Breakout Sessions Click-to-booK

 

**Session chairs and panellists announced**

 

14.00 – Breakout sessions A:

1. Financial and professional sector clinic
What are the prospects for financial and professional occupiers and how will this drive this sector of the market in the short, medium and longer term? Occupiers, investors, advisers give their views.
Dan Bayley, director, city office agency, BNP Paribas Real Estate
Digby Flower, executive director office agency, CBRE
Stephanie McMahon, head of UK corporate research, Jones Lang LaSalle
Bill Page, head of UK offices research, Jones Lang LaSalle
Rupert Perkins, partner, King Sturge
Mark Smith, partner and head of the occupier practice, Speechly Bircham
Chair: Giles Barrie, editor, Property Week
*Research provided by
Jones Lang LaSalle

2. Public sector clinic
The cuts are coming and decentralisation is underway while the drive for increased efficiency and sustainability is transforming the way the public sector uses offices. How will the public sector demand for offices shape up in future?
James Grierson, head of corporate real estate consultancy, DTZ
Stuart Ladds, programme manager, Relocation & Strategic Property Portfolio Management, OGC
David Werran, director, Helical Governetz
Chair: Nigel Grice, partner occupier agency, Drivers Jonas

3. Are offices overspecified for occupiers?
Investors and occupiers have different ideas about what they need from office buildings. Will the crunch bring about even greater change in how we specify workplaces?
Paul Allen, head of commercial, Davis Langdon
Joanna Bacon, partner, Allies and Morrison
Ron German, director, Stanhope
Stephen Hewitt, head of strategic planning and real estate UK, Deutsche Bank
Paul Williams, director, Derwent London
Chair: Lee Mallett, conference editor,  Property Week

4. Telecomms, media and technology sector clinic
For the first time the IT industry has seen its business shrink in the face of recession, while the media are suffering from the collapse of advertising. What are the factors that will drive its growth in future and how will new developments change the face of office occupancy?
Relina Bulchandani, director, Connected Real Estate Practice, Cisco
Christopher Hedley, director, Occupiers & Management, IPD
Max Holliday, director of real estate EMEA, WPP
Chris Kane, head of corporate real estate, BBC Workplace
Gary Wingrove, head of construction programme, BT
Chair: Mark Shepherd, assistant editor, Property Week


15.30 – Breakout sessions B:

5. Sustainability, the new BREEAM regime and cost in use
Value is now emphatically linked at least partially to perceptions about sustainability of offices, while the sensitivity and accuracy of the methods of measuring it have also matured as new legislation has got tougher. The search for value and efficiency has made this subject even more crucial.
Patrick Bellew, principal, Atelier Ten
Rab Bennetts, director, Bennetts Associates
David Clark, partner, Cundall
Peter Clarke, executive officer, British Land
Dave Farebrother, environmental director, Land Securities
Colin Malcolm, principal consultant, Bureau Veritas (Industrial Performance and Permitting)
Chair: Lee Mallett, conference editor, Property Week

6. Office of the future
What will the office market of the future be like? Will workspace move closer to where we live and what does this mean for the main markets and the buildings we’re producing now?
Julian Barwick, director, Development Securities
Kate Dean, regional director, SEGRO
Despina Katsikakis, group chairman, DEGW UK
Eric Parry, Eric Parry Architects
Dr. Marie Puybaraud, director global workPlace Innovation, Johnson Controls
Chair: Mark Shepherd, assistant editor, Property Week

7. Business Centres in the crunch
How have smaller businesses been affected in the crunch and what does this mean for business centres? This session will look at different types of centre and how they are adapting to the new economic order.
Peter Bennett, City Surveyor, City of London Corporation
Rob Hamilton, founder and CEO, Instant Offices
Vincent Scammell, sales and marketing director, Regus UK
Tom Stokes, managing director, Evans Easyspace
Chair: Mark Slim, executive director and chairman of City Agency, CB Richard Ellis

8. Lease terms – striking the right balance
A detailed look at the issues surrounding key lease terms for occupiers and investors, their differing requirements, and the compromises that might work for everyone.
Andrew Cartmail, national head of Office Lease Advisory, BNP Paribas Real Estate
Harry Cole, european real estate manager, Electrolux
Deirdre Foley, founder and CEO, D2Private
Robert Leigh, director, Devono
Chair: Giles Barrie, editor, Property Week

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