Events across the village.
Talks, dinners, hackathons and gatherings throughout the month, many open to the wider Chiang Mai community.
Keynote: Still Human, What AI Can’t Replace in a One-Person Business
AI made it easy for anyone to look good, but if everyone looks good, trust gets harder to earn. Benjamin Hies, a German solopreneur running multiple businesses from Bangkok with no employees, opens up his one-person operating system: where AI works in his business every day, and the exact points where it stops.
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Keynote: F*ck Ups, Face & the Thai Way of Doing Business
Most founders’ advice skips the part where everything goes wrong, Aim doesn’t 👀 If you’ve ever sat through a startup panel and wondered why everyone sounds like they’ve only ever won, you’re not alone. The failure rate, the near-misses, the deals that fell apart because someone lost face in a meeting, the cultural landmines that […]
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Keynote: What AI keeps getting wrong about culture & consciousness, and what Chiang Mai can teach it
AI keeps treating culture like training data and consciousness like a benchmark to pass. Both framings miss the point. In this keynote, George “Siosi” Samuels, a “digital wayfinder” who has spent 15 years at the frontier of every major technological transition (social media, blockchain, AI), argues that the 30% failure rate in AI projects is […]
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Solopreneur Show & Tell
Residency participants showcase what they built. Then the floor opens for pitching, judging, and prizes across three categories. Hosted at Cult Caffeine in Wat Ket.
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AI for Chiang Mai Hackathon
Two days. Real problems. Local solutions. Thai developers, entrepreneurs, and global nomads building AI tools for genuine Chiang Mai challenges.
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Cosmo Local Pot Luck
An evening of food and stories. Small tables of 4 to 6 guests, half Cosmo and half Local, each bringing a dish and the story behind it.
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