Speaker Line-up 2022

Leon Reiner, Co/Founder and Managing Director Impact Hub Berlin (DE)
Leon Reiner is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Impact Hub Berlin, where he takes care of business development and partnerships. Before co-founding Impact Hub Berlin in 2014, Leon worked in a consulting company for social entrepreneurs and helped to build the...

Gizem Burteçin, Co-Founder and CEO Han Spaces (TR)

Joao Simoes, CEO IDEA Spaces (PT)
João Simoes is the CEO and co-founder of IDEA Spaces, a coworking community that started in 2014 with currently 4 locations in Lisbon city - Portugal. Due to his professional background and IDEA mission, he’s a strong believer that technology allied with humanity,...

Maria Piovano – Regional Operations Manager The Social Hub (NL)

Dan Zakai, co-founder and CEO of Mindspace (Tel Aviv)
Dan Zakai is the co-founder and CEO of Mindspace, a rapidly-growing global provider of stylish and inspiring co-working spaces for teams of all sizes. Since starting Mindspace in 2014, the company has opened more than 30 locations in major cities like Warsaw, London,...

Josie Baum, Managing Director ARC Club (UK)

Tiago Castro, Cluster General Manager Selina (PT)

Katarzyna Augustyn, Chief Marketing Officer in Loftmill & Rise (PL)
Katarzyna Augustyn has been the Chief Marketing Officer at Rise.pl (brand LOFTMILL), the leading Polish flex office network, since 2018. Katarzyna graduated in management with a specialization in computer graphics and internet promotion at the University of Ecology...

Ed Bouterse, Head of Workthere Europe (UK)
Ed has over 20 years of experience in real estate and is head of Workthere in Europe, having previously run his own flex office space brokerage. His focus is to lead and grow the European business, as well as overseeing Flex Portfolio Management across EMEA.

Lisa Zettlin, Managing Director at CitySpace (PL)
Lisa Zettlin is the Managing Director of CitySpace, one of the largest operators of flexible spaces in Poland. Working at the company since 2018, she previously held the position of Head of Business Development. Responsible for setting and implementing the long-term...

Nuno Trigo, Co-Founder & CEO Feel Porto (PT)
Nuno Trigo is Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Feel Porto. He has a presence in the Board of the remaining companies of the Feel Group, as such, he is CEO at Feel Discovery, Founding Board Member at Feel Venture and in January 2020 he also assumed the role of CEO at ZT...

Emma Swinnerton, Head of Flexible Workspace EMEA at Cushman & Wakefield
Emma Swinnerton is the Head of Flexible Workspace EMEA at Cushman & Wakefield.

Ben Kolp, Co-Founder and CEO The Living Room (ES)
Ben, the CEO and Co-Founder of The Living Room Coworking, is an intrinsically driven entrepreneur fascinated by the power of networking, both online and – believe it or not – offline. He made it his personal mission to network, connect & synergize wherever he...

Jason Steere, Managing Director Brand & Experience The Social Hub (NL)
Jason Steere is the Managing Director Brand & Experience of The Social Hub, the recently re-branded The Student Hotel.

Raquel Traba Galisteo, Co-Founder and CEO TRIPLE Coworking (ES)

Rebecca Nachanakian, General Manager Southern Europe @WeWork
Rebecca Nachanakian is the General Manager of WeWork for Southern Europe (France, Italy and Spain) since October 2020, as well as for Benelux and Nordics (Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway) since February 2022. In this role, she leads the regional implementation...

Bruno Rambaldi, Founder & Partner at Westhive (CH)

Val Pietri, Co/Founder Nest City Lab (ES)

Teresa García de Zuñiga Hernández, cluster lead at CloudWorks (ES)
Teresa García de Zuñiga Hernández, cluster lead at CloudWorks.

Axel Kuborn, founder and CEO Silversquare (BE)
Axel Kuborn is the founder and CEO of Silversquare, the largest Belgium based coworking operators, with 50.000 m2 and 5.000 members across Belgium and Luxembourg.

Naiara Chaler, chief community & partnership officer at Aticco (ES)
Naiara Chaler joined the Aticco team 3 years ago when Aticco started to grow as a coworking operator, and helped the founding team to build this entrepreneurial & innovation ecosystem. At this moment she is Chief Community Officer & Partnerships Manager at the...

Charlotte Künzell, COO & CIO @ Cortado AG (ezeep)
Charlotte Künzell is COO and CIO of Cortado AG, and a member of the management board. In this capacity, she is responsible among others for the technical design of ThinPrint and ezeep’s print optimization products. With many years of experience in the IT environment...

