Talks · Workshops · MCs

SPEAKERS 2026.

Learn directly from industry leaders, founders and practitioners shaping the future of remote work, AI, and online business.

Scaling Your Social Media With AI

Christian Pedersen

You can't DM 1,000 people a day, but your AI agent can. This session reveals how to integrate automation (ManyChat) into your social strategy without losing the human touch. Learn how to turn generic post comments into meaningful DM conversations that qualify leads and sell your services while you sleep. Stop trading time for replies and start building a 24/7 sales engine that works as hard as you do.

About: Christian Pedersen helps founders and coaches use social media to build a real business. He specializes in teaching you how to get confident on camera, attract an audience, and convert that attention into income. Christian's consulting takes you beyond vanity metrics, showing you exactly how to use video to sign high-paying clients consistently.

Digital Entrepreneurship: Monetize Your Expertise and Gain Freedom

Sofia Kakkava

Learn how to turn your knowledge and experience into a thriving online business. Sofia Kakkava, psychologist, business coach, and award-winning speaker, reveals the mindset, strategy, and systems behind profitable digital entrepreneurship. Discover how to create impact, income, and location freedom while building a purpose-driven brand.

About: Sofia Kakkava is an award-winning public speaker, coaching psychologist, digital entrepreneur, and published author of the Freedom Office. Having coached leaders in global brands and lived as a digital nomad in 45+ countries, Sofia empowers entrepreneurs and creators to monetize their expertise and build sustainable businesses with freedom and impact.

Delegate or Automate? Virtual Assistant vs AI Assistants

Le-an Lai Lacaba

As a business owner in the era of AI, what do you delegate and what do you automate in your business? In this session, Le-an Lai Lacaba shares a simple framework to help you decide when to delegate to a VA and when to automate with an AI assistant. You'll discover the key difference between delegating and automating, tasks best handled by humans vs AI, and how to build a system where both work together.

About: Le-an Lai Lacaba is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and certified AI consultant. As Co-Founder of 2xYou, a multi-awarded outsourcing company, she empowers entrepreneurs to scale with AI, expert executive assistants, and built-for-you AI systems.

Build an AI-Powered Agency from Scratch

Cris Vinson

Unlock the step-by-step blueprint to launch your own AI-powered digital agency using tools, automations, and client strategies that scale income and impact, without burnout or starting over.

About: Cris Vinson is the Founder and Chairman of Primof and the CEO of Civy, a platform that empowers communities and professionals to connect, collaborate, and grow in the digital age. He has helped organizations navigate digital transformation and guided professionals in thriving in a world reshaped by AI.

Design Your Digital Brand Identity

Nivit Kochhar

In a world where we're all pixels on screens, we don't have the luxury of making in-person impressions. That's why we need powerful, unforgettable brands. This talk guides remote workers through the alchemy of strategic brand identity, across positioning, personality, colours, fonts, consistency, and more. We'll work through how a thoughtfully built brand becomes a force multiplier for every marketing move and sales conversation.

About: Nivit Kochhar is the founder of Supercharged, a design studio crafting digital experiences across brands, websites, and apps. He's designed identities for startups that raised millions of dollars as well as rebranded large companies with millions of users. With expertise in design, software, cognition, and AI, he combines strategic problem-solving with emotional storytelling.

Social Media Personal Branding for Nomads

Kiki Fukai

Learn how to build a powerful and authentic personal brand on social media while living a nomadic lifestyle. Attendees discover how to express their unique story, show their true personality with confidence, and create content that resonates globally. They will also learn practical visibility strategies that help freelancers, creators, and nomads turn online presence into real opportunities.

About: Kiki is a personal branding coach who has traveled to over 60 countries. With a background in working as a Tokyo Olympics games producer, she now teaches creators and entrepreneurs how to build authentic personal brands using only a smartphone. Her mission is to empower people to express their true selves and create location-free careers.

How to Communicate, Sell, and Lead Across Cultures

Ibrahima Seck

This talk gives practical tools to work, sell, and collaborate across cultures while living and working globally. You will learn how cultural expectations shape communication, trust, and decision-making, and how to adapt your style without losing who you are. Real stories, simple frameworks, mistakes to avoid, and strategies you can apply right away.

About: Meet Ibrahima "Ibo" Seck. His work sits between communication, sales, and leadership, across cultures. Ibo helps teams sound clear, stay calm under pressure, and move conversations forward. After training teams in 32+ countries, his style is straightforward: less theory, more usable habits.

