The Fermi Project, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a loose collective of Evangelical innovators, entrepreneurs, and faith leaders who pursue endeavors that advance Christian goals.
Conference presenters have included people like authors Donald Miller, Rob Bell, Scot McKnight and Rick Warren, model Jon Passavant, media personality Jeff Johnson and social entrepreneur Majora Carter.
Fermi and its projects have made national headlines when they asked Eboo Patel, a Muslim leader and thinker, to present to their ambitious Christian audience.
They also collaborated to publish a recent best selling book, unChristian by Lyons and David Kinnaman of the Barna Group, which featured contributions from Christian thinkers like Jim Wallis, Margaret Feinberg, Mike Foster and Sarah Cunningham.
It is named after Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize winner and physicist who produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.