Invited Speakers

Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch): The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World; The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place; Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing; Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power; and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Elaine Howard Ecklund is a sociologist and author who explores how individuals and groups bring their deepest values—especially religious and ethical commitments—into their work, leadership, and public lives. Elaine holds a Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences at Rice University, where she is a Professor of Sociology and directs the Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance. Her work is widely recognized for revealing how pluralism—when understood and supported—can be an asset rather than a liability in professional life. She has published nine books, over 150 academic articles, and led nearly 20 national and international research projects on religion, science, institutional culture, and religious pluralism in workplaces. Her latest books include Religion in a Changing Workplace (OUP, 2024) and Working for Better (IVP, 2025) as well as Varieties of Atheism in Science (OUP, 2021) and Why Science and Faith Need Each Other (Brazos, 2020).

Rosalind W. Picard is a scientist, inventor, and engineer, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at MIT's Media Lab,  founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, founding faculty chair of MIT's MindHandHeart Initiative, and a faculty member of the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering. She has co-founded two companies:  Affectiva (now part of Smart Eye), providing emotion AI technologies now used by more than 25% of the Global Fortune 500, and Empatica, providing wearable sensors and analytics to improve health. Picard has authored or co-authored more than 400 peer-reviewed scientific articles spanning affective computing, artificial intelligence, digital health - especially for psychiatry and neurology, human-computer interaction, machine learning and pattern analysis, and wearable sensors. She is known internationally for her book, Affective Computing (MIT Press), and a TED talk that has received nearly 2 million views. She was the recipient of the 2022 International Lombardy Prize for Computer Science Research, which is sometimes described as the “Nobel prize in computer science”.

Lee C. Camp is an Alabamian by birth. He met his wife Laura at Lipscomb as an undergrad (BA in Computer Science), and then did seminary at Abilene Christian University (MA and MDiv). Following a stint in Nairobi, Kenya, Lee and Laura moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he completed graduate studies in Christian Ethics (MA and PhD). He and Laura have three grown sons, and love living in Nashville. Along with his role at Professor of Theology and Ethics, Lee is also the creator and host of No Small Endeavor ("Exploring what it means to live a good life"), a nationally syndicated podcast and public radio show, which also stages live events and variety shows.