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Leading global speakers include:
Phil Redmond CBE
Phil is founder of Mersey TV, and writer and producer of British television’s most influential drama, including Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks. As Deputy Chair and Creative Director of Liverpool's Capital of Culture, he is one of Liverpool’s leading voices on the city’s creative, media and technological future.
Chris Kane
Head of Workplace BBC. Chris Kane leads the BBC’s property department - BBC workplace and is responsible for the development, financing and implementation of the BBC’s property strategy. His current challenge is a £1bn+ portfolio transformation, including major development in London and relocation of 1500 staff to Salford.
Erik Veldhoen
Founder of Veldhoen & Company, Erik founded Veldhoen + Co in 1989. The company’s mission through ‘the Art of Working’ is to create better, more pleasant and more effective ways of working. Erik worked with Interpolis to create ground breaking new ways of working.
Udo-Ernst Haner
Consultant, Lecturer for Fraunhofer Institute, the organisation behind Office 21 in Stuttgart and leading authority on creating better performance through innovative working environments. The organisation works with leading academics and companies to create inspirational visions to develop new forms of office design. Udo will shed light on how design space impacts performance.
Keith Little
Keith is responsible for managing the whole of the BBC’s IT enterprise and business systems to ensure efficient and secure running of the BBC’s technology business, including desktops, networks, business systems, apps development and security systems throughout the Corporation. He also has strategic responsibility for defining how information is stored, managed and archived across the BBC, and at the highest level, responsible for information security. After heading up the negotiations of the IT streams of the recent outsourcing deal with Siemens Keith is now focusing on how he can work with the business to make sure technology enables the business changes that are being made throughout the Corporation
Jeremy Myerson
Jeremy is Professor of Design Studies and Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art, where he also runs the InnovationRCA network for business. In his presentation entitled 'The Importance of Contemplation', Jeremy will explore future scenarios for workplace design in the innovation economy.
Scott Rupprecht
Scott heads up Siemens' "Network of Innovation" activities at the BBC. With the integration of IT, telecommunication, and broadcast resulting in a new hybrid of global shared services, he is focused on how technology is enabling new ways of creating, distributing, and locating content throughout the media community.
Philip Ross
CEO Cordless Group and author, Philip Ross is an author and commentator on emerging technology and its impact on work and the workplace.
Charles Armstrong
Charles is an ethnographer turned technology entrepreneur. He founded Trampoline Systems in 2003.
Philip and Charles will look atthe Connected Enterprise and trendsthat empower employees to connect, collaborate and innovate.
Lynda Shillaw
Managing Director of Property, The Co-operative Group, Lynda’s challenge is two fold: to create a new workspace in Manchester for over 2000 people and at the same time plan the redevelopment of the Co-operative’s 20 acre site. Following the merger with United Co-operative, a new office is seen as an opportunity to catalyse change as well as invigorate the brand and achieve best practice in sustainability. And a major redevelopment provides opportunities for renewal and the creation of a public realm.
Roger Owen
Group Poperty Director, Wm Morrison Supermarkets. Roger's challenge has been to harness the potential of the relocation of a new HQ for the benefit of business - facilitating the merger of three regional offices, including both Safeway and Morrison teams, into one building for the first time.
Previous speakers at WorkTech events include:
Mike Joroff, MIT, Ken Shuttleworth, Founder of MAKE, Jerry Fishendon, NTO Microsoft, 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)
