SPEAKERS

Erica Chapman

Erica Chapman has served as the Director of Corporate Real Estate for the adidas Group since May 2008. In this position, she is responsible for the management of the real estate portfolio for all adidas Group brands (adidas, Reebok, TaylorMade, and Rockport), in the Western Hemisphere. This role includes management of projects in North, South, and Central America as well as additionally contributing to the development of real estate and facilities strategy, standards and processes. She works in close cooperation with the regional and local adidas Group business managers to develop a strategic real estate portfolio plan for the region and implement best practices for facility management. Additional experience includes merger & acquisition process and project management, strategic analysis, retail organization strategy and planning, build-to-suit distribution operations, fostering business unit alliances, vendor audit, and budget development and management.

Frank Duffy

Frank Duffy, founder of DEGW, doyen of office design theory in the UK, points to major changes in the way business conducts its activities. Combined with rapid, universally accessible technology changes, these are set to challenge conventional wisdom’s about what offices exactly are about.

Frank Duffy is a world authority on organisation theory and office design. He is founder of the international practice DEGW which he co-founded in 1974. Trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School, he gained a March at Berkeley and a PhD at Princeton. He was president of the RIBA between 1993 an 1995. Duffy’s three main areas of interest at DEGW are relating organisation and technological change to office design, research (such as the seminal IBM Orbit studies the more recent Responsible Workplace and New Environments for Working studies) and writing for a wider audience about the theory and practice of design. His recent books include The Changing Workplace, The New Office, Architectural Knowledge and Design for Change.

Kathryn Gibbs

Kathryn Gibbs is currently the Director of Global Occupancy Planning & Analysis in Global Real Estate Services with Merck & Co., Inc. Kathryn is responsible for developing and implementing the long term strategic occupancy plans for all business functions across the enterprise assessing portfolio demand, capacity, and utilization and developing planning solutions that satisfy proximity requirements, ensure functional adjacencies, and align the portfolio with Merck's key business drivers and overall Real Estate strategy. Kathryn has a wealth of knowledge and experience. In her 18 years at Merck she has served in a number of engineering, strategic planning, and project management functions. She is a certified Sigma Black Belt, certified Master of Corporate Real Estate, and Project Management Professional.

Kursty Groves

Kursty Groves is an award-winning designer, innovation consultant, and the co-founder of Headspace, a consultancy that specialises in sourcing, designing and managing creative spaces for business.

Understanding what it takes to motivate and inspire people combined with her design experience led to a passion about the role of the environment when it comes to creativity in business. As author of ‘I Wish I Worked There – A Look Inside the Most Creative Spaces in Business’, Kursty took a 3-month sabbatical and crossed it with maternity leave to create the time to visit almost forty global businesses and interview over 300 people to better understand the role of physical environments in the success of these famous brands. The book is available at retail in the US from May 2010.

John Hampton

John Hampton has more than 15 years of executive leadership experience; including helping Fortune 500 companies like IBM and Dell Computer Corporation achieve sustained profitability and brand differentiation.  Prior to joining Regus Hampton served in a number of leadership capacities for Dell including Director of Enterprise Alliance and Director of New Ventures where he was responsible for Internet E-Commerce incubation and strategy development.  Hampton is a veteran speaker who has presented keynote addresses at several major conferences including Inc. 500 and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.  He has also lead panel discussions for the Harvard Business School’s conference series.  Hampton holds a Bachelors Degree in Architecture & Environmental Design from Kent State University and has successfully completed the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business Executive Program in Market Analysis and Planning.

Florence Hudson

Florence Hudson is the IBM Energy & Environment Executive in IBM Corporate Strategy, responsible for strategies and execution plans for “green” solutions to benefit clients in their goals to improve their impact on energy & the environment worldwide. These “green” solutions include smarter buildings, green datacenters, cloud computing, water management, intelligent transportation, smart grids, cap and trade systems, and alternative energy research.

