Mark Oestreicher (Marko) is a veteran youth worker and former president of Youth Specialties. The author of dozens of books, including "Youth Ministry 3.0" and "Middle School Ministry", Marko is a sought after speaker, writer and consultant. Marko leads the Youth Ministry Coaching Program and other projects under the banner of The Youth Cartel. Marko lives in San Diego with his wife Jeannie and two teenage children, Liesl and Max. Marko’s blog: www.whyismarko.com.

Chris leads Barefoot Ministries, a non-profit training and publishing company designed to assist youth workers in guiding students into Christian formation for mission of God. Chris is the author of, A New Kind of Youth Ministry and Story, Signs and Sacred Rhythms: A Narrative Approach to Youth Ministry. Chris also works with Youthfront, Inc. is a columnist for The Journal of Student Ministries and frequently speaks to and trains thousands of youth workers and students throughout North America. Chris is married to Gina and has three children named, Megan, Drew and Luke and resides in Overland Park, KS.

Tash McGill has been involved in youth ministry for 15 years in local churches, regional events and training workshops for youth pastors in New Zealand. As well as regular speaking, coaching and training with youth workers, she is particularly passionate about helping youth workers to meet the needs of young people in transition to adulthood in an ever-changing environment. In addition, she runs a creative communications agency specializing in communications strategy for the 13 - 30 year old market.

Brian is a 17 year veteran of student ministry. He serves as the generation ministries pastor at Journey Community Church near San Diego, CA. where he is hands on in high school and oversees a staff that is responsible for infants through twenty-somethings. He also blogs about his life and learnings, writes here and there, teaches youth ministry seminars, and speaks at various camps and retreats. He is married to his wife Shannon and together they have 5 kids. Brian also blogs at www.briancberry.com and tweets at www.twitter.com/briancberry.

Lars is the Lead Youth Minister at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas Texas. He is the author of "Youth Ministry on a Shoestring" Zondervan 2011 and contributes regularly to Youthworker Journal, Immerse and other publications. He is a 20 year youth ministry veteran but loves nothing more than being with younger youth workers and empowering them. Lars is an adjunct professor at Dallas Christian College, Concordia University and Dallas Theological Seminary. He blogs at: www.larsrood.com, tweets at www.twitter.com/larsrood and Lives a www.facebook.com/larsrood

Adam manages the Web presence for Youth Specialties. Outside of his work at YS, Adam is passionate about helping his church become Good News in its City Heights neighborhood in San Diego and gleefully volunteers with its youth ministry after nearly a decade as a full-time youth pastor. Besides daily articles on his blog, you may find Adam's writing at YouthSpecialties.com, Immerse Journal, and YouthWorker Journal.

Small town Southern girl relocated into the Kingdom by way of Seattle! Award-winning Singer/Songwriter /Music/Theater/Event Producer. Passionate about integrating the performing arts & ministry. Worked with World Vision, Young Life, Youth for Christ , UYWI and Seattle Public School System. Currently Youth Pastor at Church By The Side of the Road. Regular conference speaker & worskshop facilitator. Serving in multi-cultural/denominational ministry since 1995 . Single w / ~ 80 kids! www.facebook.com/MsMichelleLang / YouTube.com/MLSWtv

Tiffanie serves as the Youth and Young Adult Ministries Coordinator for the West Ohio Area of the United Methodist Church. In addition to this consulting, she is a passionate spoken word artist, using this a means to reach a different audience with the message of the Gospel. She enjoys mentoring young people as they discover their calling, providing private golf lessons, and keeping up with her blog. Relationships matter in every situation so most encounters end with , "Let's have coffee!"

Josh Griffin is the High School Pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA. He is a youth worker with over 15 years of youth ministry experience to draw from. Translated roughly, that means Josh has over 4,000 examples of when he has screwed up in hopes of helping you learn from his mistakes. Josh is in the day to day trenches of youth ministry just like you. He blogs everyday at www.morethandodgeball.com.

