Programme

Open Your Eyes to the Future

Open your eyes to the future … the story will unfold …. what life could be like in 25 years for you and me ….

We open this year’s 1BD with a looking glass into working life and how that will impact millennials and baby boomers and set the scene for some of the topics we’re all thinking about today in preparing for the future.

Sit back, close your eyes, let your imagination kick in!

Welcome to One Day in your life 2040 

Narrator: Michelle Pattison. CBRE

Challenging how humans live - the rise of the Megacity

In 2040, cities will need to house and provide workspace for massive and rapidly increasing populations, but against a backdrop of diminishing space. The solution? The Megacity. The Megacity will be a fully integrated conglomeration where we will live, work and play – an almost living thing – and will need to be designed, developed and managed in a whole new way. This session will illuminate the road to the Megacity.

What will be the likely shape, size and location of the megacity in 2040? What will happen to the non megacities? How will the megacities, hives of people and activity, prepare for the less predictable but ever-increasing threats such as terrorism, fuel shortages and cyber crime?

What about the buildings? Greater building density will require buildings to be more efficient and self-sufficient. In this session we argue that the world is not prepared for the huge metabolism of a megacity, in terms of energy, infrastructure and connectivity demands, and the resulting waste. 

During the session we will explore and pose the questions:

•   How will humans move around megacities? 

•    How will humans communicate with each other when living in such close proximity?

•    How will we power the megacities and how will the power be shared and distributed? 

•     How will we deal with the increasing amounts of waste and meet the demands of the recent Climate Change Summit report?

The session will invite contributions from globally renowned experts on city infrastructure planning, power distribution, waste management and transport. 

Above all, how can we make our cities livable? The answers will determine the quality of life for our children and theirs for generations to come.

Moderator: James Max, BNP Paribas

Speakers:

Dr Savvas Verdis, Siemens and London School of Economics

Daniel Cook, RICS

The Pursuit of Workplace Happiness

Happiness is defined as a mental or emotional state of wellbeing defined by positive or pleasant emotions. But how often can we reflect after a day in the office and say that we experienced more positive than negative emotions? And why is it that we are so accepting of this and quietly return to the workplace every day without a complaint, yet we immediately complain if we stay in a hotel or visit a restaurant and have a bad experience? In this session, leading experts argue that employees of the future will demand evidence of how their happiness will be impacted or enhanced if working for an employer and give significant weighting to this before joining an organisation. Welcome to the war on talent part II.

For too long, employees have put happiness and potentially their health, to one side and ignored the fact that 5 days out of 7 they are experiencing negative emotions, which will no doubt have a long-term effect on mental and physical wellbeing. But to-date, employee happiness hasn’t been given as much weighting vs. other benefits such as pension or private health schemes by employers.

 In this session, leading experts argue that employees of the future will demand evidence of how their happiness will be impacted or enhanced if working for an employer, and consider this at the point of applying for a job and throughout employment with loyalty set to dissipate if needs aren’t met.

 CRE Executives already face the challenge of the war on talent, but is this war set to become more complex and volatile in the future? How can real estate realistically promote happiness and should the office look to emulate environments that are centred on the happiness of people such as spas, which somehow adopt and clients follow, the unwritten rule that individuals must shut off mentally from the outside world and relax as soon as they walk into the building?

Moderator: Adryan Bell, CBRE

Speakers:

Louise Chester, Mindfulness at Work

Dave Keeling, Laughology

Tomorrow's Workforce: Let's time travel to 2040

In the context of the " the Primacy of People in the Digital Age", how can we enable workforce transformation and meet the expectations of the workforce of the future? In this session we will explore the major changes organisations and employees will face in the future followed by Q&A with the audience. We will look at the trends and disruptors impacting the talents and workforce of the future, and the impact this will have on our industry and for HR:

• How can we reimagine the workforce of the future in the context of changing world towards 2040?
• How can CRE and HR work together to embrace the workforce of the future?
• What is the place and role of AI?