Ms. Hudson has held a variety of leadership positions in IBM, including Vice President of Marketing & Strategy for IBM System z mainframes globally. She was also an executive-on-loan and IBM Vice President of Strategic Planning to the Society of Women Engineers, where she developed and executed new programs to inspire more girls and women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics worldwide.

Ms. Hudson has served as Vice President of Strategy and Marketing and acting Chief Technology Officer for the IBM Global Industrial Sector, responsible for strategic business growth and increased value for IBM’s clients in aerospace, defense, automotive, chemicals, petroleum, electronics and industrial products businesses globally. She was also IBM Vice President of Corporate Strategy responsible for Strategic Growth for IBM. Prior to IBM, Ms. Hudson worked for Hewlett-Packard. She also worked as an Aerospace Engineer at Grumman Corporation and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory on projects such as solar power satellites, the space shuttle and future missions around Jupiter.

Katrina Kostic Samen

Katrina Kostic-Samen has over two decades of experience in the design of commercial developments and the workplace environment and is uniquely qualified to provide clients with design consultancy and strategic advice on ‘inside-out’ architectural design solutions. Katrina is considered a leading authority in development specification and occupier strategy, in particular for legal and financial clients.

Her multi-cultural background has stood her in good stead during her work with numerous blue-chip clients, traversing the legal, financial and corporate sectors throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East. Her experience allows her to offer a comprehensive interpretation of industry trends, practice area intelligence and market knowledge.

Dr Andrew. Laing

Dr Andrew. Laing is responsible for DEGW's business in North America, where he has developed a team of consultants since 1996. He has taught at Princeton’s Department of Architecture and at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He helps organizations improve workplace performance in relation to wider business goals. He has written many articles on workplace design and authored  “New Environments for Working” with Francis Duffy (1997) and was the co-author of The Responsible Workplace (1993).

Jennifer Magnolfi

Senior Integration Architect for Programmable Environments
In 2009 Jennifer Magnolfi joined the Herman Miller Ideation Studio at the front end of Research & Development, where her work focuses on continuing to explore programmability as a driver for future business development and innovation. During the past five years, she has charted development efforts around various aspects of Programmable Environments™, Herman Miller’s first disruptive innovation outside the furniture market. Her work has spanned the exploration of new product concepts, emerging design technologies, building technology integration practices in built customer sites, and the negotiation and development of strategic partnerships and alliances.

Ms. Magnolfi is the co-author of “Always Building: the Programmable Environment”, the design manifesto published by the Herman Miller Creative Office in 2008. The book articulates the core sustainability values, the business and technology drivers, as well as the foundational design principles guiding the initiative’s exploration into the future of work and learning spaces.

In previous roles, she supported the start-up and commercialization of this initiative’s first invention: a programmable electrical infrastructure system, which in 2007 was introduced in the marketplace through Convia Inc., a Herman Miller subsidiary company.
Prior to joining Herman Miller, Jennifer served as an instructor at the Lund Institute of Technology and technical advisor to the Star Design Program, a design and research collaboration between NASA and Lund University. She was a research fellow at the Interactive Institute in Sweden, researching networked environments in the Bo01 City of Tomorrow urban development project. Jennifer received a Master Degree in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a State Department Fulbright Scholar.

Sean Maguire

Sean Maguire brings over 25 years of industry experience to his role as Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at Convia, Inc.  Sean has extensive experience in advanced building controls.  He has worked with large utilities, Fortune 1000 companies and industry associations in developing high performance building energy solutions that balance the needs for energy efficiency, sustainability, occupant productivity and financial ROI.  Recent notable engagements include the new USGBC Headquarters in Washington, DC and the Empire State Building energy retrofit in NY.  

Prior to Convia, Sean served as Director Global Sales & Marketing at Sanmina-SCI, a $12 Billion Fortune 500 manufacturing firm.  Sean led the $2.5 billion enterprise computing and storage division.  Sean was also a principal and Executive Vice President for DataStarUSA, a Texas based technology services company.

