Conference Agenda
Saturday 22 November
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Plenary sessions in bold
Lunch provided (vegetarian/vegan)
8:30 AM
Check-in Opens & Coffee & light snacks available
9:00 AM
Opening Talk
with JD Bauman (CFI)
9:20 AM
Group Photo — Brewer & Smith Room
9:30 AM
Speed Friending Sessions
10-minute 1-1 meetings for new connections
9:30 AM
Intro to CFI Conference + Speed Friending
with Alex V
10:30 AM
Talk: Is EA Too Utilitarian for Christianity?
10:30 AM
Fireside Chat: Where Impact and Justice Meet: A Conversation between Just Love and CFI
with Tim Lornie (Just Love), JD Bauman and Alex V (CFI)
10:30 AM
Community Lightning Talks
11:30 AM (until 12:50PM)
Workshop: Creating a 5-Year Career Plan
with JD Bauman
11:30 AM
Talk: Building a Mental Health Startup: Mistakes Were Made (God Still Worked Anyway)
with Joy Bittner (Vida Plena)
12:30 PM
Lunch and 1-on-1 meetings
Catholic & Orthodox Meetup in Morris Room
2:00 PM
Fireside Chat: The Biblical Case for Creation Care
with Revd Darrell Hannah (Operation Noah)
2:00 PM
Fireside Chat: Ending Extreme Poverty
with Yolande Wright (GiveDirectly)
3:00 PM
Talk: Indigenous Missions: From Medical Missionary to Church Movement Founder
with Ed Michaelson (500k)
3:00 PM
Discussion: What should Christians do about AI?
Opening remarks from Will Jones (Future of Life Institute)
4:00 PM
Talk: What Do We Mean by Impact?
with Samuel Dupret (Happier Lives Institute)
4:00 PM
Talk: How Can Christians Stop The Next Pandemic?
with Adam Winnifrith
4:00 PM
Meetup: Christians Working in Policy
5:00 PM
Keynote Fireside Chat: All the Lives You Can Change
with JD Bauman
6:00 PM
Prayer & Worship
6:30 PM
Dinner — Meeting in groups to have dinner off-site
Sunday 23 November
8:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Plenary sessions in bold
Lunch provided (vegetarian/vegan)
8:30 AM
Venue Opens, Coffee & Light Snacks
8:45 AM
Morning Prayer
9:15 AM
Workshop: The Work Ahead Feels Heavy, but Wasn’t His Burden Meant to Be Light?
9:15 AM
Community Lightning Talks
10:30 AM
Talk: Serving Healthcare Black Holes In Uganda
with Nick Laing (One Day Health)
10:30 AM
Fireside Chat: Living Out Christ-like Generosity by Earning to Give
with Grayden R.
11:30 AM
Fireside Chat: Are Policy and Politics Underrated Paths for Impact?
11:30 AM
Discussion: What Careers Make the Most Disciples?
with Olly Perkins (Fruitful Work)
12:30 PM
Lunch & 1-on-1 meetings
1:30 PM
Talk: Why You Might Have a Maximum Impact Helping Animals
with Dustin Crummett
1:30 PM
Fireside Chat: How To Have Impact Through Digital Evangelism
with Deborah B
2:30 PM
Talk: From Caritas to Cause Prioritization: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Altruism
with Associate Professor Colin Donnelly (University of Oxford)
2:30 PM
Fireside Chat: Transforming the Futures of the Ultra-Poor
with Louise Joachimowski (International Care Ministries)
3:30 PM
Talk: The Most Impactful Ways To Help Animals
with Thom Norman (FarmKind)
3:30 PM
Talk: How Should Christians Think about Catastrophic Risks?
with James Ginns
4:30 PM
Community Lightning Talks
4:30 PM
Meetup: Effective Giving: Where do you give to and why?
4:30 PM
1-to-1 sessions
5:45 PM
Worship
6:00 PM
Closing Talk & Sendoff
with JD Bauman
6:30PM - 9:30PM
After-Event Meetup (See swapcard for location)