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The Future-Proof
Workplace
Building the Future-Proof Workplace - together!
No turning back
As workplaces begin to re-open after the pandemic, one thing is sure:
there is no return to the old. For many organizations and office workers, the sudden move to remote working was quite a shock that forced employees and organizations to take tremendous digital leaps and change their ways of working almost overnight. Much to many’s surprises, all in all, the transition was quite smooth and people got used to working from the home office despite some challenges.
What will the future hold for us?
Many organizations are currently wondering how and where their employees want to work in the future and what are their expectations for the future workplace. There’s a lot of talk about hybrid working and the hybrid office, terms that weren’t familiar to us before the pandemic.
What have we learned so far?
How do we ensure that we do not forget the learnings from this unusual period and take the new best practices into wider use? How to organise a smooth and safe return to the workplace and respond to the requirements of the workplace now and in the future? How to keep the employees happy and satisfied and take care of their well-being in new settings?
Simply put, how to build a future-proof workplace?
Co-creating the future-proof scenarios
Hear what are the scenarios for the future workplace and the biggest impacting trends that we must take into consideration. Share your own thoughts on the topic and co-create together with the other participants the future-proof workplace!
Key themes
The social workplace:
Is your workplace ready for the post-pandemic workforce?
The virtual workplace:
How can technology support hybrid ways of working?
The physical workplace:
How can we use AI to create the future-proof office already today?
The financial workplace:
Is it time to regard the workplace as a service, as an asset and as an investment in the future productivity of your organization?
The Future-Proof Workplace webinar
One Thursday afternoon almost 300 participants got together to envision the future with leading futurists, researchers, workplace and real estate experts.
As workplaces begin to re-open after the pandemic, one thing is sure: there is no return to the old. Workplaces must adapt to the new situation and new requirements. But what are these new requirements and how should the design of workplaces be approached in the future?
The Future-Proof Workplace webinar dived into this question and you can watch the recording and here our inspiring experts.
Keynote speaker
Raphael Gielgen
Trendscout “FUTURE OF WORK” – Vitra
Raphael Gielgen has spent most of his professional life working on
making the office environment a better place. Even some of his own
colleagues think he’s a little crazy. His irrepressible curiosity, his restless quest for explanations, and his delight at upending everything can occasionally make him an uncomfortable companion.
When he appears at the office after returning from a long trip, he recounts things that sound more like a virtual utopia than a reality that has been experienced.
He visits over one hundred companies in a single year; the world is his workplace, the future his area of research. His work informs Vitra´s approach to improving the quality of offices and public spaces through the power of design by serving the varied Vitra team with the results of my observations and cognitions by trend clusters, market analysis and business cases.
Experts
Peggie Rothe
Chief Insights & Research Officer (CIRO) at Leesman
Experts
Niklas Madsen
CEO / Founder – Superlab
Superlab is an experimental design laboratory on a mission to change the future work environment.
Can you turn crazy innovativ ideas into a successful business model? If you ask Jenny and Niklas Madsen at the idea laboratorium Superlab, it is absolutely perfectly possible. The company spends almost half of it’s working hours challenging and developing its own ideas. In 2017, they released a research-based book on how to have fun at work – even though they themselves had defined that no one reads books anymore. It turned out to be a genius traits
The company dates back to 2004 where it all began as a simple design firm founded by Niklas Madsen. In 2012 a research project by the name ”Superlab” was stated between designer Niklas Madsen and a psychology student from Lunds University. The goal was to study the effect of playing at work and how it impacts our meetings and daily tasks. What was the effect of adding play to your serious business? The combination of practical know-how of designing exceptional offices and the scientific research of human behavior turned out to be an exciting mix. The interest in the project and it’s research started growing and soon companies, organizations and city councils wanted to hire Superlab
In 2014 the design company got re-branded as Superlab. An experimental design laboratory with the main goal to study the future workplace and the furniture design of tomorrow. During 2016 Superlab gathered all of their knowledge, collected research studies and started the journey of writing a book -”Playful office, the future office philosophy that will turn employees into emplayees”
Experts
Antony Slumbers
Co-Founder at Real Innovation Academy
Antony is a globally recognised speaker, advisor and writer on proptech and space-as-a-service. A serial entrepreneur, he has founded and exited several proptech software companies and now consults real estate boards on their transformation, technology and innovation strategies. He writes an influential blog at antonyslumbers.com and is a prolific Tweeter (@antonyslumbers). In 2020 he co-founded the Real Innovation Academy, an online real estate training company.
Moderator
Antti Pitkänen
Co-Founder | Chairman | Chief Experience Officer
Antti Pitkänen is an experienced design leader, an expert in leading multidisciplinary design projects through collaborative networks from strategy to implementation in the areas of spatial, product, brand and service design.
During his career, Antti has worked with +70 companies in over +100 international projects with the world’s leading technology and service companies.
As the Co-founder, Chief Experience Officer (CXO) and Chairman of the Board, his role is to develop Agile Work’s products and service offering and guide its strategy and culture. In customer projects, he actively participates in orchestrating and curating the holistic employee-, workplace- and customer experience to support companies future direction and growth.
Blog
Creating Future-Proof Workplaces - Part 1
One Thursday afternoon almost 300 participants got together to envision the future with leading futurists, researchers, workplace and real estate experts.
Even if we don’t own a crystal ball, we can certainly say that there is no going back to the old. Workplaces must adapt to the new situation and new requirements. But what are these new requirements and how should the design of workplaces be approached in the future?
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Antti Pitkänen
Chief Experience Officer
Dr Peggie Rothe is passionate about modern ways of working and the strategic role of workplaces, and she has a deep understanding of the user perspective of the built environment. As Chief Insights & Research Officer at Leesman, her role includes leading the research undertaken on the world’s largest independent workplace experience database and helping organisations understand the link between people and place.
Prior to joining Leesman in 2014, Peggie worked at Aalto University (Finland) where her research focused on corporate real estate and workplace management. She earned her doctorate in 2015 and has published her findings in several peer-reviewed academic journals.