Rethinking How We Work Together in the Intelligent Age
Join a vibrant community of facilitators, educators, and community leaders exploring the art of online collaboration in the age of AI.
AI/IA Intervening Authentically: Our Role in Facilitating Humanity Now
Jeffer London, Michelle Zhang, Ralph Van Crombrugge
Facilitators are needed to support groups dealing with AI disruption. This session is about our role in the human conundrum of AI-led organizations. We’ll lean into what is uniquely human (that AI is less good at) - “EPOCH” qualities: Empathy, Presence, Opinions, Creativity, Hope – to explore uncomfortable questions we all face. What’s at risk in the race for performance? Future of human relationships? Seeing our AI bias? Thriving in an AI future? Role of EPOCH facilitators? [ZOOMLINK]https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83519382941?pwd=GpXJ7owMU0ANJcy1iIVoaGJZYqCF7G.1[/ZOOMLINK] Meeting ID: 835 1938 2941 Passcode: 017604
Use Your Illusion: Hallucinations & The Future of Online Workshop Facilitation
Dennis Draeger
AI hallucinations are a key feature for diverse future thinking, not a bug. This session presents the theory from “Automating Liminality in Foresight Practice.” After exploring the history of automation, you’ll learn a powerful three-step process—critical, liminal, and creative thinking—to transform inaccurate AI output into innovative insights. The session culminates in a practical workshop on the future of online workshop facilitation, using collaboration tools to find and enhance AI-generated scenarios, demonstrating AI as an augmentation for human creativity. [REMOLINK]https://live.remo.co/e/use-your-illusion-hallucinations[/REMOLINK]
Silicon Based Intelligence Vs Carbon Based Wisdom
Juan Antonio Saenz, Pedro Ramirez
Join us for an exploration of the most critical question of our time: not Human versus AI, but Human with AI. This workshop will examine how we can harness artificial intelligence to enhance rather than erode human agency. Drawing on insights from Yuval Noah Harari and others, we’ll discuss why the real danger isn’t AI rebellion, but humans losing faith in their own power. Discover how to navigate this fascinating threshold in history — ensuring that technology empowers us to see more clearly, decide more wisely, and create more boldly while keeping the steering wheel firmly in human hands. [ZOOMLINK]https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84863236454?pwd=iylxfgGmXawvf3m4PVEEZncGusoDSl.1[/ZOOMLINK]
AI and Facilitation: What the Data Tells Us (and How We’re Building on It)
Deborah Rim Moiso
What do we know about how facilitators around the world are actually using AI in their workflows? We’ll look into data from SessionLab’s 2025 and (before it’s even out!) 2026 State of Facilitation reports and reflect together on what these trends mean for facilitators and learning designers. What AI tools are facilitators using? What part of the workflow are they most useful for (spoiler: design work, so we’ll look into that a bit deeper)? What use cases are popular? Expect some presentations and some time to reflect, alone and in breakout rooms. [ZOOMLINK]https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83918500967[/ZOOMLINK]
Facilitating the Human Work of AI - Supporting people, culture, and strategy through the AI transition
Mike Clargo
AI is changing everything — but it’s people who must adapt. This session invites facilitators to step into a vital emerging role: helping individuals and organizations make sense of AI’s impact, reshape roles, and build confidence in co-creating with new technologies. Grounded in the Personal AI Revolution framework, we’ll explore how to support culture, strategy, and personal growth through practical facilitation. Whether or not you’re a tech expert, your ability to hold space, guide transitions, and enable new mindsets has never been more needed. [ZOOMLINK]https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84656782211?pwd=EF0nvcuiUSSqaVXrd1HblRb0YPSkLf.1&from=addon[/ZOOMLINK]
The Race to Survive
Gwyn Jones
The urgency to find a way forward that ensures survival of the species is increasing daily. How can we respond? Is it time to slow down and listen? This session is an opportunity to step back from the daily busy-ness and contemplate the global context and our options for the future. An opportunity to step back from the daily busy-ness and contemplate the global context and our options for the future. [ZOOMLINK]https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89873552181?pwd=JOTha03fTj23cn7iSVuWfwy3XSRnJa.1[/ZOOMLINK] Meeting ID: 898 7355 2181 Passcode: 956898
Awakening in Transition: Practicing Presence in a Transforming World
Lalith Gunaratne
We explore how mindfulness, reflection, and daily inner practice can help us stay grounded amid profound change. Through guided contemplation and dialogue, we’ll inquire into our relationship with self, others, and the living world - recognizing our interconnection with nature and the cosmos. Participants will reflect on how to meet uncertainty with compassion, realism, and humility, embracing impermanence and our shared human fallibility. Together, may practice being fully present - not driven by fear, but awakened to a life of harmony, awareness, and loving engagement with the world in transition. [REMOLINK]https://live.remo.co/e/awakening-in-transition-practici[/REMOLINK]
The Growth and Value of Internal Facilitation
Kathrina Loeffler, Executive Director - International Association of Facilitators
