Coliving finally getting traction... and the number of coliving events is blowing up! While a couple of years ago, Co-Liv hosted the first coliving conference in San Francisco, this year I already counted more than 10 events on the agenda.
Join some of the major gatherings in the coliving industry to meet the coliving community and plug your nose into what’s happening - oh, and hit me up if you’re going ;)
Join the Co-Liv Summit 2021
JOIN THE CO-LIV SUMMIT 2021, THE LARGEST INDUSTRY EVENT TO DATE!
On May 5th and 6th 2021, the worldwide community of coliving professionals gathers to exchange, learn and connect at the Co-Liv Summit. Join this virtual industry event to understand the depth of the coliving industry, exchange with its leading actors and stay up to date with the leading innovations.
🙌 500+ Coliving Actors
🎤 50+ Live Speakers
🌏 30+ Countries Present
🤝 10+ Networking Sessions
🎟 2 Full days
🏆 1 Coliving Awards Ceremony
/// A UNIQUE TYPE OF EVENT ///
We wanted to do something different than “just a virtual event”. This is why this year’s virtual edition of the Co-Liv Summit will be highly engaging, leaving you with lots of new knowledge, connections, and memorable experiences:
📝 LEARN - A diversity of formats will bring depth, knowledge, and conversations into the spotlight: from short, high-quality TED-like talks to industry panels, expert workshops, and “ask-me-anything” sessions with high-quality experts
🤝 CONNECT - Daily networking sessions will be facilitated by the Co-liv team and create new professional connections with key coliving actors who will become your peers, partners and supporters. Attendees will also attend networking sessions prior to the event.
🏘 EXPLORE - A virtual learning exhibition will showcase videos from coliving spaces from around the world, bringing you into the coliving spaces of today.
🏆 ATTEND - The Coliving Awards ceremony will be held at the Co-Liv Summit and highlight the key innovators within the industry.
🎧 PLAY - The final virtual after-party with live DJ sets will be open to colivers and unite both coliving professionals and residents worldwide.
/// MAJOR INDUSTRY TOPICS ///
The Co-Liv Summit talks and workshop topics are carefully chosen based on the current industry needs. Here is an extract from our 40 different talks, panels, and workshops:
• Investing Into Coliving: criteria and success stories
• Community Building: best practices from leading community builders
• Spatial and Interior Design for community, wellbeing, and sustainability
• The Coliving Business Models: understanding the main differences
• Converting Hotels to Coliving: how to readapt the hotel industry in 2021
• The Future of Technology: industry solutions and future opportunities
• Overview of Coliving Industry: investment overview of today’s industry
• The Future of Human Connection: how culture is changing our behaviors
• Affordability in Coliving: how to create social impact-driven concepts
• Coliving Public Policy: working with city governments
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Join the Co-Liv Summit today at colivsummit.co!
This includes access to all talks, workshops, and panels, as well as the Coliving Awards ceremony, several networking sessions, and the global coliving afterparty.
📣 Special offer: become a Co-Liv member today and get your ticket for the summit for only 9,99€!
Co-Liv Members enjoy exclusive benefits such as heavy discounts on Co-Liv events, members-only masterminds, free resources, and access to our online networking community.
By becoming a Co-Liv member (only 89€/year) you gain access to our discounted rate of the Co-Liv Summit. Grab this opportunity to participate at the Summit and to join the global community of coliving professionals!
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Major Coliving Events 2019
Date: April 27-28
Location: Gran Canaria, Spain
Created in 2018, the non-profit Coliving Hub is hosting its first event. Dedicated to bringing together the major coliving operators under one roof for two days in Gran Canaria, the goal of this first conference is to build a global community of coliving operators that desire to support each other, share knowledge and form a strong worldwide collective.
Participants already include founders from the UP(st)ART Creative, Seedspace, Coconat and Kindred Quarters, as well as folks from the Conscious Coliving collective, architects, and industry investors.
Date: October 9-11
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Mokrin House is organizing its first major conference, focussing on the development of coworking and coliving in South East Europe. The purpose is to explore changing regional dynamics and to build a strong community of industry leaders in the region, which has remained largely untouched by other coliving conferences.
The conference will gather more than 40 speakers with strong reputation towards coworking & coliving, social entrepreneurship, and international community building, as well as representatives from the public sector and public policy influencers.
