All posts by Vas Taras

How it all started

COMING SOON None of this was planned. None of this came from a grand vision. All a product of serendipity. Lucky incidents, which looked like problems first, but turned out to be great opportunities. Give me a few days and I’ll tell you how it all started: X-Culture, WikiDemix, VirtualTA, the Coaching Program, Hackathon, and…

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X-Culture Vision: Industries We Could Change

COMING SOON It appears large-scale collaboration, open-source research and crowd sourcing – the principles at heart of X-Culture, have already changed a number of industries. The largest accommodation provider owns no hotels (Airbnb) The largest taxi service provider owns no cars (Uber) The largest retailers have no stores (Alibaba, Amazon) The largest video entertainment provider owns no…

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WHY THIS BLOG

by Vas Taras A few years ago, I started what is now known as X-Culture. It was a very simple idea, but unexpectedly (though not without tens of thousands of hours of work), it has become something big – and continues to grow. Big not only in terms of the number of people it is affecting –…

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2017 Miami

  X-Culture and Johnson & Wales University, North Miami is proud to present The X-Culture Global Symposium 2017 Miami Our partner corporation is Seminole Gaming / Hard Rock International, Owned and operated by the Seminole Tribe of Florida.    icon-calendar  Dates: July 15-20, 2017.  icon-location-arrow  Location: Johnson & Wales University, 1701 NE 127th St., North Miami,…

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