Tet is only a couple of days away and we’re all excited to be receiving our favorite little red envelopes that float around during this time. The Li Xi is seen as a symbol of luck, and so not only do we enjoy receiving it, but there’s also something pleasant about giving them to others around us. Is there anyone special you’re thinking of giving Li Xi to? A friend? Colleague? A younger brother or sister?

Then let’s make it a special one. Join us for our Li Xi envelope making workshop where you get to add your own personality and twist to the red packet. This enriching, relaxing and therapeutic workshop is hosted by MuseArt School in partnership with Dreamplex, and under their guidance you will be able to create your own beautiful custom Li Xi envelope that you can hand out to someone special in your life. 

This workshop is FREE for Dreamplex members and you do not need any artistic ability to participate. We’ve got all the supplies and expert guidance you need. Just bring your ideas and your Tet spirit!

In this rapidly-changing world, leaders of all types of organizations — startups, corporations, not-for-profits, government agencies — need to understand how to innovate. Contrary to popular belief, innovation & creation is often not the result of random lightning strikes, but rather the practice of the right mindset, methods and tools.

AmCham Vietnam’s new Entrepreneurship & Innovation Initiative invites you to join a design thinking interactive event led by Chris Elkin, sponsored by Dreamplex.

Chris is founder of Doodle Brands, a Vietnam-based design thinking brand innovation company in Ho Chi Minh City. Chris has over 20 years in the Southeast Asia Market and is a former WPP Group managing director of Red Brand Builders, Edge Asia and Aleph Vietnam.

He has worked with a wide range of clients, gaining experience of people’s real problems in Banking, Insurance, Retail, Real Estate, FMCG, Dairy, Beer, Education, Health and Personal Care. Chris regularly instructs and facilitates design thinking through the LUMA Institute across Asia Pacific and donates his time speaking, mentoring and volunteering to help everyone be more innovative.

Coffee and pastries provided. Limited capacity, so RSVP soon!

Agenda
09:00 AM - Networking
09:30 AM - Event starts
10:15 AM - Coffee break
10:30 AM - Event resumes
11:30 AM - Event ends

Costs
AmCham Members: VND 350,000 | Non-members: VND 500,000

Founders of companies operating under 1 year: VND 150,000

Reservations/cancellations must be received by 24 hours before the event, and must be made on-line or by email. We are unable to accept reservations/cancellations by telephone. Simply click this link to register.

A recent study showed that entrepreneurs are 50 percent more likely to report having a mental health condition, with some specific conditions being incredibly prevalent amongst founders.

According to this study Founders are:

2x more likely to suffer from depression
6x more likely to suffer from ADHD
3x more likely to suffer from substance abuse
10x more likely to suffer from bi-polar disorder
2x more likely to have psychiatric hospitalization

As a founder, you know all too well how the pressures of pushing your product development, building and managing a team, fundraising, and what else, can be extremely taxing.

However, you’re not alone! Dreamplex is organizing an informal startup founder round table on the 10th of January at 4:oo PM.

Our speaker and discussion lead is multi-entrepeneur Max-F. Scheichenost. Max is joining us from Singapore for a unique, one-time event to share his experiences in setting up multiple companies and all that came with that. He recently wrote a viral post about this and will be using these contents to kick off our round table: https://entrepreneurship7.com/2019/11/26/the-hard-truths-entrepreneurs-do-not-want-to-talk-about-anxiety-panic-attacks-depression.

About the presenter

Max-F. Scheichenost has co-founded and invested in more than 15 companies globally and helped to scale more than +20 eCommerce companies in APAC. He started his first eCommerce company at the age of 22 which was eventually acquired by Google Inc.

Max specializes in building and growing high-performance teams, validating, accelerating and scaling digital enterprises with a focus on effective consumer journeys. Notable companies he co-founded, invested and/or accelerated regionally as well as globally: DailyDeal (acquired by Google Inc.), Duriana (acquired by Carousell), wow.lk (acquired by Dialog), smarchive (acquired by T-Venture), RoomService (acquired by Foodpanda), deliveroo and Klook.

Tickets
Tickets are VERY limited and as a Dreamplex member, your seat is FREE! If you’re registering after the seats have run out, we will notify you about upcoming sessions with the same topic.

About Dreamplex Events
Dreamplex is a Space for Success that invests continuously into your personal and professional growth. Bringing internationally acclaimed speakers like these to Vietnam is part of our mission to positively impact thousands of members, their teams, and communities.

Tet is almost upon us. Are you getting ready for it?

One of the best ways to get in the Tet spirit is to dress up your space in the beautiful colors of Tet. We’re super excited to announce our Studio Decorating Challenge to give you the opportunity to spice up your space, so gather up your teammates and let’s get competitive!

