Tune in early for the conference anthem, Dare to Overcome. The anthem was written by Kyoji Ohno, and he collaborated on the lyrics with Brian Grim. Dare to Overcome is our Global Business & Peace Festival in support of the Paralympic Movement and people with disabilities, held at the start of the Parpalmpic Games in Tokyo, August 22-24, 2021. The official airline of Dare to Overcome is the world's largest - American Airlines.

American Airlines, one of Faith@Work’s Gold sponsors, is also collaborating with the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation to connect the world during the Paralympics. And in line with American Airlines’ purpose of caring for people on life’s journey, American will offer two roundtrip business class tickets to Dare to Overcome in Tokyo for an employee with disabilities from a company participating in this conference. Visit American's booth during the conference an tell us why you're nominating your teammate. The nominee with the most compelling reason will be chosen.

Ambassador 'Sujay' Suzan Johnson Cook opens our conference with an interfaith invocation for the people who will gather virtually in these days as well as for our loved ones, our companies and our country.

We realize that not everyone prays. For those who don't, we invite you to dedicate your hearts and minds to our mission of building a more inclusive society where people of all faiths and beliefs are free to be their authentic selves in their workplaces.

The 2021 Faith@Work conference opens virtually from Washington DC, with greetings from John Garvey. Brian Grim provides a roadmap for the three days, including revealing a Paralympic opportunity with American Airlines and an invitation to take part in a diversity survey in the exhibition hall. Grim also shares a bit of his personal background with a bit of lyrical humor as he reveals a free gift that all attending the conference will recieve.

Corporate leaders from Intel, Texas Instruments, American Express, American Airlines, SAP and Google share about the importance of religious inclusion in their workplaces. The results of the 2021 Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI) Index will be unveiled during this session. 

Mr. Flier will share how religious inclusion benefits not only Google’s global workforce but also all of us who rely on the many innovative products and services provided by Google every day.

Following Mr. Flier's presentation, join us for a Zoom webinar with live reactions from people in companies across the world incliding Intel, Texas Instruments, American Airlines, and others!

Tom De Vries will share a brief introduction of tomorrow's keynote speaker, Juliet Funt!

Join us for the world premier of the short documentary on Google's Inter Belief Network (IBN) introduced during Tomas Flier's opening Faith@Work keynote. The short film features IBN Googlers, including Naomi Kraus and Barbara Phillips who speak at the first panel of Faith@Work Day 2.

We pleased to present the Empower Women Short Film Festival. Join us to see the award-winnning short films by women from around the world celebrating Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”

Learn the backstory of Google's Inter Belief Network (IBN), which aims to create a culture of inclusion, tolerance, and mutual understanding at Google for a diversity of beliefs, where Googlers of all beliefs feel welcome, included, and supported. IBN also aims to ensure that the voices of belief-based communities are represented in Google’s products. IBN consists of multiple member chapters representing specific communities of interest, including but not limited to: Buddhists, Christians, Jewglers, Muslims.

Leaders of ERGs from American Express with respond and discuss similarities and differences with their ERG work.

Executives from Dell Technologies describe how their interfaith employee resource group (ERG) furthers the business objectives of the company, including corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Members of Equinix's new interfaith ERG will share how the process of forming their group not only deepened communication and trust but also is increasing energy and engagement.

Representatives of the three faith-based employee resource groups at Texas Instruments discuss the value of recognizing faith@work. 

Religious inclusion is not something you can just tick the box to accomplish by having faith and/or interfaith employee resource groups. This panel from Accenture, with testimonials from rank and file as well as HR, shows that it takes an accommodation approach that works across all departments, from recruiting to onboarding to employee engagement.

This is a unique and important opportunity for companies to hear directly from Sharon Fast Gustafson, General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), on how religious nondiscrimination and accommodation is integral to the success of American workplaces.

Corporate lawyers react to and discuss the keynote by Sharon Fast Gustafson, General Counsel of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC).

After Kent Jounson and Julia Oltmanns react, others, including Richard Foltin will weigh in.