Lisa Zakharka, COO of Aticco (ES)
Lisa Zakharka joined Aticco over 1 year ago as the Chief Operating Officer of the group, known to offer flexible workspaces, coliving solutions, and acceleration programs for seed startups. As the COO, she's responsible for the smooth operation of all business units,...

Annelou de Groot, regional director Partnership Growth – Southern & Western Europe of IWG
Annelou de Groot is the regional director Partnership Growth – Southern & Western Europe of IWG.

Mark Winkler, director smart spaces & digital ecosystems at K-Businesscom (AT)
Mark Winkler is director smart spaces & digital ecosystems at K-Businesscom. Mark started his IT career at the VATech Group and spent the last 20 years working for internationally leading corporations such as DELL, Fujitsu, Hitachi and Samsung establishing and...

Robin Slijkhuis, head of strategy at B.Amsterdam (NL)
Robin Slijkhuis is the head of Strategy and Business development at B. Amsterdam, the start- and scale-up community of 320+ companies which also houses 35 event spaces, padel courts, a gym, 3 STACH-shops and a rooftop restaurant. After starting 2 start-ups himself and...

Agustina Paradela, financial analyst Happy Working Lab (ES)
Tourism and hospitality graduate, Agustina Paradela works in coworking and coliving consulting agency Happy Working Lab developing business models and strategy with research experience in technology and sustainability matters.

Mike Bascombe, principle consultant at Incendium (UK)
Mike Bascombe is principle consultant at Incendium Consulting, a company focused on sustainable innovation in the field of corporate real estate. Mike Bascombe's primary focus is creating sustainable impact. He leads the client journey and vision creation delivery...

Miguel Ricardo, General Manager SITIO (PT)

Francisco Vazquez Medem, Founder & President, 3g Smart Group (ES)
Francisco Vázquez Medem is the Founder and President of 3g Smart Group, a group of companies specialized in facilitating cultural transformation through the redesign of the space, with an understanding of the culture, business needs, and financial models that will...

Helga Moreno, content strategist Andcards
Helga is a Ukrainian content strategist, writer, blogger, and tutor with 20 years of experience. Before joining andcards, Helga was with TemplateMonster and Ahrefs for over ten years. With andcards, Helga built an influential coworking blog that covers industry tips,...

Matthias Zeitler, Chief Visionary Coliving Semkovo + Coworking Bansko (BG)

Anna Clark, climate officer Unicorn (Germany)
Anna is the Senior User Experience Manager, and Climate Officer at Unicorn Workspaces. She has been working at the Flex Office provider since 2019, contributing to all things design related as part of the marketing team, and is now building a strategy as well as...

Carlos Gonçalves, founder Avila Spaces (Portugal)
Carlos Gonçalves is the founder and CEO of Avila Spaces, a Cowork and Office Center based in Lisbon. In 2010, Carlos developed the myOffice app, the first worldwide virtual office application for mobile. In 2012, he won a CIO Award, which came to confirm the myOffice...

Tim Nieländer, innovation manager PSD Bank Braunschweig
Tim Nieländer studied business administration in Groningen (Netherlands) and Helsinki (Finland). Stations in his working life included market research at MillwardBrown in London and teaching about innovation and project management at the University of Applied Sciences...

Manuel Maqueda, Impact Entrepreneur
Manuel Maqueda is an international teacher, speaker and innovator with a focus on regenerative economics. He teaches Applied Circular Economics and Regenerative Economics at Harvard’s Sustainability Graduate Programs -Harvard Division of Continuing Education. He...

Clément Alteresco, CEO of Morning (France)
Clément Alteresco was borned and raised in Paris, in 2004, after business studies and as a young entrepreneur, he perceived the potential of the digitization of ticketing and founded Digitick, his first notable success. In 2008, Clément moved to California and...

Caleb Parker, NewFlex (UK)
Caleb Parker is an American entrepreneur based in London. He’s the founder of Bold, a Space-as-a-Service brand acquired in 2019 by NewFlex – who operate 120.000 m2 across 50+ locations on management agreements. Caleb hosts the award winning #WorkBold Podcast where he...

Karin Poel – van der Las, country manager IWG The Netherlands
Karin Poel is the country manager of IWG for The Netherlands.

Alain Brossé, CEO of Industrious Europe
Alain Brossé is the founder of Welkin and Meraki, now part of the growing US based international coworking operator Industrious, listed by Inc Magazine among the 500 Fastest-Growing Companies. He now leads the European operations of Industrious in Europe. As an...