To participate, just decorate your studio in the most festive way you can and on the 10th of January, we will be announcing the winner who will receive a special prize. So how do you win? Simply let us know when you finish decorating your office and with the help of a professional photographer, we will be going around each studio and taking photos of your space. Then we will upload them on our Dreamplex Facebook page, and let our fans vote for their favorite ones! The studio with the most votes will win, so make sure you allow enough time for the voting to take place. Let’s get on it!

PS: Don’t hesitate to reach out to any of our DreamBuilders if you need any help. We’re always happy to assist.

Got some free time on your hands to learn a new craft? Join us for this creative embroidery workshop where you can master the basics of hand embroidery under the guidance of our expert, Kieu from Topas Travel. In just two hours, you will learn how to set up and begin an embroidery project, including how to transfer a template onto fabric or start embroidering an original idea, selecting the perfect thread and colors, and of course, a few basic stitches that can be used for many designs.

Once you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll be able to carry on this therapeutic craft at home. You can then even up your game and try napkins, sheets, pillowcases… and perhaps soon enough, there won’t be a soft furnishing in your house left unadorned!

Don’t worry if you don’t know anything about embroidery - no prior stitching skills are required for this workshop so absolutely anyone can join. We’ve also got everything you need, including a colorful selection of threads and other supplies. Just bring your curiosity and creativity! PS: The workshop is totally FREE for Dreamplex members!

January is a particularly exciting month this year as we have the pleasure of celebrating New Year twice! Tet is literally around the corner now and we just can not wait to get the celebrations started! 

Join us for our Tet kick-off lunch on the 6th of January, 2020 where we will be announcing all the fun activities we have planned for you this month. Why so early you must be wondering? Well, we know that many of you plan to travel ASAP during this holiday to visit your family back home or to sunbathe under an umbrella with a pina colada by the beach somewhere, so we’re hosting an early Tet lunch just so you can join. It will be full of delicious Tet favorites, so come with an empty stomach!

PS: It is completely FREE for Dreamplex members.

We’ve heard you! Based on the answers to our Personal Development survey, we know Time Management is a hot topic.

So, at the start of the New Year, we’re bringing you a workshop about the art of focusing on getting things done for the right reasons, in the right places and at the right moments. In short: Attention Management.

Learn about what research tells us, how the best attention-managers go about their days, and put together your own optimized schedule!

Topics include:
Reducing Work
Minimize (Phone) Distractions
Maker’s Schedule vs. Manager’s Schedule
Understanding & Working Around your Peak Productivity
Balancing Work & Life

About the trainers
Daan van Rossum is Dreamplex’ Director of Experience – which is a fancy way of saying that he cares about making your everyday experience at Dreamplex a positive one. Having the basics of happiness at work under your belt will hopefully contribute to that.

Prior to working at Dreamplex, Daan worked as a marketing strategist for 15 years before finding Bright, the Vietnamese startup focused on inspiring happier lives. He’s a trainer, public speaker and certified life coach aiming to help everybody find their best lives.

Tickets
Tickets are priced at ₫500.000, which includes the training and training materials.

As a Dreamplex member, your seat is FREE! Hurry up and reserve your spot - there are only 20 available. If you’re registering after the seats have run out, we will notify you about upcoming sessions with the same topic.

About Dreamplex Lunch & Learn
Working in a co-working space is great for many reasons, and connecting socially is one of them. Whether it’s just to broaden your world or to grow your business network, our Lunch & Learns are a great way to connect with like-minded others from various Dreamplex locations.

Choose a topic you’re passionate about, bring or order your own lunch and connect with the community while you’re learning something new. Dreamplex Lunch & Learns happen every Wednesday across our Saigon locations.

It’s almost the new year. What will it look like for you? Join Junghyo Park & his Bloom Team for a UNIQUE, ONE-TIME ONLY event in Vietnam. Over the course of this 2.5-hour workshop, you’ll discover your 8 happiness keywords and build an i-Tree for happiness practices that you’ll bring into the new year.

This workshop, developed in Korea by Junghyo Park is in Vietnam for only one day and is EXCLUSIVELY available at Dreamplex. It was previously part of the prestigious 2016 European Conference of Positive Psychology and the 2018 Korean Coach Conference.

Join more than 110,000 participants who have taken this workshop since 2010. Start your year the right way!

About the presenter
Junghyo Park (JP) is a Chief Happiness Officer of BLOOM COMPANY. JP is a positive psychology and positive organization specialist with a decade of successful experience in applying positive interventions and training in corporate and government offices. He has provided training programs to 8 of the 10 largest companies and fast-growing startups in Korea. He likes to innovate training methods and recently focuses on developing an AI Chatbot for mind training.

Tickets
Tickets are priced at ₫500.000, which includes the training and training materials.

As a Dreamplex member, your seat is FREE! Hurry up and reserve your spot - there are only 20 available. If you’re registering after the seats have run out, we will notify you about upcoming sessions with the same topic.

