This event brings thought leaders together to share cutting edge ideas on the future, from both a people and technology perspective.
It will allow an understanding of the key drivers of change and enablers of innovation that will shape how, where and when work takes place. Our conference programme will explore future technologies, cutting edge award-winning workplaces and people, change and engagement.
Corporate purpose is no longer aspirational — it is operational. Organisations are under increasing pressure to align workplace strategy with ESG commitments, regulation, and investor expectations while still delivering performance. This theme explores how leaders are making hard decisions about space, energy, and experience as real estate strategies for the long term.
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The workplace is becoming critical digital infrastructure. Hybrid work, automation, and AI are reshaping how organisations operate, coordinate, and perform — but not without friction. This theme examines how workplace platforms and technologies are being used to improve efficiency and decision-making while addressing governance, privacy, and trust.
This session explores how continuous user feedback is reshaping the way organisations design, operate, and evolve their workplaces. Drawing on her research and her work as founder of spatio.AI, Victoria Davalos explains why traditional post-occupancy evaluations often struggle to influence design decisions, and how continuous feedback makes spatial quality and use measurable, actionable, and comparable over time. Together with Heike Sander, project lead at Crespel & Deiters, the session bridges theory and practice. Heike shares what it means to implement continuous feedback in a real organisational context: what changed, what surprised them, and how occupant insight began to inform decisions and long-term workplace strategy. The result is a human-centred alternative to sensor-only workplace intelligence: grounded, actionable, and scalable.
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Hybrid work has fundamentally changed how opportunity, visibility, and value are distributed at work. In a competitive labour market, workplace strategy is now central to talent sustainability. We explore how organisations are redefining the employee value proposition — balancing flexibility with fairness, inclusion with performance, and autonomy with accountability.
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Bayer's new Dynamic Shared Ownership (DSO) approach represents a significant global shift in the companý´s operating model, designed to replace traditional hierarchies towards more streamlined, responsive and more customer focused outcomes. By enabling teams to make decisions autonomously and working within 90-day cycles, the DSO model aims to cut down on bureaucracy, foster innovation, and enhance financial outcomes. Implementing DSO in the Real Estate department resulted in more agile structures, faster decision making, more team empowerment and better execution.
Static office portfolios no longer reflect how organisations operate. Market volatility, hybrid work, and decarbonisation targets are forcing leaders to rethink the scale, structure, and purpose of real estate portfolios. This theme focuses on strategic decisions around consolidation, flexibility, and transformation — balancing cost, culture, and carbon.
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As the day concludes, join us to reflect on key themes, insights, and takeaways from the conference. This interactive session will distil key learnings, spark discussion, and explore how the ideas presented can drive future action. Share your thoughts, gain fresh perspectives, and leave inspired to turn insights into impact.
