This event brings thought leaders together to share cutting-edge ideas about the future from both people and technology perspectives.
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 within the workplace.
Kick off the day by examining the forces driving change in the workplace landscape today. This dynamic discussion will set the scene, surface key challenges, and explore emerging trends and strategic insights, offering a shared perspective on the future of work and the opportunities that lie ahead.
Work is changing faster than organisations can respond. This opening theme explores the forces driving volatility—from AI to shifting workforce expectations—and reframes uncertainty as the new operating condition.
At the same time that engagement is at an 11-year low, people are also reporting that they crave greater connections to their work and their colleagues. In the midst of it all, the work experience has an increasingly important role to play, and we can have a significant impact. Join us to hear fascinating new evidence for the power of place and proximity and their effects on performance, engagement and retention. We’ll discuss the sweet spots for balancing flexibility with presence and the factors that go beyond RTO to create sticky experiences and places people (really) want to be and bring their best.
Work no longer fits neatly into office-first, remote-first, or hybrid labels. This session uses scenario planning to examine how technology, culture, design, real estate, and management practice may reshape work environments over the next decade. Rather than predict one future, it explores multiple plausible futures and the decisions leaders can make now to create workplaces that remain adaptive, humane, and strategically useful.
The future of work is being reshaped faster than people—and the environments around them—can adapt. As new ways of working emerge, a critical gap is forming between how work happens and how it is supported. This misalignment shows up as burnout, friction, and a growing disconnect between individuals and organizations. This session explores how design can help close that gap and shape a more aligned future. By focusing on human outcomes—how people feel, think, and interact—it offers a science-informed lens for creating environments that enable innovation, resilience, and meaningful performance at a time when it matters most.
Even with more insight than ever, organisations are struggling to align people, space, and strategy. This theme explores how leaders are navigating complexity, making decisions under pressure, and closing the gap between intention and execution.
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In this short framing session, Marc explores how workplace systems are evolving under conditions of speed, fragmentation, and growing misalignment between business demand and real estate delivery. Bridging executive practice and applied research, the session introduces a systems lens on organisational change — examining how workplace, organisational, and real estate decisions interact across overlapping economic, operational, and human systems, and why the same policies can produce markedly different outcomes across a workforce.
Workplace leaders are operating in an environment where business needs shift faster than real estate cycles and decision-making timelines, while budgets are increasingly constrained and certainty is increasingly rare. Organisations are under pressure to make faster, more confident decisions across complex global portfolios, often with incomplete and fragmented information. This session explores how practitioners are translating workplace strategies and transformation models into day-to-day execution across complex organisations. Panellists will share how they interpret behavioural and operational signals, manage portfolio and delivery constraints, and balance standardisation with local flexibility. The discussion will focus on how practitioners are navigating responsiveness, prioritisation, and decision-making under pressure across different organisational contexts—highlighting what is working in practice.
Workplaces are no longer static environments—they are adaptive systems that respond to diverse human needs, behaviours, and work styles. This theme explores how design translates strategy into lived experience, embedding inclusion, wellbeing, and human performance into everyday environments. It also examines how sustainability and responsible resource use are becoming integral to workplace design—shaping decisions around space, materials, and long-term value.
“Finding the Collective Consciousness: Wellbeing, World, and Worth in the Boulevard Workplace” explores how workplace design can evolve from fragmented priorities into an integrated system that connects human experience, environmental responsibility, and organizational value. Using the Boulevard as a central organizing concept, this panel will examine how spatial journeys, biophilic strategies, and flexible design approaches create workplaces that are intuitive, sustainable, and high-performing—demonstrating that the most impactful environments are those designed for alignment across all three.
In today’s accelerated workplace, organisations are rethinking how physical environments can keep pace with rapid change, evolving ways of working, and rising expectations of performance. This panel explores how inclusion is becoming a central driver of workplace design—shaping how spaces support people with diverse cognitive, sensory, and physical needs. Bringing together perspectives on inclusive design, accessibility, and the role of art and experience in the workplace, the discussion highlights how environments can be more intuitive and supportive for everyone. From fractal and nature-inspired approaches that support cognitive ease to practical innovations in accessibility and experience design, the conversation moves from intent to lived experience. As workplace systems become more complex and data-informed, panellists will focus on the human outcome: how inclusive design improves clarity, reduces friction, and enhances overall wellbeing and performance.
As workplaces evolve, technology must become simpler, more sustainable, and truly human-centric. In this session, we explore how Human Powered Technology is reshaping smart locker: Reducing operational complexity, lowering CAPEX & OPEX, and enabling smarter, wireless & batteryless environments. Using OTS.40 Batteryless as a case in point, we will show how innovation at the intersection of design, usability, and sustainability is redefining the user experience while supporting large-scale deployment across global portfolios.
This theme explores how organisations are redefining workplace when it extends far beyond the traditional office. Workplace is increasingly viewed as a connected system of diverse environments that support performance, experience, and operational outcomes across the enterprise. We examine how organisations are designing and managing a broader ecosystem of spaces—from operational and specialist environments to flexible collaboration hubs—each shaped by different needs, constraints, and expectations. The focus is on how space, experience, and strategy come together to support work that is more distributed, varied, and context-driven than ever before.
In this fireside chat, Jeremy Browder, Senior Director of Real Estate & Employee Experience at Coinbase, will share how this operating model translates into practice across real estate, workplace design, and employee experience. Within this model, presence is intentional rather than assumed, with physical space designed around specific moments of value rather than continuous occupancy. The discussion explores how in-person time is made more intentional and how hubs support culture, collaboration, and performance without defaulting to traditional office attendance, asking what the employee experience stack looks like when workplace functions as a connected ecosystem of intentional moments rather than a fixed destination.
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.
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
