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…

Orientation + Builders Camp (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

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…

Keynote: Life Is Easy, Sustainable Living and Saving Seeds

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: George “Siosi” Samuels, Benjamin Hies, Jon Jandai

Thursday's morning ends with all three speakers back on stage at once: George “Siosi” Samuels, Benjamin Hies and Jon Jandai. The topic is still being confirmed, so expect the ro…

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…

Thailand Bean-to-Bar Chocolate

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

Morning Refreshments

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…

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: 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

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…

NFL Exhibition Opening & Public Workshop

The official opening of the Nomad Futures Lab exhibition at Pantip Plaza followed by a public workshop “Children of Wat Ket 2045”.

Thailand Bean-to-Bar Chocolate

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

Cosmo Local Pot Luck

🙂Join Us! Invite Your Pals Too!🙂 Event Reception : Open 18:00 onwards at Venue We warmly invite you to an evening of food, friendship, and cultural exchange. Around 200 guests w…

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

TCEB - Government Supporting Digital Nomads of Thailand

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: Future of Work

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…

Nomad Futures Lab Panel: Daniel Schlagwein, Sam Chua, Ajirapa Pradit

The last session of the three talk mornings belongs to the Nomad Futures Lab: Daniel Schlagwein, Sam Chua and Ajirapa Pradit. The topic is still being confirmed. The Lab spent t…

Solopreneur Show & Tell

The Solopreneur Show and Tell is a month of building, out loud. Part showcase, part open floor. The Solopreneur Show & Tell has two acts. First, residency participants take the…

AI for Chiang Mai Hackathon

Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! ​Claude Impact Lab is a 2-day (Sept 26-27 overnight) hackathon with a…

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…

Un-conference

The last full day has no fixed line-up. Sessions get proposed on the morning by whoever wants to run one, and the day fills up from there. After five days of a set programme, th…

Handover Party

The last night. Four coliving tracks, six days of Main Week and a month in Chiang Mai end here. What the handover itself covers is confirmed closer to the week. Either way it is…