OUR 2021 AGENDA
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24th February
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24th February
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25th February
Track 1 -
25th February
Track 2
8.00am – 9.00am
Yoga in The Workplace
Enjoy this yoga class with several breathing exercises & postures you can practice from anywhere. This will help to activate your inner energy, improve the detox process in your body & brain, alleviate stress, and boost productivity levels.

Satkara Yoga
Sponsored by

9.00am – 10.00am
The Office Turned on its Head
Panel Discussion
Learn all about how the evolution of ‘work from anywhere’ and ‘working from home’ has transformed our workplaces, with explanations, real-world examples, and quick-fire questions to keep leading panellist on their toes.


The Instant Group

Technologywithin

Office Space In Town

Co-Space

Newcastle University
Sponsored by

10.00am – 11.00am
Setting-Up Camp in the Future Workplace
In Conversation: Orangebox’s Mark Partridge & Nathan Hurley
2020 saw the launch of Campers&Dens, a new architectural pod platform that aims to redefine how we design and use our office environments. In this conversation Nathan and Mark will discuss the research, design process and ideology behind a creative and innovative platform such as Campers&Dens.

Orangebox

Orangebox
11.00am – 12.00pm
Wellbeing: Happy Hormones, What Are They, What Do They Do, and What Can We Do to Boost Them?
Questae Collective
Sophie and John will explore the magical quartet of Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins – what they are, what they do, why they matter and how we can give them a good old boost and get them flowing naturally. This will be aligned with some tips and considerations to think about whilst working remotely to help maintain mental resilience.

Questae Collective

Questae Collective
Sponsored by

12.00pm – 1.00pm
The Reset. Looking forwards to a positive world of design
Connection – BIID Accredited
Working in collaboration with Scarlett Opus, we have created a seminar that explores the influences of design in workspaces, from colours & materials to technology & environment. Covering three key macro trends our seminar considers the influences within these trends and how we they can be interpreted into workspace design & furniture application.

Scarlet Opus

BIID
Accredited
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Live Room: Design Insights – Tomorrow’s Workspace Chaired by Luke Palmer.
Live Room
Chaired by Luke Palmer, Principal Designer Orangebox, debating the new parameters of ‘science’ V’s ‘the guidelines’ and how a does a responsible manufacturer respond to the rapidly changing workspace.

Orangebox

BDG architecture + design

Turner & Townsend

GoSpace AI

Perkins&Will
2.00pm – 3.00pm
Material trends: Natural Refuge to 70s Revival
Johnson Tiles’ design team, Melanie Holland & Amy Pears are teaming up with Material Lab’s studio manager Taran Kaur, to share key tile, colour and textures trends in this inspirational talk.
Handpicking key themes from the latest issue of Tile Trace, Johnson Tiles’ bi-annual trends guide, and sharing insights from the latest products on display at Material Lab, the trio will explore how the impact of the past
12-months is being reflected in emerging trends.
Johnson Tiles is the UK’s only large-scale designer, manufacturer & importer of ceramic and porcelain tiles and Material Lab is the tile expert’s design resource studio and materials library for architects and designers in central London.

Johnson Tiles

Johnson Tiles

Material Lab
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Designing for Happiness
This session will explore the various ways in which the built environment can affect how we feel – and how we as designers can create happier spaces that improve people’s moods and encourage mindful living..

Ekkist Advisory
Sponsored by

4.00pm – 5.00pm
The New Inclusivity: Neurodiversity, Social Equity and Workplace Inclusion
Not only is designing to be inclusive the right thing to do, but there is also a compelling business case for it as well. Investigate the various aspects of neurodiversity and explore how to create spaces that are more physically and culturally inclusive for people with a wide spectrum of neurological conditions to allow them to thrive.

HOK
Sponsored by

5.00pm – 6.00pm
Live Room: What did 2020 teach us about the role of technology in commercial interiors?
During lockdown we were all forced to embrace technology to stay in touch with customers, colleague’s, family & friends. What have we learnt from this process and what will we continue to embrace when we return to “spaces”? How will the buildings & interiors need to adapt to accommodate it? Join our professional panel and use the chat facility to present questions and be part of the conversation.