Providing insight and practical recommendations to guide you and our HR colleagues, we will demonstrate actionable strategies to meet the challenges of the workplace of the future:

• Getting ready to embrace change: decoding the workforce of the future, its behaviour, its expectations
• Responding with robust strategic directions: addressing key priorities and investing in talents
• Moving ahead of the game: sharing the 10 key steps to face the transformation of the workforce of the future in a CRE context

Speakers:

Marie Puybaraud, JLL

Sophie Hackford, WIRED

Innovations by Collaboration - the future of modern business

Where once secrecy, confidentiality and concealment were the key to ensuring you remained ahead of the competition, the key fundamental for success for
all businesses in the future will be collaboration. Co-working together with colleagues, partners and competitors will be the ‘norm’. Open protocols mean that Ford will work with GM; Google with NASA; Uber with AirBnB and maybe even CBRE with JLL!! This will be the ‘norm’ for your business if you want to stay ahead of the competition!

Behind the idea of collaborating to innovate is the rise of the virtual space and virtual working. Organisations are increasingly adopting virtual technologies
to support collaborative working and innovation, especially for multi-sited projects and outsourced operations. These technologies are also giving rise to new behaviours and user experiences, and are also transforming the workplace and office space we know today. This session will explore what the future collaborative workplace will look like and what it is that persuades professionals to enter independent co-working spaces, such as Spaces by Regus, and what makes it the ‘norm’ to collaborate in such places?

This session will also feature an insight into how collaboration is being enacted with our armed forces. We are being joined by Major General Nicholas Welch, assistant chief of the general staff. He will outline some of the challenges of a reducing resource within a global context where demands continue to increase and how the future will see increased collaboration between Governments and their armed forces.

The third element will invite contributions from Preetam Heeramun, who is currently studying for a PhD at Reading University, who will talk about use of virtual technologies in the workplace to support collaborative innovation. We will also hear from Uber, who regularly use Spaces by Regus and claim they regularly collaborate with other tenants whilst in the space and with interesting results. 

Moderator: Ben Munn, Regus

Speakers:

Chris Carter Keall, Oxford Properties

Major General Nick Welch, Assistant Chief of the General Staff

Preetam Singh Heeramun, University of Reading

Hacks, Attacks and Threats: How to stay safe online in the future

• Do you ever surf the internet and suddenly feel anxious that your next mouse click could leave you exposed and at the mercy of hackers?
• Do you ever stop to consider exactly how much data is held on you and by whom?
• What if your details or those of your business have already been used by hackers?

 Alarmingly, Islamic State is now seeking the ability to launch cyber attacks against the U.S. government and civilian targets in a potentially dangerous expansion of the terror group’s Internet campaign. Even more alarming is how all civilians, including you, could in the future be databased by terror groups and groups of individuals, by demographic, targeted online. Added to this is the fact that as technology develops, so does the risk to real estate, and CRE Executives need to quickly understand how buildings can support or expose organisations to cyber attacks.

This session will explore the current cyber-attack trends which have and will impact both your personal and business data and online activity. It will also debate whether organisations are dedicating enough time and attention to understand how to protect themselves, their businesses and their assets (buildings) from cyber attacks. 

Moderator: James Maddock, Cushman & Wakefield

Speakers:

Mark Camillo, AIG

Jamie Bartlett, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media,  a collaboration between Demos and the University of Sussex

Umair Ahmed Deloittes

Chris Lewis, Deloittes

Debate:

In 2040 this house believes that 75% of the global population will live in urban areas and only 40% of jobs will be performed by humans

Moderator: 

Sabine Kalyan, CBRE Global Investors

For the Motion:

Ezra Osborne- CBRE, Savvas Verdis - Siemens, Ben Munn - Regus

Against the Motion:

Rich Oliver - Derwent London, Marie Puybaraud- JLL, Daniel Cook - RICS