Speaker

James Bryan Graves

Co-Founder at THE EMBASSIES

THE EMBASSIES offers a curated, premium coliving experience. Their international network of residences brings together tenants, members and visitors to create global community of people with the good life in mind

About speaker

James Bryan Graves is a computer scientist, lecturer and community organiser. James moved to the Netherlands from the United States in 2009. He founded Hackers & Founders Amsterdam in 2011, a community of entrepreneurs and programmers with more than 7000 members nationwide. Hackers & Founders opened a start-up incubator in the Herengracht in Amsterdam which houses nearly 100 community members in 2013 and has enjoyed 40+ million euro deal flow. In 2013, James co-founded Hackers & Designers a non-profit focused on bringing technology, art and design closer together. James Co-Founded THE EMBASSIES OF GOOD LIVING AG in December 2018. James teaches software design at Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.