We have several specific events planned for 2024, and this funding will help us start to put down deposits to execute them. We’ll start the year with a small launch event at ETH Denver, but our primary focus will be on two long-term experiences: 

- A **one-month popup village in the Bay Area in June.** This event will help us expose top builders and funders in the SF tech scenes to our experiences. We want the ~150 hundred full-time residents (as well as the many visitors) to have an incredible experience and leave inspired to help build the movement as it grows.

- A **6-8 week popup village in the fall in South East Asia.** The goal is to bring together several hundred people for another long-term event as part of the road to DevCon 2024. We want to create an environment for global innovators to come together and explore multidisciplinary and multicultural collaboration. This event will be familiar in style and structure to many who have been to Zuzalu before but with an even greater emphasis on health and making it accessible to folks with children.

The funding from the QF round will go directly towards organizing these pop-up villages. In particular, we will need to put down deposits on large elements like venues soon.