AI Over the Next 10 Years

Taj Sarin

We're standing at the edge of a transformation unlike anything in human history. Over the next decade, AI will revolutionize medicine, education, energy, and space exploration. Picture DNA-tailored treatments, 3D-printed homes, autonomous robots, and breakthroughs that rewrite the rules of what's possible. This talk reveals the technologies emerging right now that will define our future. The question isn't if this will happen, it's whether you'll be ready.

About: Founder & Lead AI Consultant with Tempus Innovation Corp. & AI Solutions Architect with Tranquilla AI.

Build an Online Business Without Being an Influencer

Sabrina Iovino

Learn how to build a sustainable online business with an AI-powered platform, even without followers. In this session, you'll see how Nas.io helps solopreneurs create digital products, run events and challenges, build engaged communities, and automate marketing from one simple dashboard, by turning ideas and expertise into real, scalable income.

About: Sabrina Iovino is a digital nomad who has been blogging since 2012. She has traveled to 80 countries while building a sustainable, location-independent business through blogging, affiliate marketing, digital products, and community. She shares her travel adventures along with practical advice to help nomads make money and find freedom abroad.

Subconscious Reprogramming for Digital Success

Narley Karikari

How subconscious beliefs shape money, decisions, visibility, and self-trust. Attendees will learn practical tools to reprogram fear, procrastination, and self-sabotage so success feels safe, embodied, and sustainable, no matter where they are in the world.

About: Narley Karikari is a Subconscious Reprogramming Expert, Mindset & Business Coach, and Master Hypnotherapist with 7 years of experience who helps driven entrepreneurs skyrocket their confidence, income, and consistency from the inside out. Through her revolutionary DREAM Method, Narley blends identity work, emotional regulation, and subconscious reprogramming.

Vibe Coding: Build Apps Without Writing Code

Sean McCloskey

Learn how to build real web and mobile apps using just plain English and AI. No coding experience needed. In this talk, I'll demo building a functional app live in under 10 minutes, then share my 4-part framework for going from idea to working product. Whether you want to build tools for your coaching business, create a SaaS side project, or launch digital products - vibe coding lets you skip the developer and build it yourself.

About: Sean teaches people how to build apps with zero coding experience, using AI. He got into vibe coding because he wanted to build his own projects without spending months learning to program. Now he helps others do the same through Code Explorer, his beginner-friendly course. Based in Da Nang.

How to Grow and Scale Online Communities

Maximos Georgios Alamanis

Building an online community today is easier than ever. But sustaining one feels harder than ever. In this talk, you're going to learn how to build, structure, market, and scale online communities, using the right platforms, systems, and growth strategies. We'll explore platform selection (Skool, Mighty, Circle, etc.), engagement design, launch and growth tactics, and how to scale without burning out.

About: Maximos is an entrepreneur, coach, podcaster, and community builder working across fitness, performance, and habit-based growth. He helps busy individuals and founders build healthy habits and high-performance lifestyles. Over the past 6 years, he has built and scaled online communities that support real behavioral change.

The Community Engine: How to Build a Powerful Network in Any City

Shaft Uddin

Most digital nomads struggle to build real connections when they arrive in a new city. In this talk, Shaft shares the repeatable system he used to create thriving communities anywhere. In Da Nang, he built one of the city's largest Ecstatic Dance movements and a growing group of male entrepreneurs in just three months. Learn how to identify your tribe fast, host simple events that attract the right people, and turn gatherings into powerful networks and opportunities.

About: Shaft Uddin is a community architect and experiential facilitator who helps entrepreneurs turn connections into opportunities. After 12 years building communities worldwide; from coworking hubs in Stockholm to one of Da Nang's largest Ecstatic Dance movements, he now teaches nomads how to grow powerful networks and personal brands.

The Opening Joynote™: Transform How You Network with Neuroscience

Jacquzzi W. Martiquet - The Party Scientist

Together, we'll foster a shared sense of belonging that enhances our capacity to build authentic relationships. Get ready to turn off your social autopilot and activate your courageous connector. Expect an interactive high-energy session that feels like a party, not a conference keynote! Grounded in the science of joy, you will learn to transform your networking, spark deeper conversations, and infuse more fun into your experience.

About: Jacques, aka The Party Scientist, is on Earth to help people become Joymakers and ignite joy in everyone they meet, spreading smiles, laughs, and deep conversations. His core belief? Joy multiplied by connection is the greatest natural antidepressant - and he'll get you feelin' it!