Kara Powell, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) and a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary (see
www.fulleryouthinstitute.org). As a twenty year youth ministry veteran, she speaks regularly at parenting and youth ministry conferences and is the author or co-author of a number of books including "Sticky Faith" (releasing in 2011), "Deep Justice Journeys", "Essential Leadership", "Deep Justice in a Broken World", "Deep Ministry in a Shallow World", and the "Good Sex Youth Ministry Curriculum".

Paul Martin pastors youth and youth workers in Birmingham, Alabama. His passion for seeing transformation in the lives of believers spans two decades and has existed in local churches, youth ministry magazines like the Youth Worker Journal and Immerse and coaching programs like YMCP. His current blog beingministry.com contemplates the growing need for investing the kingdom in the lives of teens and those who work with them.

Adam Walker Cleaveland is a pastor, husband, father, blogger, social media consultant and networker. He is associate pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Ashland, Oregon, where, among other things, he is actively involved in youth and college ministry. Adam blogs about youth ministry and theology at Pomomusings.com, fatherhood and grief at DazedDad.com and ministry and running at RunRevRun.net. Adam lives in Ashland with his wife Sarah, their beautiful son, Caleb Elijah, and their dog, Sadie. You can find Adam on Twitter at @adamwc or on Facebook at facebook.com/adamwc.

Brooklyn has authored numerous books and projects, including Confessions of a Not-So-Supermodel, Opposite Day, Sacred Life, Devo2Go, and The Kingdom Experiment: Youth Edition. She is a pastor and speaker who loves teens, teaching from the Bible, and leading people to live in compassionate response to God’s love. Brooklyn, while named after a city in New York, lives in the sunshine state with her husband, Coy, and their super sweet girls, Kirra and Mya. www.brooklynlindsey.blogspot.com

Karina is the Co-Founder of Authentic LA, a faith-based organization dedicated to promoting transformational small groups and culture changing initiatives. Growing up in Southern California, Veas was moved by the struggle that urban communities face. Through first-hand experiences in the homes of families, God placed a burden on Veas' heart to be part of the solution. Karina ministers through mentoring youth and developing innovative parent programs to increase their capacity to work with kids. Find her at Facebook.com/DrKarinaVeas & Twitter.com/drkarinaveas.

D. Scott Miller is the director of the Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore. With over thirty years of youth ministry experience, Scott previously served on the staff of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry. He maintains a daily web-blog at www.catholicYMblog.com. His best moment in youth ministry involved moonwalking in a bear costume on a Cleveland stage.

Jeremy Zach is an XP3 Orange Specialist. He has a MDIV from Fuller Theological Seminary. Stuff that makes him smile: online technology, student ministry, blogging at www.reyouthpastor.com, hot sauce, and Jason Bourne trilogy. He has been a 9 year youth worker-guinea pig trying to experiment with what works and doesn’t work in the church context. He places a high value on connecting with and learning from other youth workers.

Ian is a Youth Ministry Adviser for a Diocese in England. He is a professionally qualified youth worker who practices, trains and teaches youth ministry in a wide variety of settings. He twitters as youthblogoxford and witters as youthblog.org. Away from the world of Youth Ministry you'll find him enjoying his family, mountains, his V dub camper van, cycling and kayaking. He dislikes religiosity, being underground and bananas.

Eric Iverson and his wife, Judy are raising Hope and Isaiah in Minneapolis, MN. Eric began serving his local church as a summer program staff at 14, and has been working with students and families ever since. After serving 20 years in direct ministry with children, youth and families, Eric works alongside YouthWorks as culture change agent, helping YouthWorks build positive relationships between their participants and the communities who allow them to serve with them each year. Eric trains, consults, and connects leaders nationally for YouthSpecialties and YouthWorks, and is passionate about supporting youth workers in their efforts to glorify God with their lives and their discipleship of students.

Michael Novelli is continually seeking the most effective ways to help people learn. This passion led him to explore experiential teaching methods for 13 years as a church youth pastor. Now Michael’s full-time focus is to create learner-centered events, resources and curriculum for ministries and educators. He is founder of Echo, a ministry that explores the art of Bible storying (www.echothestory.com). Michael, his wife Michele, and children Angelo and Abrielle live in Elgin, Illinois.