You know what it feels like to NOMAD.Do you know what it feels like to STAY?
You’ve got an idea. You’ve left your job, and the one thing you do know is that there’s a better way to work and live than the “norm”.
In just six days with us in Chiang Mai, your idea will become a thing. You’ll work alongside nomads who stopped, made the city their base and are reaping the rewards.
Building by yourself, but you don't have to figure it out alone
Every session in the Main Week is run by a business owner who’s been there.
They’ve all started from scratch. And no, they aren’t there to talk AT you, or boast about their success. They’re there to be in the weeds with you, or help sow the seeds or build the plan, wherever you are with your idea.
Bring what you’re building. Ask questions. Learn the mistakes you can skip. Leave with momentum.
- AI foundationsthe tools that let one person do the work of three, taught for people who aren't developers
- Product-market fithow to find out whether anyone wants it, before you build the whole thing
- Sales funnelshow a stranger actually becomes a customer, start to finish
- Business mindsetpricing, money management, and making decisions when there's nobody else to ask
- People skillshow to have the conversations that turn into work
- Doing business in Thailand and across Asiathe rules of engagement, and where they differ from the ones back home
- Networking on purposewho's worth knowing, and how to actually get introduced
- Thai founders, makers and operators in the room as participants, not on a panel
Then put it to the test
Claude Impact Labs Hackathon
Two days at the Mövenpick building with Claude tools on real local problems. Find out what your new AI skills hold up against a deadline.
Solopreneur Show & Tell
Bring your idea to Cult Caffeine and let the room take it apart. Honest feedback, not polite encouragement.
"Still Human: what AI can't replace in a one-person business."
"F*ck Ups, Face & the Thai Way of Doing Business." Failure, face, and the deals that fall apart when someone loses it.
You'll have the space to work, learn and think
Alt_PingRiver is your home base, a modern hub whose walls already hold a library of success stories. You’ll escape the nest through the week too, to spark something in you and your peers.
Keynotes
24–26 September · Marriott and Cult Caffeine
No pitches. This is not a conference. Hear how it felt from people who’ve already trodden your path: how a business was built and sold, why foreigners keep getting it wrong here, what a marketer found when she chose farmlife instead.
The coworking hub
All week · Alt_PingRiver · open 24/7
Home base for the week. Work alongside residents who have spent all of September here, and get what they gathered from mentors and peers over a coffee, in a workshop, or in the sauna.
The unconference
28 September · Wat Ket District
The finale is yet to be programmed. The last day belongs to you and the people you’ve shared the week with. Claim a slot, run a session, make your mark on the very first CosmoLocalCNX.
What story will you tell?
This isn’t one of those weeks you’ll be recalling the sessions you attended when you land in your next destination.
It’ll be the people you sat with at the 200-person dinner, the invitations to places you’ve never been, or the people of Wat Ket who are welcoming nomads like long-lost friends.
200 diners, half of them locals, everyone bringing a dish that means something to them.
A month of research on building a district that works for locals and nomads, open for your input.
Singing bowls and meditation, a day caring for elephants, or Pun Pun farm. Booked separately, one is included with the Gold pass.
Chiang Mai stopped them travelling for a reason.
A few of the people you'll meet.
Left crypto marketing in Beijing for the Chiang Dao mountains, where she built a permaculture farmstay and nature school.
From Hong Kong, ten years here building a Wat Ket ecosystem where nomads and locals collaborate.
Twelve years of travel vlogging, and finally a decision to set base in Chiang Mai.
More speakers to be announced.
You're already close
Nine Asian hubs, one short hop
Flight time to Chiang Mai
Backed by
40+ collaborators building this with us.
Choose your pass
Both passes cover all six days, September 23–28.
Before you book
No. A lot of people come with an idea and a deadline they've set for themselves. What matters is that you intend to build something, not that you're only researching.
No. The AI workshops are built for people who aren't developers, and the business sessions assume you're coming from a professional career rather than an engineering one.
Yes. Main Week runs in English, with Thai participants and speakers throughout.
Passes cover the full six days. Most of the value is in the relationships, and those need more than a day to form.
Both cover all six days. Gold adds priority keynote seating, one included excursion, the speaker and mentor breakfast, and two one-to-one introductions matched to what you are building.
No. There are guesthouses and colivings within walking distance of every venue at a wide range of prices, and we send a list with your confirmation.
Chiang Mai, mostly along the river, with the hackathon at the Mövenpick Hotel, the exhibition at Pantip Plaza, the pot luck at Horizon Village & Resort and the Show & Tell at Cult Caffeine. Everything is close.
Passes are non-refundable, but you can transfer yours to someone else as long as you let us know their details before the event starts.
September 23–28, 2026. Chiang Mai.
You can spend another six months reading about people who did it. Or you can spend six days with them.