About Dreamplex Events
Dreamplex is a Space for Success that invests continuously into your personal and professional growth. Bringing internationally acclaimed workshops like these to Vietnam is part of our mission to positively impact thousands of members, their teams, and communities.

Your mental wellbeing is incredibly important to Dreamplex. And while there will always be things you can't influence, there's an even greater amount of exercises you can do to feel mentally strong at work.

In our "Wellbeing @ Work" series we present Part 3: Emotional Strength.

Even if you've found your purpose and you’ve crafted your job so that every day is meaningful, that doesn’t mean that that you no longer run into obstacles and challenges.

Beyond pro-actively designing your work life for wellbeing, it’s therefore also important to learn a few skills to enhance your emotional strength. Or in other words: how to become more resilient — the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.

In this session, we'll do just that. Tapping into a methodology called "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction" we'll help you learn the ways to be emotionally stronger and resilient to anything happening outside of your control.

Your mental wellbeing is incredibly important to Dreamplex. And while there will always be things you can't influence, there's an even greater amount of exercises you can do to feel mentally strong at work.

In our "Wellbeing @ Work" series we present Part 2: Design Your Dream Job

The premise of job crafting is that you don’t always have to change your job to enjoy going to work. In fact, with a few small changes, you can turn any job into a job you love doing.

Job crafting allows you to look at what your current routine and scope are, and then redesign it in a way that aligns more with your purpose & passions. You do this by altering the tasks you do, the people you work with and the way you perceive your job.

(To successfully “job-craft,” it’s very helpful to understand your purpose. After all, even if you could design your dream job from scratch, it helps to know what that dream is. It's therefore good to complete the "Purpose" workshop first, but absolutely not required.)

At the end of this session, you'll be able to take on the new work week (and all those that follow) with more structure, more meaning, and more positivity.

Your mental wellbeing is incredibly important to Dreamplex. And while there will always be things you can't influence, there's an even greater amount of exercises you can do to feel mentally strong at work.

In our "Wellbeing @ Work" series we present Part 1: Purpose.

Studies show that having a clear purpose in life can help you live longer. Simply knowing why you do what you do, helps make every day (at work or otherwise) more meaningful. You'll change your perception of the job you're doing and feel less stress and anxiety. As a result, you're scientifically proven to live longer.

But what is a purpose exactly? And how do I find mine? That's the topic of this one-hour interactive session on Purpose at Work. You'll learn the basics behind why purpose matters, and spend time crafting your Ikigai – a Japanese concept that helps you find your "reason to get up in the morning."

At the end of this session, you'll have a stronger sense of how to work with purpose and make every day more meaningful. And if that ends up giving you a few extra years to live, that's a win-win!

Three times. That’s how many times Tony & his team were ready to give up while developing something truly unique in Vietnam: a cartoon series to teach kids about sustainability and caring for the environment. But, they didn’t.

“Do what you love” is an often-heard mantra in startups. But when following your passion costs you sleepless nights, a lot of money and a lot of energy, you’ll start asking yourself if it’s all worth it. Tony and his team went through that and will share what he’s gained for sticking it out.

Join our Lunch & Learn and find out about Tony’s journey, how he persevered while being constantly challenged and what he learned from it. Plus, you get to watch some awesome cartoon videos as his story unfolds!

Tickets
Tickets are priced at ₫500.000, which includes the training and training materials.

As a Dreamplex member, your seat is FREE! Hurry up and reserve your spot - there are only 20 available. If you’re registering after the seats have run out, we will notify you about upcoming sessions with the same topic.

About the speaker
Who I am? That's the question I ask myself every day.
Every day for me is a journey of finding moments and memories to form something very "me". Starting in 2008, when I was still confused with choices in my life , I have gone through a 10-year journey with many challenges, from a student who quit college, to a sidekick of a Singapore photographer, then a motion graphic designer and co-founder of a creative studio that went bankrupt just 6 months later.
And when my mother said to me, "I want to see you rise from the place you failed!", that's when I got up - to continue my never-ending journey.

The journey to create a Utopia. The place where I will build good things with my colleagues.
2019 - Tony Lam Hoang
Founder / Creative Director / Film Director / Writer @ Utopia Creative Studio

About Dreamplex Lunch & Learn
Working in a co-working space is great for many reasons, and connecting socially is one of them. Whether it’s just to broaden your world or to grow your business network, our Lunch & Learns are a great way to connect with like-minded others from various Dreamplex locations.

Choose a topic you’re passionate about, bring or order your own lunch and connect with the community while you’re learning something new. Dreamplex Lunch & Learns happen every Wednesday across our Ho Chi Minh City locations.

