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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Conference - 24th November 2009
Chair: Jeremy Myerson
Director, Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art
8.30am Innovations Exhibition and Coffee
9.00am Conference opens
9.05am Welcome from our host: John de Lucy
Head of Estates and Facilities, The British Library
9.10am The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Alain de Botton
The Future of Work and the City
10.00am Mark Dixon
CEO and Founder, Regus
10.30am Into the Clouds: Workplace 2.0, Philip Ross
CEO and Founder, Cordless Group
11.00am Coffee break
11.30am Where next for Work and the Workplace?
Expert Panel – Question Time
David Camp, Stanhope. Guy Holden, JCI
Simon Ward, Barclays. Neil Usher, Rio Tinto
Mark Dixon, Regus. Roger Madelin, Argent
Jack Pringle, Pringle Brandon
The Workplace Innovators - Global Case Studies
12.15pm Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Grant Baldwin, Macquarie Bank
Erik Veldhoen, Founder Veldhoen + Co
12.45pm Nokia, Bejing
Mark Tamburro, VP Workplace Resources, Nokia
John Sellery and Adam Mundy, M Moser
1.15pm Lunch
2.15pm BBC Worldwide, London
Chris Kane, Head of Corporate Real Estate, BBC
Despina Katsikakis, Group Chairman, DEGW
Smarter Working
Chair: Rory Cellan-Jones
BBC Technology Correspondent
2.45pm Opening remarks and Intervention Event
Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent
3 Visions of the Future
3.00pm SMART Work
David Martin, Founder of SMART technologies
3.00pm Work Topology: The New Space Canvas
Philip Vanhoutte, MD EMEA, Plantronics
4.00pm Spatial-ITy – how new technology will challenge the spaces we create
Lesley Gavin, Futurologist, BT
What about the People?
4.30pmThe Joy of Work
David Firth, Author
5.30pm Chairman’s closing remarks
5.40pm Champagne Reception and Networking Party
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