Workplace Strategy Summit starts this morning with stellar line up of speakers and topics

BBC Workplace StrategyThe world’s foremost workplace conference kicks off this morning and Insight will be there to cover all of it. . Speakers include Franklin Becker, Frank Duffy, Alexi Marmot, Wim Pullen, Ian Ellison, Ziona Strelitz, Andrew Laing, Chris Kane and Simon Allford will address the most important and up to date issues relating to workplace strategy. To coincide with the event, the latest issue of Work&Place will be published before being issued to around 25,000 IFMA members worldwide and made available free online to everybody. The event builds on the  success of the first Workplace Strategy Summit held at Cornell University. Updates will be available on Twitter. 

The 2014 summit will feature leading academics and experts in the fields of facility management and real estate speaking about the most innovative concepts to emerge in workplace strategy. Attendees will not only hear from these global innovators, but also be able to engage with the presenters and other attendees from all over the globe in round-table discussions on a range of issues related to work and workplace in the 21st century.

Presenters at the summit will include leading thinkers from the fields of design, facility management, real estate, organizational ecology, technology, and management. The mix of experts and practitioners will provide a wide range of perspectives grounded in experience of developing and implementing innovative workplace strategies in diverse industries, organizations, and national contexts. Latest research will also be presented by academics from both North American and European institutions.