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Welcome
I hope you find the latest blogs below of interest, please pass on to colleagues and/or use the material in your bulletins. This newsletter is stored here for ease of linking if you want people to access all the information.
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Online - The Augmented Practitioner: Putting AI to Work for the Impact Economy - 5pm 23 Jul
A pragmatic, optimistic, and unusually hands-on exploration of AI as an instrument of empowerment in the Impact Economy.
For most of the impact economy, the conversation about artificial intelligence has been dominated by anxiety — about bias, opacity, displacement, and the concentration of power in a handful of technology companies. But they are only half the story. The other half is about agency: what happens when entrepreneurs, investors, and changemakers stop treating AI as a threat to be managed and start treating it as a capability to be mastered.
Sateesh Nori has spent his career on the side of agency. After two decades on the front lines of New York City Housing Court, standing between families and eviction, he became one of the most credible voices arguing that AI is not a luxury for the well-resourced but a force multiplier for those working at the margins.
In this Luminarias conversation, we move from diagnosis to practice. Sateesh will share how he actually uses these tools — not in the abstract, but concretely: how to prompt large language models to think alongside you rather than merely answer you; how to encode your own judgment, voice, and analytical frameworks into AI systems so they extend your expertise rather than dilute it; and how a single practitioner, properly augmented, can now do work that once required a team.
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Online - From Division to Connection - Healing ourselves and our community - 6:30pm 30 Jul
Racial Justice Open Conversation
In unsettling times, it matters even more to nurture the connections that make us stronger as one community. The present times are exhausting. They hurt. Retraumatise. Yet, they also show how we are much more than this. We are one community, made of incredible human beings from immensely rich ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds.
At the London ACEs Hub, we recognise that the significant harm caused by the adverse experience of racism is real. Equally real, nevertheless, is our human capacity to endure, to heal, and to grow, both as individuals and as a community.
Join us as we slow down to face the monsters of prejudice, discrimination, and “cold rage”. Together, we will create a nurturing conversation to engage with a much more powerful truth, and the buffers that enable us not only to resist, but to persist: connection and love.
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Online - Launching Church Expressions - 7pm 10 Sep
Discover how to become a leader whose life and ministry naturally reproduce in others. Launching Church Expressions webinar invites church leaders and movement-minded disciples into the bold and often uncomfortable practice of launching new church expressions. Dave Ferguson, joined by special guest Andres Spyker, will explore how multiplication shifts from a “want-to someday” to a “have-to now,” confronting the tensions of Kingdom versus castle, comfort versus courage, and safety versus legacy. Through real stories of church planters, everyday believers, microchurch movements, and global multiplication, you’ll discover why planting new expressions of church is essential to the mission of Jesus…and how ordinary people saying “I’m available” can ignite extraordinary movements. Whether you feel excited, intimidated, or stuck in addition mode, this webinar will equip and inspire you to take practical next steps toward launching new church expressions and leading with a courageous yes.
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Online and In-Person - Faith-Driven Entrepreneur Conference - Build for More - 8:30am - 12pm18 Sep
The Faith Driven Entrepreneur annual conference is a virtual conference that is hosted locally at Watch Parties around the world. You can search for a specific location and register for a local Watch Party near you to join in person and meet like-minded entrepreneurs in your community. Alternatively, you can choose to attend online and stream the conference virtually on your own.
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