New start-ups and medium-sized businesses often find themselves competing with strong first movers and established players in the market.To get ahead of the competition and to claim a share of the market, differentiated positioning is imperative. But it is often not enough.

Come and join Anhul Chauhan, the CEO of Pizza Hut Vietnam as he sits with us over lunch to share his insights gained from 20 years of experience in marketing in a modern world.

Of course, there will be free pizza ;)

About the presenter
Anhul Chauhan is the CEO of Pizza Hut Vietnam, which is the #1 pizza brand in the country. He has found incredible success with the mass Vietnamese customers, making Pizza Hut Vietnam the fastest growing Pizza Hut business in the world. Anhul has been a marketer for most of his career and has previously worked at Procter & Gamble, YUM Brands and is now with Jardine Matheson. He has also worked with top consumer brands like Gillette, Tide, Downy, Pantene, and more recently with KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.

Tickets
Tickets are priced at ₫500.000, which includes the training and training materials.

As a Dreamplex member, your seat is FREE! Hurry up and reserve your spot - there are only 20 available. If you’re registering after the seats have run out, we will notify you about upcoming sessions with the same topic.

About Dreamplex Lunch & Learn
Working in a co-working space is great for many reasons, and connecting socially is one of them. Whether it’s just to broaden your world or to grow your business network, our Lunch & Learns are a great way to connect with like-minded others from various Dreamplex locations.

Choose a topic you’re passionate about, bring or order your own lunch and connect with the community while you’re learning something new. Dreamplex Lunch & Learns happen every Wednesday across our Saigon locations.

Dreamplex is proud to sponsor the final round of the ASEAN Tech Pitching Competition for D&I, hosted by Women Meet Tech, the first STEM program for Diversity and Inclusion in Vietnam and around SEA region. The event aims to empower young Vietnamese professionals especially women with technical knowledge. It brings together a group of brilliant finalists from Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines and Vietnam in a race to receiving funding and exposure on a global stage.

Take this opportunity to connect with influential people and share your ideas. In between pitches, audience members get to network with the tech industry veterans, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, first-time startup founders, marketers, product developers and more in attendance.

Find the Next Big Thing at VWS and connect on a whole new level. Register at this link, it’s FREE: https://www.womenmeettech.org/event-info/final-round-asean-tech-pitching-competition-for-diversity-inclusion

Note:
- Please remember to bring your government issued ID to enter the venue.
- Children under 15 are not permitted to attend.

The Vietnam Web Summit is a technology conference held annually in the two biggest tech hubs of Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh CIty & Hanoi. Organized by TopDev, a tech recruiting platform, the summit focuses on all things tech. VWS partners with multinational corporations, large enterprises, SMEs to dynamic startups, to offer compelling content and inspiration to more than 10,000 techies in attendance.

The event will revolve around 6 major topics:
- Survive & Thrive
- Humanize Customer Experiences
- AI-Powered Future: Data-Driven Product
- Operations in a Serverless Field
- Cloud-Based & Intelligence-Driven Cybersecurity
- The New Era of Web Development

Full agenda can be found here.

Find the Next Big Thing at VWS and connect on a whole new level. There will be 500+ Tech companies, new startups, influential investors, leading media and also some of the world’s biggest Tech Giants joining the VWS this year. TopDev is offering 100 FREE tickets to Dreamplex members. Claim yours now. Head over to their registration site and use code VWS19@DREAMPLEX150.

Modern Office Dressing – do you know the secrets?
Whether it's for an important meeting, a networking event or even a date – the way you dress can make all the difference in how people perceive you.

Come and join Morgan Truong and the Profile Man team to learn more about simple styling tips that allow you to utilize your clothes and present yourself in the way you want, without spending much or needing to become a fashionista.

The team's experience and clothing is for men, but women are more than welcome to join in on the conversation and help style all of the Dreamplex dudes.

About the presenter
Morgan Truong is the founder of Profile Man - a fashion brand that offers quality, fun, modern clothing for men. Prior to starting Profile Man, Morgan worked as a technical designer in apparel production for American brands such as Theory, GAP, Proenza Schouler. With Profile Man, Morgan’s vision is to start an ongoing conversation about daily styling tips and values in quality, wearable design.

Tickets
Tickets are priced at ₫500.000, which includes the training and training materials.

As a Dreamplex member, your seat is FREE! Hurry up and reserve your spot - there are only 20 available. If you’re registering after the seats have run out, we will notify you about upcoming sessions with the same topic.

About Dreamplex Lunch & Learn
Working in a co-working space is great for many reasons, and connecting socially is one of them. Whether it’s just to broaden your world or to grow your business network, our Lunch & Learns are a great way to connect with like-minded others from various Dreamplex locations.

Choose a topic you’re passionate about, bring or order your own lunch and connect with the community while you’re learning something new. Dreamplex Lunch & Learns happen every Wednesday across our Saigon locations.