Meet your CSX facilitator
Ethan Kaplan
Technology & Government Facilitator
Washington–Northern Virginia
Ethan helps people connect across expertise without flattening what makes each perspective valuable.
Technology-policy professional and improv facilitator with experience in government, cybersecurity, and cross-functional teams. Ethan helps people connect across expertise without flattening what makes each perspective valuable.
Where You Might Meet Them
Washington–Northern Virginia
Languages
English·conversational Hebrew
Communities They Work With
Technology·Corporate·Civic
THE PERSON BEHIND THE EXPERIENCE
A little more about Ethan Kaplan
Ethan serves as a Technology & Government Facilitator with CSX, primarily supporting Experiences in Washington–Northern Virginia. Technology-policy professional and improv facilitator with experience in government, cybersecurity, and cross-functional teams. That background gives Ethan a practical understanding of how people enter unfamiliar rooms, how group energy changes over time, and how small moments of welcome can shape an entire Experience.
Their facilitation style is fast-thinking and approachable, with strong skill in translating technical or institutional language into human conversation. They are especially well suited for Technology, Corporate, Civic settings, where participants may arrive with different expectations, comfort levels, or reasons for attending. Ethan focuses on making the experience feel organized without becoming rigid and social without becoming performative.
Outside of facilitation, Ethan is interested in cybersecurity, transit, improv, volunteering. Those interests help keep their public profile personal and give participants an easy sense of the person who will be helping shape the room before the Experience begins.
Professional Background
Technology-policy professional and improv facilitator with experience in government, cybersecurity, and cross-functional teams.
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE IN THE ROOM
Connection works better when people know what to expect.
Every CSX facilitator brings their own personality and professional experience while working within the same participant-centered approach to connection.
What it feels like to be welcomed by Ethan Kaplan
An approachable facilitator who translates technical or institutional language into conversation people can actually join.
How Ethan Kaplan helps the room connect
Fast-thinking and approachable, with strong skill in translating technical or institutional language into human conversation.
Why this work matters
Ethan facilitates because they want to make innovation communities easier to enter, especially for people who dislike performative networking and make professional environments feel more human so colleagues can build trust beyond job titles and organizational charts. Their goal is not to dominate the room, but to create the conditions where participants can find their own comfortable way into connection.
BEYOND THE ROOM
People connect with people—not résumés.
A few things Ethan Kaplan enjoys beyond facilitating—and easy places to find common ground.
Personal Interests
cybersecurity·transit·improv·volunteering
A FAMILIAR FACE BEFORE YOU ARRIVE
CSX wants you to know who is helping welcome the room.
Facilitator profiles are here so participants and clients can arrive with more context, more confidence, and a clearer sense of the person helping guide their Experience.
