Leadership is a collective capacity, not an individual role. ‘We’ is always stronger than ‘us & them.’ There’s a new way to think about communication as the fuel for collaborative organizations and the cause of more meaningful results in a noisy, complex world.

Have you been having more conversations about embedding or creating an inclusive company culture? How many of your employees have side hustles? As the lines around productivity and work are blurring, the idea of bringing individuals’ “whole selves” to work becomes even more important. Learn about how you can supercharge company culture by creating safe and inclusive spaces for peoples’ passions to be truly flourish in the workplace.

How do you design a new work environment for a company so well-established its name is already part of popular culture? Mindi Weichman and Elizabeth Vereker, two of Studio O+A’s design leaders, talk about recent collaborations with Nike, Adidas and McDonald’s and how workplace design is increasingly a vehicle for iconic companies to refresh their brand.

Launch of WorkXP Report 2019 – looking through the lens of innovation, insights and impact, to identify what today’s workforce wants, who is leading the pack and recognized as best places to work, and what the future might hold.

The emerging field of Neuro-Architecture translates research from psychological and medical sciences to demonstrate the influence of built environments on health and wellbeing. Our studies with experts in Berkeley and London among others, consider how acoustic conditions and workplace qualities may relate to wellbeing and efficiency in the workplace for people with different personality traits.

Too often, sensory qualities of buildings are given low priority and we create experiential monotony, seeking merely to reduce the negative and avoid complains. The future workplace should embrace variable, multi-sensory indoor environments, where people have opportunities to fine-tune conditions to match their preferences, to positively impact rich human experience.

Hear about the innovations being demonstrated in the exhibition space by our education partners, Tapd and Enlighted.

The essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly--or to completely reimagine them. AI is changing all the rules of how companies operate.

The automation inflection point is coming, and workplaces that fail to prepare will become stagnant and costly. Using robotics as a physical application of automation, workplaces can create value across real estate, vendor, and innovation initiatives. Join for a conversation on implementing automation in the workplace to augment the workforce, and the resulting business returns.

Over the past several years, innovation in sensing technology has evolved substantially, allowing real estate professionals to collect accurate, reliable space utilization data at scale. Data from sensors is redefining the entire life-cycle of real estate management - from space planning, design and lease management all the way through the end-user occupant experience.

It has been well reported that artificial intelligence is changing the workforce, but how is it revolutionizing human abilities? In this session, Dr. Skyler Place will explore how AI technology is augmenting the natural abilities of human beings from the inside out, and explains what the impact of improving behavior, empathy and emotional intelligence means for businesses today.