Gregory Ortiz, development manager Startway (FR)
Grégory Ortiz is the development manager of Startway, one of France's largest Coworking spaces network, supported by La Poste Immobilière, the French Post Group's Real Estate arm, which also recently acquired Multiburo, another major flex workspace operator, active in...

Jonas Lindemann, CEO of Hafven (Germany)
Jonas Lindemann is a serial founder focused on building communities and the access economy. In bringing the two together, he aims at enabling as many people as possible to solve humanity's big problems through entrepreneurship and innovation. As co-founder and CEO of...

Cristina Trilles, CEO of Vortex Coworking (Spain)
Cristina founded Vortex Coworking in Valencia (Spain) in 2018; first opening Vortex Playa located by the beach, followed by Vortex Centro in the heart of Valencia two years later, and is now looking into expanding to more locations. The vision of Vortex is to create a...

Thijs Sprangers, area director Benelux and Nordics at WeWork (NL)
Thijs Sprangers is the area director Benelux and Nordics at WeWork.

Harun Biswas, CEO of UltraSoft Technologies (UK)
Harun Biswas is the Founder and CEO of UltraSoft Technologies Ltd with a strong academia background and with over 25 years of experience in the flexible workplaces industry. He specialises in computer system architecture, cross-platform application design, engineering...

Dominik Groenen, CEO of orangery (Germany)
Dominik Groenen is the founder and CEO of orangery, a Germany based commercial real estate company that provides workspaces for technology startups and services to other enterprises. Founded in 2016, orangery is headquartered in Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony. As of...

Hans Abbeloos, managing partner Bar d’Office (Belgium)
Hans Abbeloos is managing partner at Bar d'Office, a network of professionally equipped and inspiring work & meeting locations based in Belgium. As an experienced Change Management and Coworking Expert, Hans works on the future of coworking and Hybrid Working,...

John Preece, chief property office at Hub Australia (Australia)
John Preece is the chief property officer of Hub Australia, one one the fastest growing coworking spaces operator in Australia, with locations in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide. John joined Hub Australia to lead the property team in early 2018. In...

Tim Schabsky, co-founder Work Inn (Germany)
Together with his wife, Tim Schabsky founded the coworking brand Work Inn in 2013, in Germany. Since then, the expanding coworking operator has become the market leader in the Ruhr Region, running 11 coworking spaces in six cities. An independent operator, Work Inn...

Victor Carreau, founder Comet Meetings (France)
After graduating from HEC and starting his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, Victor Carreau joins the PJX10 think tank in 2015. As part of a team of a dozen people, he spends a year investigating various sectors, such as agriculture, health,...

Igor Dzhebyan, CEO at Andcards (Ukraine)
Igor is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and an occasional digital nomad who, for the last 14 years, has been living in different countries (South Korea, Chile, Ukraine, Israel). He is currently the VP at Ukrainian Coworking Association, the national NGO supporting local...

Hicham En Nakhla, head of digital strategy at B&CO (France)
Hicham En Nakhla is the head of digital strategy at B&Co (Bureaux & Co), a French fast growing coworking brand, with locations in operation in some of France's big cities, such as Nantes, Toulouse or Rennes. Hicham leads how B&Co (Bureaux & Co)...

Indrek Hääl, founder and CEO of Workland (Baltics)
Indrek Hääl is the founder and CEO of the Workland Group. With over 20 years of experience in the commercial Real Estate field, setting up international investment funds and managing real estate portfolios close to EUR 1 billion in total value, Indrek founded Workland...

Vivian Suhr, Director of EDGE Workspaces (Amsterdam)
EDGE Technologies specialises in a new generation of healthy, technologically innovative and energy-positive office buildings. Vivian Suhr is the Director of EDGE Workspaces, focussing on the execution of their international ambitions to develop healthier working and...

Charlie MacGregor, founder The Student Hotel Group (Amsterdam)
Charlie MacGregor founded The Student Hotel in his 20s and today has his gaze firmly fixed on the future, guiding the company as it explores new territories and leads the way in the changing landscape of the community-based hospitality concept he conceived. A born...

Nina Verrijt, lead rent B.Building Business (The Netherlands)
Nina Verrait is the lead rent at the B. Building Business, one of the biggest coworking campuses in Europe. She is also supervising a new initiative developing satellite offices across The Netherlands, alongside highways.

Axel Minten, vice-president Bundesverband Coworking Spaces – BVCS (Germany)
Axel Minten is a researcher, speaker and New Work specialist from Germany. He is professor in Economicy, specialized in Communications and Human Ressources Management, at the FOM University of Applied Sciences. As Business Coach he is helping companies and...

