Digital Collab

Welcome to a brave new world of digital collaboration!

Are you now cruising the cyberspace with remote work and online meetings as a default mode of collaboration these days? 

Then you shouldn't be surprised to see that you can stay an equally productive organization and conduct business almost as usual. 

For most organizations this is fine. Yet, others want to reach the next level in meeting quality and take advantage of the latest group facilitation expertise coupled with AI technology to align all their meeting's outcomes with the actual customer's needs and to profit from a highly engaged workforce. 
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The Digital Collaboration Academy offers competency-based training of both soft skills of the facilitation process along with the technical ability to design and deliver with Howspace™ and other digital facilitation platforms.

The Digital Collaboration Academy partners with a global alliance of professional trainers that deliver our courses in multiple languages and geographies.


If you are an experienced trainer owning a long-established training business please contact us if you want to become part of our growing network.

Meet our trainers

Peter Seah, MBA, CPF

Peter has an MBA (Hull) and is an IAF™ Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) and a Certified Assessor™ in the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance©) among many other professional accreditations.

Paul Nunesdea, PhD, CPF

Paul Nunesdea is the English pen name of Paulo Nunes de Abreu, IAF™ Certified Professional Facilitator, Master of Ceremonies, Author, and Publisher of the book series - Architecting Collaboration.

Lost in the midst of the digital collaboration jungle? 

There are so many different digital tools out there that you can be experiencing a certain dazzle and even confusion, it's just normal. 


Join our LinkedIn group to get more guidance from your peers and other digital collaboration practitioners.

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Digital Collab 2023 

A Future Search Conference on the Future of Collaboration

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A new industry is born?

Tools for visual collaboration and group decision-making 

The industry experts call them IFPD - Interactive Flat Panel Displays - and they are taking over the previously booming video-projector and interactive whiteboards. Will these interactive surfaces become a critical technology in every organization's workspaces? What kind of digital tools for meeting management do you need along? Are team leaders and agile coaches ready to host meetings with these new digital tools? 

Welcome to the future workplace, today.

There is undoubtedly a new trend in the workplace - including schools, universities and business organizations - for the use of interactive screens and specialized software that increases the effectiveness of teamwork.    

Pioneered by a number of manufacturers, large touch screen devices are becoming slicker and smarter. Since 2016, heavyweight companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Google and Samsung all have released their own versions of what is now being called - Team Displays - powered by different types of ideation software and other digital tools for group decision-making. 

What are the trends in collaboration, meetings and flexible working? Check out also this interesting white paper from CTOUCH.

What's my role in all this?

If you are reading this,  you are likely employed to manage the pace of innovation as an 'agile coach' or a 'facilitative leader' expected to improve strategizing in your own organization or the ones of your clients. 

Yet, your degree of preparedness to change can range and this diagram can help to figure out where you stand right now, according to the level of competitiveness of your industry.

About Digital Collab 2021

Digital Collab 2021 is the offspring of our first hybrid gathering in 2018 hosted in London - Visual Collab 2018. 

All previous participants as well as new interested members and donors where recently invited to discuss the goals and aspirations for the next gathering.

The planning process that resulted from the serendipitous balance of presences allowed for fresh insights about the shape of the next gathering.
Using Nureva Span in our Future Café at the RSA House 28 November 2018

Technology manufacturers & brands

What is the fundamental problem your meeting technology solves and why should the world care about it?

Strategic alliances, merger, and acquisitions: are these an unstoppable trend to gain critical mass in the market?

Corporate and educational end users

How to better engage your workforce and how can visual collaboration make an impact?

Why does the workplace of the future require a Team Display, today?

Group facilitators and Agile coaches

How can digital tools for visual collaboration and group decision-making impact my practice?

How to safeguard my technology investment against an eventual brand disappearance? 

Value-added resellers, integrators and workplace consultants

Trading on the brand is expensive, is it worthwhile? Are there any other ways to fight IFPD commoditization?

What is the best workplace deployment strategy for a Team Display and why different types of software can have an impact? 

Visual Collab 2018

A pioneer hybrid event hosted in the RSA House in London and virtually on 28 November 2018. In this article Future Foresight Methods I expand on the context that originated this gathering.


Hosted at the RSA House which combines Georgian splendour with high quality contemporary design.

28 November 2018

Morning session

Colin Messenger (Senior Market Analyst at Futuresource Consulting) gave the Keynote address to kick-start the Café conversations.

