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Conference Programme

Thursday 15th November 2012

8:30 - 9:00 Registration & Refreshments

9:00 Chairman's opening remarks

Jeremy Myerson, Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art

9:10 Our WORKTECH Poet

Matt Harvey, Poet, columnist, enemy of all that's difficult and upsetting

Keynotes: Business and Organisational Change

9:15 Straight Line Thinking Stops Here:
The true possibilities of a networked society

Alan Moore, Guru, Author and Founder of SMLXL

Alan, a charismatic visionary with a firm grasp of the significant and disruptive trends currently reshaping our world, will outline the true possibilities of a networked society and talk about his latest book, No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world.

9:55 Why your best employee is not a worker but a player

John Williams, Author of bestselling book "Screw Work Let's Play" and founder of the monthly event for ideas people, Scanners Night.

John will address how conventional schooling and employment can produce a compliant and passive worker when we what really want is creative people with initiative who are brave enough to do the right thing - what John calls a player. What will help attract these people and foster the right mindset in your current staff? This is essential when the increasingly important threat for retention of the most inspired and creative staff is not to other companies but to people starting their own thing as the barriers to entrepreneurship and generating an income independently disappear.

www.screwworkletsplay.com

10:30 Coffee Break

Theme: People - Working Together

11:00 Cultural Architecture

Chris Waugh, Director & Co-Founder IDEO F&B practice

Chris will explore how the intersection of social issues, systems, and food can help organisations create better offerings—and help employees live better. He is a firm believer in the premise that what is good for business can be good for people, and vice-versa.

11:20 Food as ‘Glue’: Ingredients to collaborate

Barry Varcoe, the Global Head of CRE&FM at Zurich Financial Services

Philip Ross, CEO, UNWORK

Barry is a visionary, researcher, CRE executive and writer on the corporate real estate and facilities management industry and the impact it has on the organisations and people who use what it creates. Philip is an author, commentator and consultant specialising in the impact of emerging technology on the world of work and the workplace.

11:40 Workplace Wellbeing

Scot Smith, Commercial & Business Development Director, Corporate Wellbeing, Nuffield Health

Scot will outline on Nuffield’s workplace wellbeing strategy and show how theory can be successfully turned into practice.

12:00 Sharing Knowledge & Collaboration

Sarah Dillingham, Global Infrastructure Knowledge Leader, KPMG

Sarah Dillingham has a long track record in delivering successful knowledge management programmes. Her background includes City professional services and central government. She is fascinated with the way that people interact with technology to collaborate and the growth of mobile.

12:20 Digital Natives

Dr. Marie Puybaraud, Director, Global WorkPlace Innovation, Johnson Controls

A new generation called Digital Natives is entering the workplace.They are tech savvy, at the forefront of technological progress, and always want to be connected, whenever and wherever they are. Born after the general implementation of digital technology, this generation has now reached an age where they begin to enter the workplace. They are different, not so much in what they do, but how they do it.

12:40 Realising the Potential of the Multi- Generational Workplace

Gerry Taylor, Creative Director, Orangebox

As Millennial's become the pre- eminent group within the workplace, how will the design of office furniture help realize the potential for a more diverse, flexible, faster, multi-generation workplace?

1:00 Lunch

2:10 Chair's Welcome back & Poetry

Theme: The Rise of Co-Work

2:20 Co-Working Spaces

Julia , together with other leading providers of Third Spaces will examine the global trend towards flexible working and the expansion of Third Place business as more workers demand access to workspace outside the office and the home with the flexibility, creativity and connectivity offered by mobile, tablet and cloud technologies in a professional work environment anywhere, anytime.

Julia Penfold, Global Portfolio Solutions Director, Regus

Jonathan Robinson, Co Founder of the Hub

Charlie Green, Founder, The Office Group

Sevil Peach, Founder, Sevil Peach Architecture & Design

2:50 Panel Debate

Speakers TBC

3:20 Coffee Break

Theme: The Future of Work

3:50 Real-time Real Estate

John Anderson, Executive Vice President of Asure Software (formerly PeopleCube)

In today's economic climate facilities and real estate professionals are being forced to do more with less, leading companies to move away from the asset ownership mentality. Join John Anderson as he evaluates this "sea of change" and how the shift towards variable workspace, increased videoconferencing use, and other workplace strategies have resulted in significant opportunities to maximise efficiency, reduce property, energy, and other related costs, increase employee retention, and attract the new generation of worker.

4:10 Innovation is a Journey, not a Destination

Kevin works with customers to take control of the unmanaged state of manual processes and unstructured information that stifles business innovation and transformation. He will discuss business issues surrounding the explosive growth of digital content and how companies can intelligently capture, manage and access information to drive results to the bottom line.

Kevin Goffinet, International GM, Perceptive Software, a Lexmark Company

4:25 2 Key Drivers of Technological Change:

The Connected world, the next generation and BYOD…

Ian Foddering, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco

... and Video at work

Peter Escery Merrens, Director, Cisco

4:45 Panel Debate: Into the Cloud – Emerging Technology and the Future of Work

The Future of Work, Tablets at Work & BYOD

Paul Caris, CIO, Eversheds

Francois Brounais, Haworth