43: How Charis Rooda Moved To A New Country With Zero Network and Plenty of Fear To Becoming A Successful Founder and Producer of Webconf.asia Events

<p><br><strong>FWEP00043 Charis Rooda</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Today we have a very special guest. Her name is Charis Rooda. </strong>The owner and organizer of Hong Kong's most popular web conference, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/webconf.asia/?fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARB6xYat2djiT5TaMKYS2o9zjZU2w4CpWcZ6STetshPSui99BxLXb_lTH9pfc61W0R3To-G43u-rU9PBxa4fQRO0vOYFT7tOmHIfsbqmSx9ZNaw9u0bz2XFbjWw4NbtK8-4SNERb4H5xKIr1edlmsNgqOyROZcToui4CsyJVaB5rkAyqWdTHUV4ztwSt1Pl88H9avQj-0T9IXTsbEB6iu5WsdyJqxuudsQIP92nQuU8JgnFbyOqMprUr75oKxomsqgvH9pSk3wJtLoU6PeTtxTIJTz16D6gv-77lrnUZVY_wsrl5tL-8PeIQoJqeunEst56Usl1OgheqznNPZ-nFsmgeqjHO&amp;__tn__=K-R">Webconf.asia</a>! Webconf.asia is a non-profit conference for people who build websites, with the goal of bringing together and inspiring the web community in Asia.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Conference she organized</strong></p><p>It may be hard on the beginning but success will come if you don’t give up. When you love what you’re doing the hardship doesn’t matter anymore because you know you can do it.</p><p> </p><p>(1:38-2:02) I used to organize a conference in Amsterdam and when I came here I wanted to do the same but it takes you like a few years to kinda find out how and look for a community works and I looked around and I organize few meet-ups and I decided I’m just gonna do it, and I started little or less than a year ago and my conference was a month ago or so and it went really well. </p><p> </p><p>(2:11-2:20) As a sponsor we had Microsoft, we had Mozilla we had Fastly, IPGP there are quite a lot of good sponsors. </p><p> </p><p><strong>How you get started?</strong></p><p>Everything is impossible if you believe in yourself. Always think of plans. Don't be afraid to start without having anything and learn from your experiences.</p><p> </p><p>(2:35-2:40) I think the main thing is you need to meet a lot of people. I went to a lot of meet-ups coming to concerts where there are a lot of people.</p><p>