Bruce will cover the vital part that the office will take in shaping breakthrough cultures for companies. While we all recognise that our relationship with the office is going to have evolved from before, our workplace is a place of congregation and Bruce will present a framework for us to understand the functions of the office and how we can maximise this for competitive advantage.

Three different businesses compare the workplace data they are working with and the outcomes they are planning for.

Presentation One: Back to the Office:

Many occupiers want to get back into an office, but their requirements have fundamentally changed. Paul draws on Derwent’s experiences in the last year to discuss how the war for talent will be won/how the flight to quality will work in practice

Hosted by: Paul Williams, CEO, Derwent

Presentation Two: Long term hybrid working

Creating an ideal balance between staff wellbeing and empowerment, and efficiency for the NHS Providing inspiring workspaces to support our NHS colleagues and enabling smarter working is balanced with maximising property efficiencies and cost saving opportunities around the NHS office estate. This is linked to the changing requirements for space, with new ways of working and the systematic changes in the NHS. Kate delivers a keynote focussing on the trends in this area and the NHS Property Services contribution to estate planning in the NHS.

Hosted by: Kate Richardson, Head of National Office Programme, NHS

Presentation Three: Creating cohesiveness and retaining culture in a flexible working environment

Managing all property and facilities at ASOS and now reporting to the Chief People Office, Emma’s priority is creating a destination workplace that retains much-valued company culture. With a diverse range of staff and activity within the ASOS operation, the business-case for working location differs substantially. Emma will explain the objectives and data that form the basis of her plans, and Mark Ferguson will elaborate on the types of technology that can enable better workspace experience for employees at ASOS and beyond.

Hosted by: Emma Lurie, Head of Workspace, ASOS & Mark Ferguson, Workspace Transformation Lead, Aura Futures

• What is currently driving the investment landscape?
• How would an extended period of M&A affect the property market?
• The role of Net Carbon Zero targets in investment decision making
• How are investors identifying robust opportunities now? Clusters, flexible design, sustainability criteria.
• The response of the property development sector and the ultimate impact on the options occupiers have

Moderated by: Julia Streets, Founder and Director, Streets Consulting 

Hosted by: Earle Arney, AFK & Jeremy Myerson, Director, Worktech Academy

• Analysis of the economic costs and benefits of shared space for occupiers and for property developers
• The practicalities of employees acting as consumers of commodified office-space
• Satellite locations and the efficiencies they might provide
• Clusters and adjacencies, opportunity for collaboration as shared space evolves and specializes

Moderated by: Julia Streets, Founder and Director, Streets Consulting

Through the lens of economic viability and business benefit, the panelists share their views on the wellness opportunities presented by the flight to quality.

• Where are the greatest potential overlaps between creating environmentally friendly buildings, and building that prioritise employee wellness?
• Green space for air quality, culture, desirability, and biodiversity
• Using your office’s ‘public realm’ to its greatest potential: Community, the active commute, gyms, social and casual meeting space
• De-densification and looking carefully at stacking, grouping, and amenities to make employees feel good • Designing your office to prevent unconscious bias and support diversity

Moderated by: Julia Streets, Founder and Director, Streets Consulting

How to design and create a building that enhances community, decision-making and employees sense of their own value. Andrew uses recent examples, data and experience to explain the way technology installation can revolutionize the workplace

Magnus applies his years of expertise to the way technology will operate in future workplaces, not as distinct and siloed IT, AV, or corporate services but as a holistic system which will need careful design and senior level input at the outset.

• Assume technology will be delivered "as a service"
• Internet access will be like providing wireless electricity which will impact the need for fit outs and bespoke cabling
• Buildings are no longer a place for doing your email; what are they instead?
• Hybrid interactions will have interestingly different acoustic requirements
• Flexibility of layouts will be essential with low cost of change
• Booking spaces, equipment, services will need to be as easy as booking a colleague's calendar...building management systems will need to integrate

• How can the latest tech and design bring choice to the workplace?
• Business function, people and process: Creating an assessment and delivery system that ensures the tech is always fit for purpose
• Untethering person from desk: Mobility, agility and connectivity
• Connection between people and place: What role does workplace technology play? Not just in the call/conference but in the career

Moderated by: Clive Couldwell, Group Editor, AV Magazine

Caroline reveals the technology and innovation that has allowed the fascinating and rapid evolution of the university experience.

Understanding how Caroline meets the demands of the lecture-hall and delivering an immersive, high-quality interaction for a paying audience of students will help you push the boundaries as you create equality of experience in the hybrid office environment.

- Cameras that follow the speaker – why, how and to what degree of success?

- Using AV over IP to maximise flexibility

- Co-Pilots in an online lecture – how might the technique work in a commercial setting?

- Av technology to bring back a sense of community – what has worked and what hasn’t?

- Medium and long-term strategy: What goes and what stays in a post-pandemic university environment?

1. Flexible space: How to get it and what to do with it

Discovering what flexibility means for your employees. Occupier-led

Kate Richardson, Head of National Office Programme, NHS

2. Designing flexible new-builds: Investor -led discussion on the credentials they are looking for

Michael Kovac, Founding Partner, Castleforge

3. Developing properties that foster community and collaboration

4. What does collaboration mean post-Covid?

Vince Simpson, CEO, Project Management Consultant

5. Creating equality of experience in hybrid working environments

Amy Turney, Founder + CEO, Beyond Workplace Consulting

6. Using technology to drive business forward – getting a seat at the board table

Helen Causer, Office and Investment Lead King’s Cross, Argent

• What is an environmentally friendly office space? Definition and metrics for investors, for government and for employees
• Building management systems to allow efficiency
• Achieving Net Carbon Zero: The major obstacles and their solutions
• Visibility and environmental credibility in the construction industry

• Design-phase considerations that you may have overlooked
• Working towards an work-environment that caters equally to employees regardless of gender
• Creating amenities and outdoor space that allow the workforce to thrive.