Main Week Registration

Collect your pass and get your bearings before the programme starts. If you're joining the Builders Camp, make sure you come to this registration before heading to Builders Camp…

Welcome and KickOff CosmoLocalCNX!

Let us welcome you all to kick off CosmoLocal CNX! Hear from John the founder directly and learn about everything that will happen this week! Can't wait to see you there!

Builders Camp and Idea Pitches (Day 1)

What is Builder's Camp? A 3-day Thai × International buildathon where people from different backgrounds come together to form teams, explore real problems, and build a simple pr…

Main Week Registration

Collect your pass and get your bearings before the programme starts.

Welcome Party

The first night of Main Week, and for most people the first time the whole group is in one room. No programme, no stage, just the evening. It follows registration and orientatio…

Morning Refreshments

Registration

Main week ticket registration for anyone who has not registered yet.

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 wayfin…

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, it becomes harder for people to trust you. In this keynote, Benjamin Hies, a German solopreneur running mult…

[OPEN TO PUBLIC] Cosmo Local CNX & Nomad Futures Lab Exhibition

Cosmolocal Futures Exhibition: Chiang Mai 2040 Pantip Plaza, Chiang Mai Chiang Mai belongs to whoever shows up for it consistently — the people who live here, leave and come bac…

Keynote: Eating Truly Local Food

Everything was supposed to get easier. It got harder. Jon Jandai spent seven years in Bangkok working long hours for short money, and could not work out why food, a house, and h…

Panel: Why Chiang Mai? (Siosi, Benjamin & Jon)

After the keynotes, George "siosi" Samuels, Benjamin Hies, and Jon Jandai sit down together to answer the question the whole week is built around: why Chiang Mai? Each of them a…

Luncheon

Workshop: Between Us, Beyond Our Stories

Two people meet at a coffee break in Chiang Mai. Within a minute they have traded the same three questions: where are you from, what do you do, how long are you here. Both walk…

Workshop: Thailand Bean-to-Bar Chocolate

Taste cacao from fruit to finished chocolate bar. Take home your own handmade chocolate bars.

Workshop: Functional Mushroom Tea Ceremony

A 90 min ceremony at the world’s first mushroom tea house, where you will sample a range of fungi from across the region, and learn about how these two ancient traditions have s…

Workshop: Digital Accessibility And Inclusivity Master Class From Business To Tech with Claude

Transform accessibility from a compliance checklist into a high-leverage business and technical advantage. Designed for all technical backgrounds, this hands-on workshop walks y…

Workshop: East Meets West: Chinese Medicine Wellness Experience

East Meets West: Chinese Medicine Wellness Experience: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been practiced for thousands of years, and acupressure is one of its most accessibl…

Breakfast with Speaker - Benjamin Hies

A small-group breakfast with keynote speaker Benjamin Hies. No stage, no crowd — just an intimate table conversation with the people building this space. Gold Pass holders only,…

Morning Refreshments

Registration

Keynote: I Planted the Seeds of a Community. It Emerged, Just Like My Rice.

Yidan Xiong grows rice. She also grew a community, and her talk is about how alike the two turned out to be. You prepare the ground, you put the seeds in, and then most of the w…

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 eve…

[OPEN TO PUBLIC] Cosmo Local CNX & Nomad Futures Lab Exhibition

Cosmolocal Futures Exhibition: Chiang Mai 2040 Pantip Plaza, Chiang Mai Chiang Mai belongs to whoever shows up for it consistently — the people who live here, leave and come bac…

Keynote: How will AI impact Chiang Mai?

The question in the title is the one the AI for Chiang Mai track has spent the whole month on. Not what AI does to the economy in the abstract, but what it does to a city of thi…

Panel: Closing the Gap (Yeji Cheon, Jaem Prueangwet, John Ho)

Friday's morning closes with Yeji Cheon of Seoul Nooks, Jaem Prueangwet of RealThailander and John Ho of Alt_ Coliving. The topic is still being confirmed. All three spend their…

Luncheon

Lunch with Speaker: Siosi

Sit down for a meal with the speakers. This is a small table-style gathering for Gold Pass holders, with plenty of time to ask the questions that don't fit on a stage: how they…

Lunch with Speaker: Amarit (Aim)

Sit down for a meal with the speakers. This is a small table-style gathering for Gold Pass holders, with plenty of time to ask the questions that don't fit on a stage: how they…

Lunch with Speaker: Yidan

NFL Lead Tour of the Cosmo Local CNX Public Exhibition

Guided Tour: Nomad Futures Lab Exhibition Pantip Plaza, during Main Week Join the Nomad Futures Lab leads for a walk-through of the NFL public exhibition — three weeks of resear…

Workshop: Building Honest Brands in a Synthetic World

This workshop explores how we can use AI not to make brands more generic, but to uncover what makes them distinctive, human and true. We’ll use AI as a creative thinking partner…

Workshop: Thailand Bean-to-Bar Chocolate

Taste cacao from fruit to finished chocolate bar. Take home your own handmade chocolate bars.

