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Founder of Indy Hall
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.
Founder Creative Blueprint & Coworking Canada
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.
Founder DeskMag
Founder & CEO at Impact Hub Manila
Co-Founder Coliving.com
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.
Innovation Specialist at UNDP
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!
Co-Founder KUMPUL
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.
Head of APAC Community Partnerships and Programs at Facebook
Host of the Future of Connection Channel
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.
Grassroot Ecosystem Builder for Sustainability
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.
Co-Founder & CEO of Ada Coworking
Transcontinental Sisterhood in the future of work - insights to women focussed coworking spaces in Asia
Founder Whatifi
Co-Founder Coworking Library
Flexible workspace expert
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.
Head of Sustainable Development at British Land
Community Builder • Writer • Entrepreneur
Lais is an entrepreneur with 12 years of experience in community building, from leading 2000 volunteers across 3
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
She is passionate about finding metaphors for life lessons in practical activities - like surf and tango dancing. Also a part-time jewelry maker.
Co-Founder & CEO CirCO
Head of Operations at Zityhub
Envisioning and implementing the workplace of the future.
COO at Coworker.com
Coworking Consultant
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.
Global Director of Experience at Selina
Co-founder and Partnership Lead at Pratisara Bumi Foundation
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.
Director of Marketing at Airmeet
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
Senior Asset Manager at Hongkong Land
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.
Author of "Billion Dollar Loser - The epic rise & spectacular fall of WeWork"
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.
Co-Founder HUBUD Coworking
Senior Associate | Network Development Lead at Secondmuse | Advisor at Impact Hub Jakarta
Passionate about systems change and ecosystem building, I design programs, experiences, and networks that facilitate collaboration among entrepreneurs and
Based in Southeast Asia over the last 7 years, I have led a range of global programs, community-building efforts
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.
Founder HUBUD, Co-Founder CU Asia
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.