Laís de Oliveira, the Community Architect at HackingCommunities.com, revealed the elements needed to attract, engage and retain a vibrant community, at the Day 1 of Coworking Unconference Asia - CUAsia 2018. The talk she gave was based on the insights she obtained from dozens of interviews, and she is also working on writing a book on the same topic. Oliveira started off by stating the obvious; a community is not only limited to coworking. Even if you are working on…
Ashley Proctor, Executive Director of 312 Main, talked on ‘Community’ at the Coworking Unconference Asia – CUAsia 2018 Academy, taking place at Wawasan Open University in Penang, Malaysia. Before diving into her topic, she made herself more familiar with the audience by sharing her background information. She has been involved in building collaborative communities since 2003. Her hometown is Toronto, Canada; it is where she built her coworking spaces. Ashley designed and launched the Xpace (2004), Creative Blueprint (2006) and…
Lachlan Sloan from BizDojo spoke at the Unconference in CUAsia 2017; he shared his journey from a service-office startup to coworking space. Sloan and his wife planned to stay for two years but ended up staying there for fifteen years. During his time in Asia, he was fortunate to be part of a service office startup called Compass. Compass was launched in 2008; it grew from one location in Hong Kong to fifty locations in five years. They had 80…
Christopher Thompson, the director of Hubud, introduced the speaker, Michael Kim from Google at the Unconference in CUAsia 2017. He started the presentation with an introduction of their group, Google for Entrepreneurs (GFE). The Google for Entrepreneurs network is a group of well class, techies, accelerators, and educational providers. It provides high-quality programming and international network. Michael’s role in the group is to lead APAC partnerships for GFE. Google is a giant startup, and to the core of their company,…
Ashish Goenka from Bombay Connect, a coworking space in Mumbai, India; hosted a special session on ‘FuckUp Nights’ at the Unconference in CUAsia 2017. He has organized this event many times in India as well and is the local license holder. The idea of fuckup night is, to be honest, vulnerable, share failures, celebrate them a little bit and understand them for what they are; they are not a source of shame, they are almost always an excellent source of…