Basha-Franklin

Eve Waldron Design

Mace

Cordless Consultants

Spacelab

Configura

TwistedPair
Sponsored by

8.00am – 9.00am
Acoustics? PET? A Happiness Cocktail for Humans and Nature
Impact Acoustics
In this session we will discuss how sustainable acoustic solutions can have a real impact on people, suffering from noise – and our planet, dealing with single-use plastics. We will unravel the myths around PET and their recycling and upcycling characteristics.

Impact Acoustic AG
9.00am – 10.00am
An Introduction to Tiling Patterns: Ideas and Inspiration for Using Them in Your Designs
RIBA Certified CPD
This RIBA Certified CPD introduces tiling patterns through the world of tessellations, looking at symmetry, repeat patterns and a handful of mathematical terms and rules. We explore tessellations in the world around us and look at tiling patterns in contemporary interiors – providing participants with ideas and inspiration for creating their own patterns.

Parkside Architectural Tiles

RIBA Certified
10.00am – 11.00am
The Charity for People in the Interiors Sector.
A Q&A with Sue Dean, Welfare Officer, about the role of The Furniture Makers’ Company as the charity for the furnishing sector. Find out more about Personal Support Grants for those affected by Covid-19 as well as our ongoing welfare for those in need.

The Furniture Makers’ Company
11.00am – 12.00pm
The Changing Face of Office Furniture Logistics & Home Delivery
Chaucer Logistics, the world largest dedicated Furniture Logistics provider discuss the changing face of office furniture logistics and explore the considerations when offering home delivery.

Chaucer Logistics
12.00pm – 1.00pm
Net Zero Clue? Why Carbon is a Big Deal for Interiors and How to Start Your Net Zero Journey
In this session, industry sustainability expert and environmental activist, Georgia Elliott-Smith shows you how to become a force for good, protect profit and become genuinely excited and knowledgeable about greening your business.

Element 4 Group
Sponsored by

2.00pm – 3.00pm
The experience of sensorized furniture:
GAIA by ACTIU
GAIA is an IoT platform that allows the sensorization of workspaces, to obtain data about how we use them as well as the environmental conditions. GAIA enables creating high-performance smart workspaces capable of maintaining a constant balance between people, the physical environment and environmental conditions.

Actiu

Actiu
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Ergonomics in the workplace – Introducing the Next Generation Monitor Arm
Andrew Wills, Designer, explains his passion for designing products for people and how his collaboration with CMD has led to the development of a revolutionary new monitor arm. Miro is a game changing product – its vertical synchronised movement is completely unique and brings significant ergonomic benefit. Hear how Andrew achieved perfect screen balance and vertical movement in the development of Miro and how this will change the way that users will integrate with technology in the workplace.

CMD Ltd
4.00pm – 5.00pm
Healthcare Insider: Designing for Sensory & Cognitive Decline
The built environment plays a huge role in how we feel in a space, how it affects our physical and mental health and wellbeing. As we age, our senses decline, and some people will develop dementia. This webinar will look at how interior design can support people living with sensory and cognitive decline and why this approach should not just be used in care homes and retirement living environments.

HomeSmiths
Sponsored by


8.00am – 9.00am
Yoga in The Workplace
Enjoy this yoga class with several breathing exercises & postures you can practice from anywhere. This will help to activate your inner energy, improve the detox process in your body & brain, alleviate stress, and boost productivity levels.

Satkara Yoga
9.00am – 10.00am
Spacelab - Adaptive Reuse: The Evolution of the Workplace
The experience of mass working from home over the past 12 months has challenged us all to rethink our ways of working, and our places of work. Business owners and landlords have a huge opportunity to evolve their spaces into more exciting, flexible – and relevant – places, where people really want to be. Rosie Haslem and Kara Carter will discuss their research into the topic, and how they have adapted their workplace into a buzzing, multifunctional community hub that will continue to evolve over time.

