This panel will offer different perspectives on the challenges and opportunities faced by business leaders as they prepare to adapt their corporate real estate strategies and footprint for a more agile and flexible future. Our experts will discuss latest trends and considerations, sharing insights on portfolio reduction, new leasing models, adoption of shared and third spaces, the rise of suburban work hubs and, smart building technology.

Join Anders Stenbäck, VP of Offering and Services of YIT, and Dinesh Malkani, Founder/CEO of Smarten Spaces, as they discuss the latest workplace technology used to build the Smartest Building in the World. How YIT leveraged workplace management, device intelligence, workflow, and analytics with an astute focus on user experience, human interaction, health, well-being, safety, and security.

Swiss Post follows a clearly structured innovation process from the idea, through to the project and implementation geared at large scale. This has helped them to identify opportunities and take up ideas early on already pre-pandemic. Consequently, Swiss Post is leading Real Estate change and the design and delivery of employee experience with a data driven approach. In this session they will share how they develop and evaluate innovative ideas and exploit occupancy data to drive efficiency, sustainability and employee wellbeing.

The challenge is the work and not how to get back into the office.

With teams coming back to offices and downsizing pressure increasing, there’s a race on to find the right configuration of space and occupancy. How much space do we need? And what kind? Do I change my ratios and leasing strategy? Will it all change again once everyone is vaccinated and re-boarded? In this session, you’ll join Alex Birch, Cofounder & CEO of XY Sense for an in-depth discussion on the challenges and opportunities the hybrid workplace brings when it comes to space planning and how real time occupancy data can help you chart your course out of the unknown.

Did you plan to implement a workplace employee experience solution but just never got around to doing it? The new normal workplace is about collaboration and social - this means that employees need an easy-to-use solution to reserve their desk before they leave home and to find free spaces and colleagues when they get there. Empathic building has a software only option which includes a digital map with room and desk booking features which can be used to increase employee experience, collecting all the key data to understand space needs whilst simultaneously improving employee wellbeing.

This presentation will walk through the WELL journey from single asset certification, WELL Portfolio and the WELL Health Safety Rating. WELL buildings create environments that attract and retain the best talent, drive productivity and create spaces where people can thrive. Human health has a profound impact on corporate performance indicators - including productivity, engagement and resilience. More than ever before, these elements play a critical role in demonstrating value and human health is gaining recognition as material to a business’ bottom line.

Downtown West is set to become one of Google’s biggest campuses in the world, with 7.3 million sq. ft of office space and over 500,000 sq. ft dedicated to shops, restaurants, and housing. The mixed-use mega-campus envisions an inclusive new part of downtown San Jose - representing a commitment to place-making, housing (including affordable housing), economic development, and environmental sustainability. In this session, Alexa Arena will share latest insights on this pioneering project and the role it will play in the future of work and urban living in San Jose and beyond.

This session will explore the results of EY’s Work Reimagined Study 2021 of more than 16,000 employees in 16 countries. The study outlines how new ways of working, family responsibilities and a number of other factors have shifted workers’ priorities. This has driven them to demand flexibility in where and when they work, improvements in how they work and the technology to make them productive. It is forcing us to think again about the future of collaboration, skills development and more as we reimagine the workplace to suit a future world of hybrid working