John Dyer is the VP for Enrollment and Educational Technology and a professor of theology and sociology at Dallas Theological Seminary, bringing over 20 years of experience as a technology creator. He has built digital tools utilized by leading global organizations, including Facebook, Google, Apple, and the Department of Defense, as well as highly accessed faith-based web projects like bestcommentaries.com, y’allversion.com, and the early AI worship lyric generator worship.ai. An accomplished author and speaker on technology, AI, and education, he has written books such as From the Garden to the City, Ecclesiology for the Digital Church, and People of the Screen, and regularly contributes to prominent publications like Gizmodo and Christianity Today. During his featured presentation at the practice pitch breakfast, Dyer provided a profound theological framework for artificial intelligence, challenging the common view that technology is neutral and instead showing how every tool we use inevitably shapes our human habits and minds. Highlighting that Jesus Himself was a tectone (the Greek root word for technology) and drawing from the biblical law of building roof parapets in Deuteronomy, Dyer urged Christian entrepreneurs to actively construct ethical guardrails that promote human flourishing and preserve a critical “human-in-the-loop” focus as AI systems scale.