Workshop: Coffee Ecosystem in Northern Thailand (Bella Goose)

Lecture: What actually has to happen before your morning coffee reaches your cup? Follow a coffee bean from a ripe fruit on a tree through harvesting, fermentation and processin…

Bus 1 Departure to Potluck Dinner (From Alt_PingRiver)

Bus will wait on the main road by the river near Chiang Mai Christian School

Bus 2 Departure to Potluck Dinner (from Movenpick)

Bus will wait on the main road by the river near Chiang Mai Christian School

🌿 CosmoLocal Potluck: Food that Nourishes as a Cultural Bridge

Join Us! (bring a friend) Food brings us together. Nourishing food is a bridge between "cosmo" to the "local". In this spirit we warmly invite you to our re-imagined potluck, fo…

Northern MICE Integrated Drive - Solopreneur Show & Tell (Registration)

A full day at Cult Caffeine in Wat Ket, sponsored by TCEB, the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau. The morning is talks and panels on remote work and what it has done to…

"Get to know TCEB"

Keynote: Nomads in Chiang Mai 3.0?

Ajirapa Pradit is a lecturer and researcher at Rajamangala University of Technology and one of the Thai voices inside the Nomad Futures Lab. She opens Saturday's talks. The topi…

Keynote: Work Without Borders: What the Research Says, What Governments Can Do

Most talks about the future of work are guesses. This one comes with citations. Daniel Schlagwein is Professor at Chulalongkorn University's Sasin School of Management and The U…

Future of Work Panel: Shivek and Ian Borders

Straight after Daniel Schlagwein's Future of Work keynote, Shivek and Ian Borders pick the subject back up in panel form. The topic is still being confirmed. Ian leads the AI fo…

[OPEN TO PUBLIC] Cosmo Local CNX & Nomad Futures Lab Exhibition

Cosmolocal Futures Exhibition: Chiang Mai 2040 Pantip Plaza, Chiang Mai Chiang Mai belongs to whoever shows up for it consistently — the people who live here, leave and come bac…

Nomad Futures Lab Panel

The last session of the three talk mornings belongs to the Nomad Futures Lab: Daniel Schlagwein, Sam Chua, Madelynn Martiniere and Ajirapa Pradit. The Lab spent three weeks writ…

Solopreneur Show & Tell

A month of building culminates today! Ten people spent September in the Solopreneur & AI Residency in Chiang Mai. This is where they show what came of it. Each gets five minutes…

AI for Chiang Mai Hackathon (Sept 26-27 overnight)

RSVP: https://luma.com/claude-ru1w Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! ​Claude Impact Lab is a 2-day (Sept…

Wellness Day at Horizon Village & Resort

A full day of restorative practice, Lanna heritage and hands-on herbal craft, held within the 302-rai gardens of Tweechol — from sunrise yoga on the lawn to a herbal inhaler you…

Elephant Care

08:30 Depart from Alt_PingRiver. Meet your guide and travel to Elephant Care 09:30 Arrival at the Elephant Care. Learn about Elephants and the history of Elephants in North Thai…

[OPEN TO PUBLIC] Cosmo Local CNX & Nomad Futures Lab Exhibition

Cosmolocal Futures Exhibition: Chiang Mai 2040 Pantip Plaza, Chiang Mai Chiang Mai belongs to whoever shows up for it consistently — the people who live here, leave and come bac…

Unconference: Conscious Nomadding Roundtable

TLDR - casual conversation about consncious nomadding. Welcome to have your coffee with us and exchange thoughts 🌻 In the loop of work, socializing and navigating new places it'…

[OPEN TO PUBLIC] Cosmo Local CNX & Nomad Futures Lab Exhibition

Cosmolocal Futures Exhibition: Chiang Mai 2040 Pantip Plaza, Chiang Mai Chiang Mai belongs to whoever shows up for it consistently — the people who live here, leave and come bac…

Unconference - Make a Zine! Get crafty and creative

Let’s get together for some art & craft! we will teach you how to create your own little zine to take home as a memento of the event! You can draw, paint, write, collage or all…

Unconference: From Idea to Posted

You have all the ideas. So what’s missing is the way to get them out of your head and onto your feed. In 90 minutes, you’ll build a simple actionable system that does just that,…

Unconference: AMA (Ask me Anything) about Cosmo Local CNX

Unconference - Exclusive Werewolf with Lukpla by Nomads For Impact 🐺

Think you can spot a liar? Or bluff your way through the night? 🤔 Join us for an exciting game of Werewolf-a social deduction game full of mystery, strategy, laughter, and unexp…

Unconference: Build Your Conscious Stack (1:3:5)

An extension of my talk on Thursday, diving deeper into the 1:3:5 rule of the Conscious Stack™ framework. Learn the basics, start applying it to your life, and see how it can he…

Unconference- Operating Without Certainty: A Self-Leadership Workshop

Operating Without Certainty: A M.A.P. Workshop When the plan changes, how do you know what to do next? Whether you’re navigating a business pivot, career change, life transition…

Cosmo Local Tea Break

Unconference: Ikigai Refrection

Let’s reflect on your Ikigai together. For this session, your presence is everything. we will simply sit down together, watch a film, reflect, and share our thoughts as a commun…

Unconference: Chess fundamentals

Happy to host a chess session if there is interest. If you like to join please indicate if you are new to chess or have any experience and how much, so I can try to tailor appro…

Handover Party

CosmoLocal CNX 2026 — Handover Party This is it. The closing party for CosmoLocal CNX 2026's Main Week. And we're passing the torch to Japan 🇯🇵 If you're reading this, you're in…