Workspace Design Talks
The Workspace Design Talks brings the commercial interior design industry’s most inspiring and creative leaders to explore the latest trends and insights in workplace design, strategy and culture.
Leading figures at companies such as BDG architecture + design, Sheppard Robson, Foster + Partners, Gensler, Turner & Townsend, CBRE, Landsec, BBC, Perkins&Will, tp bennett, Oktra, Fletcher Priest, Arcadis and many more speak at the Workspace Design Talks.
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2024 Design Talks Agenda
27 February
The great workplace trilemma of culture, space and opportunity: can we have it all?
28 February
2024 Speakers
Alan Bainbridge FRICS,
Director of BBC Workplace
Helen Berresford,
Head of ID: SR, Sheppard Robson
Sally Marshall,
Director, Turner & Townsend
Jason Bruges,
Director, Jason Bruges Studio
Tim Allen,
Managing Director of Workplace, Aberley
Oliver Hall,
PARTNER – Architect and Head of Sustainability, Make Architects
Chair – BCO NextGen Committee
Naomi Sakamoto,
Principal, Gensler
Matt Jackson,
CEO, BDG architecture + design
Sarah Bolas,
Director, HCG
Paula Rowntree,
Head of Workplace Design, Lloyds Banking Group
Bernie Mitchell,
Co-Founder, the London Coworking Assembly
Kursty Groves,
Workplace Strategist and Founder, Shape
Dominic Dugan,
Creative Director, Oktra
Kristina Allison,
BA (Hons) MA CEng MSLL MCIBSE, Senior Lighting Designer – AtkinsRealis UK (Lighting)
Ruth Kelly Waskett,
PhD CEng MCIBSE FSLL, Project Director (Lighting), Hoare Lea LLP
Dr Vanessa Champion,
Editor and Founder of Journal of Biophilic Design
Neil Usher,
VP Places, Sage
Nicol Lee,
Design Director, Area
Laurie Goodman,
Strategy Director, IA Interior Architects
Toni Riddiford BSc MArch PGCert ARB,
Associate Director Architect, Head of Office & Workplace Sector, Stride Treglown
Darren Graver,
Head of Workplace Experience, Trainline
Dan Lister,
UK Lighting Practice Leader, Arup & President-Elect Society of Light and Lighting
Paul Nulty,
BA Hons, IALD, MSLL, LIF , Founder, Nulty
Nicola Gillen,
Head of Total Workplace EMEA, Cushman & Wakefield
Grant Kanik,
Partner, Foster + Partners
Guzmán de Yarza Blache,
Global Head of Workplace Strategy Consulting, JLL
Melanie Martin,
Associate Director, Orms Designers & Architects Ltd
Marco Gastoldi,
Associate Interior Designer, Gensler
Olivia Saxen,
Workplace Design Manager Lead, MYO, Landsec
Yasmin Al Ani Spence,
Director, WilkinsonEyre
Ashton Holmes,
Senior Project Designer, Peldon Rose
Alys Bryan,
Managing Editor, Design Insider
Bex Moorhouse,
Founder, Invigorate Spaces
Stuart Templeton,
Associate Partner, Fletcher Priest Architects
Sarah-Jane Osborne,
Head of Workplace UK & Europe, Principal, Avison Young
Emma Green,
Director, tp bennett
Linzi Cassels,
Principal Design Director, Perkins&Will
James Saunders,
Global Projects Director, Arcadis
Ewan Jones,
Partner, Grimshaw
Helen Parton,
Workplace Design Journalist
Chloe Nicholls,
Associate Interior Designer, AtkinsRéalis
Simon Fisher,
Founder & Director of F Mark, Founding Partner of The Regen Initiative
Matt Waring,
Editor, arc magazine
Sinead Fahey,
Architect, Jestico + Whiles
Lewis Harman,
Director, Hunters
Sherif Eltarabishy,
Associate Partner, Foster + Partners
Georgina Fraser,
Head of Human Capital Consulting, CBRE UK Consulting
Allison English,
Deputy CEO, Leesman
Jennifer Bryan,
Founder, ABChange Consultancy
Catherine van der Heide,
Principal, Hassell
Mary-Louise Gray,
Workplace, Real Estate and Facilities – WREF VP, Head of COE, GSK
Hazel Luff,
Part I Architectural Assistant at tp bennett
Fiona Anderson,
Workplace Director, Aberley
Chandkiran Nath,
Senior Consultant, AECOM
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