Six workshop sessions

Up to three workshops each session

Between 12 and 18 workshops in total!

Workshops are where we learn about our tech, each other, and our God.

Workshops

Basic & Advanced Technology Track

Hilton D.

Having worked in the Cybersecurity industry for both the commercial sector and for mission organisations Hilton has noticed a very different approach that mission organisations take towards cybersecurity.

This talk aims to highlight some of the differences in these two approaches and argues that how mission organisations approach cybersecurity over the next 10 years will have a significant effect on our ability to fulfil the great commission.

About Hilton:

Hilton is married with 4 kids and loves using technology to enable and support missions. Hilton works as a cybersecurity officer for a missions organisation and prior to working in Cybersecurity has served on the mission field. Before going to the mission field Hilton worked as a systems administrator in corporate businesses.

Joachim Mammele

In our networks there always appear known and unknown threats. In this workshop we will talk about how to detect and prevent them. It will cover also some basics about network design.

Joachim Mammele worked 10 years as a software developer and now he is working in the cyber security industry. His goal is to help extend knowledge about cyber security eg. by running the website https://security-companion.net/

Daniel Bachmeier

Did you ever want to know what exactly is going on on your Windows or
Linux laptop? In this workshop, we will be using a new ``desktop``
firewall to investigate applications running on your laptop together -
bring one!

After a quick setup, we will get an overview of what is going on and
learn how to block unwanted connections or fully lock down applications
from accessing the Internet. We will talk about trackers and how to
block them. And we will talk about securing DNS requests and then do
it.

If you are concerned about online privacy, this is for you. This is for
beginners and techies alike. I will explain everything so you can
easily follow.

About Daniel:
Daniel is an Internet security and privacy expert and builds software
for exactly that.

Web & App Development

Sheronda D. Marenke

Looking for a quick easy way to complete repetitive mundane tasks or just curious? Come take a look at Microsoft Power Automate on the cloud. The course will offer a short introduction into this powerful tool with an easy hands-on exercise using Google apps and strategy for creating your own flows.

Bring your laptop registered to use Power Automate at https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/. Select ``Start free trial`` in top right menu bar. You are welcome to just observe as well.

About Sheronda:

Sheronda has a heart for helping people succeed and overcome challenges. Her journey as a technologist span over 30 years starting as an Electrical Engineer for wireless communication devices and RF networks and then moving into project management. After relocating to Germany, Sheronda can be found working in IT for a German firm and providing technical and administrative support, and leadership in her church.

In her free time, Sheronda loves to laugh out loud, travel with her husband, and design websites.

Rick Winford

We will go through the steps to very quickly create a working mobile app using the Ionic and Angular framework. In this workshop you will learn how to create an app that can be deployed either as a PWA (Progressive Web App) or can be compiled into a native app for the Android and Apple app stores.

If you want to follow along and build an app in the workshop, please pre-install the following:
1) npm (javascript package manager) from https://www.npmjs.com/
2) Ionic v. 6 from https://ionicframework.com/ and
and 3) Visual Studio Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/

About Rick:
Rick is the team leader for eDOT, the technology ministry of Greater Europe Mission. Before becoming a tech missionary in Germany he spent 35 years with Hewlett-Packard in the USA.

Friday, 16:00, BASIC Room

Joachim Mammele

In this session I would like to give an introduction into Git, Github and possible use cases.

We'll also do some hands-on training. So please make sure to have

* a valid Github user account
* Github Desktop (https://desktop.github.com/) installed on your computer

in advance.

Joachim Mammele worked 10 years as a software developer and now he is working in the cyber security industry. His goal is to help extend knowledge about cyber security eg. by running the website https://security-companion.net/

Leadership & Management Track

Thursday, 14:15, AJAX Room

Anja

Babyboomer, Generation X,Y,Z:

How can mixed-age teams work well together?
What can the generations learn from each other?
How can we promote cooperation throughout generations?
How do we manage to generate a common DNA?