Nir Kelner, Head of Global Coworking Unit at Adgar Investments & Development (Israel)
Nir Kelner is an MBA graduate of Strategy and International Management with over 18 years of managerial experience. At Adgar Investments & Development he currently holds the position of Head of Global Coworking Unit. Nir Kelner improved his skills in international...

Philipp Rossmann, partnerships & events manager at The Student Hotel / Collab Vienna
An experienced journalist, copy writer and community manager, Philipp is passionate about inclusivity and tearing down antiquated stereotypes. After joining the Dutch hospitality innovator as a brand ambassador in 2019, they recently came on board as a full-time team...

Jakub Fekiač, managing partner at Edgar Baker
Jakub is Managing Partner and co-owner of Edgar Baker - professional human resources company providing full-scale services including executive search, recruitment, expatriate recruitment and outsourcing. Jakub has been working in the HR business since 2011 and he...

Adrian Bodis, country manager Immofinanz
Adrian Bodis is the country manager and executive director of Immofinanz for Slovakia.

Michal Rudinsky, head of office Agency at 108 Agency
Michal is the Head of Office Agency at 108 AGENCY since 2019. In 2020 won the prestigious global event CIJ Awards. He started in commercial real estate industry in 2013 when he took role as a Real Estate Consultant in the biggest international consultancy. He was...

Mélanie Burnier, founder The Work Hub (Vevey)
Melanie Burnier has a background in Economy and tourism, and after 15 years in market research for airlines around the world, she started her 1st coworking space in Vevey in March 2017 and her second one in Bulle ( in January 2019). Bulle and Vevey are two Swiss...

Carmen Lecuane, onboarding specialist Nexudus
Carmen is currently working as a Onboarding Specialist in Management Software based in London, using sets of smart coding settings to increase the ways in which spaces operate themselves and therefore generate bigger revenue in the industry. Due to her international...

Cecilia Tham, principal Futurity Studio
An entrepreneur by heart, a designer and biologist by training, and a maker for life, Cecilia is currently a Principal + Future Synthesist at Futurity Studio and a former Senior Social Technologist at Alpha Telefonica Innovation based in Barcelona. She is the founder...

Sandra Hemzova, COO of Campus Cowork (Bratislava)
Sandra Hemzova is the COO of Campus Cowork, in Bratislava. She joined in 2016 the founders of the company to build the biggest and strongest entrepreneur community in Slovakia, with the aspiration to unite V4 countries with other activities. By time Campus operates in...

Alexander Duschanek, Product Owner – Smart Office bei Kapsch BusinessCom AG
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Jakub Duncko, Head of Space and Facility for HubHub & Qubes
Jakub is responsible for developing new coworking and flexible offices at HubHub. In the past, Jakub has worked on product design and user experience topics at HB Reavis group. His background and education is in architecture.

Robert Piporan, sales manager cloud services at ThinPrint
Robert Piporan has been with ezeep cloud printing by ThinPrint for 2 years now, and for over 18 years in the technology and consumer goods market, passionately impacting the market through various roles in sales, procurement, supplier management, category management,...

Eva Vavrakova, workplace strategy lead at Origameo
Eva Vavrakova is responsible for Workplace strategy at Origameo by HB Reavis. She studies workplace trends, focusing mainly on user experience and wellbeing. Eva has a long-term experience in research, product and service design, organizational change and people...

Sherri Tao, VP of space partnerships at Upflex
Sherri Tao has over 10+ years of global experience in operations and business development in tech start-ups and managing remote teams in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. She had led teams across multi-functions from business development, account management,...

Gabriele Tatzberger, Start-Up Services Director at the Vienna Business Agency
Gabriele Tatzberger is Start-up Services Director at the Vienna Business Agency, Managing Director of Vienna Region and member of the Supervisory Board of INITS, the high-tech incubator of Vienna. She has long-term experience and is passionate to support founders and...

Ricki Dorman, director Strategic partnerships at LiquidSpace
Ricki is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at LiquidSpace. She leads the sales, growth and partnership teams in building the largest marketplace for flexible office space. Ricki joined the LiquidSpace team in 2014, since then has pioneered multiple roles...

Filip Vagner, Business Development Management at Bonard
Filip Vagner is part of Bonard’s engagement team focused on rented residential asset classes. He advises industry stakeholders looking to invest or expand within student housing, senior living, co-living and other rented residential sectors. He works closely with...

Tomas Ocenas, CEO at Campus Coworking (Bratislava)
Tomas Oceans is founder and CEO of Campus Coworking, in Bratislava.

