The Flyover Festival 2026 speaker lineup is here
Five sessions. Six speakers you'll be inspired by. One creativity thread running through the whole day. August 27 in Sioux Falls.
The Fourth Annual Employee Comms & Culture Flyover Festival doesn't feel like other internal comms events. And that's the point. While everyone else packs into boring hotel ballrooms, 45 of us will be in a room in Sioux Falls, doing the kind of work that changes how you show up at your job on Monday.
Here's who's joining us and why you should be in the room.
Ellen Griley — Founder & Head Brain in Charge, Equilibrious Communications
The Farewell Tour: Building Better Language for the People You're Trying to Reach
Boots on the ground. Pull the trigger. Circle the wagons. Drink the Kool-Aid. We've all said them. We've all cringed when someone else did. Ellen is hosting a live induction ceremony to retire the tired phrases cluttering our communications, and building a replacement setlist you can take back to your team.
Come ready to rock the status quo. Leave with language that works.
Rachel Williams — Founding ICology Member
Communication Chic: Elevating Your Communications with Audience-Centric Sophistication
Rachel brings the afternoon a framework built on four elements: Clear, Helpful, Intelligent, Compelling. It's less about adding polish and more about refining the work you're already doing so it lands with the people you're trying to reach.
Expect to leave with sharper instincts for every campaign on your calendar.
Pinaki Kathiari — CEO, Local Wisdom
Amanda Todd — Senior Director, Strategic Communications, Temporal Technologies
Never Have the Value of Internal Comms Questioned Again
Pinaki is bringing the Local Wisdom IC Team Maturity Model to Flyover, along with an in-session assessment to show you where your team sits and where the gaps are. You walk out with a one-page leadership pitch template that's already helped teams win new investment, tools, and headcount.
This is the session to drag your boss to. Or at least steal the template for.
Alan Oram — Founder & Director, Alive With Ideas
Creativity Bootcamp
Creativity is a muscle. Alan is here to make yours work harder. The Creativity Bootcamp isn't one session, it's a thread woven through the entire day. Alan opens the morning with a 30-minute kickoff, then comes back three more times with hands-on activities that build on it.
You'll leave with practical tools, not a pep talk about how creativity matters.
Jason Anthoine — SVP & Managing Director, Arketi Inside
From Passenger to Pilot: Becoming a Trusted Advisor
Every event ends the same way: you fly home with a notebook full of ideas and zero plan to use them. Jason's session fixes that. He's kicking off the morning with a playbook for turning Flyover ideas into influence back at your organization, the kind that gets you taken seriously as a strategic partner, not just the person who sends the newsletter.
If you've ever been called "the comms person" when you wanted to be called "the advisor," this one's for you.
Why Sioux Falls, again
Because 45 seats in a small room with practitioners who do the work beats 1,500 people in a convention center every time. No passive keynotes. No vendor booths fighting for your attention. Just one day of sessions you'll use.
This is the fourth year of Flyover Festival. It keeps getting better because the room keeps getting sharper.
The details
August 27, 2026 in Sioux Falls, SD Startup Sioux Falls, 100 E. 6th St. 45 tickets total. ICology members save $200.