Founder of Aldeia Coworking, the first coworking space in the south of Brazil. He is barchelor in Social Communications and has a masters degree on business administration at Universidade Federal do Paraná, where he studies diffusion of innovations and social network structure. His work is dedicated on managing two major projects: A Grande Escola, a school for things you don’t learn at school, and Aldeia Coworking, a collaborative working and learning space, where local entrepreneurs and freelancers can find connections and resources to start and develop their own innovative ideas. Along with these entrepreneurship efforts, Ricardo is also part of the Global Shapers Community and helps communicating and accelerating the Curitiba’s creative economy by being the lead organizer of the Pecha Kucha Nights Curitiba, an event of micro-fun-lectures where people from the city present their work to the community.