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Alex Hillmann

Founder of Indy Hall

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Community development & market communications consultant with experience working for various sized web software initiatives: local business through Fortune500. Creative problem solver. Solid team player. Passionate about the local and global technology community.
Specialties: Community and social engagement. Marketing that isn't all about you, the company. Start small and iterate. Be authentic. Use open standards and tools to your advantage. 

Ashley Proctor

Founder Creative Blueprint & Coworking Canada

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As one of the original voices of the coworking movement, Ashley Proctor has been building collaborative communities since 2003. Ashley worked to develop and launch the Xpace (2004), Creative Blueprint (2006, 2015), Foundery (2011) and 312 Main (2018) coworking communities, artist studios, and gathering spaces in Toronto, Vancouver and Seattle.

As one of the founding members of the Coworking Toronto and Coworking Ontario collectives, Ashley also created COHIP— the world’s first Coworking Health Insurance Plan.

For 3 years, Ashley served as the Executive Director of 312 Main, leading her team to establish a sustainable, accessible and community-driven Centre for Social and Economic Innovation in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Ashley continues to shape the coworking industry as the Executive Producer of GCUC Canada, partner of the Global Coworking UnConference.

Ashley is in her element while creating the conditions for meaningful connections, sustainable development and social change. Ashley travels internationally to speak about the coworking movement, transformation and social impact.

Through her company Creative Blueprint, Ashley consults and collaborates on impactful, multi-dimensional projects with creative community builders from around the world.

Carsten Foertsch

Founder DeskMag

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Ces Rondario

Founder & CEO at Impact Hub Manila

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Daniel Beck

Co-Founder Coliving.com

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While visiting Silicon Valley for the first time in 2014, I stayed in a Menlo Park coliving space.
That experience helped me to realize the value of living with like-minded people (in my case developers and startup founders) in an all-inclusive accommodation.
I remember my work productivity skyrocketing almost overnight and I went from seeing my housing costs as an investment instead of an expense.
I decided then to promote the coliving lifestyle and its benefits by building the best booking platform possible. 

Dinh-Long Pham

Innovation Specialist at UNDP

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Working on these challenges:
- How to unleash citizens' inner power of action and reduce the intention-action gap?
- How to ensure equal access to opportunities regardless of one's background?
- How to transition to a low-carbon society and preserve our environment in a spirit of social justice?

Top 3 things I do in a day:
- Tagging people on Facebook & LinkedIn posts
- Selecting the right emoji on getemoji.com
- Being a better community building penguin

❤️ I enjoy connecting people together and then to see what happens. I love helping people grow as a person and grow their projects; by introducing them to resources, life-hacks, shortcuts, events, other people... anything I can do!

🌏🤹 Worked/studied in 7 countries and learning how to juggle with 4 balls!

Faye Wongso

Co-Founder KUMPUL

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Faye is the CEO and Co-founder of KUMPUL, a startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem builder. Through its co-learning platform, KUMPUL empowers its 60+ hubs in 28 cities through programs that focus on entrepreneurial growth. Our mission is to distribute educational experiences, empowerment, and opportunities to all entrepreneurs.

KUMPUL curated impactful programs and runs it through coworking spaces as the main catalyst for entrepreneurship ecosystem growth. KUMPUL is the leader of community-based coworking with 50+ partners and hubs in 24 cities. KUMPUL is also the National Coordinator of 1000startupdigital.id and Startup Weekend Indonesia - these programs are run in 15 cities in Indonesia.

She is also President of Coworking Indonesia, the national association of coworking spaces and coworking players in Indonesia. To date, there are over 300 coworking spaces in 45 cities in Indonesia.

Her vast experience working in the development sector across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East instilled her passion for active citizenship, women empowerment, and community development. She believes Coworking is a crucial element in growing the entrepreneurship ecosystem, and entrepreneurship is key to innovation and economic development.

Grace Clapham

Head of APAC Community Partnerships and Programs at Facebook

Host of the Future of Connection Channel

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In addition I have built eco-systems and communities across South East Asia supporting and enabling creative entrepreneurs/professionals, aspiring and current women entrepreneurs through CreativeMornings Singapore, SheSays Singapore and Secret {W} Business.

