EXPLORE THE FUTURE OF WORK AND THE WORKPLACE

  • CONFERENCE
  • Accenture, 500 W Madison St, Chicago
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WORKTECH Chicago is a leading conference exploring how the future of work and the workplace is being shaped by the intersection of people, place, and technology. It is part of the leading global events series, WORKTECH.

Bringing together senior leaders, strategists, designers, technologists, and workplace professionals from across industries, WORKTECH Chicago examines how organisations are rethinking work, space, culture, and digital infrastructure in response to rapid change.

The programme is designed for senior professionals responsible for workplace strategy, corporate real estate, facilities, HR, technology, architecture, and design.

Through a mix of keynote presentations, expert panels, and case studies, WORKTECH Chicago provides a multi-disciplinary, insight-led forum to explore emerging trends — from workplace intelligence and employee experience to hybrid work, digital transformation, and the evolving role of the office.

Discover our past speakers at WORKTECH Chicago here.

Held in some of Chicago’s most groundbreaking workspaces, the event connects a global community of professionals to share ideas, benchmark approaches, and gain practical insight into how organisations are shaping the workplace of the future.

Last Year at WORKTECH Chicago

WORKTECH25 Chicago brought together senior leaders from leading global institutions, including Google, McDonald’s, Northern Trust, Discover Financial Services, Walgreens, Eli Lilly, and The Cigna Group.

Discussions in Chicago spotlighted workplace transformation in action, from Google’s reimagining of the Thompson Center to McDonald’s evolving workplace strategy and mHUB’s HardTech ecosystem. Sessions examined how collaboration, culture, and measurable impact are reshaping the office, alongside the accelerating influence of AI and data-driven decision-making.

Attendees left with practical insight into intelligent ecosystems, cross-functional alignment, smart building platforms, inclusive design, and the metrics that matter, informed by real case studies, candid peer exchange, and lessons from organisations actively building what’s next.

Read last year’s conference brochure.

Was an energizing and thought-provoking experience. I especially appreciated the balance between emerging technologies like AI and the emphasis on trust, culture, and people-first design. – WORKTECH Chicago Delegate

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SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Dr. Tracy Brower

    PhD Sociologist, Author, Keynote Speaker, Senior Contributor to Forbes, Vice President of Workplace Insights, Steelcase

  • Tope Sadiku

    Global Director, Organization Effectiveness Design, McDonald’s

  • Amanda Schneider

    Founder & President, ThinkLab

  • Lisette Smyrnios

    Managing Director – Corporate Services & Sustainability, Global Workplace and Environment Sustainability Operations Lead, Accenture

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WORKTECH speakers are leading international thinkers, industry strategists and radical visionaries. Our speakers come from some of today’s most successful companies as well as a broad range of progressive and influential organisations.

Please contact Samantha Cullum for more information about speaking at this event

Key Themes

The Strategic Intelligent Workplace: Future of Work in Action

This theme explores how organizations are putting the intelligent workplace into practice—aligning AI, data, and connected technologies with business strategy at scale. From macro trends and technology foresight to enterprise transformation, sessions examine how leaders are operationalizing human-machine collaboration and building integrated environments that evolve alongside changing ways of working. The intelligent workplace is no longer a future vision—it is being built and scaled today, with human and machine capabilities orchestrated to drive performance, resilience, and innovation across the modern enterprise.

Workplace Intelligence 2.0: Metrics, Meaning & Human Impact

Workplace intelligence is becoming a critical capability for understanding how work actually happens across complex environments. The challenge has shifted from visibility to coherence—bringing together disparate signals into a more unified understanding of how workplaces function and are experienced. Organizations are moving beyond isolated metrics toward connected insight—linking data from buildings, systems, and employee behavior to build a clearer picture of performance, experience, and utilization. These sessions explore how fragmented inputs are transformed into meaningful insights that inform strategy, guide investment, and shape environments that better support both people and business outcomes.

Human-Centered Workplaces: Designing for Connection, Capability & Experience

Workplaces are no longer defined by attendance or location, but by the quality of experience they enable. Organizations are placing greater emphasis on environments that support different ways of working while strengthening culture and engagement. Drawing on behavioral science, spatial design, and workplace patterns, sessions explore how physical environments influence collaboration, focus, and belonging. Increasingly, attention is turning to the return on experience—how design choices and lived experience within the workplace translate into measurable outcomes for both people and organizational performance.

Workplace is Culture driven! I love all the guest speakers and found Work to not only be about the place however more importantly the people.

Director, Mastercard

Invaluable experience from both a content and connections perspective.

Manager, Workplace Change and Real Estate Services, Aurizon

I was reminded of how powerful the workplace community is…. The energy, the conversations, the community - just WOW!”

Global Workplace Innovation and Technology Lead, bp

Informative, interesting views on workplace design, planning technology and workers.

Occupancy Planner, Bank of Montreal

Really a diverse set of perspectives on critical topics in the real data and workplace disciplines. Extremely thought-provoking.

Workplace Experience Manager, Atlassian

Incredibly relevant to anyone that manages technology, real estate or people.

Delegate, Coca-Cola

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  • accenture

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