Adam Mundy

Adam Mundy began his interior design career in 1994 and joined M Moser Associates in 2002. His past residential and leisure project experience has contributed to his unique perspective on corporate office design, and he has become well-known for a creative flair which leads to incisive solutions. For each project, Mundy engages in extensive user group consultation as a starting point for designs which are tightly focussed on meeting client needs and improving workplace operations. Among his major recent projects are designs for Newbridge Capital, National Australia Bank and MLC Insurance.

Peter Miscovich

Peter Miscovich is Managing Director within Jones Lang LaSalle’s Corporate Solutions Strategic Consulting Group. He also serves on the JLL Corporate Solutions Global Consulting Board.

Since 1985, Peter has developed and executed comprehensive workplace solutions for global Fortune 500 companies involving corporate real estate, enterprise sustainability, human resources, finance, technology, operations, procurement, security, sourcing and strategic planning functions.

As organizations transform and evolve either through growth, consolidation or merger-related activities, Peter has developed comprehensive operational strategies and implementation programs that maximize and leverage the opportunities that are presented through change.

Peter has developed and executed corporate real estate strategies, operational cost reduction programs, workplace mobility programs, change management programs and Sustainability solutions for global Fortune 500 clients. He previously served as a partner and principal within the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Advisory practice.

Bill Moggridge

Bill Moggridge is the Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York,
appointed to this position in the spring of 2010. Prior to that he was a cofounder of
IDEO, a global design consultancy. A Royal Designer for Industry, Bill designed the
world's first laptop computer. He pioneered interaction design and is one of the first
people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. He has
been a trustee of the Design Museum; Visiting Professor in Interaction Design at the
Royal College of Art in London, Lecturer in Design at the London Business School
and Consulting Associate Professor in the design program at Stanford University. He
served as Congress Chair for CONNECTING’07, the Icsid/IDSA World Design
Congress held in San Francisco in October 2007. He was honored with the Lifetime
Achievement Award at Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards in 2009.

His book, DVD and website Designing Interactions (www.designinginteractions.com)
tells the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives; it is available
from The MIT Press. He is currently working on another book, Designing Media,
which examines the connections between traditional mainstream media and the
emerging digital realm.

Jeremy Myerson

Jeremy Myerson is Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art, London, where he holds the Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design and leads the InnovationRCA network for business. A leading academic, author and activist in workplace design, he has co-authored a trilogy of books with Philip Ross of Unwired. His latest book, New Demographics NewWorkplace, explores an ageing workforce in the knowledge economy and will be published by Gower in March 2010.

Terry Van Ness

Terry Van Ness is currently the Director of Workplace Innovation in Global Real Estate Services with Merck & Co., Inc. Terry, through a center of excellence, is responsible for the development and socialization of enterprise-wide workplace strategies and standards to provide optimal real estate solutions while meeting business demands. She is responsible for driving standardization across the global portfolio. Terry responsibilities include championing and modeling innovative workplace practices while embracing alternative ideas and perspectives by creating programs that demonstrate creativity, flexibility, and adaptability. In her 32 years at Merck, Terry has held a wide variety of positions and has a wealth of project management, engineering and planning experience. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey.

David Owen

David Owen has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1991. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a contributing editor at The Atlantic Monthly and, prior to that, a senior writer at Harper’s. He is also a contributing editor at Golf Digest. He is the author of more than a dozen books: High School, about the four months he spent pretending to be a high-school student; None of the Above, an exposé of the standardized-testing industry; The Man Who Invented Saturday Morning, a collection of his pieces from Harper’s and The Atlantic Monthly; The Walls Around Us: A Thinking Person’s Guide to How a House Works; Around the House, a collection of essays about domestic life; The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money; Copies in Seconds, about the invention of the Xerox machine; and Sheetrock & Shellac, a sequel to The Walls Around Us. In addition, he has written four books about golf—My Usual Game, The Making of the Masters, The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness, and Hit & Hope—and he co-edited a collection of golf stories entitled Lure of the Links. His most recent book is Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability, which grew out of a widely discussed 2004 New Yorker essay called “Green Manhattan.”