Specialties: Social Entrepreneurship, Cross-Cultural Communications, Alternative Education, Lifelong learning, Collaborative Management, Marketing and Brand Management, Community Building, Market Entry,[Purposeful]Strategy, Event & Conference concept & planning. 

Irma Sitompul

Grassroot Ecosystem Builder for Sustainability

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With my passion for the environment and skills in strategic communications, I thrive in helpingsustainability-oriented organizations and good businesses expand their reach and amplify their impact. 

Ivanne Poussier

Co-Founder & CEO of Ada Coworking

Transcontinental Sisterhood in the future of work - insights to women focussed coworking spaces in Asia

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Ivanne Poussier is CEO & Co-Founder of Ada Coworking (in progress in Poissy, France), author of Sisters in arms, women in search of inclusive coworking spaces. 

Jaanus Juss

Founder Whatifi

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Johanna Voll

Co-Founder Coworking Library

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Jori Messer

Flexible workspace expert

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I am a passionate, creative, entrepreneurial and results-driven business leader with over 15 years of experience across the real estate, retail and hotel industries in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.

Throughout my career I have managed more than 2.5 million square feet of commercial real estate, with an annual turnover up to $125 million and teams up to 250 people.

I have built an extensive experience in the creation, operation, growth and leadership of people-centric, productive and inspiring workplace, retail and hospitality businesses, as well as improving brand and business performance, driving change and leading high-performance teams across international markets.

I believe in making a difference by putting people at the heart of everything I do, challenging the status quo and making things happen. It’s with great teams that we can create innovative solutions in competitive markets, that deliver excellent experiences with a highly customer-focused approach. 

Juliette Morgan

Head of Sustainable Development at British Land

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Lais De Oliveira

Community Builder • Writer • Entrepreneur

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Lais is an entrepreneur with 12 years of experience in community building, from leading 2000 volunteers across 3 countries, to training and developing community leadership across 3 continents (Latam, Africa, APAC) on behalf of Startup Grind. After selling her first business, she joined Startup Genome to build collaborative networks and facilitate knowledge sharing between governments across 70+ startup ecosystems.

She is the founder and author at Hacking Communities (2020), writing about grassroots community building, a result of 12 years building online and offline communities offline and online for NGOs, private and public sector.

She is passionate about finding metaphors for life lessons in practical activities - like surf and tango dancing. Also a part-time jewelry maker.

Linh Hoang

Co-Founder & CEO CirCO

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Lucas Cepeda Moritz

Head of Operations at Zityhub

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Envisioning and implementing the workplace of the future. 

Madison Maidment

COO at Coworker.com

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Marc Navarro

Coworking Consultant

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Hi, I'm Marc and a coworking strategist. I work with companies and institutions that focus on creating a more productive and collaborative work spaces. All with the aim of improving the performance of the professionals’ working in them. My mission is clear: to help you get the most out of your space, teach you how to build a community and accompany you in taking your coworking to the next level.

Marcela Fernandez

Global Director of Experience at Selina

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Maria Agustin

Co-founder and Partnership Lead at Pratisara Bumi Foundation

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Currently the Co-founder and Partnership Strategist of E.thical (Yayasan Pratisara Bumi Lestari). Maria is involved in leveraging partnerships for E.thical as well as building ecosystem that will provide opportunities and access to targeted region. E.thical bridges economic empowerment gap in Indonesia by providing contextual entrepreneurship education programs for youth in peripheral areas in Indonesia and empowers them to create and run ethical businesses with innovation and people, planet and profit mindset. Its pilot program has been implemented in Flores, Indonesia in 2018-2019. Yayasan Pratisara Bumi Lestari also work with social enterprises, non-profit organizations, grassroots organizations to help them with their human resource development and their program designing.