Taxes for Digital Nomads: Debunking the Myths

Stef Van Eysendeyk

Taxes and digital nomads: a topic about which many myths exist within the community. In this talk, international tax advisor and digital nomad Stef Van Eysendeyk breaks down the biggest misconceptions about tax residency, "tax-free" living, and remote work abroad. Expect practical insights, real-world examples, and clarity on what actually matters when managing taxes as a digital nomad.

About: Stef Van Eysendeyk is an international tax advisor specializing in tax planning for digital nomads and remote entrepreneurs. As a digital nomad himself, he combines professional expertise with firsthand experience of living and working across borders.

How to Monetize your Social Media Channels

Ioanna Fotopoulou

In this session, we'll understand how to turn our likes into a real paycheck! Whether we have 1,000 followers or 100,000, we will learn practical ways to start making money today from our Social Media content. Brand Deals: how to find and talk to brands that pay. Selling Our Own Stuff: using our profile to sell. Affiliate Links: how to earn a commission just by recommending things we love (and the platforms we can use!). Future-Proofing: how to make sure we keep making money even if the algorithms change.

About: Ioanna is an economist and finance creator. She loves the FIRE movement, and she speaks about it so that we can understand that investing and managing our finances are the No 1 priorities for a life more free with way less stress.

MC of Da Nang Nomad Fest

Paul Benavides - MC

Guiding the energy of Da Nang Nomad Fest, our MCs bring together speakers, founders, freelancers, and digital nomads from around the world. With a passion for community, storytelling, and meaningful conversations, they keep the program flowing, spark connections, and make sure every moment of the festival feels engaging, dynamic, and unforgettable.

About: Paul Allen Benavides, known by many as Rojo, is a lecturer at Swinburne University, speaker, author, corporate trainer, researcher, and communications consultant based in Da Nang. His work explores the intersection of mindfulness, communication, and leadership.

MC of Da Nang Nomad Fest

Jeremy Greene - MC

About: Jeremy Greene is a speaker, MC, global community builder, and business & mindset coach. A world traveler of 10+ years who has visited 50+ countries, he's spent over two decades helping people transform their lives.

Panel: Da Nang as a Digital Nomad Hub

Andre Pierre Gentzsch

What makes Da Nang one of Asia's fastest-growing destinations for digital nomads? In this panel, a General Manager of a leading beach resort, a coworking space founder, and a Gen Z ghostwriter share their perspectives on hospitality, workspace culture, and global remote work shaping Da Nang into a thriving hub for nomads.

About: Mr. Gentzsch is a Swiss Hotelier with roots in Switzerland, Germany, and Malaysia. He has 35 years' experience in events management, hotels, restaurants, and airline catering - including roles as Cluster General Manager and General Manager overseeing operations for up to 3,000 employees.

Panel: Da Nang as a Digital Nomad Hub

Quynh Anh

What makes Da Nang one of Asia's fastest-growing destinations for digital nomads? Hospitality, workspace culture, and global remote work are shaping Da Nang into a thriving hub for nomads, freelancers, and entrepreneurs.

About: Quynh Anh is the co-founder of ALO Travel Asia (2013) and the creator of the ACE ecosystem in Da Nang; ACE Coworking (2022), ACE Café (2024), and ACE Hub (2025). She creates community-driven businesses centered on care, wellness, and meaningful human connection.

Panel: Da Nang as a Digital Nomad Hub

Iris Nguyen

Discover how a Vietnamese Gen Z navigating the international remote economy bridges cultures and helps expats build trust-based professional networks in Da Nang.

About: Iris is a Strategic Ghostwriter for global online coaches, combining an INFJ's intuitive grasp of psychology with sharp digital strategies to build authentic personal brands. She serves as a 'cultural bridge' for the nomad community, helping expats break out of the 'expat bubble'.

AI Day · Bootcamps · Workshops

Hands-on Sessions.

Practical bootcamps and workshops led by professionals from diverse industries - designed to give you real, actionable skills.

3-hour LinkedIn Mastery Bootcamp: Branding, Profile Optimization, Networking & Client Attraction

Markos Korvesis

Turn your LinkedIn profile into a true client magnet with a powerful banner, professional photo, compelling headline, strategic About section, optimized Featured area, impactful Experience, and skill positioning. Then master smart networking, visibility tactics, and content strategies that attract opportunities and ideal clients. Includes live exercises, real-time feedback, practical frameworks, and a step-by-step system you can apply immediately.

