co-matter digest #24: A preview of who'll join us in Copenhagen
We're two weeks away from our first Community Leadership Summit going down in Copenhagen
With participants coming from 18 different countries and from backgrounds as varied as government organizations, creative agencies, co-living spaces and NGO's, a hyper diverse group of people is coming together to share their expertise and best practices.
These friendly folks are leading, growing and enabling communities at places like:
Future living labs, co-living organizations and sharing economy startups such as IKEA’s SPACE10, Copenhagen’s CPH Village, co-living platform LifeX and GRIM, a startup fighting food waste by delivering boxes of ugly, organic & seasonal fruits.
🗳️ Government, city communes and civil society startups such as the community builders behind the UK’s governments website gov.uk, public servants of the city of Copenhagen or startups like Civocracy that improve the dialogue between communities and government authorities.
Ecosystem organizations such as Estonia’s Lift99, Tallinn Startup Week, Startup Norway and the Oslo Business Region, each on their own a flagship organization behind the Nordic tech community.
Blockchain platforms such as State of Dapps (Berlin), MakerDAO (Copenhagen) and CryptoWomenCPH, bringing people together across the blockchain and decentralization movements.
🤓 Creative, design, strategy, data and innovation experts from places such as Stockholms’s ReformAct, Antwerp’s Innovationwall, Copenhagen’s Untold and IOVIA, data visualization company Backscatter and Eskild Hansen Design Studios.
Co-working spaces such as Oslo’s House of Innovation and SoCentral, both of them ecosystems on their own supporting and empowering innovators.
The people who bring people together at global brands and startups such as Polaroid Originals, Virgin, Pixsy, Carlsberg, Conferize, Red Bull and Amnesty International.
Non-profit and youth organizations such as Deltager that works with schools, foundations, municipalities, companies and labor unions to foster a more participatory, democratic and inclusive society, and OpenVRT, an association that empowers Belgium’s young media creatives.
Who else do you think should join us?
Send them an airmail (our friend above can help) or just reply to this email with your suggestion.
We'll make sure to pass on a personal invite to them.