Spacelab

Sponsored by

10.00am – 11.00am
Setting-Up Camp in the Future Workplace
In Conversation: Orangebox’s Mark Partridge & Nathan Hurley
2020 saw the launch of Campers&Dens, a new architectural pod platform that aims to redefine how we design and use our office environments. In this conversation Nathan and Mark will discuss the research, design process and ideology behind a creative and innovative platform such as Campers&Dens.

Orangebox

Orangebox
11.00am – 12.00pm
The Psychology of the Post Covid Workplace.
From the end of the first lockdown, Chartered Psychologist Dr. Craig Knight has been analysing levels of wellbeing, engagement, and performance among those working from home. Synthesizing his findings with 17 years of scientific workplace research, Craig shares results on what people need when operating down the line, how organisations can best support their workers and what lessons we can learn when reconstructing the post-pandemic workplace. Dr Knight will explain the psychology behind the research as well as how to spot and avoid the pointless data that is flooding the marketplace right now. By the end of his talk, you will have in your hands the key business levers that affect the most crucial organizational variables. Above all you will have insight into what makes staff happy and how they perform at their best..

Identity Realization
Sponsored by

12.00pm – 1.00pm
Camira - A Guide to Specifying Contract Fabrics
RIBA Certified CPD
This educational tool will help you to understand the basics behind selecting fit-for-purpose fabrics, covering everything from composition and flammability to acoustics and cleaning.

Camira Fabrics

Camira Fabrics

Camira Fabrics

RIBA Certified
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Live Room: Putting People First: The Evolving Challenges
Are you overwhelmed by the new considerations to best accommodate people in our professional spaces? Where exactly should we start on our journey to create inclusive and diverse spaces that allow everyone to thrive? Join our expert panel as they discuss the evolving challenges of putting people first. Use the chat facility to ask questions and be part of the conversation.

Resilient Spaces

Hart Miller Design & MARK Product

The Modern Ergonomist

Ekkist Advisory

Questae Collective

HomeSmiths
Sponsored by

2.00pm – 3.00pm
Veldhoen - What Do We Even Need a Physical Office for Anymore?
We know that our environment can influence and shape us, but we haven’t been in our physical offices for nearly 12 months. In this time, we have all evolved our behaviours, but as we consider our return to the office, can we harness these individual learnings to adapt our physical offices in a way that meets the needs of our future selves? Jon and Jamesina tell us their views on how our relationship with the office has changed because of the pandemic. What are the important lessons we need to take with us when we finally return? Whose responsibility is it to make sure that we continue to flourish in our way of working and what does taking responsibility look like?

Veldhoen + Company

Veldhoen + Company
Sponsored by

3.00pm-4.00pm
Build the Future into your Designs - Today
How can we create a truly agile re-configurable work, hospitality or educational space, that supports the mobile technology and applications that we all need, to stay productive in the digital world? Patrick Tarbit, Sales & Marketing Director at OE Electrics will discuss exactly that, and some critical technology evolutions that can help designers fully realise the agile, flexible, multi-use workspaces that our clients are demanding. Design for the future, and for a sustainable future.

OE Electrics
4.00pm – 5.00pm
Cordless: Smart Technology: Your Journey to Smart Buildings
In the wake of Covid, organisations have woken up to the fact that our buildings need to be responsive, adaptable, and ready for anything. In this session, Cordless shares some advice on building ‘enablement’ through smart technology and how you can think Smart when designing for a new or refurbished building.

Cordless Consultants
Sponsored by

5.00pm – 6.00pm
Live Room: WOD - Design Heads Meet
A discussion about how we must rethink the workplace as a hub for experience, or more: an entire ecosystem of vision-defining experiences that work in tandem to support and recruit top talent and uplift any company’s mission.

