Startup Weekend Bangkok Creative Edition 2014 invites designers, business professionals and developers to join the world’s biggest and best known experiential learning event at PAH CREATIVE SPACE, Bangkok’s newest coworking space for creative, artists and designer.
Are you a designer, developer or working in business and marketing and looking to form a team of like-minded, passionate individuals? Do you have great ideas for a startup that you want to make it real in less than 54 hours? Now is that chance to go “No Talk, All Action”!
Event Details
Dates: 5:00 pm Friday, March 28 – Sunday March 30, 8:00 pm (sleeping overnight NOT required)
Participants : 80 People
Venue: PAH Creative Space (http://www.pahspace.com/contact-en/)
Register link
Special for thumbsup’s reader! with Discount Code : thumbsuppartner
Startup Weekend Bangkok Creative Edition 2014 is just like any other Startup Weekend: 54-hour events designed to provide superior experiential education for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs. Beginning with Friday night pitches and continuing through brainstorming, business plan development, and basic prototype creation, Startup Weekends culminate in Sunday night demos and presentations. Participants create working startups during the event and are able to collaborate with like-minded individuals outside of their daily networks. All teams hear talks by industry leaders and receive valuable feedback from local entrepreneur. The weekend is centered around action, innovation, and education. Whether you are looking for feedback on a idea, a co-founder, specific skill sets, or a team to help you execute, Startup Weekends are the perfect environment in which to test your idea and take the first steps towards launching your own startup.
Sponsored by PAH Creative Space, Startup Weekend Bangkok is back with a new theme this year: Creative Edition: to celebrate the talent of Thai creatives, artists and designers that is world-renowned, the focus of Startup Weekend Bangkok Creative Edition will be to showcase the talent of Thai creativity through 2 key themes:
1) Using TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS and ESPECIALLY DESIGN that break the boundaries of thestatus quo, reimagine new ways of businessand make startups that really DISRUPT INDUSTRIES.
2) To build products and services lead by Creative professionals to solve the pains of the Creatives, Arts and Design industries.
Our Co-Facilitators will be:
Sheikh Shuvo
Regional Operations Manager, APAC at UP Global
Sheikh is on the Operations Team at UP Global, the umbrella brand for Startup Weekend, Startup Digest, and NEXT. He focuses on building startup communities across Asia Pacific. Over the past few years, he’s traveled and lived in 30+ countries, and developed an iron stomach for street food.
Before UP Global, Sheikh cut his teeth on healthcare software, real estate, and city government. A native of Bangladesh, he grew up in NYC, studied at Cornell University, and has spent the past few years living, hiking, and buying fleece jackets in Seattle. Ask him questions about cooking,
Currently, he’s based in Delhi and figuring out how to blow up startup communities in India.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sheikhshuvo
Twitter: @sheikh_shuvo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sheikhshuvo123
Amarit Charoenphan
Co-CEO & Cofounder at HUBBA
Amarit Charoenphan is a startup ecosystem builder, serial events organizer & entrepreneur. Prior to starting Thailand’s 1st startup coworking space (HUBBA) & Thailand’s 1st creatives & design coworking space (PAH Creative Space), he worked in management consulting and ran a social enterprise incubator for a local non-profit.
He is actively building the Thai startup community through events and workshops such as co-organizing Echelon Ignite Thailand, Thailand’s biggest international tech startup conference (www.e27.co/ignite) and was Thailand Country Host for Geeks on A Plane Southeast Asia tour, on top of the 100+ events he’s organized in the past 2 years.
He’s also has a stealth startup in the works, is the active only Startup Weekend Organizer in Bangkok & Global Facilitator in Thailand among other things. He is based in Bangkok but calls Southeast Asia home. In his spare time, he likes to scuba dive and to visit different coworking spaces across the world.
Linkedin: http://th.linkedin.com/in/amaritcharoenphan/
Twitter: @aimamarit
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/amarit.cha
Be coached and advised by some of the leading edge startups, designers and business gurus and that will help guide you ups and downs of startup life. Are your ready to make stuff happen? Then grab your early bird tickets until March 16 and be crowned the winner of Startup Weekend Bangkok 2014 plus the chance to win exclusive 6 month memberships for PAH Creative Space for the entire team (worth 20,900 THB per person), free passes to UX Academy for the entire team (worth 4,500 THB per person) and many other prizes more! Apply Now!
Judges
- Thanachat Tangsriwong : Investment Associate, Cyberagent Ventures
- Chardchakaj Waikawee : Photographer, Filmaker, Artist and Owner of waikawee co.ltd
- Phongsathorn : Executive Director, FiF DESIGN studio
- Apirak Panatkool : User Experience Specialist, TrueMoney & Co-Founder UX Academy
Event Details
Dates: 5:00 pm Friday, March 28 – Sunday March 30, 8:00 pm (sleeping overnight NOT required)
Participants : 80 People
Venue: PAH Creative Space (http://www.pahspace.com/contact-en/)