Laís de Oliveira

Lais aims to engineer thriving startup ecosystems through community building. Currently Founder at 8spaces (community driven platform to connect people through spaces) and Facilitator of the socio-cultural aspects of MAP (MaGIC Accelerator Program, which gathers 50 startups from Malaysia and ASEAN in a 4 months program). She also drives a few community-driven projects aimed to support the KL local ecosystem such as Confluence.City, TheListKL and Startup Digest Malaysia. In her spare time she has fun curating content and agenda for independent events required by selected corporate, media or ecosystem partners as a "community-builder-on-demand".

Previous to that, she was the Global Community Director for Startup Grind across Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Before coming to Asia as Mindvalley Entrepreneurship Coordinator, she lived in Argentina, where she managed Events and Community for @NXTPLabs (leading seed fund accelerator for Latam) and co-organized the 1st Online Conference for Startups from over 25 countries with @Wisboo. Lais started her career managing 1200 young volunteers across 3 countries, as President for AIESEC in Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay).

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