WOD and K2 Space

Area

MF Design Studio

Boss Design

Align
Sponsored by

6.00pm – 6.30pm
Live: The Little Gin Company – Virtual Gin Tasting
Being social is a key part of events in our industry, and to ensure you do not miss out, use discount code: VIEVENT10 to buy yourself a Gin Tasting experience & tune in to hear from The Little Gin Company for this fun virtual gin tasting. Non-alcoholic versions available too.

The Little Gin Company
Sponsored by

6.30pm – 8.00pm
Closing Party

8.00am – 9.00am
BACHMANN - Hybrid Working, Next Level Collaboration, New Role, New Tools for the Office
As businesses are forced into finding new ways to work more remotely and flexible the need for new solutions and practices have never been more in demand as they are now. If what we are experiencing now is here to stay with home working, video conferences and less personal interaction then we need to look at new ways to bring people back together in what could be a very different looking workplace.

BACHMANN Group

BACHMANN Group

BACHMANN Group
9.00am – 10.00am
Why Diversity Matters?
Panel Discussion
New research by McKinsey & Company makes it increasingly clear that companies with more diverse workforces perform better financially. Join this panel discussion, where Toby Mildon, Bernice Feller-Thijm, Nana Saeed Marfo, and Lara Manqui will discuss the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Moderated by Vivian Acquah.

JustB

Mildon

Viva La Vive

Flourish Empowerment

British Film Institute (BFI)
Sponsored by

10.00am – 11.00am
NatureConnect by Signify - Lighting inspired by nature to improve wellbeing
In this session we explain how light affects our health and wellbeing. The Visual, Biological and Emotional aspects of light will be discussed. NatureConnect is the new innovation from Signify based on biophilic design principles that brings the benefits of daylight indoors. We address the health and wellbeing of the users of the workplace.

NatureConnect by Signify

NatureConnect by Signify
11.00am – 12.00pm
Chaucer Logistics - Navigating International Logistics & Brexit
Chaucer Logistics, the world largest dedicated Furniture Logistics provider discuss their involvement in planning for BREXIT and how they have overcome the delays and issues suffered by many others.

Chaucer Logistics
12.00pm – 1.00pm
Connection - The Experiential Workplace
We review through the powers of virtual reality how the future of the workplace will be more human-centric than ever with spaces that create a sense of ‘home’ and community, but also new spaces dedicated to focused individual work.

Connection
2.00pm – 3.00pm
Ergonomics in the Workplace – Introducing the Next Generation Monitor Arm
Andrew Wills, Designer, explains his passion for designing products for people and how his collaboration with CMD has led to the development of a revolutionary new monitor arm. Miro is a game changing product – its vertical synchronised movement is completely unique and brings significant ergonomic benefit. Hear how Andrew achieved perfect screen balance and vertical movement in the development of Miro and how this will change the way that users will integrate with technology in the workplace.

CMD Ltd
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Configura - Design Spaces Effortlessly with our Intuitive CET Software
In this session our speakers Hanna Fägersjö and Chief Evangelist, Co-Founder and former CEO of 20 years, Johan Lyreborn, will introduce you to Configura and provide insight into our space planning software CET Commercial Interiors. We hope you will join us to learn about the power of CET and how this software can help your team design with ease and efficiency while making a positive environmental impact.

Configura
4.00pm – 5.00pm
Material trends: Natural Refuge to 70s Revival
Johnson Tiles’ design team, Melanie Holland & Amy Pears are teaming up with Material Lab’s studio manager Taran Kaur, to share key tile, colour and textures trends in this inspirational talk. Handpicking key themes from the latest issue of Tile Trace, Johnson Tiles’ bi-annual trends guide, and sharing insights from the latest products on display at Material Lab, the trio will explore how the impact of the past 12-months is being reflected in emerging trends. Johnson Tiles is the UK’s only large-scale designer, manufacturer & importer of ceramic and porcelain tiles and Material Lab is the tile expert’s design resource studio and materials library for architects and designers in central London.

Johnson Tiles

Johnson Tiles

Material Lab