NOMADX SUMMITS

Nomadx summits combine local creative talent with national and international minds to generate a fun, unifying environment that fosters professional growth for creatives. Nomadx has two major types of events: in-person hybrid events and digital events. 

Dive into a world where creativity and innovation converge, bringing together a vibrant tapestry of creative entrepreneurs, artists, and thought leaders from across the globe. The Nomadx Summits are not merely events; they are a celebration of creativity, a forum for groundbreaking discussions where ideas blossom, collaborations are born, and the future of the creative industry is sculpted.

The Nomadx Foundation began only with live, in-person events in 2015. Events that look like a small version of SXSW, but instead of the corporate production, the happenings are produced by local creative companies, groups, and other non-profit groups and led by the Nomadx Foundation’s core team. The in-person events take place in multiple spaces; there are creative panels, workshops, keynote conversations, a creative demonstration fair, live art, and great concerts. All the Nomadx Foundation’s events are either free or extremely inexpensive to attendees.

There have been 17 live in-person events with local creative companies, artists, and even some of the world’s most inspiring minds. Since 2015, thought-leaders like Steve Wozniak, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Bjarke Ingels, and Doug Ellin have enhanced the Nomadx stages, sharing their experience with local creative communities and giving back to the creatives of the future.

Nomadx has the vision of a world where people unite around creative products, notwithstanding race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, or economic disparity.

"NomadX is one of the most beautiful things in the world, that sucess people as myself wish they had done..."

-Steve Wozniak

Sharing is a word that sometimes may be overlooked, embedded in our DNA. Form a very young age, we are told that sharing is good, but as the ego sets in we tend to lose connection to this basic principle.

Because of the problems creatives face to thrive, the ego takes a powerful spot in the life of a creative. We defend our craft, intellectual capital, and creation with ego, and in many cases, we tend to keep the "secret sauce" to ourselves because we fear losing what we've accomplished.

At NomadX events, sharing is a key value, sharing the "secret sauce:, sharing the truth, the good, the bad. We know that by sharing fully we are not just empowering individuals, but our entire ecosystem grows together.

Listening, really listening is a practice that is losing ground continuously. Really paying attention to what someone has to say, holding back judgment, biases, titles, and just listening. 

At the Nomadx Foundation's events, we pride in selecting some of the best local, regional, national, and international creative talent, stories that have made a difference. 

We try to instill the, in the end self-serving, value of listening and taking from a creative's experience to one's personal endeavor, no matter if it is shared from the stage, the creative market, or in a conversation with a new acquaintance. 

Detachment is the most difficult value to uphold and teach because it goes against everything popular culture tells us. Creatives have a blessing and a curse; the curse is that we are not respected and don't understand ourselves.

The blessing, on the other hand, is that we know what makes us happy. For any creative, to be able to plan a worthy life 1, 5, or 10 years in advance while developing our craft, would be a true gift. Fighting for that cause, detachment from the clutter and noise, and focusing on the craft that makes us happy.