Coworking Europe Podcast

How Flex Workspace and coworking access shall become a must in the toolbox of HR and recruitment managers at the time of the distributed workforce. No flex and human hospitality driven solution available, no or less appeal to attract future talents ? With : Adrian Bodis (Immofinanz / myhive) Michal Rudzinsky (108 Agency) Jakub Fekiac (Edgar Baker) Supported by https://myhive-offices.com From Brati...

What corporate companies are already planning now and how operators should prepare for the increased demand for flex office solutions. By the Frankfurt based experts of AllOfficeCenters' co-founder Thomas Schulz. Presented at Coworking Europe 2021 Virtual, on Dec 1st.

Mark Gilbreath is the CEO of LiquidSpace, one of the largest real-time flexible office spaces network. LiquidSpace is a partner of Coworking Europe 2021 Virtual. Mark gave this fascinating presentation over the evolution and innovation within the coworking and flexible workspace market (Dec 2, 2021). The worl of work is re-inventing everywhere.

Gamedy Mbaye is the COO of Vibration Workshare, an independent coworking operator based in Fribourg, a 40.000 inhabitants town in between Lausanne and Bern, two major urban areas of Western Switzerland. The Swiss public transportation is worldwide famous for its punctuality and effectiveness. Hence, it makes a lot of sense to settle coworking spaces between bigger cities. A coworking member can me...

GCUC is the most important network of conferences on coworking and GCUC is a sister conference of the Coworking Europe conference (edition 2021 to take place in Vienna, on Dec 1-2). Liz Elam has initiated GCUC almost 10 years ago and has built a huge insight regarding the development of the industry in the US and in the World. The GCUC North America conference 2021 is taking place in New York City...

Officenter is one of the most important regional flexible office operators in Belgium. The company is opening up 7 new centres, to grow the network to 16 locations in total, thanks to the support of local investors. The model of regional flex offering proved to be valid. A discussion with Christa Joucke, Managing Director at Officenter.

MatchOffice just released its 2021 Survey covering the situation of the flex workspace industry in Europe. The Covid-19 crisis has had a dramatic impact on the operators, with some differences between countries. The future might though be very bright. Discussion with Olga Fomenko, Marketing Director at MatchOffice.

Sanna Ekström is the co-founder of MindPark, a coworking operator more than a decade active in the Southern part of Sweden. The company which started in 2008 as a simple café in the small city of Helsingor, on the shore opposing the Danish capital Copenhaguen, operates now 4 coworking locations and is one of the most visible brand in the region. The company has lately signed up with a major proper...

Talent Garden is one of the most important international coworking brands in Europe. The Italy based company has locations in operations in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Spain. The operators just announced the opening of a new facility in Lille. Davide Dattoli, Co-founder and CEO of Talent Garden, is among the most important figures of the international scene. A discussi...

EDGE is a Holland based developer of smart building. Recently, the so called EDGE Building in Amsterdam was awarded the title of greenest and most efficient building in the world. As one hears a lot about landlords developing their own coworking brand, we see now real estate developers following the same way. EDGE has amplified its efforts to install cutting-edge technologies to make facilities gr...

Haz Memon is the founder of Swiss Escape a co-living and coworking company running operations in Switzerland and and in Crete. Haz is also involved in Co-Living Hub, an association of 250 Co-living operators across the world. The pandemic has had a huge impact on the demand, he says. Employers are now coming into the games. While we had mainly guests coming from international background, in Valais...

Niclas Söör is the founder of DoSpace, a coworking operator born in Linköping, Sweden, in 2017, and which today operates 7 locations in 4 different cities. Despite being the 5th largest city in Sweden, Linking remains small by some standards, with 160.000 inhabitants. DoSpace has found is niche market in the area where demand is different than what one will have in bigger cities, such as Stockholm...

Nir Kelner is CEO of Brain Embassy, a coworking brand operating in Tel Aviv, Warsaw and Antwerp. Israel is the most Covid19 vaccinated country in the world. 90% of the capacity is now filled, explains Nir Kelner. The waiting list for hosting events is getting longer. We see new profile of prospect, with companies which gave up their office and now are putting their head office in coworking spaces....

