Speaker day -Culture, Tourism & wellness x Co-work
Part of Taiwan Digital Fest (TDF), Taiwan’s largest and most iconic digital nomad festival, bringing together global nomads, creators, entrepreneurs, and local communities across Taiwan. Learn more at fest.dna.org.tw.
1.Building Community-Driven Businesses Beyond Borders: Lessons from Taiwan, Central, and South America
speaker:Mei Kuo
Organization & Title:Founder of Taiwan Digital Nomad Network (台灣數位遊牧村) and Super Mei Travel
Brief Professional Introduction
Mei Kuo, a digital nomad lifestyle content creator, community builder, and an entrepreneur. She founded Super Mei Travel, Taiwan Digital Nomad Network, and Super Mei English. She shares digital nomad insights globally and lives by working remotely while integrating in local communities. With 20 years of teaching experience, she helps English learners boost their speaking ability and confidence in 30 days.
Topic Description
What is the business model that works across continents and cultures? What if the key to a sustainable, global business isn’t scale—but the communities you build along the way? What does it mean to build a sustainable business while living a borderless life? In this talk, Mei shares her experiences participating in community-driven initiatives in Chishang, Taiwan, Antigua, Guatemala, El Zonte, El Salvador, and Paramaribo, Suriname, and how shifting the focus from location independence to community integration transforms her life and business. By engaging deeply with local ecosystems and relationships while traveling, it’s possible to build a business that is resilient, meaningful, and sustainable.
This session offers new insights and invites you to imagine new possibilities of building your own businesses rooted in community—no matter where you are.
2. Global Freedom, Local Connection: A Life Design Approach
speaker:Davide Benaroio
Organization & Title:Life Design Program, Founder
Brief Professional Introduction
Davide Benaroio is a Product Manager and entrepreneur exploring how to design meaningful lives through remote work. He created a Life Design program to help professionals gain clarity, explore new paths, and take action through small experiments, blending design thinking, personal development, and the digital nomad lifestyle.
Topic Description
Digital nomads enjoy global freedom, but often lack direction and meaningful local connection. In this practical session, I will introduce a Life Design approach to help participants build a more intentional and impactful nomad life. Instead of searching for a single “perfect path”, attendees will learn how to explore multiple directions, gain clarity, and run small experiments to test new ways of living and working. The session will include simple exercises to reflect on personal values, current challenges, and future possibilities. Participants will leave with practical tools to make more intentional decisions and better align their work, lifestyle, and environment. A key focus will be on moving beyond a purely global mindset and learning how to create real connections and contribute to the local communities they engage with, transforming mobility into an opportunity for meaning, collaboration, and co-creation.
3.Ambition & Intimacy: Building a Life Without Growing Apart
speaker:Melissa
Organization & Title:Together, on purpose. Founder
Brief Professional Introduction
Psychotherapist and facilitator exploring modern relationships, ambition, and emotional connection. Creates experiential workshops and communities for intentional individuals navigating love, growth, and life transitions.
Topic Description
Entrepreneurship and location-independent lifestyles don’t just shape what we build — they reshape how we relate. Behind ambition and freedom, many quietly navigate tension in their relationships: misaligned expectations, emotional spillover, and the challenge of staying connected while constantly evolving.
This is not a traditional talk, but a highly interactive, mastermind-style experience designed for entrepreneurs, builders, and growth-oriented individuals.
Through guided reflection, structured conversations, and real-time interaction, participants will explore how ambition, uncertainty, and lifestyle design impact communication, emotional availability, and connection — whether or not their partner is involved in their work.
Rather than offering one-size-fits-all advice, this session creates a space for honest insight, shared perspectives, and practical awareness. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of their relational patterns, and how to grow without losing connection.
4. How Taiwan can share its story with the world
speaker:Sasha Chhabra
Organization & Title:Taiwan International Center, Chairman
Brief Professional Introduction
Sasha Chhabra is a foreign affairs writer and commentator speaker based in Taipei. He publishes a weekly column on Taiwan on Formosa Review on Substack. He is the founder and Chairman of the Taiwan International Center, a new initiative to strengthen Taiwan's international ties at a societal level.
Topic Description
What's the first thing that comes to mind when most people hear Taiwan? Is it war and geopolitics, semiconductors and supply chains? The most dangerous place in the world? Despite Taiwan's great progress as Asia's leading democracy, as an advanced and accomplished country, it is often erased from the world map, and replaced with false labels such as "Chinese Taipei."
How can Taiwan, Taiwanese, and those who care deeply about this country fight back and put Taiwan back on the map as Taiwan? Why does this even matter for the future of this mountainous little island?
Join for a discussion of the global narratives challenging Taiwan's existence, why they matter, and most importantly: what you can do to fight back.
5.How can smaller regions compete globally without becoming copies of major cities?
speaker:Ronald Aparajit
Organization & Title:Cross-border Business & Creative Operator (Gold Card holder)
Brief Professional Introduction
I am a cross border business and creative operator based in Taiwan, working across partnerships, brand strategy, content, merchandise, motion, and event production. I have previously worked as Business Development in Web3 and Project Manager in Gaming and tech across China, India, Hong Kong & Vietnam. Recently moved to Taiwan as a Gold Card holder, I focus on turning local ideas into globally relevant experiences through community, culture, and cross border collaboration.
Topic Description
How can smaller regions compete globally without becoming copies of major cities? My talk will be about how remote work, creative production, and community led initiatives can transform local regions into active global collaboration hubs. Drawing from my experience working across markets while based in Taiwan, I will share how branded merchandise, motion content, and event design can create lasting cultural and economic impact beyond traditional industries. I'll also share my time building communities, during my time in Vietnam, HK & China.Rather than focusing on digital nomad lifestyle narratives, this session looks at what actually makes talent stay, contribute, and build in a place. I will break down how regions can attract global talent, foster meaningful collaboration, and design experiences that connect local identity with global relevance.Attendees will get insights on building communities, designing memorable experiences, and turning local ecosystems into globally connected networks.
6.The journey inward: Refining your Envisioned lifestyle while living elsewhere
speaker:Gwen Yang
Organization & Title:Founder of Herflow Co-creating Space / Planning Consultant & Mindset Coach
Brief Professional Introduction
After a decade managing renowned artists and producing GMA-winning music projects, Gwen relocated to Taitung to found 'Herflow.' As a Planning Consultant and Mindset Coach, she clarifies business strategies and inspires the art of living. Her space actively serves as a hub supporting local artists and community initiatives.
Topic Description
Living elsewhere offers a blank canvas to journey inward. Join Gwen as she shares how she refined her envisioned lifestyle and brought 'Herflow' to life.
7.workshop session(1hr)
-Let your soul be heard 讓靈魂有聲音
speaker:陳珮綸
Organization & Title:尼爾之籟有限公司負責人
Brief Professional Introduction
I’m Miya, and I have been on the path of sound healing for 12 years. From teaching English to discovering singing bowls, I gradually entered the world of sound frequencies. In 2019, I founded Neel Sounds, trained over hundreds practitioners, and brought this work to Japan and Germany continuing to support and touch lives through sound.
Topic Description
In a world filled with constant noise and connection, we often forget how to return to ourselves. This 60 minute sound healing journey gently guides you inward through meditation, inviting you to soften and arrive in the present moment. As 45 minutes of continuous singing bowl vibrations unfold, your body is held in subtle waves of sound, allowing tension to melt and emotions to quietly release. In the final moments, you are invited to experience the resonance up close, letting the frequencies softly touch deeper layers within. This is more than a session it is a quiet reunion with yourself, where stillness, softness, and inner balance naturally return through sound.