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, developers 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, participants 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!

AI 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 lectures about the impact of AI virtually every week. The challenges AI poses to education are deep and real, and will continue to grow and an alarmingly fast pace. From students 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 a Delos-like organization? Could new types of immersive environments turn into the next type of school? Will generative AI eliminate the need for certain degrees? Will the Pirates of the Caribbean be our kids' next teachers?

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...

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. In this enlightening presentation, 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, Immersive Stories and Environments

This fun, interactive workshop will explore the importance of having a clear, compelling story, especially in game and immersive experience design, as explained by a former Walt Disney Imagineer. Afterwards, participants will be guided through a series of 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 their clients. The workshop will end by having participants brainstorm ideas on how to overcome each other's biggest current challenges in game or experience design.

Crafting your Immersive Story as told by a former Walt Disney Imagineer

This talk will explore what makes up our "Disney DNA" and how to use this to create an amazing user experience. For anyone working in creative development, whether as a designer or programmer, thinking differently and coming up with a compelling story is critical for your product's success. This talk will help you "think like a Disney Imagineer" top do just that!