Speakers

Adryan Bell

Adryan is a Director with CBRE’s global workplace consulting team, specialising in workplace strategy and change. Adryan’s international consulting experience spans over 20 years and he has worked with numerous blue chip organisations in that time, as well as a spell as a Government adviser.  Most recently, Adryan has been working primarily in the Banking Sector.  Adryan is a regular conference speaker on workplace topics and has authored or co-authored a number of books, including the acclaimed government publications “Working without walls” and “Working beyond walls”. His latest solo publication is entitled “Re-imagining the office”. 

Jamie Bartlett

Jamie is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, which is a collaboration between Demos and the University of Sussex. The Centre combines automated data extraction and sentiment analysis with social science statistics, analysis and ethics, to produce insightful and robust policy research.

In 2014, Jamie published best selling book 'The Dark Net' with Random House about hidden internet subcultures. He writes a weekly column for the Telegraph on technology and is a frequent commentator in national and international media outlets. He is currently working on a second book called Radicals.

Louise Chester - Mindfulness 

Louise first started practicing Mindfulness in 1994 when she was a Director at UBS Ltd. She found it helped her have balance in her life, while sustaining a pressured career in investment analysis and fund management, ultimately as Head of Research and then Global Head of Telecoms and Media for Dresdner RCM. Louise left the City in 2001 to establish a consultancy practice offering financial and strategic advice to business leaders both in the workplace and at Witherdens Hall, her award-winning, holistic Retreat in Kent. In 2010, she founded Mindfulness at Work Ltd. with the express intention of enabling people to easily access highly-effective Mindfulness training, to enable them to create value and thrive not just in the workplace, but in all areas of their life. Mindfulness at Work are the UK’s leading trainers of corporate-based mindfulness – with clients ranging from EY to JP Morgan. They work closely on research with Cranfield School of Management and the Institute of Employment Studies, and introduced over 10,000 employees to mindfulness in the last year alone, winning a coveted award for their training in partnership with Ashurst LLP in the process. Louise is currently writing a book on the Mindful Organisation with Carolyn Taylor, culture change guru & CEO of global consultancy Walking the Talk.

Daniel Cook - RICS

Daniel leads strategy and foresight at RICS. As part of the RICS Futures programme he recently completed work on the latest report titled “Our changing world: let’s be ready” that looks at the major drivers and trends impacting the skills the profession will need for the future. This work has lead to a greater focus on a number of topics including  PropTech and Data  as well as the future of infrastructure delivery by RICS.   

 Dan first joined RICS in 2008 working in a number of corporate affairs and policy roles at RICS.Prior to moving to the UK, Daniel worked for 10 years for the NSW Government in a range of policy and political advisory roles. He served as an elected Councillor in Gosford City(1999-2004) and served a term as the National President of Australian Young Labor. He studied Science (Geology Major) at the University of New South Wales and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (MCIPR)

 https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-cook/17/a8b/891

Mark Camillo - AIG

Mark Camillo is Head of Professional Indemnity & Cyber, EMEA and is responsible for the PI, A&E, and CyberEdge® suite of end-to-end risk management solutions at AIG. Prior to this role, Mark led the cyber team for the Americas including oversight of the Personal Identity Coverage (PIC) and Payment Fraud Products. Mark joined AIG in 2001 and has held positions of increasing management responsibility in various parts of the organization including eBusiness Risk Solutions, Affinity Group, Accident & Health, Professional Liability, and the Fidelity team. Prior to AIG, Mark worked in sales, marketing, and product development for Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and SITEL Corporation. Mark has a Masters of Business Administration from SUNY Buffalo and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wyoming.

Chris Carter Keall - Head of Asset Management, Oxford Properties

Sophie Hackford, Wired

Sophie taps into WIRED's collective brain to translate the complexities and opportunities of the future for corporate leaders across every industry. She runs WIRED Consulting, bringing senior executives together with the innovators who use technology to build the companies of tomorrow. Sophie has curated WIRED conferences including WIRED Retail and WIRED Money

Sophie has recently returned from working in Silicon Valley at Singularity University, a group of futurists on the NASA campus evaluating the impacts of robotics, artificial intelligence, supercomputing, genetic sequencing and other accelerating technologies on business and society.

Before California, Sophie helped to transform an interdisciplinary research department, the Oxford Martin School, at Oxford University into a thriving academic community of experts from pandemics to food insecurity to systemic risk.

Preetam Singh Heeramun

I started my career as a graduate with the Japanese multinational NEC Technologies UK at their European Mobile Phone Research & Development centre in Reading to launch the first 3G mobile phone in the UK. I then joined an SME called cereno, between 2009-2015, to lead the R&D of their flagship virtual collaborative workplace solution nuVa and take it to market. My passion for innovation and collaboration led me to take on a role recently at National Grid as an Innovation Specialist. I am part of a team which performs a central role in the future of the Electricity System Operations, involved in identifying those technologies that are likely to have a material impact on the business, whether they create new opportunities or are game changers for existing activities.

