4th Plenary Session - Technology and Faith

#FORMAT

The Plenary sessions represent a series of 6 inspiring presentations of 15-minutes, offered by successful entrepreneurs, top executives, experts and professionals with over 10 years of experience with impeccable professional reputation and a modern vision of trends and tendencies redesigning the economy and society. These inspirational presentations have a motivational role, they present various perspectives and focus on trends, tendencies, analyzes, presenting the opportunities and issues that the changes generated by these trends in the business environment and in society reveal.

#TOPICS

Innovation, Technology, Trends, Tendencies, Impact in Society, Impact on the Economy, Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Economic Growth, Development  

#TARGET AUDIENCE

Entrepreneurs and managers from small and medium-sized companies, start-up entrepreneurs, early career professionals, young people concerned about their future

#TOPIC and CONTEXT *

This is a sensitive but topical subject that has a strong impact on our own system of beliefs, principles, and values. And these are the main basis of how we work. We live a period of great change in society, generated both by technology and digitization of society, as well as by social, political and geostrategic bills that strongly affect our belief system. The millennial generation has shown us their incredible ability to adapt to technology and to digitize society, their "digital native" name says all about this incredible ability to assimilate, use, and develop this technology.

We aim at this session to debate and challenge the way in which the technology of society and the digitalization of our private life and business environment will affect our system of beliefs, principles and values, how we judge and decide what is good and harm, will help us to be better, more tolerant, will lead us to look for new ways to make the world better, eliminate inequality, social inequality, eradicate hunger and poverty or, on the contrary, these skirmishes and deregulations in society will become more acute and will become the focus of problems, challenges and conflicts. Today's reality seems to offer enough arguments both sides, but with a more pronounced tendency towards the second possibility...

Will it kill the technology of faith, transform it, and reform it? We do not know for sure, but what we can see and feel is that it changes.

The challenge for speakers is to help us with their own argued vision of how technology and digitization will affect us as people, as individuals in our belief system, principles and values, how the transformed world will look, what challenges and opportunities will be on this already started road ... that we do not know where it's going ...

#QUESTIONS to which the speakers’ presentations will give answers​

• What are our beliefs, values ​​and principles? How do they form them? Can they be transformed into life?
• The effect of technology on the basis of our values and our beliefs will help or on the contrary?
• Are we aware of these changes and where do they go? Is it beneficial for society, community, individual this trend?

# RESOURCES *

• https://www.barna.com/research/how-technology-is-changing-millennial-faith/
• https://www.ted.com/talks/billy_graham_on_technology_faith_and_suffering
• http://www.practicingourfaith.org/how-technology-affecting-faith
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/faith-and-technology-who-is-in-control/2012/01/25/gIQArVpHTQ_story.html?utm_term=.c4d4adbdfc34
• http://www.lifeway.com/Article/technology-discernment-faith-tim-challies-next-story

It is required for at least Business Trends access type to participate in this session, but those who have access to Business Development and Professional Development access vouchers can also participate.