Marie Puybaraud

Marie is Director of Global WorkPlace Innovation for Johnson Controls Global WorkPlace Solutions since 2004. She is an expert in the field of Workplace Innovation. The leading Global WorkPlace Innovation Programme she manages, aims to make a fundamental contribution to understanding today’s and tomorrow's workplace challenges, monitoring trends and sourcing innovative ideas and concepts, as well as systems, to improve the way we work, how we collaborate within our workplaces. Marie is leading around 15 annual projects and initiatives to successful completion and disseminating the findings both internally across the global business and externally through marketing and communication activities. A regular speaker to the media at both a national and international level, but also to corporate clients, she combines her expertise and corporate experience to transfer knowledge to the audience and the wider community.

Philip Ross

Philip Ross is an author, commentator and consultant specialising in the impact of emerging technology on the world of work and the workplace.

He has worked with organisations such as Ernst & Young, Eversheds, McKinsey & Co, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Royal Bank of Scotland on future workplace concepts based on emerging technologies.

Philip has spoken at conferences around the world including the Wall Street Journal Europe CEO Forum on Converging Technologies and Corenet’s Global Summits in Beijing, Sydney, Orlando and Melbourne.

In 1994 he founded Cordless Group and wrote and published The Cordless Office Report. He has written three books on the future of cities, work and workplace: The Creative Office, The 21st Century Office and Space to Work (all co-authored with Jeremy Myerson) and has contributed to a number of other books including the Corporate Fool and the Responsible Workplace.

Ian Sands

Ian Sands is the Sr. Director of Envisioning for Microsoft Office Labs, an R&D organization in Redmond, Washington. In this role, Ian is responsible for driving Microsoft’s 10 year productivity vision and strategy, working with thought-leaders across industries and throughout Microsoft to explore the intersection of customer challenges and emerging technologies.

A key component of the team’s strategy is to envision scenarios for how leading edge technologies might be used in real world settings over the next 5-10 years. In collaboration with the business and technical leaders of Microsoft’s Business Division, the team produces forward-looking prototypes, videos and physical installations that help internal teams to align for future investment and external audiences to glimpse areas of exploration.

In driving the Envisioning effort, Ian builds upon his prior experience as the founding Director of the Industry Innovations Group, a thought-leadership organization that he formed in 2003 with the goal of helping customers and partners understand the potential behind Microsoft’s R&D.

A fourteen year Microsoft veteran, Ian began his career in the Research organization, exploring interactive TV concepts with a creative think-tank called the Blender. Following that, he spent several years holding key roles in the launch of several Microsoft Internet businesses – including Slate, MSNBC, and MSN. Following which, Ian spent four years in the Microsoft Consulting Services division holding a leadership role with the Advanced Technology group. During this time, he founded a team and built a business that was focused on providing user interaction expertise for strategic customer engagements world-wide.

Ian works as a strategic advisor to Fortune 100 companies and thought-leadership institutions world-wide, participating on advisory boards, forums and future think-tank initiatives. His education includes the University of California, Davis and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he graduated with honors and holds a bachelor of science in Industrial Design.

Bethany Davis Swanson

Bethany Davis Swanson is global Director of Concepts and Strategy for Nokia’s Workplace Resources function. She is currently based in White Plains, NY, having moved there to manage the creation of a Metro NY branch of Nokia’s head office after three years working in Helsinki, Finland. Her charge is to create effective environments enabling the evolving future of work. Increasingly this means seeking innovative ways to keep Nokia’s highly mobile and autonomous professionals engaged with their colleagues and collaborating across time and space.

Nokia Workplace Resources aims to provide world-class workplace solutions and services that enhance Nokia employees´ work lives and increase Nokia´s business performance, flexibility and cost-effectiveness.

Bethany has spoken at many international events about the changing nature of work and how work environments can support business strategy.