Facilitation
AI Teammates
Methods to Use AI in Meetings & Workshops
With Douglas Ferguson and Erik Skogsberg
August 15, 2025
11:30am - 1:30pm CDT
Live Online
Imagine running a meeting or workshop where AI isn’t just a passive tool but an active participant, filling gaps, enhancing collaboration, and enriching team dynamics. In AI Teammates, we explore how AI can be seamlessly integrated as both a participant and tool in your meetings & workshops, revolutionizing how you facilitate team interactions and engage participants.
This hands-on workshop by Voltage Control explores a multifaceted approach to leveraging AI in meetings. With AI as a “stand in participant,” the team experiences a dynamic collaboration that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. We also explore AI as a full participant, able to provide unique perspectives, insights, potential blindspots, and ideas in real time—fostering richer discussions and offering new angles on problem-solving.
Testimonials
“I went from seeing AI as just an assistant to understanding it can be a truly useful teammate during live collaboration. This workshop made that potential real.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
“This workshop shifted my perspective. I now see AI not just as a limited tool, but as a potential facilitator, teammate, and even an active coach to enhance meetings.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
“Eye-opening! I discovered practical ways AI can actively expand perspectives, structure discussions, and genuinely shape how we collaborate in real-time.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
“The key takeaway? With the right context, AI can be a valuable participant, ‘just like any member of the team!’ This workshop showed me how.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
This hands-on workshop by Voltage Control explores a multifaceted approach to leveraging AI in meetings. With AI as a “stand in participant,” the team experiences a dynamic collaboration that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. We also explore AI as a full participant, able to provide unique perspectives, insights, potential blindspots, and ideas in real time—fostering richer discussions and offering new angles on problem-solving.
Testimonials
“I went from seeing AI as just an assistant to understanding it can be a truly useful teammate during live collaboration. This workshop made that potential real.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
“This workshop shifted my perspective. I now see AI not just as a limited tool, but as a potential facilitator, teammate, and even an active coach to enhance meetings.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
“Eye-opening! I discovered practical ways AI can actively expand perspectives, structure discussions, and genuinely shape how we collaborate in real-time.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
“The key takeaway? With the right context, AI can be a valuable participant, ‘just like any member of the team!’ This workshop showed me how.” – SXSW 2025 Workshop Attendee
August 15, 2025
11:30am - 1:30pm CDT
Live Online
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Agenda
Welcome & AI Personas
Unpack your current AI habits and set the stage for deeper role-based exploration.
AI as a Teammate
Collaborate on a prompt using AI to generate ideas and explore how teams engage and create together.
AI As Facilitator
Use AI tools to brainstorm responses and co-create solutions with your team.
AI As Colleague
Explore who’s missing and draft early AI perspectives to check against real-world voices.
Who Should Attend
Experienced & New Facilitators
Who want to elevate their facilitation skills by learning how to effectively integrate AI as an active participant, enhancing engagement and collaboration in their sessions.
Chiefs of Staff
Who aim to align initiatives across departments and leverage AI to streamline communication, ensuring strategic projects are implemented with innovative insights.
Product & Project Managers
Who seek to drive stakeholder engagement and outcomes by utilizing AI to uncover unique perspectives and enhance decision-making processes.
Team Leaders & Innovators
Who are eager to explore new ways of collaboration and problem-solving, using AI to transform team dynamics and drive creative solutions.
Key Takeaways
Gain practical experience in leveraging AI as an active participant in meetings, exploring innovative facilitation techniques that enhance collaboration and engagement.
Delve into the nuances of integrating AI into your existing facilitation practices, boosting your confidence and adaptability through low-stakes role-playing sessions.
Discover the potential of AI to provide unique insights and viewpoints, enriching discussions and fostering a deeper appreciation for diverse experiences in team dynamics.
Realize how AI can reshape your facilitation style, empowering you to create more dynamic, inclusive, and effective team interactions.
Featured Facilitators
Douglas Ferguson
Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur, educator, and human-centered technologist. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that develops leaders through certifications, workshops, and organizational coaching focused on facilitation mastery, innovation, and play. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. Douglas is a thought leader and author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within.
Erik Skogsberg
Erik believes that a deep empathy and caring, rooted in human-centered design, systems thinking, and futures thinking best supports partners in finding their solutions. Erik is passionate about supporting clients imagining innovative approaches to complex organizational challenges.
Trained as an educator, designer, researcher, and change agent, he brings significant teaching, design, mentoring, professional learning and development, organizational change, and research experiences from across secondary, higher education, non-profit, and industry contexts. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, he helps people design lasting growth and innovation. Prior to working with Voltage Control, he co-founded Michigan State University’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation.
He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University, M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education.
Trained as an educator, designer, researcher, and change agent, he brings significant teaching, design, mentoring, professional learning and development, organizational change, and research experiences from across secondary, higher education, non-profit, and industry contexts. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, he helps people design lasting growth and innovation. Prior to working with Voltage Control, he co-founded Michigan State University’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation.
He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University, M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education.
What People are Saying
"The community’s warmth and generosity in tending to me and the issue made me feel cared for and supported. Beyond the suggestions, which were immediately useful, the culture of the community makes leaning into that growth edge easier, and more delightful."
Katrina Mitchell
Senior Technical Advisor, JHPiego
“I just wanted to say thanks for the great session last night. Your feedback and suggestions were fantastic. I left very energized!"
Dan Corbin
Instructor at Pragmatic Institute
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