Time: 18 April 2013, 6:30 PM
Venue: Haworth Organic Workspace ,17F, Eco City, 1788 West Nanjing Road
Organizer: Xindanwei
Language：English
Notice: THIS EVENT IS BY INVITATION ONLY, and we are expecting no more than 30 audiences. If you want to be invited please send us an email with your name, occupation and bio to xindanwei@gmail.com
Technology is enabling small and large organisations to work in a very different way, for large organisations the imperative has moved beyond simply retaining and connecting the talent within their organisation and it’s future financial success is more and more dependant on it’s potential to leverage and mobilise the talent outside of the organisation. For freelancers and small companies the ability to connect the dots and mobilise a global small business has never been more possible or more important.
Come to join the dialogue with two coworking movement pioneers in Australia and China to build new insights and understanding how the future of work would entail for all of us.
Brad Krauskopf
Brad Krauskopf is an entrepreneur, innovator and speaker that is passionate about connecting the dots to create new business models and ways of working. As CEO of Hub Australia, Australia’s largest coworking community, which he founded in 2011, Brad works with small and large organisations across Australia to drive innovation through collaboration across sectors, disciplines and generations. His most recent venture is Third Spaces, which works with business, government and the community with an aim to enable a national network of shared workspaces in Australia. He is an ambassador for the Connected Village and part of the Leadership Group of the Shared Value Project.
With the freelancing economy growing at a game-changing rate, specialisation and niches giving way to hyper-specialisation and micro-niches, organisations, whether big or small, are collaborating in order to deliver even the most basic services. There is always more talent outside your org than in it – an organisations future success will be largely determined not just by its ability to connect the people and knowledge within its organisation but its ability to leverage the talent outside of your organisation.
He believes strongly that Australia’s future lies in fostering a ‘collaboration boom’. On a global level, Australia is a small business, to ensure our economic prosperity beyond the mining boom we will need to become absolute ninjas in collaboration. There is awesome potential in combining our diverse knowledge capital, tourism/ agricultural/ resource assets and our proximity to Asia.
Brad is a dynamic and engaging professional speaker. He has spoken on a diverse range of subjects including the coworking movement, new ideas on shaping the future of work, and creating social capital and knowledge through collaboration. These topics appeal to a broad spectrum of the public, from corporate executives to freelancers and government to education.
Liu Yan
Liu Yan is a learning community builder, a social entrepreneur, a learner and a mother. She established Xindanwei in 2009, the first and by far the largest coworking center in China, an international innovation hub and one of the “World Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in China” listed by FastCompany. She is the author of “Coworking Manual”– a book published at App Store under Creative Commons to help entrepreneurs to set up coworking community worldwide. She is the founder of Ask Lab, an open innovation platform and consultancy to connect startup/creative community with the large business/societal challenges.
Liu Yan’s educational background is predominantly in Arts Management and Marketing with a breadth in cultural and creative entrepreneurial study and practices.She is the founding participant of THNK, the Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership. Liu Yan speaks regularly at international conferences on social innovation, leadership and social media. She served as the jury member of Prix Ars Electronica 2011-2012, one of the most premium international award for digital art and community project. And she is the mentor of ESCEL China, a fully-subsidized incubation program for entrepreneurs looking to build or expand a social business in greater China, and the lead organizer of Startup Weekend Shanghai.
As an independent consultant and lecturer in the Netherlands from 2003-2007 prior to her return to China, she served as advisory board member on cultural entrepreneurship for the city municipal of Utrecht, and worked as the advisor of the China program of Dutch Electronic Arts Festival(DEAF), an international and interdisciplinary biennial that focuses on art, technology and society, and has curated and organized the Creative Cross China & Europe conference for PICNIC, Amsterdam’s leading annual international event, highlighting creativity and innovation.
