The 1st Annual Austin Facilitator Summit
Control the Room

May 22-23, 2019  |  Capital Factory  |  Austin, Texas
Do you run regular meetings, daily standups, retrospectives, or workshops? Are you a Scrum Master, strategy consultant, negotiator, manager, or design thinker?Â

Join us for this two-day interactive event. Deepen your knowledge on how to facilitate meetings that matter and connect with other facilitation  and meeting practitioners.Â
Join us for one or two days!
Workshop: May 22 or 24, 2019
Facilitation Master ClassÂ
with Daniel Stillman & Douglas Ferguson

A hands-on workshop to sharpen your facilitation skills.
Conference: May 23, 2019
Austin Facilitator Summit
featuring 16 Master Facilitators

A full-day of expert facilitators sharing methods & activities.
Want to bring the whole team?

Groups of 3 or 4 get 40% off
Groups of 5+ get 50% off
*Discount automatically applied at purchase.
Summit Opening Speaker:
Priya Parker
Master facilitator and author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!"—Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED.Â

With a background in facilitating high-powered gatherings around the world, Priya will share inspired recommendations for leading meetings of any kind.Â

Bonus: All attendees will receive a signed copy of Priya's book.
See Priya, plus 18 other facilitation experts
at the Austin Facilitator Summit
Meet the Facilitators
Control the Room Summit Moderator
Douglas Ferguson
President at Voltage Control
Radical Departures: Productively Including Every Voice With Liberating Structures
Anna Jackson
Principal at Alpinista Consulting

Stay Curious, Find Joy
Ben Guhin
Head of Design & Technology Policy at City of Austin
Empathy Immersion
Brian Sullivan
Director, Design Strategy at Sabre Corporation
Making the Meta – Physical
Céline Thibault
Designer at Handsome
Narrative Facilitation Design
Daniel Stillman
Conversation Designer at the Conversation Factory
Think Wrong to Solve Next
Greg Galle
Founder & Chief Design Officer
at Solve Next
Leadership starts with listening
Heidi Helfand
Director, Engineering Excellence at Procore Technologies
20 Minute Mindful Facilitation Workshop
Jessica Lowry
Design Thinking Coach at Exploration x Design
Facilitating with Visual Models
John Colaruotolo
Principal at Collective Next
Radical Departures: Productively Including Every Voice With Liberating Structures
Keith McCandless
Co-founder of Liberating Structures
Finding and Managing Style Biases in Facilitation
Kevin Hoffman
Author of Meeting Design
Stay Curious, Find Joy
Marni Wilhite
Head of Digital Transformation at City of Austin
I am not a label. Facilitating for community in a transient age.
Mohamed Ali Abdirahman
Partner at LeadIN
Getting a team to think outside the box
Neha Saigal
Founder & CEO at N5
Pump Up Your Flipcharts
Patricia Selmo
Visual Storyteller at PLS International
Creating a Storytelling Organization
Reagan Pugh
Facilitator at Voltage Control
Consensual Prioritization
Terrence Metz
Managing Director at MG Rush Facilitation Training and Coaching
Working with "Facilitator Challengers"
Tomasz Borek
COO & Head of Training at NEON Sprints
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Venue
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street
Austin, Texas 78701
1st Floor, Voltron Room

Accomodations
700 San Jacinto Street, Austin, Texas 78701.

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About Voltage Control

Voltage Control is an innovation workshop agency founded by Douglas Ferguson, an entrepreneur and technologist with over 20 years of experience. With his unique combination of  expertise in technology, product strategy, and design thinking, Douglas offers trusted guidance to companies who want to jumpstart their product or project with an impactful innovation workshop. Based in Austin, Voltage Control designs and leads custom innovation workshops and Design Sprints, as developed by Google Ventures.Â
Beyond the Prototype 
A roadmap for navigating the fuzzy area between ideas and outcomes
By Douglas Ferguson

Have you ever struggled to move a key innovation project forward at work? Based on his experiences running Design Sprints for top companies, Douglas Ferguson wrote Beyond the Prototype to offer practical advice for people shifting from discovery to realization. Full of stories from companies like Google, Liberty Mutual, and Adobe, this guide outlines six steps that every team should take to launch their vision.Â

Available Now!

About Voltage Control

Voltage Control is an innovation workshop agency founded by Douglas Ferguson, an entrepreneur and technologist with over 20 years of experience. With his unique combination of  expertise in technology, product strategy, and design thinking, Douglas offers trusted guidance to companies who want to jumpstart their product or project with an impactful innovation workshop. Based in Austin, Voltage Control designs and leads custom innovation workshops and Design Sprints, as developed by Google Ventures.Â
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