Dare to Overcome (DTO) is the premier annual gathering for Fortune 500 company employee resource groups (ERGs), corporate chaplains, and other faith-and-belief workplace initiatives to share best practices and celebrate achievements.

On Days 1 & 2, join us for essential conversations and dynamic presentations on faith-and-work issues companies, leaders and employees are facing in an ever-changing socio-economic environment at home and abroad.

Day 3 is the IRF Builders Summit focused on ways people build religious freedom for all internationally through faith-friendly workplaces, education, positive engagement, and cross-cultural religious literacy, among others. Separate ticket required

This year's theme is "United Towards Hope."

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Schedule (click for latest updates)

ERG Resource Roundtables

DTO begins with special resource roundtables for faith-specific and interfaith employee resource groups (ERGs).

Lunch & Networking

Lunchtimes are designed for networking in the Maloney Atrium.

Keynote Plenary

The Keynote Plenary will feature Busch School of Business Dean Andrew Abela. All attendees get his new book Superhabits: the Universal System for a Successful Life). Also, our sponsors will share their Ways Forward in a Changing Environment.

Concurrent Session1

Plenary panel hosted by Interfaith America's Adam Phillips and an American Airlines Roundtable.

Concurrent Session 2

The Plenary is a special Keynote by British author Patrick Regan OBE and an Accenture and an AZZ Roundtable.

Concurrent Session 3

The Plenary is the exciting story of Merck's Interfaith EBRG growth and a ServiceNow Roundtable .

Concurrent Session 4

The Plenary is a special Keynote by Julia Oltmanns of Coca-Cola Consolidated and a Merck Roundtable.

Join us for the REDI and ERG Leader of the Year Awards

The Faith-Friendly Workplace Awards are on the evening of Day 1 (Tuesday, May 20).

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Day 2 begins with a multi-faith prayer option and continues sessions along the three tracks.

Multi-faith Prayer

Join Coca-Cola Consolidated and Craig Carter, formerly the founding coordinator of Intel's Interfaith Network ERG, for a multi-faith prayer event. Each is encouraged to pray in the way most authentic for them.

Concurrent Session 5

The Plenary will introduce new data on workplace culture and Equinix will host a workshop on developing a variety of partnerships.

Concurrent Session 6

BYU Marriott School of Business will introduce a new tool to help ERGs measure bottom-line benefit, and Interfaith America will host a workshop on navigating challenging scenarios in the workplace.

Concurrent Session 7

This plenary will look at the UK Faith@Work Summit held last month at Equinix HQ in London as an example of how such networks are growing. and BYU's MBA program will highlight how companies can get involved in their annual case competition.

Lunch & Networking

Lunchtimes are designed for networking in the Maloney Atrium.

Concurrent Session 8

Leading figures from the two colliding worlds of AI and religious liberty – a senior fellow at Microsoft, an evangelical leader, and an AI researcher – will discuss the rapid development of AI and its growing, multifaceted impacts on religious liberty in the United States and abroad. The ServiceNow Roundtable will give an example of a successful ERG interfaith engagement program.

Concurrent Session 9

Our initiative in India have successfully piloted a human rights and business skills curriculum for teenagers. This panel will describe how this is a potential CSR program ERGs could support in the US and internationally. Concurrently, the AI panel will have a follow-on Q&A.

International Religious Freedom Cross-Over Plenary with Dare to Overcome

The closing plenary of Dare to Overcome will coincide with the opening of the first-ever International Religious Freedom (IRF) Builders Forum. U.S. Senior Official performing duties of the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom will deliver a keynote followed by a fireside chat with RFBF President Brian Grim, IRF Secretariat Chair Greg Mitchell and Chris Seiple, Senior Fellow, Love Your Neighbor Community (LYNC).

International Religious Freedom Builders Forum Awards Dinner

Separate Ticket Required (SOLD OUT)

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Day 3 (optional) is focused on ways people build religious freedom for all internationally through faith-friendly workplaces, education, positive engagement, and cross-cultural religious literacy, among others.

Day 3 (optional) will provide an opportunity to engage with domestic and international civil society organizations that are working to build religiously inclusive, peaceful and sustainable societies.

The International Dinner on the evening of Day 2 (Wednesday, May 21 - separate ticket required) and Day 3 sessions are in partnership with the IRF Secretariat.

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Housing: The conference is on the campus of the beautiful Catholic University of America. Affordable dorm suits are available (book here). We do not have a conference hotel, but the university provides information on and special rates at some DC-area hotels either accessible by metro or within a 30-minute drive.

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All attendees will receive Superhabits!