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Matthew Gwyther
Matthew has edited Management Today for the last six years and during that time has won the coveted BSME Business Magazine Editor of the year on a record four occasions. During a fifteen year career, he has also written for the Sunday Times magazine, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Observer and GQ. He was PPA Business Feature Writer of the Year in 2001. Before becoming a journalist he worked as a civil servant working at the Medical Research Council in its London Secretariat.
Adrian Furnham
Adrian is among the most productive psychologists in the world. He has written over 700 scientific papers, 55 books, writes regularly for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph and regularly contributes to BBC radio and television. Like Noel Coward, he believes work is more fun than fun and considers himself to be a well-adjusted workaholic. Adrian will shed light on how age and gender will reshape work and the workplace.
Eddie Obeng
Eddie is an entrepreneur and founder of Pentacle and The Virtual Business School. Amongst many things, he is the bloke behind the monetisation of MSN, the turnaround of Rolls Royce Motor cars and invented the term ‘virtual teams’. Described by FT and Business Life as ‘The Eclectic Guru’, a ‘leading revolutionary’ and ‘agent provocateur’. Eddie will share his thoughts about what is revolutionizing our workplace and why.
Robert Heller
Robert is Britain’s best-selling author on business management. He has written over 50 books including the Naked Manager, has run the city pages of The FT and the Observer, was founding editor of Management Today and has worked for several of the world’s largest companies. Robert wrote ‘Culture Shock: The Office Revolution’ in 1990 and predicted the beginning of the revolution in the architecture of IT. Nearly twenty years on, he will reflect on the reality.
Peter Ecsery-Merrens
Peter is a Director at Cisco Systems and heads its IBSG consultancy group in the UK. He joined Cisco after a career that has included Perot Systems and McKinsey & Co. Peter will look at the rise of video in business communications and discuss the implications of pervasive video for work and the workplace as we head to a world where virtualisation and computing in the cloud challenges the traditional roles of bricks and mortar.
Andy Law
Andy is the UK’s foremost innovator in the application of creativity to business. He founded the radical communications company St. Luke’s in 1995 and two years later the agency was voted Agency of the Year. He joined a number of UK Government “think tanks” including The Knowledge Economy Advisory Group, chaired by Lord Sainsbury, and is one of only a very few Admen invited to participate in The World Economic Forum at Davos. He pioneered the concept of “Creative Company” in the UK and completely re-wrote the book on how creativity can be effectively delivered to business for bottom-line growth. Author of Open Minds: 21st Century Business Lessons, Andy will shed light on the link between physical space and behaviour of people.
Tim Caiger
Tim is the vice president of Corporate Real Estate and Facilities for Oracle Corporation, EMEA. He is responsible for Oracle’s real estate strategy and development and oversees the management of approximately three million square feet in thirty-four countries. Tim will address the challenges of change and share some of his experiences relating to the paperless office, mobile and home working.”
Vito Chiodo
Vito heads the real estate function for Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company.
Stefan Camenzind & Tanya Reugg-Basheva
Google’s incredible workplace in Zurich was the brainchild of Stefan and Tanya the partners of Swiss architectural firm Camenzind Evolution. They will present a case study of the Google project, describing the innovation that Googlers demand in tomorrow’s internet workplace.
Jeremy Myerson
Jeremy is Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, where he also runs the InnovationRCA network for business. Jeremy will describe the outcomes of an international research project looking at rethinking workspace for older people in the knowledge economy.
David Dropkin
David is Senior Access Consultant for Buro Happold. He has over fifteen years experience in specifying and negotiating access for disabled people to the built environment, providing access consultancy services for new and existing developments including technical guidance throughout the design process.
Recent projects include the More London Estate, the National Conference Centre, Dublin, Olympic
Master Plan, London 2012 Olympic Stadium, O2 Arena, St John’s College, Oxford, Selfridges
Hotel and the Oval.
Previous speakers at WorkTech events include:
Niklas Zennstrom, Co-Founder of Skype,Charles Handy, one of the most, respected authors and commentators on organisational change, Chris Kane BBC Head of Workplace, Frank Duffy co-Founder of DEGW, Clive Wilkinson CW Architects, Carla Picardi (responsible for Canary Wharf)
