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