Kate Cook
The Nutrition Coach

With a client portfolio that includes some of the uK’s biggest organisations; Kate has established herself as the uK’s premier authority on personal transformation and become synonymous with making real and lasting changes by having the most profound effect on staff attitudes, performance, outlook and influence. Kate will focus on how to maximise performance from your people – not by quarterly targets, key performance indicators or extra hours – but instead, the foundation for today’s successful organisations hAS to be an increased focus on staff wellbeing and mindset.

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Sir Terry Farrell CBE
Farrell & Partners

Sir Terry, london’s most influential architect, will explore the patterns and form that made london, how understanding them gives a basis for the future. Terry will also compare london to our work in China and how the future of East and West could have similarities and differences.

Matt Harvey
Poet

Poet, columnist, enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting, Matt's way with words has taken him from Totnes to the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club via Radio 4's Saturday Live, the Edinburgh Festival and the Work section of the Guardian. His latest book, Where Earwigs Dare, contains a choice selection of his Work poems alongside celebratory verses on vegetables and vagueness; insects and alcohol; pain relief, petty theft and public nudity..

Brian David Johnson
Chief Futurist, Intel Corporation

The future is not set; it is not a fixed destination in time. The future is manufactured every day by the actions of people all over the world. As a futurist, brian David Johnson believes it is incredibly important that we all become active participants in the future. We must ask ourselves what kind of world do we want to live and work in? Where do we want to go? What should we avoid? What scares us?

Science fiction is one way that all of us can share visions of possible futures. In fact, science fiction gives up the language so that we can have a conversation about the future. As we look out to the year 2020, how will technological innovation and global trends shape our lives? Where and when will the lines between science fiction and science fact fall away?

Rosalind Lambert-Porter
Acoustician, Acoustics at Work

Rosalind Lambert-Porter is an acoustician and audiologist with a particular interest and experience in architectural acoustics. She has worked on a number of projects including lecture theatres, call centres, an international airport, and a house of legislative assembly to name a few. Her particular focus this past two years has been the growing problem of noise in the open plan office.

Jason Leek
Managing Director, Business & Industry, Compass Group UK & Ireland

The workplace is changing. Flexibility, mobility and virtual teams are changing the way we work. Creative work space, social areas and relaxation zones are becoming the norm in office environments, as single use areas become unaffordable. Foodservice in the workplace is about to change dramatically too. Sustainability, nutrition and wellbeing have been high on the agenda for clients and consumers for some time. This is about to move to a whole new level. The “responsibility Deal” is a government initiative launched in March 2011 aimed at driving a consumer focused approach to healthy eating. Compass Group uK&I has been part of the advisory team from its inception, advising government on how new approaches to labelling, nutritional guidance and similar measures should be implemented in the workplace. Jason provides a unique insight into the process and challenges involved in well-being initiatives.

Alison Maitland
Author

The business, demographic, and environmental arguments for a revolution in work styles are stronger than ever and the technology is there. but many organisations are slow to change. Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, authors of the new book Future Work, will draw on their unique research and international case studies to explain what skills managers need, what type of organizational culture is most open to new ways of working, and why workplaces of the future will require new styles of leadership

Cornelius Medvei
CEO, Eversheds

Cornelius leads Eversheds' Transport Sector Group which focuses on their very substantial transport sector client base and is client partner for a number of key transport sector clients. 

Formerly Head of Eversheds' real estate practice group across the firm, Cornelius was subsequently London Managing Partner in which capacity he led on the project to identify, fit out and effect the move to their new International Headquarters at One Wood Street in the City of London.  The move gave Eversheds the opportunity to change and develop their culture and Cornelius devised and led the change management programme. Cornelius has also been London Senior Partner, a member of Eversheds' governing Board, Executive and Senior Management Team. 

External appointments include being a Governor of SouthBank Centre, Chairman of the Cheapside Initiative and a member of the CBI London Council.