This interactive session invites participants to explore the unique value of internal facilitation, the systemic factors that support its growth, and the tensions it presents within traditional facilitation norms. Through collaborative reflection and breakout discussions, participants will gain deeper insight into this emerging profession and leave with practical strategies to support and elevate internal facilitators as equal partners in advancing facilitation practices that foster meaningful engagement. [ZOOMLINK]https://iaf-world.zoom.us/j/4012838868?omn=86040932927[/ZOOMLINK]
Addressing Bias in AI
John Kenyon
In the age of AI and large language models (LLMs), addressing bias is not just a technological challenge—it’s a social imperative. This workshop will empower facilitators to recognize and mitigate bias in AI-generated content, equipping them with practical tools and ethical frameworks. We’ll explore real-world examples, engage in hands-on activities, and discuss how to implement AI tools responsibly, ensuring that technology serves equity, not deepens disparities. [ZOOMLINK]https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88977788501?pwd=ZR5zF7C7bZB9uyIjMaAbgw0JWbFHtx.1[/ZOOMLINK] Meeting ID: 889 7778 8501 Passcode: 010194
Coddiwomple Design: Holding Space When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going (Yet)
Danu Poyner
We live in a world that prizes clarity, direction, and outcomes. But some of the most meaningful journeys begin in the dark, without a map. In this participatory workshop, we’ll explore how to design and hold space for what doesn’t yet exist — where aliveness, not certainty, leads the way. After a short framing, we’ll step into a Resonance Room: a participatory reflection space shaped by curiosity, presence, and emergence. Maybe you’ll leave with language for what you already knew, a deepened trust in the unknown, or a few provocations to carry into your own facilitation and design practice. We can’t say for sure — that’s part of the adventure. [ZOOMLINK]https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85937511369?pwd=CbeNTT4yejxvEHt1nX4F1A5WC5AiY0.1[/ZOOMLINK]
The AI Wrangler: How to Keep Humans in the Loop
Mike Rossius
Today, facilitators don’t just use AI; we manage AI-augmented groups. This is the new, non-negotiable reality. Our session will explore the critical path to handling AI when it’s both in facilitator’s and in every participant’s hands and map out a process that harnesses AI’s full power while securing the group’s complete ownership of the results. You will leave with a practical set of new ground rules for regulating the AI in the room, using it as a powerful tool to ensure the final decision truly belongs to the group. [ZOOMLINK]https://zoom.us/j/96971578606?pwd=26iQa78g4ecLZvKUjjhUxpb90EebE5.1[/ZOOMLINK] Meeting ID: 969 7157 8606 Passcode: 253952
4 Uses of AI for Your Practice: Connection, Planning, Executing, and Reporting
Hector Villarreal, Sean Hurtig
This interactive session aims to demystify AI for facilitators by focusing on four basic and key practical uses. Participants will get hands-on experience using AI tools to enhance their practice across the entire facilitation lifecycle: exploring how AI can foster connection among clients and participants, streamlining the often time-consuming process of session planning, accelerating various tasks during the actual execution of a session, and finally, easing the pain of post-session reporting. This workshop delivers actionable strategies designed to save you time, increase participant connection, and allow you to focus more energy on what you do best: facilitating. [ZOOMLINK]https://zoomference.zoom.us/j/82646335442?pwd=RnJoeevSuOHukp1ZAnd4UMfCGeavI3.1&jst=2[/ZOOMLINK] Meeting ID: 82646335442 Passcode: 943658
AI Efficiency Without Layoffs: How Keeping People Increases Profits
Mitali Deypurkaystha
Join the UK’s leading AI Impact Strategist, for a breakthrough session on The Human ROI Method — a values-led framework that proves efficiency and employment can rise together. Discover how to turn AI-driven time savings into creativity, innovation and new revenue across eight value drivers. Learn how redeploying people, not releasing them, builds stronger culture and bigger profits. Because AI that empowers delivers ROI that proves it. [ZOOMLINK]https://zoom.us/meetings/96703922097/invitations?signature=ZJukywC2i0U8VMK4lmLIyAZWcNcmjx9ULeIt77d61Y4[/ZOOMLINK]
Future of Facilitation - Exploring How We’ll Work Together in 2035
Max Irmer
In this imaginative, co-creative session we’ll time-travel to 2035 and invent new facilitation professions that could exist in the intelligent age. Together we’ll design short narratives, speculative job profiles, and digital artifacts representing how humans and AI might collaborate to guide groups in the future. This isn’t about prediction—it’s about imagination. Using speculative design and AI-supported ideation, we’ll build a shared gallery of futuristic facilitation roles and tools, sparking reflection on what kind of facilitators we want to become. [ZOOMLINK]https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87212209180?pwd=lBu67aSmi8Ql0TqbinxA4CN5sLPLE5.1[/ZOOMLINK] Meeting-ID: 872 1220 9180 Code: OFU2025
In Search of the Whale: Designing Global Dialogue Spaces
Paul Nunesdea
Inspired by Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, this session explores what it takes to create meaningful global spaces for dialogue — when the “whale” is a vast international conversation, and the facilitator is the lone navigator charting uncertain waters. Drawing on my experience designing hybrid summits like the Health Data Forum and the “Data First, AI Later” movement, I’ll share the human side of large-scale facilitation: courage, humility, and the art of keeping the line tight without losing the soul of the dialogue. [REMOLINK]https://live.remo.co/e/in-search-of-the-whale-designing[/REMOLINK]