The purpose of the discussion is to have an overview of what are the possibilities to integrate more and more technologies into buildings to transform them into digitized service oriented assets. With years and years of experience in the flexible workspace industry, Essensys has seen the development of a growing number of technologies and enablers supported by new online services and tools.

Will we have tiny-coworking spaces soon like we have tiny houses ? It could be. Nooka has created "coworking" containers for just a few people, that are movable to any place. Could it open a whole new coworking segment in the market, answering some remote workers needs ? Discussion with the Sergiu Babasan, based in Cluj (Romania) manager at Nooka.

Claire Carpenter has been operating The Melting Pot in Edinburgh for many years. The Covid19 crisis forced her to shut down. Just a few months later, Claire is re-opening within a new location (better and nicer) showing how resilient independent coworking operators can be. A discussion about the practicalities of reboot, motivation and keeping the faith in the business that no pandemic can kill.

Eduardo Salsamendi is the president of ProWorkspaces, the Spanish association of flexible workspaces. Olga Fomenko is the Head of marketing for MatchOffice, one of the most important online booking platform for coworking spaces and meeting rooms in Europe. Both organisations released a report on the market data for the flex workspace industry, for Spain, in collaboration with Cushman & Wakefield,...

Ramy Boujawdeh is the managing director of Berytech, one of the biggest network of incubation services for entrepreneurs and coworking services in Lebanon. One of their three locations in Beyrouth was destroyed by the explosion of August 4, 2020. Hope is there, though, and they are developing the concept of "resilience innovation".

WeWork has been, and still is to some extend, the most global coworking champion. One of the most valued startup in the world, the breakneck expansion was not without damages. Based on more than two hundred interviews, this book chronicles the breakneck speed at which WeWork's CEO built and grew his company along with Neumann's relationship to a world of investors, including Masayoshi Son of Softb...

Alisa Kapic is the VP Sales Northern Europe of IWG, the mother company supervising major Flex and Coworking brands in the world such as Regus, Spaces, Basepoint or Signature. Nowadays, with 3.400 locations around the world, IWG is by far the biggest provider of flexible workspace solution on the planet. It also was one of the first mover towards a multi-brands strategy in the field of coworking, i...

Inga Kayademir is the COO of Unicorn, one of Germany's most important coworking player, with 20 locations spread around Berlin, Munich, Cologne or Potsdam. The company is coming out of the Covid-19 crisis stronger. They manage to keep most of their members, raised money and kept their plans to open new locations. It's in Berlin that Unicorn is likely the most ambitious. "The capital is a very dyna...

Alessandro Nacci is the CEO of SOFIA Locks (technology partner of ISEO), an Italy based company developing IoT (Internet of things) related smart access solutions. They have been focusing a lot, lately, on the coworking industry as technology allows to flexibilize office and real estate assets. "Coworking and Coliving services is a very important area of development for modern access and wireless...

Joao Simoes is the co-founder of Idea Spaces, a Lisbon based coworking operator which started its activities in 2014 within a 400 m2 big space. Six years later, Idea Spaces is soon to open a third location, cumulating a total of 10.000 m2 surface under coworking management. "The strategy initiated in the early 2010's to make Lisbon a magnet for tech and foreign talents clearly delivered. The quali...

Viesturs Sosars is the co-founder of TechHub Riga. The tech coworking and incubator was launched eight years ago and since then played a major role structuring the Latvian tech and startup ecosystem and connecting it with the international tech scene. Named after TechHub London, one of the UK pioneer in the early 2010's, which has been among the most important players who supported the rise of the...

Francisco Vazquez is the Founder and President of 3G Office, a major Madrid based architecture firm operating in close to 50 countries, including Spain, Portugal and most of the Latin American countries. 3G Office designs corporate offices for big companies such as KPMG, Orange or Google. The last couple of years, coworking and flex workplace grew so much in 3G Office's portofolio that it now repr...