About: Markos Korvesis is a Career Coach for Remote Workers and a LinkedIn Consultant with 9 years of experience. He has helped thousands optimize their profiles, land roles at companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon with salaries up to 5x higher, or secure freelance projects worth up to $300,000. He has delivered 40+ LinkedIn workshops across 8 countries and at nomad events including Nomad Summit and Colive Fukuoka.

Jojo's Storying Trading

Chu Chen (Jojo)

Everyone can bring an item they usually have with them while nomading. It has to be something unique, not like a laptop or phone. Tell me the story behind that trade, and share a professional LinkedIn photo with your story.

About: Jojo is a nomad photographer from Taiwan, who was under sponsorship to travel from the Taiwanese government for being a nomad strategy consultant. He owns a photo/videography company and a visual company for any form of design.

Camera Confidence Bootcamp

Christian Pedersen

Making videos = more sales. So why is it so hard to actually hit record? In this 2-part bootcamp, we will tackle exactly that. First, we break down the internal struggles that are holding you back. Then, we step in front of the lens and practice how to show up with more charisma so your audience will listen.

About: Christian helps founders and coaches grow personal brands that feel true to who they are. With a background in content creation, he focuses on founder-led marketing, helping clients get clear on their message and show up with confidence online.

Camera Confidence Bootcamp

Jeremy Greene

Part 2 of the Camera Confidence Bootcamp - overcome the inner critic, build confidence on camera, and create meaningful connections with your audience through authentic video.

About: Jeremy has an inspiring journey from debilitating social anxiety to leading a global community of over 13 million people. That's the power of self-acceptance, reprogramming your mindset, and creating meaningful connections across cultures.

Outbound Voice AI That Actually Books Calls

Ruben Davoli

You'll learn how outbound voice AI agents are used today to call leads, qualify prospects, and book sales calls automatically. We'll break down the real system behind it: scripts, data, compliance, and handoff to humans. No tools list - only what works, when it works, and when it fails.

About: Ruben Davoli is the founder of BeaverMind.ai and an operator building AI sales systems for real businesses. He scaled a coaching company past $3M before AI, then applied automation only where fundamentals already worked.

How Founders Build AI Systems That Run Businesses

Yash Sharma

Most founders don't have a strategy problem; they have an operations problem. In this practical session, Yash will show how modern founders design AI systems that handle outreach, lead management, customer support and internal workflows. Through real examples and live demonstrations, you'll learn how businesses build automation that reduces busywork and creates operational leverage.

About: Yash Sharma is an AI systems builder and automation consultant who helps founders turn manual operations into intelligent workflows. He designs AI agents and automated systems that handle outreach, lead management, customer support, and internal operations.

Create Your 1st AI Assistant

Le-an Lai Lacaba

A live demonstration of how to create an AI Assistant that's trained in your chosen task. I'll walk you through how to use AI in a way that it makes it easier for you to even delegate it to your team.

About: Le-an Lai Lacaba is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, and certified AI consultant. As Co-Founder of 2xYou, a multi-awarded outsourcing company, she empowers entrepreneurs to scale with AI.

Use Manychat to Turn Followers Into Paying Clients

Christian Pedersen

In this hands-on workshop, you'll set up ManyChat live and build an automated DM flow that captures leads, builds trust, and sells for you while you sleep. No coding, no tech experience needed. You'll leave with a working system connected to your Instagram, ready to go.

About: Christian helps founders and coaches grow personal brands that feel true to who they are. He focuses on founder-led marketing, helping clients get clear on their message and show up with confidence online.

The Autonomous Assistant + Digital Employee: AgentLaunch.Dev vs OpenClaw

Taj Sarin

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing AI agent in history, and AgentLaunch.dev is the safest way to deploy one. This workshop shows you how to launch your own OpenClaw digital employee and build secure, collaborative agent teams for any project in under 10 minutes. Enterprise-grade governance, zero guesswork.

About: Founder & Lead AI Consultant with Tempus Innovation Corp. & AI Solutions Architect with Tranquilla AI.

Vibe Coding For Complete Beginners

Sean McCloskey

Build Your First App (No coding experience needed). Never written a line of code? Perfect, this session is for you. Learn how to build real apps using AI. Just describe what you want in plain English, and watch it come to life. If you've ever had an app idea but didn't know where to start, this is it.

About: Sean teaches people how to build apps with zero coding experience, using AI. Through Code Explorer, his beginner-friendly course, he focuses on complete beginners - people with ideas who never thought they could build software. Based in Da Nang.