What AI Teaches Us About Ourselves
Rebecca Mbaya
This session examines what intelligence truly means in the age of AI. It foregrounds the often invisible labor of data workers from the Global South and collective African practices like Stockvels (systems historically undervalued or ignored as “intelligent”). We explore how AI might replicate these biases, raising critical questions about whose intelligence is erased and how diverse forms of intelligence should be acknowledged and amplified in this era. The session invites participants to rethink human and collective intelligence in ways that challenge conventional narrow definitions. [REMOLINK]https://live.remo.co/e/what-ai-teaches-us-about-ourselv[/REMOLINK]
Leading in the Liminal: Human Transitions in the Age of AI
Mihirini de Zoysa
In an age shaped by intelligent technologies, the greatest transformation is human. This workshop invites leaders into the liminal space between who we have been and who we are becoming as AI reshapes work, identity, and meaning. Through reflective dialogue, somatic pause, and identity-mapping exercises, we will explore the fears, hopes, and emerging capacities of leadership in this new era. Rather than rushing to certainty, we will practice presence, curiosity, and emotional courage — learning to hold transition with grace and clarity. This is a space to breathe, reflect, and step consciously into the future we are already inhabiting. [ZOOMLINK]https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85869874313?pwd=6aLKBIlbaWz3GwF2aLTF2YKasvHyFk.1[/ZOOMLINK] Meeting ID: 858 6987 4313 Passcode: 534275
The Future is Flexible: Talent, Technology & the Rise of the Collective Workforce
Jamie Read
The Future is Flexible! The freelance, fractional, and flexible workforce is on the rise, and with it, a new way of working. In the Intelligent Age, the future belongs to those who embrace agility, empower independent talent, and harness AI to unlock collective potential. Join us to explore how flexible teams and fresh perspectives are reshaping work as we know it. [ZOOMLINK]https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83448673024?pwd=af1at1ibYBeg4sPYzy5oT4YUQpFjnY.1[/ZOOMLINK]
Link Drop and be heard: Sharing bold ideas
Irene Maweu
A relaxed workshop fostering discovery and imagination through the sharing of online resources. No technical skills needed, just explore the resources, brainstorm possible uses, share what you have and leave with intriguing ideas for your context. [ZOOMLINK]https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88633506241[/ZOOMLINK]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
Rachel Malek
Forget the singularity. The current Generative AI world is a bloated, hallucinating mess. A systemic failure designed to concentrate wealth. This session makes a pragmatic case: we need the bubble to burst. The worst outcome isn’t a crash; it’s the tedious continuation of the status quo. We’ll explore why embracing our agency to choose the terms of failure is the true path to the Intelligent Age. Following a brief talk, we will jump into a participatory workshop where we’ll define our Post-Crash Utopia and reverse-engineer the most delightfully absurd act of sabotage required to finally usher in something better. [ZOOMLINK]https://live.remo.co/e/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-a[/ZOOMLINK]
Grokkist Demo
Grokkist
Join us for a demonstration of Grokkist and discover how it can enhance your facilitation practice. [ZOOMLINK]https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88640010122?pwd=qEf3TSu69Cey0kNIekQvC9LnePJ3p4.1[/ZOOMLINK]
Konnector.ai Demo
Konnector.ai
Join us for a demonstration of Konnector.ai and discover how it can enhance your facilitation practice. [MEETLINK]https://meet.google.com/geb-ouux-gou[/MEETLINK]
GroupMap Demo
GroupMap
Join us for a demonstration of GroupMap and explore how it can transform your collaborative facilitation sessions. [MEETLINK]https://meet.google.com/zdv-roth-xqk[/MEETLINK]
Session Lab Demo
Session Lab
Join us for a demonstration of Session Lab and discover how it can enhance your workshop planning and facilitation. [ZOOMLINK]https://zoom.us/j/3646986138[/ZOOMLINK]
Featured Podcast
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What is the Online Facilitation Unconference?
OFU is a grassroots, community-driven learning exchange where participants shape the agenda.
Unconference Format
Participant-driven sessions where YOU decide what matters most. No boring presentations, just meaningful conversations.
Global Community
Connect with 500+ facilitators, educators, and community builders from around the world.
AI & Technology
Explore how AI and emerging technologies are transforming virtual facilitation and collaboration.
Best Practices
Share and learn cutting-edge techniques for engaging online meetings, workshops, and events.
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The unconference – the part where participants shape the agenda based on their interests (and the main attraction of OFU – will take place on Thursday, November 20.
We will have opening workshops on Nov 17 and preparatory sessions on November 18 & 19. We’ll finish with a round of closing workshops on Nov 21.
Sessions run across three daily time blocks to accommodate global participants, with times friendly to the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, and Asia/Australia.
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