This session would be a mixture of introductory presentation and group
discussion

About Anja:

Anja is a trained nurse with more than 20 years of experience caring for
people with chronical diseases. After further studies to become a
teacher for nurses she now trains nursing apprentices.

During her different work settings she got to work with co-workers
different generations. Now, being a teacher for many generation-z
students, this topic caught her interest and she did some further researches
on age-diversity.

Danny Benson

A clear message is equal to thousands of dollars spent on advertisements. Know how to make your message resonate with your donors so that donors will listen and get involved in your mission.

✓ Demonstrate criticality and urgency of your mission to donors and field teams
✓ Show how your mission fits in with God’s great commission and why is it a no brainer for people to participate in your mission.
✓ Highlight your wins and show what impact you are creating in missions.
✓ Find common ground with the donor and help them connect to your mission’s core message.

About Danny:

Danny Benson is the founder of Eudadigital Ltd UK,. a leading marketing consultant in the UK. Danny is a seasoned management and marketing consultant who has helped many businesses and nonprofits with their ways of working and marketing strategies.
Danny also has around 12 years of experience in solving complex business challenges through simple scalable Salesforce solutions so that organizations can stop worrying about inefficient and broken processes in Salesforce and focus on growth.

IJ

I'll give a short introduction to AI. We'll get to know where AI is used and where it could be used. We'll need some history to understand where we are at present and we'll even try to peek into the future. I'll discuss some academic research and investigative journalism on the subject. Based on what is discussed you'll be able to experiment with AI, find out how it affects our society and continue your journey further.

For the experiment part you'll need a cell phone, patience and a computer with command line access, text editor, python3, git command line tools and a web browser. If you are not into programming you'll need just a web browser on your computer.

Speaker Bio: IJ did his master's in the 90s on cellular communications. He's worked with computer and communications systems as a researcher and instructor. He's been involved with communications, information, cyber and physical security.

Danny Benson

Automation is crucial in every organisation, especially in missions.
How could your life look like if Salesforce could execute your operation workflows and in turn frees your resources that you can use to spread the Gospel more effectively?

✓ Share details of donors and volunteers through experience cloud
✓ Manage your teams and volunteers and appropriate level of data visibility
✓ Organise your donors and manage donations effectively
✓ Manage data more efficiently through duplicate management and data masking

About Danny:

Danny Benson is the founder of Eudadigital Ltd UK,. a leading marketing consultant in the UK. Danny is a seasoned management and marketing consultant who has helped many businesses and nonprofits with their ways of working and marketing strategies.
Danny also has around 12 years of experience in solving complex business challenges through simple scalable Salesforce solutions so that organizations can stop worrying about inefficient and broken processes in Salesforce and focus on growth.

Christian Growth

Thursday, 13:00, BASIC Room

Jaap Fijnvandraat
Stichting Hand

As (especially ICT-)technicians we might have a tendency to work on our own. I like the technical challenge. And when succeeding it gives me fulfillment. Nothing wrong. However, it is good to see the broader picture. The way the Israelites did rebuild the wall of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3) might teach us some lessons.

About Jaap:
Jaap had a professional career as mathematician with Philips, working on simulations and SW-development. In his private time he is since long involved in preaching and teaching.
Jaap also has a broad interest in hardware (not only computers 😊). Since October 2021 he is volunteer with Stichting Hand, helping to refurbish laptops, etc.

Friday, 13:00, BASIC Room

Hans-Jürgen

In this workshop, we will follow Moses through the migration of Israel and look for his leadership and communication. We will take a look at a few basic principles of a project lifecycle and see how those were shaped in the Exodus setting.

We will start with a basic overview on project building blocks and then take a look how Moses interacts with God, the leadership team of Israel and the people of Israel to learn a few principles of project management, leadership and project organization.

About Hans-Jürgen:

Hans-Jürgen has studied electrical engineering and worked as an embedded developer. Since 2008 he is leading project in regulated environment, currently in the area of medical device development.

From different project settings, he comes with experience of different project natures and project phases and the experience on how to shape these and lead teams to the adventures of development projects.