Afternoon session 

David Martin (Nureva's Chairman) gave the Keynote address to kick-start the Expresso Café conversations.


Visual Collab 2018 co-founders

Paulo Nunes de Abreu aka  Paul Nunesdea , is a book author and an IAF (TM) Certified Professional Facilitator with +15 years of experience in creating and nurturing communities of practice. 


Paul has worked in the collaboration technology industry since the late 90s in several roles and  Digital Collab is the result of these two combined work experiences. 

"I was delighted when David accepted to host these Future Cafés in London, as I feel this is a unique of a kind opportunity for relevant stakeholders to gather and extract value from this face to face encounter."

David Gurteen is an advocate for improving the quality of conversation in our lives and the creator of the  Knowledge Café – a powerful conversational tool for bringing people together to have meaningful conversations. 

David is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community – a global network of more than 22,000 people in over 160 countries whose purpose is to connect its members with like-minded people, new ideas, and alternative ways of working. 

You can find more about David: here.

What's our goal?

Our goal is to open a space for relevant stakeholders to be able to encounter and express themselves in meaningful conversations about the future of the visual collaboration industry. 

What is a Knowledge Café?

The Knowledge Café is a conversational method in which small groups of people come together to have open, creative conversations on a topic of mutual interest, to surface their collective knowledge, to share ideas and to gain a deeper understanding of the issues involved. 


What is a Future Café?

A Future Café is a form of Knowledge Café designed to explore trends and issues that shape, influence or in some way impact the future. A Future Café is not about making decisions or reaching consensus.

The value of a Future Café is in getting the participants to engage with an issue and to think more deeply about the future and what it means to them.
Meet our 2018 Café members

The venue

The RSA House combines Georgian splendour with high quality contemporary design. Over 260 years this historic building has been home to some of the most creative thinkers who have been dedicated to shaping the future through ideas and action.

Special contributions

Visual Collab 2018 special contributions, from left to right clockwise, Colin Messenger (Senior Analyst, Futuresource Consulting), John Hovell (Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at STRATactical International), David Gurteen (Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning consultant, speaker and facilitator), Jon Knight (Commercial Director, Ascentae), David Martin (Chairman, Nureva).

I am truly thankful for their thoughtful contributions and conversational leadership within this community.
John Hovell is the CEO and co-founder of STRATactical. As a leader in the convergence of Knowledge Management (KM) and Organization Development (OD), John has lead teams that have won awards from Chief Learning Officer magazine. In 2015, he was named the 8th most influential person in Knowledge Management. He published a chapter in a book titled "Making It Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management" and became a fellow with the Royal Society for Arts (RSA). You can reach John: here.
Jon Knight is the Director of ascentae, and he loves to challenge conventions and to innovate with technology in order to foster a digital transformation in the collaborative workspace. As the Café sponsor, he will be co-hosting with us an innovative technology layout for this Thought Leadership session in London. You can contact Jon or his team: here.

Supporting the pillars of collaboration

Collaborating with sticky notes works – but it can only take you so far. With a suitable ideation software, you can get more from your agile, lean, design thinking and other processes with adaptable digital tools. 

In our last Thought Leadership session at the RSA House, participants have discovered how Nureva Span can be used for capturing shared knowledge during the café conversations. 

Access the Green Paper report

The Future of Visual Collaboration: an industry 'green paper'

Our first Future Café focused on exploring the signals of change that might lead to the wider adoption of digital visual interactive collaboration. 
London in November
November in London may mean evenings are longer and the days chillier, but there is a special pre-Christmas energy in the air that is so enjoyable. The city is packed with a whole host of places and things to do. Check TimeOut here for more details.

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Registration options

There are a number of limited places for participants wishing to attend remotely. Please use the code REMOTE when registering with any of the options below and you would have access to your remote ticket reduced price. 

Interested in sponsoring Digital Collab 2020? 

Become a Donor member of Digital Collab community. 

Digital Collab is an independent forum and our value derives from our independence. As a donor member or sponsor, you will be able to propose ideas and suggest relevant debates but the steering of the content of our events.

Become a Digital Collab donor

Facilitators are welcome!

This is an IAF - International Association of Facilitators friendly event and offers a limited number of SME or Consultant tickets with an exclusive special offer for IAF members.

Our twin meeting in Lisbon

All members of Social Now are welcome to attend Digital Collab in 2020.

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Digital Collab 2021 is a col.lab - collaboration laboratory initiative in support of the Digital Collaboration Academy

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