Paul Lambert is the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation's director of corporate training. Together with RFBF's senior corporate advisor Kent Johnson, Paul provides examples the demonstrating the various tools and strategies companies benefit from in successfully creating a religiously inclusive environment. He also discusses both companies with long experience can benefit from new resources as well as tools for companies just beginning their religious inclusion efforts. 

We’re increasingly bombarded from all sides with shouts of alarm. Urgent calls to action rally people who agree, and ascribe evil intent to those who don’t. If we’re not offended at the evil intent driving the “other side,” then – it’s presumed – we must be ignorant or stupid … or, worse, we don’t really care. If we talk about a need for “thicker skin,” are we promoting an insult culture and giving a “pass” to those who say hateful, inaccurate things about us? If we talk about a need for “greater sensitivity,” are we agreeing with others who’ve labelled us mean-spirited bigots? The loudest voices shout that, if we talk about “greater sensitivity and thicker skin,” we’re naively playing into the hands of the evil conspirators; that we’re adding credence to their groundless cause. Are they right? The answer is no. Join us to hear why!

Members of PayPal's interfaith employee group, Believe, share how it is possible to find unity in diversity. They share lessons learned in the process of setting up and getting Believe off the ground.

A dynamic panel of business owners from and friends of the Global Black Women’s Chamber of Commerce address how faith and business go together.

Juliet Funt, daughter of Candid Camera’s Allen Funt, is just what the doctor ordered for a time like this. She was born with fun in her blood. She’s a high-energy, hilarious motivational keynote speaker who helps audiences crack the code of the Culture of Insatiability—where nothing we do is ever enough.

This session will illustrate that fundamental disagreements about the merits of traditional faiths need not result in fear or distrust. To the contrary: When we connect authentically and respectfully with people whose worldviews conflict diametrically with our own can enable deeper collegiality and more effective collaboration.

Members of PayPal's and Dell's ESTABLISHED interfaith ERGs discuss with the leaders of the NEWLY FORMED interfaith ERG at SAP the whys and hows of setting up faith-oriented employee resource groups (ERGs). This panel is a wonderful peek into how this movement spreads not only within a company but also from one company to another as well as spreading the spirit of authenticity into the communities they serve.

With artificial intelligence software everywhere in American corporations and raising important ethics questions central to the world’s major faiths, constructively engaging corporations in the debate on how to use AI well can be a win-win for ERGS and their employers.  In three panels and a live Q&A session, three panels of faith leaders and corporate insiders discuss why and how achieving AI for good is a great place for faith ERGs to practice their faith values.” 

Discussion - Moderated by David Brenner

Faith-oriented workers not only seek to “bring their best self to work” but to “bring their best work to their job” and marketplace in ways that integrate their personal faith and values and work life. This workshop explores in the context of several real-life work situations what resources are needed and helpful in translating faith values into ethical propositions, which then can be brought into conversation with an employer’s ethical policies or value statements.

Discussion follows. led by Michael Quinn.

Dean Brigette Madrian of the BYU Marriott School of Business begins with a short presentation, and then is joined by Dean Andrew Abela of the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America to discuss how faith-based business schools can support the growing movement in Fortune 500 companies toward encouraging employees to "bring their whole selves to work" - faith and all.

Sue Warnke (Salesforce) shows how the next generation of employees are looking for workplaces that allow them to bring their "full selves" to work -- including their diverse faiths and beliefs. Companies that don't "get it" are at risk of missing or losing some of the best up-and-coming talent!

What mindsets, values and/or rituals does your faith tradition bring that can enhance productivity in the workplace? And should workplace chaplaincy only be viewed as a vehicle for greater productivity and profits for a company?

Learn how workplace chaplains are helping to address the epidemic of mental health issues exacerbated by the covid-19 pandemic.

As the US continues to recover from a pandemic and violence in the Capitol itself, there are thousands of workplace chaplains ministering to people amidst the troubles. Join us to hear from three frontline chaplaincy leaders on how workplaces are strategic launchpads for civility?

Following a word from PayPal executives, Brian Grim summarizes the main arguments for workplace religious inclusion and ends with a moving tribute to all who have suffered or experienced loss during the pandemic.