THE SYNC

April 2, 2011

Welcoming all participants

to THE SYNC First workshop
The SYNC : Define the meaning of Social Innovation… TOGETHER.
สถานที่ : ASA Center ชั้น 5 สยามดิสคัพเวอรี่เซ็นเตอร
ณ วันเสารที่ 2 เมษายน 2554 
เวลา 13:00 น. - 16:00 น

วงสนทนา เพื่อแลกเปลี่ยนความคิด ประสบการณ ความฝน ที่มีตอสถานที่ทำงาน

โดยเฉพาะ co-working space (สถานที่ทำงานรวมกัน) หรือ co-location office
space (สถานที่ทำงานรวมกันแบบออฟฟศ) เพื่อที่จะนำความใฝฝนเหลานั้นไปสู
ความเปนจริง สำหรับสังคมของนักพัฒนานวัตกรรมเพื่อสังคม

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Sinee Chakthranont

Sinee Chakthranont directs Ashoka programs in Thailand.  Ashoka is the global association
of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.

สินี จักรธรานนท์ เป็นผู้อํานวยการมูลนิธิอโชก้า (ประเทศไทย) อโชก้าเป็นสมาคมระดับโลกของผู้

ประกอบประการสังคมแนวหน้าทั่วโลก

My work link: www.ashoka.org, www.thailand.ashoka.org

My personal link: http://community.momypedia.com/community/blog/my_blog.aspx?
bgrid=51162

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Chawanad Luansang, Openspace Community Architects

Chawanad Luansang has established a model for community-led planning and revitalization
that goes beyond housing and land rights to address both structural and social needs.
Chawanad is nurturing a new civic culture that empowers local residents with the resource
management skills and political experience to address their own short- and long-term
community development.

Chawanad and his Openspace collective of community architects have developed a holistic
model for long-term rural and urban community revitalization that is driven by the villagers
rather than government institutions. Chawanad believes that to solve the problems of poor
communities in the long-term, villagers must be empowered to participate in their community
revitalization strategies and to take the lead in their formulation. An architect by training,
Chawanad begins by mobilizing communities to collectively address housing needs, but
leverages this approach to encourage greater community activism.

Recognizing that the Thai government’s top-down approaches to community development

are frequently rejected by the communities they are designed to serve, Chawanad’s
Openspace has demonstrated that the best solutions are those generated at the grassroots

level and are supported—not overwritten—by outside technical capacity. This process leaves
communities better prepared to manage future development issues such as resource
shortages, natural disasters, and other external shocks that may arise in the long-term.

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Nuttinee Karnchanaporn, PhD
Trained as an interior architect and is working in various fields: teaching, research, interior
design, and writing on design related issues. Nuttinee is currently a lecturer at School of
Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.
Nuttinee obtained her PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from Architectural
Association, UK and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. 

Current Workplace
School of Architecture and Design
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
and
G4 Architects
and
more...

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Dr. Veerawong Pipithsuksunt

Veerawong Pipithsuksunt is a Coach, Trainer, Productivity Consultant and Guest

Speaker in Entrepreneurship and Leadership. Dr. Veerawong helps both
manufacturing and service companies to enhance their productivities by using Lean
and Total Quality Management. And, as the guest speaker he gave the speech in
entrepreneurship classes with the Department of Industrial Promotion. Also, he is a
translator in self-improvement books such as emotion management, decision-making
and financial freedom.
 
Right now, his goal is to become an accredited coach with International Coach
Federation to support mainly in Social Entrepreneur. 

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Thawatchai Saengthamchai

Media communication agency for social issue

facebook.com/icareclub

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Prapapan Banlusilp

Senior Coordinator
Thai Social Enterprise Office (TSEO)

Joining the Thai Social Enterprise Office since its inception, she has completely changed her
career path from Hotel/Resort management as a Project Manager. With her passion and
heart for social enterprise, she has dedicated herself to facilitating the growth of social
enterprises and intermediaries in Thailand as well as forging international partnerships within
the global social enterprise sector.

website: www.tseo.or.th
Facebook: tseopress
Twitter: @tseopress

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Natchaya Futragoon
Coordinator, 
Thailand Social Enterprise Office (TSEO)
Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Information studies

Website www.tseo.or.th
Facebook www.facebook.com/tseopress
Twitter @tseopress

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Sunit Shrestha

Director and Partner, ChangeFusion Institute

He is founder of ChangeFusion. He has raised and managed projects worth over 3 million
USD focusing on social innovation development such as Internet-based social technologies
as well as sustainable agriculture. ChangeFusion, formerly known as Thai RuralNet, is a
World Bank Development Marketplace’s winner. He started off his career with Access Capital,
a venture capital firm in Bangkok. He was also a Bloomberg Fellow in Finance. He became
an Ashoka Fellow in 2009.

His personal blog is at Dream Infection.

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Aki Yamato

Aki Yamato is a Japanese who has lived in Thailand for more than 3 years. Now working as
co-founder of Marimo5 to support Thai Farmers to be connected with customers directly as
creating new products, selling vegetables and organizing event.