Sleep, Time Zones, and Health for Nomad Founders

Cedric Lignier

Solopreneur life across time zones often means paying with your sleep and health. This session is for nomad founders working with clients worldwide. You will learn what odd hours and travel actually do to your body, what an ideal setup could look like, and realistic 'damage control' tactics for 2 am calls, red eye flights, late coworking and noisy hotel/airbnbs while still growing your business.

About: Cedric is a financially independent nomad and longevity nerd focused on extending healthspan, not just lifespan. A former software engineer, he has been biohacking since 2014 and uses labs, wearables, and metrics like VO₂ max, DXA, CIMT, and heart age to guide his choices.

Soulful Selling: Close High-Ticket Deals With Authenticity and Integrity

Frans Francis

In this practical talk, I'll show how selling doesn't have to be manipulative. Done right, it becomes a real human conversation rooted in presence. In the age of AI, scripts and pressure-based tactics are losing power; connection wins. This talk is for coaches, experts, and entrepreneurs who want to grow their business without compromising their values.

About: Frans Francis is the founder of Soulful Selling™. He has worked with solopreneurs as well as 7- and 8-figure sales teams, including Mindvalley authors Marisa Peer and Alfio Bardolla, and SOMA Breath. He carries forward the legacy of legendary sales trainer Michael Oliver with his personal blessing.

Find Your Perfect Collaborator with AI in 5 Minutes

Sissy Wang

Attendees will discover their unique creator archetype through a live AI assessment, then get instantly matched with the most compatible collaborators in the room. You'll learn why skills-matching fails but values-matching works, your collaboration strengths and blind spots, and who at this festival you should actually be building with. Walk out with real connections, not just business cards.

About: Sissi Wang is the founder of IdeaMatch, an AI platform that matches co-creators based on values, working style, and collaboration chemistry. With 16 years in talent and culture across Fortune 500s and startups, she's now building the technology to make compatible collaboration the default.

The Content Factory: How to Create 30 Days of Content in One Afternoon

Shaft Uddin

Attendees will learn: Batch Shooting Strategy, Hook Banks & Content Pillars, Turning 1 long video into 20 pieces, Delegation & Editing Workflow, and Why most creators are inefficient. Attendees leave with a repeatable system to stop daily content stress.

About: Shaft Uddin is a community architect and experiential facilitator who helps entrepreneurs turn connections into opportunities. After 12 years building communities worldwide, he now teaches nomads how to grow powerful networks and personal brands.

Content Creation & Building Beyond Brand Partnerships

Sibu Szymanowska

This workshop is for content creators who don't want their income to depend on follower count and algorithms. It's about turning what you already share into real offers that exist beyond the content itself. Participants will identify what they can offer beyond posting online, learn practical income models, and define their own first offer during the workshop.

About: Sibu Szymanowska has spent years working remotely across 60+ countries. Her digital nomad career spans content creation, business ownership, and humanitarian work. She built an online audience through travel and cultural storytelling, which led her to create Go Global with Sibu and co-found The Hybrid Tours.

Pivot to Profit: How AI Disrupted My Life and Saved My Business

Jan Richter

What do you do when AI makes your core product obsolete overnight? For years, selling e-books was a goldmine, until it wasn't. Join Jan for a transparent look at how he turned a looming business collapse into a scalable, high-revenue AI platform. He'll share the exact moment he realized the 'old way' was over and how he built a future-proof model.

About: Full-time Nomad for 17 years, CEO & Founder of EasyDeutsch, and Co-Founder of Nomads in Paradise. Based in Siargao, Philippines since 2017. Currently transitioning from book and ebook publishing to 'publishing' AI tools in the language learning industry.

Stop Collecting Experiences. Start Learning From Them.

Panagiotis Mamouzakis

Nomads and freelancers collect experiences fast: new places, clients, projects, and pivots. But collecting isn't the same as learning. This session is about the small shift that changes that: setting an intention before an experience, and knowing what to do with it after. Practical, hands-on, and a few slides - you'll leave with tools you can actually use.

About: Panagiotis has been messing with non-formal learning for 23 years across 4 continents. He designs learning contexts more than he delivers content, mostly because he finds it more interesting when people figure things out themselves.

How to Build & Grow Online Communities (Workshop)

Maximos Georgios Alamanis

In this workshop, you are going to learn how to build, launch, and grow an online community. At the end, you will know which platform to choose (pros and cons of each), structure & design that creates engagement, launch tactics, growth strategies & scaling, and marketing (organic & paid).

About: Maximos is an entrepreneur, coach, podcaster, and community builder working across fitness, performance, and habit-based growth. Over the past 6 years, he has built and scaled online communities that support real behavioral change.