Hey there, I’m Agalia.
I’m currently a senior creative strategist at We Are Social Singapore, where I craft propositions and ways to propagate editorial social content for global brands like Samsung and HBO.
Simultaneously, I am part of .XYZ, our future strategy and innovation arm. Here, I help crystallise the agency’s perspective on socially driven internet futures, and guide forward-looking brands like adidas, Nike, and NBA in future-proofing their business.
Within the future tech space, I am most fascinated by the new behaviours and modes of collaboration that these new technologies are empowering. This fascination has culminated into an experimental venture, vector, that I conceptualised and am now leading under .XYZ, where we bring together diverse global thinkers and tinkerers to create work that moves the needle on creativity.
Outside of work, I am deeply curious and tapped into conversations around community building, cultivating a better relationship with time, and how we can rediscover our personal taste.
Across my fascinations, you may have already sensed this undercurrent of desire for reinvention – perhaps a consequence of growing up in a small city that prizes conformity and adherence to convention.
Some of these undercurrents have made their way into advertising press:
Future of Influence published across Campaign Asia, Campaign Live, LBB, We Are Social Blog
From sensemakers to visionaries: Understanding influence within decentralised communities
Virtual influencers are poised to reach a tipping point in 2022
XYZ Snippets: a bi-monthly newsletter on emerging tech trends published on WAS Global LinkedIn
The waning power of influencers portends a need for new tactics in Singapore
As well as some key industry events and conferences:
Panelist and Campfire Lead for RADAR Campfire #1: what constitutes a good use of time?
Keynote Speaker at Campaign Asia Gamechangers Event 2023
Speaker at We Are Social Global Digital Summit on LinkedIn Live
Speaker at Future of Influence LinkedIn Live Webinar
I also do some other stuff.
Deep dive into my different lives here.
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To combat clockwork creativity, I conceptualised and led the creation of vector, Singapore's first release club that is home to multi-disciplinary cultural tastemakers who are operating at the fringes of culture and keen to move the needle on creativity.
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I host monthly dinner clubs ('half past') where I bring together 12 strangers for good food and deep conversations. Each dinner comes with a central question of discussion e.g. 'what's one thing you're dying to talk about?'
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Writing well is thinking well. I try to publish bimonthly on my substack.
Besides that, I've written in zines such as Take Up Space and Atemporal.
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My 10-year training in classical and acoustic guitar plus involvement in choir and acapella led me to pursue singing-songwriting as a hobby and means of expression. You can find my documented feelings here.