Understanding your Walt Disney DNA

The best creators find ways to inject creativity into their projects...and my job is to inject creativity into them! As someone who helped create the magic for some of the world's best loved Disney attractions and theme parks, Brian will share the 5 components of your "Walt Disney DNA" that we all have. Understanding these 5 components will help you ignite that creative spark and send you back to work with the most supercalifragilisticexpialedocious attitude ever!

Using Creative Cross-Pollination to Break Through Your Challenges!

In this workshop, participants will be asked to bring a current project or idea that is challenging them. By using the technique of Creative Cross-Pollination and facilitated by former Walt Disney Imagineer Brian Collins, attendees will not only break through their mental blocks, but walk away with more than one innovative way to solve their problem. It's interactive, fun, and most important...it works!

Creative Cross-Pollination: A Workshop to Get You Thinking Differrently!

In this workshop, participants will be asked to bring a current project or idea that is challenging them. By using the technique of Creative Cross-Pollination™, facilitated by former Walt Disney Imagineer Brian Collins, they will not only break through their mental blocks, but walk away with more than one innovative way to solve their problem. It's interactive, it's fun, and most important...it works!

This workshop can be scaled from 1 to 4 hours and is appropriate for all levels. It is customized for your conference and your attendees focus! Ideal size is 10-15 participants, but it can accommodate more if necessary.

A.I. from an Academic's Perspective

Brian Collins is a former Walt Disney Imagineer, a futurist, and now, a full time instructor at the University of Central Florida. He is an authority on new and emerging technologies and, as a full-time instructor at the University of Central Florida, lectures about the impact of A.I. virtually every week.

The challenges A.I. poses to education are deep and real, and will continue to grow and an alarmingly fast pace. From student's use, to professors and instructors adapting the technology, to research, there isn't an area of the academic world that has not already been...and will continue to be...affected.

In this lighthearted but very serious discussion, Brian challenges his audience to think: Could our next schools be run by robots? Could new types of immersive environments turn into the next type of school? Will generative A.I. eliminate the need for certain degrees?

It may not be as crazy as it seems, and the academic world, which already has it's head spinning, needs to ask these questions and really look far into the future...that isn't really that far away after all...

Perfect for professors, instructors, K-12 teachers, administrators, or anyone in the academic space!

The Future is Immersive

This presentation takes us 10 years into the future. The Metaverse is common and used throughout society--not something "new" that people are talking about. What's next then? How will AI, super-computing, robotics, XR, and more evolve to turn the Metaverse into the "Immersiverse"--a truly immersive experience that will open doors for developers in ways they can't imagine. Be careful what you wish for!

How Amazing Immersive Worlds Will Be Your Next Classroom!

The Metaverse isn't coming-it's here. So is the "Experience Economy" where virtually every industry, including education, is headed. Because of this, the potential for educators to create amazing, immersive environments and transform education will only be limited by their own imagination. From A.I. to V.R. and beyond, this enlightening presentation by Brian Collins, a former Walt Disney Imagineer and co-founder of the Ensō Education Institute, takes a look into the future at the amazing possibilities of immersive education!

Scrum Master's Bootcamp, Disney Style!

In this highly interactive workshop, Brian Collins, a former Walt Disney Imagineer, will:
1) Facilitate discussions with Scrum Masters to help them break through their most challenging roadblocks
2) Offer Disney-Inspired tips and techniques for helping creative teams achieve breakthrough success, and
3) Explore how new tools and technologies can be used to enhance the creative process for them and their teams.

New Ways to Approach YOUR Challenges the Disney Way

While Disney is probably not the first company you might think of when trying to solve challenges in your line of work, the common thread is creativity and innovation! In this highly interactive workshop, Brian Collins, a former Walt Disney Imagineer, will facilitate discussions among participants to help them "connect the dots" between the most challenging roadblocks they are facing with THEIR specific issues and help put them on a path to new, exciting, and meaningful solutions!

Understanding Your Disney DNA-Special Developer's Edition

The best developers find ways to inject creativity into their projects...and my job is to inject creativity into them! As someone who helped create some of the world's best loved Disney attractions and theme parks, Brian will share the 5 components of your "Disney DNA" that we all have. He will help you ignite that creative spark so you go back to work with the most supercalifragilisticexpialedocious attitude ever!

Will customize to your specific audience.

How to Create Compelling, Stories for Games and Immersive Experiences

This interactive workshop explores not only the importance of, but also provides techniques, for creating clear, compelling stories, especially in game and immersive experience design, as explained by a former Walt Disney Imagineer.

Participants are guided through a series of fun exercises designed to help them not only think more creatively, but also innovate new ways to craft a compelling experience for their guests and/or clients. The workshop provides specific techniques and offers participants the opportunity to brainstorm ideas on how to overcome their biggest challenges in game or experience design.

This workshop can be scaled from 1 to 4 hours and is appropriate for all levels. It is customized for your conference and your attendees focus! Ideal size is 10-15 participants, but it can accommodate more if necessary.

This timely topic can also be adapted as a keynote or conference presentation as well!

Crafting your Business Story as Told by a Former Walt Disney Imagineer

Walt Disney Imagineers are the creative geniuses who conceptualize and build some of the world's most beloved theme parks and attractions. For us, this process begins with developing the story we want to tell and there are distinct crossovers from the entertainment world to the business world.

For entrepreneurs, corporate managers, C-Suite executives, or anyone working in business strategy, understanding how to craft your "business story" and being able to verbalize it is essential. This talk explores how brand and business storytelling differs from other types of storytelling and, at the end, will have participants “thinking like a Disney Imagineer"!

This fascinating and unique presentation can also be delivered as a workshop, as opposed to a keynote or speech.