The aim was to start CUAsia 2017 with a bang, and they did just that by having two pioneers from the coworking field; Alex Hillman and Adam Teterus, as their guest speaker for the first session. They operate a space called Indy Hall in Philadelphia; in addition to being the founder of Indy Hall, Alex also runs a podcast called ‘Coworking Weekly,’ where he loves to focus on topics that revolve around coworking, cooperation, and people. They decided to frame…
How would you go about designing a coworking space? With so many ideas out there, Mr. Sombat Ngamschlermsak , an interior designer from Bangkok has decided to shed some light into the design aspects of coworking, with the insights he gathered through his journey from a corporate world to a startup business. Mr. Sombat operates two spaces in Bangkok, Paperspace, and KliqueDesk. He has been working in work-class design for the last seventeen years; his career started in a company…
Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC) is the largest coworking conference series in the world. GCUC USA 2017, held in New York City from May 5-7, lived up to its promise of “a worldwide explosion of coworking awesomeness” through exploring locations, design, branding and more. One of the sessions held on Day 1 of the conference, Planning For Explosive Growth, brought together a panel of coworking experts, moderated by Laura Kozelouzek. Laura is the CEO and Founder of Quest Workspaces.…
“There is no cookie-cutter approach to building a community,” states Josh Lipscombe from Inspire 9, a coworking space operating in Northern Australia since 2009. He graced everyone with his presence in CUAsia 2017, where he shared a few key ingredients about building a community and ways to live up to one’s role as a community leader. Everyone wants to and loves to celebrate wins, I mean who doesn’t like it when they finally get something right; however, we usually choose…
Coworking Alliance Asia Pacific (CAAP) held a live webinar on 3rd May, 2017, with Faye Alund, President of Coworking Indonesia and Co-founder of Kumpul Coworking Space. Faye is passionate about coworking, active citizenship and community building. The purpose of this session was to look at coworking spaces through an industrial lens. And how to harness its power at a national level. Faye explained that in a country of millions like Indonesia, the involvement of government to achieve scalability is…
