Digital Discipleship Conference 2024

Plenary Speakers

Omar El-Takrori
Omar El-Takrori has been a video creator for over 15 years. He has helped Think Media grow to over 2 million subscribers and has accumulated over 25,000,000 views on videos he has created for the channel. Everyday his content is reaching thousands of people with the purpose to help them get better with video. Omar has influenced product development for major brands like Sony, Canon and Adobe.

Benjamin Lundquist
Benjamin is a pastor, author, high performance leadership coach, and keynote speaker. He hosts the The Rise and Lead Podcast, currently being downloaded in well over 115 countries, designed specifically to motivate and equip listeners to live your greatest life with maximum impact.

Daryl Gungadoo
Daryl was born on Mauritius and grew up as a missionary kid in East and West Africa. He is an inventor, engineer, pilot and has been using his creative and unique way of thinking to forward God’s work in the fields of technology and innovation.

Danielle Davis
Danielle is a Christian content creator that specialises in social media growth for Churches. With a passion for connecting faith communities in the digital age, Danielle has carved a niche for herself as a strategic digital marketer with a focus on enhancing the online presence of churches.

Fernando Marro
Multilingual Digital Evangelist and influential Christian content creator, proficient in producing content in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. With a formidable online presence, this creator has amassed over 5.5 million followers across various social media platforms. Renowned for engaging and inspiring digital content, they have achieved a staggering milestone of more than 100,760,616 views on YouTube alone, showcasing a far-reaching impact in the digital realm across multiple linguistic communities.

Justin Khoe
Justin Khoe is an author, content creator, and social media educator based in Hawaii. Through the Digital Missionary Academy, Justin aims to equip ministry leaders with the tools needed to reach their first million people with the gospel.

Derek Ortiz
Designer & Creator. Sharing creative tips & tricks for content creation, primarily in graphic design.

Laurel Papworth
Laurel Papworth is an global AI consultant and workshop facilitator with a focus on generative AI (ChatGPT) through licensing her course, “AI Is My CoPilot”, at the Australian Institute of Management. Since 2008, she’s taught diverse AI subjects including behavioural, semantic and computer vision AI.

Kiran Skariah
Kiran Skariah, also known as PastorSKAR online, based in Sydney Australia.

Kiran realised the huge need for a safe, welcoming space for all in the online world, where honest faith conversations can spark and people can be themselves. Kiran started livestreaming on the world’s largest streaming platform, Twitch.tv and over weeks, months and years, dedicated himself to building a free, accepting, family-friendly community where gamers and non-gamers alike can gather and share a laugh, have some fun, and for those that were interested, talk about their faith.

Jessica Partridge
Digital Marketer and the founder of JES Solution Marketing.

Claire Marsh
Claire is a psychologist who is the manager of Adventist Counselling Services (ACS). She is trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT).