God-Powered Innovation
Aug 2024 in Los Altos, CA
“It felt like a reunion… with people I’d just met for the first time.”
Over 75 faith-driven entrepreneurs and tech leaders gathered to be inspired by God-revealed ideas, run sprints with local ventures, and connect with like-minded peers.
Co-hosted by:
Hear Brian Martin’s Testimony
God-revealed medical device schematics, which have gone on to 100% clinical trial results and extend life of over 300,000 people.
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Your Hosts
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Jess Munro
Jess has been helping unlock people’s creativity for two decades, including at IDEO and Stanford’s d.school (the design school). She loves sparking new ways of hearing God’s “voice.” She’ll bring some d.school brainstorming mojo and is excited for how God will show up!
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Bart Munro
Bart is a hospitality, product, and experience design leader with a passion for envisioning and building Kingdom-reflecting products. A serial faith-driven entrepreneur, he co-founded a mobile wellness platform, Fig.com, and social impact cruise line, Fathom.
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Roy & Esther Tinklenberg
Roy & Esther cofounded and lead a global community of Christians who bring their best self - their authentic self - including their faith to work. They equip those in the marketplace to fulfill their purposes and do good and "help" those who have a passion for integrating their faith and work.
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John Kim
John is a technologist, and community & ecosystem builder who leads FaithTech in the SF Bay Area, bringing Christian technologists together for fellowship, discipleship and activation to address technical challenges and co-create new solutions for Gospel and mission.
Speaker: Brian Martin
Brian has a radical testimony of God sharing divine strategies for medical devices that have gone on to 100% clinical trial results, birthed companies acquired for nine figures, and stunned audiences of Christians and atheists alike.
Brian is a seasoned engineer, inventor, and serial entrepreneur, with over 30 years of experience in the medical device space. His medical devices and inventions have gone on to shape the fields of both neurosurgery and interventional cardiology, and have been used to save or extend the lives of approximately 300,000 people around the globe. Brian is currently co-founder and president of Maduro Medical, and co-founder and CEO of Radical Catheter Technologies, where he is inventing and designing life saving devices for treating various disorders in the brain. Prior to this, Brian was co-founder and CTO of Lazarus Effect (acquired by Medtronic), where he invented and designed enhanced devices to treat stroke in the brain. He was co-founder of Concentric Medical (acquired by Stryker), where he designed the first stroke treatment device to get approval by the FDA, opening a whole new field of stroke treatment. Brian is also co-founder and CTO of Spinnaker, Inc, a collaborative project located at the prestigious Jacobs Institute at the University of Buffalo. Brian is currently an inventor on over 100 issued patents or published patent applications. Brian maintains that his best ideas and designs come from God in his prayer time.
