Events

Our 2025 event is set for Wednesday, October 1 at the Irving Convention Center from 6:30 – 9:30 am.  Our guest speaker is Henry Kaestner.

Henry Kaestner is an Entrepreneur/Investor: Founder, Chairman & CEO of Bandwidth (NASDAQ: BAND); named the 4th fastest growing privately held company by INC Magazine in the years 2003-2008. 

He is the Co-Founder of Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor; Equipping more than 90,000 faith driven entrepreneurs and investors in more than 135 countries. (FaithDrivenEntrepreneur.org, FaithDrivenInvestor.org)

He is also the Managing Partner of Sovereign’s Capital, a US-based private equity firm founded in 2012 investing in faith driven business leaders and their companies.

Henry will be sharing his story and his passion for living out his faith in Jesus Christ in all areas of his life.

Sign up to host a table and invite others to come hear Henry and share breakfast with friends in the DFW Technology Community.

Previous Events

2024 – Our speakers were Steve Sharp of Global Heart Ministries and David A. Stone of First Rate. Jeff Lovejoy of LAM Technology was inducted into the Merv Tarde Values in Leadership Circle.

2023 – Our speakers were Ana Lopez and Robert Hunt (click their names to see video from that event).

2022 – Our speaker was Dr. Mark Stone, CIO of Texas A&M University.

2021 – Our speaker Ellen Barker, Senior Vice President and CIO of Texas Instruments.

2020 – Our speaker was Dave Shwadlenak, VP of IT for Mercy Ships. Jeff Woods and Matt Harrington were inducted into the Merv Tarde Values in Leadership Circle.

2019 – Our speaker was Sanjay Poonan, COO of VMware. Jason Denton, Reuben Najera, Tad McIntosh and Rod Wright were inducted into the Merv Tarde Values in Leadership Circle.

2018 – Our speaker was Cheryl Bachelder, the former CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. Rusty Kennington, Eric Wilson, and Robert Hunt were inducted into the Merv Tarde Values in Leadership Circle.

2017 – Our speaker was Onyeka Nchege, CIO of Interstate Batteries. Matt Levy, Paola Saibene, David Stone, and Onyeka Nchege were inducted into the Merv Tarde Values in Leadership Circle.

2016 – We had over 700 people in attendance to hear Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VM Ware, share how he lives out his faith in his personal and professional life. We added Mark A. Stone, CIO for the Texas A&M University System, as the 2017 Merv Tarde Values in Leadership Circle.

2015 – Our guest speakers were Todd Stewart of Gulf Wind International and Gary Peek of Rent-A-Center and we more than doubled our attendance from 2014 to see almost 500 people in attendance. Jeff Blackwell and Phil Farr were our first two inductees into the Merv Tarde Values in Leadership Circle.

2014 – Our inaugural event held at the Irving Convention Center. Our guest speakers were Don Cosbie, President of SSIClaimsnet, and Steve Reiter, Executive VP and Chief Revenue Officer for entegra Technologies. We were excited to see over 200 people join us for our first event and excited to see where GOD will take the event in the future.