 In 2013 after being awarded a regional bursary, I started a part-time PhD at the University of Reading (within the School of Construction Management and Engineering) to explore the strategic management of virtual collaboration technologies and collaborative spaces for teams running complex projects and how these will influence the future workplace and work practices. My research is exploring physical and virtual spaces in which people and technology come together to get things done and how the organisational culture, design of the spaces and project and team dynamics influence how such spaces are used with an aim to develop a framework to help manage their design and lifecycle.

Guy Holden, CBRE

President, Enterprise Accounts, GWS EMEA, CBRE

Guy Holden is a senior executive and business leader with a professional and general management career spanning 30 years in the global real estate and support services industries.

Guy currently leads the enterprise client business at CBRE, Global Workplace Solutions EMEA, and helped direct the recent acquisition of Johnson Controls’ occupier services business. Prior to this Guy had numerous senior leadership roles with Johnson Controls, including leading the

FM business globally across 90 countries.

Sophie Hutt, Unilever

Sophie Is a Senior Finance and Operations Manager at Unilever. Sophie has over 10 years’ experience in advising blue-chip organisations on Real Estate Finance and Accounting issues. Sophie has previously held positions at Cushman and Wakefield and Ernst and Young, specifically focussed on delivering performance improvement and consulting support within the areas of Real Estate, Finance and Retail/FMCG industries.

Sophie has her CFA (I&II) and is currently studying towards her MBA at London Business School.  

In her spare time, Sophie supports and advises a number of charitable organisations focussed on the fashion and retail industry as well as the promotion of women in the workplace. 

Sabina Kalyan, CBRE Global Investors

Based in London, Sabina is responsible for developing CBRE Global Investors’ house views on the outlook for the global economy and financial markets, and analysing their impact on real estate markets. She is also the head of the eleven-strong European research team which provides strategic and asset level research support to our direct and indirect investment teams.

Sabina is a member of the Clarion Global Investment Policy Committee, the European Management Board and the European Investment Committee.

Sabina joined the industry in 2001and started working for CBRE Global Investors in 2008 from IPD where she was Chief Economist. Prior to this she worked for Capital Economics, where she developed their UK residential and commercial property market analysis and forecasting service.

Sabina studied economics at Lincoln College, Oxford University and is a member of the Society of Business Economists, the Society of Property Researchers and the Investment Property Forum.  She is an External Examiner at the University of Reading for the Real Estate Investment Finance programme and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Dave Keeling - Laughology

Dave Keeling is an outstanding trainer, facilitator and presenter. He works as a key member of the expert Laughology team in the areas of business and education and in the wider community. Having trained as a professional actor at The London Academy of Music And Dramatic Art Dave has worked extensively in theatre and television. His credits include ‘Blood Brothers’ in the West End and ‘EastEnders’ for T.V.
Dave’s client list includes Sotheby’s, Liverpool Victoria, BP, Regus, Hewlett Packard, BT, British Aerospace, The Inner temple and the Metropolitan Police. He specialises in helping organisations improve and manage change, teamwork, communication, creativity and well-being.
Dave is a much sought after speaker and learning consultant. Delivering outstanding training on topics such as: thinking skills; happiness in organisations; presentation skills, motivation techniques; confidence; risk taking; the brain and much more. He is the author of ‘Rocket up your class’, and ‘The Book of Invisible Teaching’.
He also regularly performs stand-up and has gigged up and down the country enjoying salty snacks, fizzy pop and a cuddle with anyone who cares to turn up. He has a great understanding for emotional intelligence and behavioural science, with a background in understanding what motivates adults and children he is the ideal Laughology facilitator.
Dave is 6 foot two, eyes of blue and a little bit ginger and believes that within that description lies a little bit of something for everyone.  Click here to visit the Laughology website.

James Max - BNP Paribas

James Max is an Executive Director and on the UK Board of BNP Paribas Real Estate. He heads up the Valuation, Corporate Real Estate and Professional Services side of the business, having joined the firm in January 2014. In additions, he advises Stanhope PLC and is a Council Member and Trustee of the Hall of Arts and Sciences, better known as the Royal Albert Hall. A qualified surveyor, James was an international investment director at DTZ before joining Morgan Stanley’s real estate Investment Banking Division and subsequently a Principal and head of UK Activities for Doughty Hanson & Co’s Real Estate Fund I. James is an accomplished broadcaster and currently presents a weekly show on BBC Radio London, previously having presented Weekend Breakfast on LBC. He regularly reviews the newspapers on Sky News, is often a guest on Jeremy Vine’s programme on BBC Radio 2 and presented an investigative “Dispatches” for Channel 4 on the banking crisis. James writes and presents Estates Gazette’s monthly podcast “Real Talk” interviewing leading players from the real estate market. 

