You’ll walk away with real, practical techniques you can put into action this Sunday.
Chad Vegas
National Accounts Manager/Head of Sony Faith, Sony Electronics Inc.
Building a Better Sound for Worship: Understanding Your Room Before Upgrading Your PA
We’ve all chased the holy grail of “just add more speakers” only to end up with a louder version of the same muddy mess because your sanctuary’s acoustics don’t care how high end those new boxes are. In this Lunch & Learn, we’ll geek out on why your room is the real boss by bringing in the pros for a live Q&A panel featuring experts from d&b audiotechnik, a veteran acoustician, and a lead designer of custom acoustic installations to prove it. Join us and find out why getting a proper acoustical analysis should come before you ever crack open that shiny new d&b catalog.
Dax Pogue
Client Relationship Manager, , CSD Group, LLC.
Mix From Anywhere: The New Standard for Live Audio Control
Live audio is no longer tied to a single console or location. Today’s church tech teams need the flexibility to monitor, adjust, and manage their mix from anywhere, whether that’s front of house, backstage, or offsite. In this session, we’ll explore how modern, software-driven workflows are redefining what it means to run sound, improving team flexibility and delivering more consistent experiences for both in-room and online audiences, and we’ll close with a look at how Mixing Station Anywhere makes this possible without adding hardware or complexity.
Gordon Daily
Co-founder & CEO, BoxCast
Succession-Proof Your Tech Ministry: Designing Systems That Outlast You
If your Sunday service depends on one person, you don’t have a system, you have a dependency. This session will explore practical ways to design AVL environments that deliver excellence without requiring a “hero” to run them. We’ll cover simplifying workflows, building guardrails for volunteers, and creating documentation. You’ll leave with a volunteer-readiness scorecard and a one-page runbook template to help ensure your ministry thrives, no matter who is at the helm.
Justin Geoghegan
Vice President, CCI Solutions
Turning Urgency Into Excellence for New Campuses
The launch date is set. The pressure is real.
New campuses don’t struggle because of vision. They struggle because of execution. In this session, we’ll show how early, right-sized AVL decisions, standardized systems, and scalable staffing structures turn urgency into intentional, consistent excellence from day one.
Hosted by WAVE, this conversation explores the value of having an integration partner who walks with you from concept through launch and beyond, delivering smart system design, remote support, and sustainable workflows that keep every Sunday smooth and momentum strong.
Greg Bacus
Account Executive, WAVE
Rick Russell
Vice President of Design, WAVE
LED System Design & Workflows That Unlock Creative Flexibility
LED displays have become a huge part of the story we’re telling. Join THOR: AV and a panel of technical creatives for a candid conversation about the system-level decisions that shape creative outcomes, as we unpack execution questions that aren’t always intuitive.
Should your playback workflow function like busking or like a fully programmed show? What role does timecode play? How do you integrate live video into background content without compromising flexibility? Where does latency actually show up—and when does it matter? How do you handle 16:9 content on unconventional canvases? And when you’re driving multiple displays, where should signal routing live: at the switcher, in a screen manager, inside the processor, or within a media server? How do decisions like these help—or hinder—your overall creative capabilities?
Bring your questions, challenges, and perspectives. This session is designed to be a shared conversation where we learn from one another.
Barry Carpenter
Business Development Manager, THOR: AV
Jonah Johnson
Product Manager, THOR: AV
Knobs & Faders: Understanding Audio Console Controls & Finding the Desk You Need
Live audio consoles are simply computers with fancy controls. Knowing how to interface with a particular console is vital to success in mixing, and this class is designed to help you achieve flow and confidence behind the board. By explaining the purpose, function, and operation of each section, you will be able to improve your mixes significantly. In addition, we will cover the various approaches manufacturers take when designing consoles and compare them to give you the insight needed to select the best one for your situation.
Kent Morris
Live Sound Market Manager, Sweetwater Music and Pro Audio
Stream Smarter: Resi Automations & AI That Save Your Week
Live production is complex. It doesn’t have to be chaotic. See how automations, recurring scheduling, one-click go-live, and AI-powered optimization and clip creation reduce weekly workload — so your team can focus less on tedious tasks and more on Kingdom impact.
Steve Kaminsky
Channel Manager, Resi Media
Fundamentals of Networked Audio & Loudspeaker Systems
This Lunch & Learn provides a clear, educational overview of networked audio, loudspeaker fundamentals, and modern sound system design principles. The session explores how audio signals move through networked systems, how loudspeaker coverage and directivity impact intelligibility, and how system components work together to deliver predictable, high-quality results.
Attendees will also examine emerging trends and future technologies shaping professional audio, including evolving network standards, system scalability, and software-driven workflows. Real-world examples—drawing on system approaches used by d&b audiotechnik—connect core theory to practical application across a wide range of worship environments.
Zach Brady
Business Development Manager, d&b audiotechnik