She is also a design sprint facilitator at 1000startup digital Indonesia and led some design thinking workshops with E.thical. She was part of the strategic management of Hubud for 3.5 years, and responsible in leading the team which includes operations, partnerships, events curation and learning programs. She is the Partnership Lead of Coworking Unconference Asia (CU Asia). Her previous experience includes managing public-private partnership, as well as technical cooperation in government to government projects.

Nishchal Dua

Director of Marketing at Airmeet

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People don't buy good products. They buy great stories backed by good products.

I am a storyteller & I grow products. I travel and market on the move. The products that really drive me are often about bridging the gap between digital and analog. A wanderer, I scale mountains and jump out of airplanes.

I'm helping build & grow Airmeet - the all-in-one platform to host interactive virtual online events, meetups & conferences.

I'm a big supporter of remote work and a location independent lifestyle. I am the host of The Remote Work Summit, organized annually with a global audience of 5300+ entrepreneurs, HRs & CEOs along with speakers from Microsoft, Github, WordPress, Trello, Evernote & others

Paul Bennett

Senior Asset Manager at Hongkong Land

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Qualified Chartered Surveyor with a wide scope of experience both in Asia Pacific and the UK.
Able to develop / market strategies and also successfully take investment and leasing transactions from inception through to delivery.
I now lead a team of over 60 people to run a collection of 'best in class' digital services and physical spaces for the benefit of Hongkong Land's office and retail tenants.

Reeves Wiedeman

Author of "Billion Dollar Loser - The epic rise & spectacular fall of WeWork"

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Reeves Wiedeman is a Contributing Editor at New York magazine. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Harper's, Men’s Journal, and other publications.

Billion Dollar Loser, about the rise and fall of WeWork, is his first book.

Renee Martyna

Co-Founder HUBUD Coworking

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Stephanie Arrowsmith

Senior Associate | Network Development Lead at Secondmuse | Advisor at Impact Hub Jakarta

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Passionate about systems change and ecosystem building, I design programs, experiences, and networks that facilitate collaboration among entrepreneurs and organisations with a mission to improve the world.

Based in Southeast Asia over the last 7 years, I have led a range of global programs, community-building efforts and campaigns in the region with a focus on sustainability and social innovation. Right now, I am building a network of diverse innovators and ecosystem actors in South & Southeast Asia focused on solving the systemic challenge of ocean plastic pollution (incubationnetwork.com). I am also a proud member and weaver across the Impact Hub Network, Impact Collective, Techstars APAC Community, DSIL Alumni & an Enspiral contributor.

At the intersection of cultures, I bring together multiple perspectives to find shared value and bridge understanding. I enjoy the challenge of mapping and influencing complex systems, weaving communities and connecting resources to create greater and more sustained impact. My professional experience spans consulting, international development, advocacy and storytelling, but with an academic background in anthropology, human-centered design is at the heart of my approach. I speak and write about issues I care about including the future of work, community building, regenerative futures and global citizenship.

In 2017 I started my own entrepreneurial journey and co-founded of Impact Hub Jakarta, a social innovation community and coworking space supporting a purpose-driven entrepreneurs and organisations in Indonesia's capital city, and I was founding partner of VSStory - a communications agency scaling solutions through powerful, authentic visual storytelling. I'm now an advisor to both companies.

Over the years my experience has taken me to over 38 countries, including living in Australia, Cambodia, Denmark, Indonesia, Guatemala & USA. As a global citizen, I work without boundaries and I'm happiest with my backpack on, exploring new places and turning strangers into friends.

Steve Munroe

Founder HUBUD, Co-Founder CU Asia

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After a 10 year stint with the United Nations in Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Sudan and Afghanistan, Steve decided he needed a challenge and moved with his family to Bali, Indonesia.

There he cofounder Hubud in 2013, the world's first destination coworking space. Home to the growing digital nomad movement, Hubud hosted over 2000 events and 10,000 members from 90 countries in it's first 6 years. in 2015, he founded CU Asia as a way to support operators and community builders throughout the Asia Pacific region.

From 2018-2020, he moved to London and worked with British Land to open experimental member's clubs and event venues, and explore community building at scale with BL's 100,000 London-based customers. Currently he is working with communities and governments in cities around the UK to create inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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