Date: October 17-18
Location: Paris, France
Since 2017, the non-profit Co-Liv has been at the forefront of the coliving industry. After two highly successful events in the last two years, the collective has brought together more than 300 industry experts, thought leaders, and operators from around the globe. Its objective is to consolidate the entire industry and create the link between all coliving players - from operators to investors, architects, designers, and real estate developers.
Former speakers include coliving operators from Roam, Sun & Co, Space10, The Collective, and Zoku, as well as thought leaders such as Anton & Irene, Bond Society, Urgent Agency, and the Conscious Coliving collective.
Pre-register now for the 2019 conference here (price: not yet determined).
Coliving Gatherings Organised by Co-Liv
Afterwork « Coliving from the 50's »
Date:
April 17 at 7.30pm
Location: Paris, France
Thee Co-Liv collective is hosting this small after-work event to showcase the incredible story of a group of co-livers in the post-war period in Boulogne.
You can now pre-register to the event.
Afterwork London by Co-Liv
Date:
June 12 at 7.30pm
Location: London, UK
Designed for members of the Co-Liv collective, this social gathering will group local members and offer an evening to network and meet the local chapter community.
If you’re part of the collective, you can now pre-register to the event (or get your membership here)
Co-Liv Local Summit Netherlands
Date: Autumn (to be determined)
Location:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hosted at Zoku - a beautifully designed coliving space in Amsterdam - this event will gather the local members of Co-Liv and offer an opportunity to meet the local Co-Liv community.
If you’re part of the collective, you can now pre-register to the event (or get your membership here).
Other Events Related to Coliving
Date: May 14
Location: London, UK
The Future Proptech conference is celebrating its 5th anniversary this year. With over 2000 attendees, 100+ speakers and 800+ companies on board, this event unites players that will shape the real estate industry.
Date: May 30 - June 2
Location: Portland, USA
The topic of the 2019 National Cohousing conference is “Community for the health of it” and focuses on the demand side of cohousing - mostly appealing to those who want to be part of cohousing or already live that way.
The objective is to create strong cohousing models and the program includes topics such as in-house organization, how to build stronger community, and efficient conflict resolution.
Date: November 13-15
Location: Warsaw, Poland
The annual Coworking Europe conference brings together up to 800 coworking space operators and facilitators. Last year held in Amsterdam, the conference has become a milestone for coworking space operators and include speakers from all over Europe.
I added this conference to the list as coliving is becoming an increasing interest for coworking operators - while coliving is not an official topic of the conference, I’m certain that the topic will come up and that it might make a lot of sense to attend in order to explore the crossover between the coworking and coliving markets.
Get your tickets here (price: 320€ early bird / 360€ after March 30th)
Events that Might Happen
Status: not confirmed yet
Probable Date: November
Last year, Cushman & Wakefield held the Future of Real Estate Conference in Lisbon, exploring how people will work, live and play in the future. With an emphasis of how this trend affects the real estate market, this event will definitely touch upon coliving if it is held this year.
Status: not confirmed yet
Probable Date: end 2019
In 2018, the Coliving Festival Zadar team lead by Marcus Mommsen hosted a coliving summit in Croatia. While I haven’t received official confirmation about the 2019 event, there is a chance it might happen end of 2019.
And Some More Events for Next Year
Last held: March 12-15 (already over)
Location: Cannes, France
Cushman & Wakefield organised another event this year - the MIPIM, according to the company one of the world’s leading property events. It brought together influential players from all international property sectors – office, residential, retail, healthcare, sport, logistics and industrial, offering unrivalled access to the greatest number of development projects and sources of capital worldwide.
Definitely keeping a close look on their 2020 edition to see how coliving will be a key topic.
Last held: March 2 (already over)
Location: Toronto, Canada
A very interesting event, the Co-Operative Real Estate conference tackled the process of creating cooperatives in real estate. Major topics included how to finance a co-operative real estate purchase, what type of co-op model exist, and how to plan for future outcomes.
I'm keeping this conference on the radar especially as it offers hope for alternative coliving models that allow residents to create their own legal structure.
Last held: Feb 27 (already over)
Location: London, UK
With its last event held on the topic “The Diversification of Build to Rent”, this conference gathered both private and public sector leaders and key stakeholders to debate and exchange ideas. Because of an increasing trend to create more community within real estate projects, it will be interesting to attend next year’s forum to understand where the build-to-rent industry is overlapping with the coliving values.
Discover more about the past conference here.
Know about any other coliving event or conferance happening? Please comment below and we will get them into the list.
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