Visit Marimo5 at: http://www.marimo5.com/

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Komgrit Trakoontiwakorn
Automotive Design and Industrial Design Instructor
Department of Industrial Design
Faculty of Architecture
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

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นายธนกร เจียรกมลชื่น
ชื่อเล่น โจ๊ก อายุ 26 ปี จบการศึกษาระดับปริญญาตรีจากคณะเศรษฐศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัย
เกษตรศาสตร์ ลักษณะนิสัยเป็นคนง่ายๆ สบายๆ ชอบช่วยเหลือผู้อื่นและรักธรรมชาติ (ชอบดูดาว
บนฟ้าเป็นพิเศษ) ปัจจุบันทํางานในตําแหน่งเจ้าหน้าที่ประสานงานของเครือข่ายตลาดสีเขียว และผู้
ช่วยผู้จัดการงานแฟร์ของตลาดสีเขียว ทําหน้าที่เชื่อมโยงกลุ่มผู้ประกอบการร้านจัดจําหน่ายสินค้ากรี
นเพื่อสร้างเป็นเครือข่าย และเป็นหนึ่งใน organizer หลักของงานแฟร์ใหญ่ของเครือข่ายฯ ชื่อ
GreenFair (จัดขึ้นช่วงปลายปี) โดยตัวผมชื่นชอบในการทํางานกับองค์กรนี้เพราะศรัทธาในแนวทาง
การทํางานของกลุ่มที่สร้างการเชื่อมโยงระหว่างผู้ผลิตและผู้บริโภคให้เกิดความผูกพันธ์ อันจะนําไปสู่
การสร้างตลาดที่เป็นธรรมและเกื้อกูลต่อธรรมชาติ

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Thanaphol Tunprasert (Panter)
ธนพล ตันประเสริฐ (แพนเธอร์) Social Script &  Copy Writer

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Thantita Srisuriya (Ploy)
ธัญญ์ฐิตา สีห์สุริยา (พลอย) Social Account Executive
Bachelor of Communication Arts, Advertising, Rangsit University, Pathumtani, Thailand

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Tawin Piriyasanguanpong (Boyd)
เทวินทร์ พิริยะสงวนพงศ์ (บอยดฺ์) Social Script Writer

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Tanatep Pornkulvilie, Partner, Finance and Accounting

Tanatep was reading Economics from the Thai Chamber of Commerce University. He is
responsible for the organization's financial management and accounting issue.

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Thanapon Sreshthaputra
Coordinator, ChangeFusion Institute

From the corporate world, Thanapon now contributes his business and management skills to
bridge the gap between the concept of sustainable development and the business world.

His main responsibility is to provide Sustainability and CSR implementation consultancy to

private companies, as well as closely work with international organizations, namely, Clinton
Climate Initiative and FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) to
promote sustainability in Thailand. Furthermore, he leads a few research projects, such as
one of the FAO Project; “The challenges in replicating ‘best practice’, community-based rural
bio-energy projects in Thailand.”

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Walaiphorn Wajavuth
Coordinator, ChangeFusion Institute

Walaiphorn Wajavuth is a project coordinator at ChangeFusion Institute, which is a nonprofit

organization that provides social innovation design, investment and incubation services with a
specific focus on catalyzing high-impact, scalable and sustainable social innovations as well
as social enterprises. At ChangeFusion, her core responsibility is to develop business plans,
financial statements and projections for Social Enterprises. She works closely with not only
Social Enterprise project, but also with Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) projects. She is passionate in Creative Capitalism and Design
Thinking, as the solution for sustainable development.

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Preekamol Chantaranijakorn (Gift)
Associate, ChangeFusion Institute

Graduating last year with a Bachelors of Economic from Thammasat University with a major
in Development Economics, Preekamol has passionately taken many community and rurally
oriented classes and activities. With her strong beliefs in people and community’s power of
social development, Preekamol would like to be one little part of movement towards greater
social equality. Furthermore, Preekamol believes that macro-economic policy is crucial to the
empowerment of grassroots movements, and is now a member of ChangeFusion’s Think
Tank team, which actively engages in researching and developing policy innovations. Her
ambition is to become a social entrepreneur and aims to solve the problems of urban poor,
homeless, slums and trafficked persons.

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Amarit Charoenphan
Associate, ChangeFusion Institute

Although graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Thammasat University,

Amarit is proud to be newest member on the Social Enterprise and Impact Finance team. He
works closely to support social entrepreneurs particularly through the UnLtd Thailand’s
incubation and capacity development program as well as social venture financing. He counts
Richard Branson as his most influential entrepreneurial idol and shares Branson’s spirit for
adventure through passions such as scuba diving, airship traveling and sub-orbital space
tourism. An aspiring social entrepreneur and social investor, he is equally passionate in
realizing his vision of the successful and widespread commercialization of social innovations
to create genuine and sustainable progress in Thai society. He plans to incubate his first
social venture at ChangeFusion in the near future.

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