In this session, Philip Ross will share how marginal ideas have become mainstream and by sharing an overview of emerging trends and latest innovations shaping the world of work, he will paint a portrait of the transforming landscape and share tools on how companies can embrace the New World of Work to create new paradigms for workplace

This session's key takeaways include Innovation Imperative – challenges and success drivers, Co-Innovation – what is it & why now, A co-innovation case study: enabling in-person connections in a hybrid world, Key hybrid scenarios Microsoft customers are wrestling with and Co-innovation lessons & where to start.

Organizations all over the world are transitioning back and forth between remote working to hybrid working. The transition demands new technology, effective office space and more collaboration. This session explores how best to create effective and sustainable workplaces of the future. What can this mean for workplace experience, talent retention, productivity and wellbeing? How do we measure what is great? How do we successfully work across functional real estate, human resources (HR) and information technology (IT) to deliver it?

In this talk Oscar and Erik explore the shaping of workplace experiences and how different elements, particularly FM workplace services, all contributes. They will offer recent insights into the development of workplaces among bigger companies in the Nordics and also share key learnings from Coor’s own journey in revamping the offices.

Sustainable work-life is about enabling working and living conditions to support people in engaging and performing in work throughout an extended working life. Making work sustainable requires technical and workplace design as a prerequisite to create high-quality jobs. Recent global EY study shows a shift of power towards the employee, who favors hybrid working models, whereas they don’t feel they get it. In addition, compensation and career opportunities are in the top of employee focus.

Telia, and its 20,000 employees, help millions of people connect and communicate. Their values are expressed as “dare, care and simplify”, which also drives how the company connects with each other. As an employee-centric workplace it faced a challenge to create a workplace experience to positively impact employee happiness, performance and wellbeing. Mikael outlines how he worked with Telia to help them achieve this and the process they took in planning a future workplace in uncertain times.

This session examines data and technology and looks at the future opportunity for FM. It demystifies workplace technology across the spectrum from BMS to Apps, exploring attitudes to new tech and strategies for identifying and implementing new solutions. Answering questions such as how to collect the right data for the right insights, how to realize data insights to design workplace impact and sharing the EY client perspective and experience along the way.

Recent experience around climate change and impacts our society and economy. The Planet has moved higher on the priority list. The UN identify the CO2 emissions of buildings as 40% of the total. As managers of buildings, we need to act. Not only out of noble stewardship, but also driven by emerging regulations. Erik will offer insight to these developments and approaches to consider.

Successful cities have always been places of intense interaction, diversity and innovation. Their forms and landmarks shape culture and allow communities small and large to live, work, learn, develop and evolve side by side. Can we learn from the spaces, places and features of cities to design more healthy, supportive, collaborative, innovative and productive workplaces? Showing projects by Zaha Hadid Architects, Uli Blum will present how past, present and future cities can provide valuable lessons and become a role model for the post Covid workplaces

The purpose of the office has changed. Hybrid Working is the term on everyone's lips but for many, big questions remain unanswered; How do you bring the workforce back into the office? and What should that office look like? Creating a truly effective workplace has always required a perfect balance between people, place, and technology. Given this most recent and dramatic global shift in the way we work, how do we now best drive communication, motivation, engagement with the right facilities, tech, tools to work, think and collaborate.

Today’s modern and post pandemic society demands a flexible approach to work. Technology, sustainability, and employee empowerment are key drivers for this. Organisations need to future-proof themselves by leaning into current change, empowering their people and investing in both technology and sustainability. Elizabeth shares how Smarter solutions can help drive creativity from data to make our buildings more functional, sustainable, cost effective, healthier and collaborative for the people inside.