Technology and the Future of Facilitation - Special Morning Zoom Session September 12 (8am-20am)

 

Technology and the future of facilitation |  SFN Special Zoom morning session |  Tuesday September 12th from 8am-10am (AEST)

with Schelling Point

On Zoom 

Here is the link

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84505817922

If you havent registered for the session, feel free to come along and witness how the process unfolds. 

Dear SFN colleagues,
 
Following recent conversations about the future of facilitation, I was curious about how emerging technologies might affect our work in the coming years.   So, I went looking for an opportunity to get some first-hand experience with leading-edge approaches and try these out with the SFN community.
 
I stumbled upon on SchellingPoint, a Philadelphia-based company with experience using augmented intelligence, data science, and other collaboration software to support its facilitation activities. The software assists the facilitator with the things humans can’t do well repeatedly. They kindly accepted our invitation to showcase the approach with the SFN community.  There were some pre-session activities for this session, which many of you completed. Those who didnt register, are still welcome to come along and witness the program. 

The event will be different from our usual SFN monthly sessions. SchellingPoint has offered to conduct a ‘live’ Strategic Collaboration with some pre-session activities which many of us have now completed. 

The topic for the dialogue will be something around Technology and the Future of Facilitation. So hopefully the process will match the purpose. 

SchellingPoint’s CEO Michael Taylor and their Sydney partner Marek Lis will provide case studies and answer questions.

Through this exercise, we hope to get a better understanding of how technologies are being applied to the deeply human aspects of our work. I haven’t experienced the Shelling Point platform yet, so we will all be joining as novices in this exercise.
 
I look forward to walking along with you on this exploratory journey.
 
Kind Regards,
 
 
Ian Colley

SFN convening group

About Schelling Point

We researched and developed the strategic collaboration technology and techniques through over 400 projects, from Fortune 50 corporate strategies, global coalitions, and government policy development, to early-stage ventures, process improvement, and product innovation, to mergers, outsourcing contracts, and infectious disease strategies. 

Our solutions are based upon the work of Nobel Prize recipient Prof. Thomas Schelling, Harvard professor Chris Argyris, and our work in Relational Network Analysis. In recent years we have taught the derived principles, concepts, and methods at leading business schools.

SchellingPoint is how we make them available to those needing to create new outcomes through coordinated action.

About the presenters

Michael Taylor is a SchellingPoint principal and co-founder.  Michael holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics, and Economics from the University of Warwick, England, and has guest lectured on Managerial Decision-making, Consulting on Complex Problems and New Methods in Consulting at  Cornell, Duke, Penn, SMU, Warwick, and Wharton.

Michael led the process for Andersen Consulting (Accenture)’s first software patent, an AI expert system, in 1992. Michael has been using AI at SchellingPoint since 2014.

Marek Lis is a Collaboration Architect dividing his work between Sydney and New York. Marek specializes in using the SchellingPoint platform to get groups of people heading in one direction.Marek spent many years in the advertising industry where he honed his skills in mediating highly subjective opinions of strong-willed people. And he has the scars to prove it.

After spending the last 25 years in New York where he grew increasingly frustrated in not finding a decent flat white, he and his wife moved back to Sydney late last year. Now he can enjoy client meetings over decent coffee.