COM-EX Conversations: Belong Without Blending
Belong Without Blending: How the best communities make space for you to be yourself.
Event in ENGLISH.
🇬🇧 ENGLISH
There's a word everyone uses and almost nobody actually builds: community.
Most of what gets called community is, at its core, an audience. People gathered around someone selling something. It isn't reciprocal. It doesn't grow in both directions. It doesn't change you.
Real community does something harder: it makes you feel like you belong without asking you to disappear. That tension, between the we and the I, between belonging and dissolving, between culture and conformity.
For this edition of COM-EX CONVERSATIONS we bring together four voices who have built, designed, or studied this tension from different angles. Each brings their own unique perspective.
Speakers
Voice#1: Rafa Romero and Matt Roberts from Happy Operators
Why they are in the room on July 2nd:
They are actively building a high-density community in Barcelona for builders and tech enthusiasts who want to learn and share without the typical corporate pretense. They know exactly what it takes to design a tech-driven space where individuals can thrive without losing their unique edge.
Voice#2: Announced soon
Voice#3: Announced soon
Voice#4: Announced soon
Five years asking ourselves what makes a space worth something. What makes people stay. What turns a group of people into a real community. This event is how we're celebrating the start of it, as Grounded Innovation turns 5 years old 🎂
What the evening will look like:
7:00pm: Welcome and introduction to the theme.
7:30: Keynotes start
8:30: Open Q&A Session
9:00: Network, drinks and snacks.
9:30: We say goodbye.
🎤 Speakers · Revealed soon
📍 GroundInn LAB · El Born, Barcelona
📅 July 2nd 🪑 Limited capacity · Talks + panel + networking
🐣 Early bird available until June 16th
ESPAÑOL
Hay una palabra que todo el mundo usa y muy poca gente construye de verdad: comunidad.
La mayoría de lo que se llama comunidad es, en el fondo, una audiencia. Gente reunida alrededor de alguien que vende algo. No es recíproco. No crece en las dos direcciones. No te cambia.
La comunidad real hace algo más difícil: te hace sentir que perteneces sin pedirte que te borres. Esa tensión entre el nosotros y el yo, entre pertenecer y disolverse, entre cultura y uniformidad.
En esta edición de COM-EX CONVERSATIONS reunimos cuatro voces que han construido, diseñado o estudiado esta tensión desde ángulos distintos. Cada una trae su perspectiva única.
Cinco años preguntándonos qué hace que un espacio valga la pena. Qué hace que la gente se quede. Qué hace que algo deje de ser un grupo de personas y se convierta en comunidad de verdad. Este evento es nuestra forma de celebrar el inicio de todo esto ya que cumplimos 5 años en Grounded Innovation 🎂
Cómo será la velada:
7:00pm: Bienvenida e introducción a la temática.
7:30: Empiezan los Keynotes.
8:30: Sesión de Q&A.
9:00: Network, bebidas y snacks.
9:30: Final del evento.
🎤 Speakers · Próximamente revelados
📍 GroundInn LAB · El Born, Barcelona
📅 2 de julio 🪑 Aforo limitado · Presentaciones + Q&A + networking
🐣 Early bird disponible hasta el 16 de junio.