About Craig Park
As an architect by training (BS Architecture, Cal Poly SLO) and a collaborative technologist with four decades of practice, I’m passionate about mentoring the next generation of AV professionals in the intersection of technology, strategy, and leadership. I've been active in AVIXA since 1986, and served on the national board, 1993-2000. I'm a Fellow of the Society of Marketing Professional Services (SMPS), and an Associate member of the American Institute of Architects.
My expertise spans audiovisual systems design, integrated building technology, strategic business development, and higher education technology planning. I bring an award-winning, B2B design thinking approach developed through leadership roles with national AEC and technology firms. I’ve led marketing and sales strategy, designed future-ready digital experience environments, and helped organizations implement AI-powered tools to scale expertise and performance.
I’m available as a mentor or advisor in areas including AV system design for education and civic spaces, AI-enhanced business development, strategic marketing for integrators and consultants, digital experience planning, and leadership development for rising professionals. I’m especially focused on helping firms utilize technology not just to build systems, but to establish credibility, save time, and drive revenue growth.
Known throughout the AEC and AV industries for my thought leadership and integrity, I share insights through industry publications, AVIXA and SMPS events, and my blog, CatalystFactor—a resource for growth strategies, leadership development, and marketing innovation.
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Recent Comments
Thank you @Craig Park for this amazing podcast! it’s quickly become my favorite way to make the traffic time fly by.
Thank you, Mohanned! It's been a great experience putting these together.
Under-rated and under-applied. Well said! Thank you.
Justin, well said! I continually look at prompt design as the key to effective AI usage. Notwithstanding a great prompt, AI agentics often "invent" information to fill in the gaps. Solid prompts, and review/revise/regenerate directorial input leads to better outputs.
Mohannad, thanks for posting this. And thank you for reaching out to schedule our talk. I really enjoyed our conversation. It proved you can have a coffee at 10 am EST and 4 pm Saudi Arabia Standard Time and have fun too.
We need more 'casual conversation' in xChange and in the industry. We share common challenges, and together we can create solutions. AI, AVoIP, IPMX, and other emerging technology trends deserve our close attention and continued development to demonstrate our value to the clients we serve in the workplace, education, healthcare, retail, and entertainment sectors.
Such tools like this can really make life easier for consultants and integrators,,,
excited to see where this goes!
Agree. I expect we'll see tools developed that will address this workflow consistent with CSI/Masterformat guidelines for comprehensive specifications.
AI-powered specification tools are the way! When took about AI being agile and efficient, we need to talk about these technologies more
Agree. AI can easily interpret equipment bills of materials and create room specifications that follow CSI/Masterformat guidelines.
AGI is still theoretical.
But coming "real soon now" to a practice near you. Companies wanting first mover advantage are shifting strategies to embrace collaborative AI orchestration.
Thanks for the callout @Craig Park.
There is so much opportunity for our industry to take advantage of amid the AI shifts underway, The NEXXT initiative is still in build mode, lot's of work underway over the summer in preparation for the northern fall return from vacations etc.
Most exciting is we are now in testing/PoC for the NEXXT "Digital Community" platform! If anyone is interest in participating in an expanded group we are opening the platform up to for feedback in mid Aug, please msg me.
NEXXT is being built to serve you, to respond to the needs you have to thrive, to be a trusted place for our industry to get RoI on their efforts to learn and evolve in this moment. So if you want to be a part of shaping that, of leading in this moment, we want to hear from/need you.
@Byron Tarry Happy to help spread the word!