Rich Oliver, Derwent London

Rich is an Asset Manager at Derwent London PLC, the largest London focused REIT with 5.8m sq ft of London offices at the value of £4.6 billion (June 2015). Rich is responsible for the asset management of over 1.5m sq ft of 'Tech Belt' properties which includes iconic buildings such as Tea Building, 1 Oliver's Yard and the recently acquired 20 Farringdon Road.

Prior to working at Derwent Rich graduated from Reading University with a degree in Real Estate and spent 3 years at Knight Frank, ultimately specialising in Central London Valuations. 

Ezra Osborne - CBRE

Ezra Osborne is an young driven individual striving for a long term Career in Real Estate. Currently employed by CBRE and has a passion to contribute to the future of Real Estate. Ezra intends to share his insightful perspective of today’s ‘working world’ from the next generations’ point of view.

Michelle Pattison - CBRE

Senior Director, Occupier Consulting, GWS, CBRE

Michelle, a Senior Director in CBRE’s Occupier Consulting team, and is an experienced global Workplace and Projects lead with focus on organisation transformation and change. She has worked at Unilever, one of the largest consumer product corporates, for 16 years during which time she led Unilever’s global Agile Working programme and delivered RE projects, co-ordinating across HR, IT and Real Estate to deliver an industry-known initiative that is fully embedded and enabling key business drivers. At CBRE, Michelle advises Corporate Occupiers on their how to make their Real Estate portfolio and workplace environment more effective in delivering business value and efficiency. 

Dr Marie Puybaraud - JLL

Dr. Marie Puybaraud is one of the most recognized world Thought Leader on Workplace Innovation, with a significant track record of research on CRE/FM and Workplace industry futures, workplace strategies, technologies, generational issues at work and with publications in leading international press like the Journal of CRE, The Economist, NewStateman, The FT, Le Monde, Le Figaro, BBC News on line, Daily Telegraph, Il Sore 24, Handesblatt, in the G8 Summit Report and presentations and keynote speeches at all major global symposium and consortium on CRE, FM and Workplace (McKinsey, Milan Furniture Fair, SIOP Conference, WorkTech, CoreNet, Workplace Trends, IFMA...).

 Marie holds the post of Global Head of Corporate Research at JLL and is responsible for driving the thought leadership agenda in line with JLL CS2020 strategy, working closely with the research teams to deliver best-in-class research to clients around the world. She is an expert in the field of Workplace Innovation, Futures and Trends. She is a member of CoreNet Global and the CoreNet Core Club, IFMA, Strathmore Who is Who, The Continental Broadcast Network and STARS.

https://fr.linkedin.com/in/mariepuybaraud

Ben Munn - Regus

Ben is Managing Director of Corporate Services at Regus PLC, the world’s largest provider of flexible office space. Ben has over 15 years’ experience advising blue-chip businesses on how they can adapt and manage their global workplace resources to meet the digital age.   He now runs a global team advising Regus’ national and multinational enterprise customers on how best to utilise the company’s products and services to become more mobile, flexible and effective in how and where they work.

 Ben has wide-ranging experience in strategic occupancy issues, advising companies on property requirements, workplace strategy and change management. He joined Regus in September 2013 from CBRE where he was Joint Head of Global Workplace Strategy from 2008.

 Ben started his early career at Gensler, after graduating in English Literature from University College London.

 Regus is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspaces and currently operates in 2.600  locations across 106 countries, with more than one new centre opening every day.

Dr Savvas Verdis, Siemens and London School of Economics

Dr Savvas Verdis is an infrastructure economist at Siemens and an LSE Cities senior research fellow at the London School of Economics. He leads Siemens’ work on the economic and environmental benefits of infrastructure solutions having led studies in cities such as Vienna, Munich, Copenhagen and Helsinki. At LSE Cities, he heads the centre’s Executive Education programmes, which include tailored in-house courses for private and public organizations, week-long programmes for senior and mid-career professionals and an Executive Masters in Cities. He previously worked in the advisory service of LSE Cities and led the research of the ninth Urban Age conference in Rio de Janeiro. He has consulted numerous city and national governments on their urban infrastructure strategies in countries such as Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. He has taught on the LSE Cities Programme since 2001 and co-convenes a course on urban project evaluation with Philipp Rode. From 2009 to 2012, he was founder and CEO of Rankdesk having developed an algorithm to rate the investment and design quality of residential properties in London. He received his PhD from Cambridge University in 2007.