Bringing together senior leaders across workplace strategy, digital workplace, property, workplace technology and workplace experience to explore how organisations are reshaping the future of work and place.
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Delegates
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Speakers
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Sessions
Shaping the Future of Work, Place & Experience
The workplace is being redefined by shifting employee expectations, evolving hybrid work models and rapid advances in digital technology. Organisations are moving beyond simply managing office space to creating workplaces that strengthen culture, enhance productivity and deliver measurable business value. Success now depends on aligning people, place and technology to build environments that are adaptable, connected and fit for the future.
Stream A: Digital Workplace explores how technology is transforming the employee experience and the way workplaces are managed. Sessions examine the role of AI in workplace operations, the use of occupancy and workplace data to inform smarter decision-making, and how intelligent workplace technologies can enhance collaboration, flexibility and productivity. Attendees will also explore strategies for creating more sustainable, connected and digitally enabled workplaces that support evolving ways of working.
Stream B: Workplace Strategy focuses on the strategic decisions shaping the future of physical workplaces. Discussions will cover right-sizing office portfolios for hybrid work, designing spaces that strengthen culture and employee engagement, balancing cost efficiency with changing workforce expectations, and repositioning the workplace as a driver of organisational performance. Through practical case studies and real-world transformation journeys, attendees will gain insights into creating workplaces that deliver lasting value for both people and business.
Together, these discussions demonstrate how leading organisations are reimagining the workplace by combining innovative technology, thoughtful workplace strategy and human-centred design to create environments that are more resilient, engaging and aligned with long-term business objectives.
Meet our Speakers
One of the world’s leading voices on the future of technology & the built environment
Senior Workplace Leader, APAC
Head of People & Culture
Head of Office Experience - APAC
Head of Workplace Experience - Sydney & Singapore
Director, Technology
Head Workplace Experience & Services
GM, Technology Engineering
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8:30 am
Registration & Refreshments
9:00 am
Opening Remarks
Katherine Divett
CEO
Puzzle Partners
9:10 am
Bring Your Biggest Workplace Challenge to the Table and Collaborate with Peers to Explore Practical Solutions
9:40 am
The Future of the Workplace: Designing for Connection, Collaboration and Belonging
Optimising space utilisation to create hybrid and inperson environments that foster collaboration in the new era of work
Integrating technology to enhance productivity, enable seamless collaboration, and support evolving hybrid ways of working
Reflecting the needs of multi-generational workforces and evolving working habits in workplace design
Alana Hannaford
Head of PDS Advisory (AU&NZ)
JLL
Jo-Ann Duff
Head of Office Experience
Optiver
Rabinder Singh
Head of Workplace Experience - Asia Pacfic
Mastercard
Andrew Fitzgerald
IT Digital Innovation Leader
Nestle
Jordan Catling
Director, Technology
University of Sydney
10:20 am
Meet The Thought Leaders Shaping The Future Of Workplace Experience
Hear Jeremy Glass, Managing Director in conversation with Rebecca Moulynox from Great Place to Work, discuss how organisations are creating impact by embedding workplace experience.
Rebecca will share global data-backed insights into how high-performing organisations are strengthening productivity and organisational performance. Jeremy will share his first-hand practical lessons on how reducing workplace friction can strengthen culture and engagement.
Jeremy Glass
Managing Director
Workplace Hospitality
Rebecca Moulynox
General Manager
Great Place To Work
10:40 am
Morning Tea & Networking
11:10 am
Designing The Modern Office Of 2050: In your tables, create your organisation’s ideal tech-enabled and fit-for-purpose workplace
11:40 am
How Social, Cultural & Technological Shifts are Redefining Work & Workspaces
Translating global workplace trends into better experiences for people
Exploring the role of AI in workplace transformation
The role of workplaces in accelerating progress and driving strategic outcomes
Addressing the place of sustainability and corporate responsibility in workplace strategy
Deborah Sweetman
Head Workplace Experience & Services
Zurich
Paul Rushton
Regional Head of Real Estate & Workplace Services (REWS) - APAC
WPP
Peter Tylor
Senior Manager Workplace Technology
ASX
Sara Pantry
Senior Workplace Leader, APAC
LinkedIn
12:20 pm
The Workplace Has A Nervous System
What if we designed for the feedback loop?
We don’t just experience the places we work; they influence us, and we influence them in return. Yet no two people experience a space in quite the same way. As technology reshapes work, how can design make room for human difference, meaningful choice and connection?
Jess Adkins
Brand Experience Design Lead, EMEA
M Moser Associates
12:40 pm
Lunch & Networking
Stream 1: Digital Workplace
1:20 pm
Digital Workplace
Flexible workspaces: creating hybrid spaces to unlock value
Navigating the evolving role of AI in workplace management Measuring occupancy and usage data to shape smarter workplace strategy
Designing workplaces that support hybrid work policies and maximise the value of office time
Exploring sustainability strategies for greener and more resilient workplaces
2:10 pm
Orchestrating AI Agents for the Future of Work
Andy McCarthy
GM, Technology Engineering
NRMA
Elena Sergis
Digital Workplace Manager
NRMA
2:40 pm
The AI-Enabled Workplace: What’s Real, What’s Next, What Matters
Stream 2: Workplace Strategy
1:20 pm
Workplace Strategy
Right-sizing the workplace: aligning office footprint with hybrid work patterns and demand
Designing workplaces people want to come into: enhancing experience, culture and connection
Reimagining the role of the office: shifting from space provision to strategic workplace value
Creating flexible and future-ready workplaces: balancing cost efficiency with employee needs
2:10 pm
One Size Fits Noone: How Different Workforces Shape Different Workplace Environments
Translating workforce demographics, culture and expectations into workplace design
Understanding how two contrasting organisations created workplaces that support their own people, purpose & ways of working
Anika Meza
Head of People & Culture
White Fox Boutique
2:40 pm
From Footprint to Impact: Rethinking the Value of Space
3:00 pm
Afternoon Tea & Networking
3:30 pm
The Senseable Workspace: Programming the Intersection of Space, Tech & Human Potential
What happens when physical space learns to respond to the humans within it? In this forward-looking presentation, MIT Senseable City Lab Director Carlo Ratti redefines the future of work by exploring the fusion of architecture, advanced digital technology and human behavior.
Carlo Ratti
One of the world’s leading voices on the future of technology & the built environment
MIT