Mark Meerbeek

Mark Meerbeek is Strategy Consultant at Microsoft Netherlands with a focus on New World of Work, Future Workplace, Desktop Strategies & Innovative Collaboration strategies. Mark has been working for Microsoft Netherlands since September 2006 as a Strategy Consultant. Prior to this he assumed another strategy consultancy position in a Dutch strategy firm and worked prior to that for Heineken and Fortis. Next to this he is the author of a book about Virtual Collaboration and likes to blog and write articles about innovative topics.

Steve Norris
TFL & LDA

Steven Norris was a Member of Parliament for over fourteen years and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Departments of Environment, Trade and Industry and the Home Office and was Minister for Transport in London from 1992-96. He was Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party and twice their candidate for Mayor of London, outperforming the national party on both occasions. He now sits on the boards of Transport for London and the London Development Agency.

Steve was Director General of the Road Haulage Association and has wide experience of both quoted and unquoted companies. He is currently Executive Chairman of Jarvis plc and Chairman of AMT-Sybex Group and Saferoad BLG. He is a Non-Executive Director of a number of public and private companies and an advisor to several more on public policy and governmental issues.
Other non-commercial positions include Chair of the trustees of Eastside Young Leaders Academy and of the London Action Trust. He is President of ITS-UK and a Patron of the Campaign for Better Transport and of the cycling charity Sustrans.  Steve is also a Companion of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Simon Pole
Principle, Woods Bagot

Simon is a Leader of Workplace Interiors and has 17 years experience in leading and delivering high quality, large-scale projects in both the Private and Public Sector. Having completed projects throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, he has led firms through complex relocation programmes and has provided platforms and ideas that have changed the way businesses do business.

A global Principal at Woods Bagot, Simon utilises his international experience to provide alternate solutions, "challenging the norm" to unearth a concept to leverage his clients' competitive business advantage via creative workstyles combined with brand enhancing concepts.

He adopts an alternative approach and values diversity of ideas through collaboration of various talents to produce inspiring results.

Philip Ross
CEO, UNWIRED and Cordless Group

Regus and Unwired present their research into the new world of virtual work and report on their hypothesis that virtual working enhances, not detracts from, the value and performance of organizations. The research will examine the potential to shift workplace valuation from cost per square foot to a more innovative way of monetizing agility.

Graham Snowdon
Editor, The Guardian, Work Section

Graham edits the Work section which appears in The Guardian every Saturday and also writes for the newspaper and website on a wide range of employment-related topics. He is a former assistant sports editor of the Independent and is the current Towers Watson national hr journalist of the year.

Nick Taylor-Delahoy
Director of Information Technology, Mishcon de Reya

Scarlett Thomas

Scarlett is the author of several novels including bright Young Things and Going out. her work has been translated into more than 20 languages, and has been longlisted for the orange Prize. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, broadcast on bbC radio 4 and is working on her ninthnovel, The Seed Collectors. She will explore the challenges of Science Fiction and what it means for us and the workplace.

Peter Thomson
Author

The business, demographic, and environmental arguments for a revolution in work styles are stronger than ever and the technology is there. but many organisations are slow to change. Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, authors of the new book Future Work, will draw on their unique research and international case studies to explain what skills managers need, what type of organizational culture is most open to new ways of working, and why workplaces of the future will require new styles of leadership

Richard Watson
Author, Futurist & Scenario Planner

Richard Watson is a writer, speaker and strategist who helps organisations to think ahead. He is the founder of nowandnext.com, a website that documents new ideas, innovations and trends from around the world and is co-founder of Strategy Insight, a scenario planning specialist. His clients have included, amongst others, PricewaterhouseCoopers, News Limited, Virgin, Toyota, McDonald’s, Westfield, Coca-Cola, the Dept of Education and St George Bank. Richard is also the author of Future Files: 5 Trends for the Next 50 Years (2007) and Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters and What We Can Do About It.