Alessandro Braga, Chief Transformation Officer at Talent Garden
Born in Milan in 1976, Alessandro Braga is Chief Transformation Officer of Talent Garden, one of the biggest Coworking operator in Europe. Father of 2 wonderful daughters. Crossfit master athlete. Trying to avoid Peter’s principle trap for years. Natural born...

Ashok Balabhaskarane, Chief Development Officer at Wojo
A graduate of ESSEC Business School, Ashok BALABHASKARANE is a real estate professional with over 15 years of experience. Ashok has gained invaluable expertise at AXA Investment Managers & JLL, where he developed consultancy and transaction management activities....

Lenaic Bezin, Head of Third Places Development, Wojo (Paris)
After starting his career within the Accor group where Lénaic held several positions in B2B distribution, he then joined the group's Innovation Lab where he led the acceleration of the deployment of the Wojo brand, one of the European leader in coworking, joint...

Justina Kilinski, country manager Unicorn Workspaces (Lisbon)
Justina Kilinski gained her experience in the coworking industry while working in a VC firm, where she offered operational support to a portfolio company - the shared office provider Unicorn Workspaces. As Country Manager for Unicorn Workspaces Portugal, she...

Eric Zellhart, VP of Product LiquidSpace
Eric Zellhart is the VP of Product of LiquidSpace.

Lisa May, area director WeWork for Germany
Lisa May is the area director of WeWork for Germany.

Alexander Rafaljovic, Head of Market Research CA Immo
Alexander Rafaljovic is the Head of Market Research and Data Analytics of CA Immo, a real estate company headquartered in Vienna with branch offices in six countries of Central Europe. The company covers the entire value chain in the field of commercial real estate,...

Patrizia Zück, Sales Manager Zoku (Vienna)
Patrizia is Italian-Swiss and grew up in Zurich before she moved to Lausanne to pursue her degree in International Hospitality Management at the esteemed Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL). After gaining her first professional experiences in the luxury hospitality...

Katrin Gögele-Celeda, country operations manager Immofinanz
Katrin Gögele-Cedela is country manager operations at Immofinanz, one of the biggest Office Commercial Real Estate owners in Austria and Central Europe. She holds a degree in Business Administration and is especially focused on the development of the MyHive brand, a...

Gregory von Abendroth, co-founder 1000 Satellites Coworking (Mannheim)
Gregory von Abendroth is the co-founder of 1000 Satellites Coworking, a Mannheim based coworking spaces network. A microbiologist at heart, he was able to further develop my perspective along various jobs in research and production at BASF. At 1000 Satellites, he is...

Elisabeth Jenauth, Head of Expansion Andy’s Coworking
Elisabeth Jenauth is the head of expansion of the prop-tech startup andys.cc, an Austrian coworking operator that focusses on flexible, highly digitalized spaces. She previously took responsibility for large construction projects as engineer and spent 15 years in...

Mark Gilbreath, CEO LiquidSpace
Mark is the founder and CEO of LiquidSpace, one of the world's first work from anywhere platform empowering businesses of all sizes to unlock the power of hybrid workplace with our enterprise grade management platform and on-demand marketplace of workspace. A silicon...

Casey Godwin, president Flexspace Advisors (Dallas, Tx)
Casey Godwin is the president of Flexspace Advisors, advisory firm with a decade of experience managing the real estate portfolios of Fortune 500 companies nationwide,dedicated to providing customizable real estate solutions tailored to the unique needs of new and...

Gamedy Mbaye, COO Vibration Workshare (Fribourg, CH)
Born in Spain from senegalese parents, Gamedy grew up in France and moved to Switzerland in 2017 for academic purposes. In France, Gamedy co-created and managed an associative school helping develop entrepreuneuship and artistic creations for deprived youths from...

Christa Jouck, Managing Director at Officenter (Hasselt)
Christa Jouck is the Managing Director at Officenter in Hasselt, Belgium.

Sanna Ekström, CEO of Mindpark Group AB (Sweden)
Sanna Ekström is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mindpark. Her focus and expertise lies on developing people, teams, coworking communities and office spaces.

Davide Dattoli, Co-Founder and CEO of Talent Garden (Milan)
Davide Dattoli is founder and CEO of Talent Garden, Europe's leading platform for digital tech business community. Talent Garden network provides coworking spaces, future skills education, Corporate Transformation help for 150 big corporates and various innovation...

Niclas Söör, Founder at DoSpace (Linköping, Sweden)
Niclas is the founder and CEO of the coworking operator Dospace. Dospace operates 7 offices in regional towns across Sweden.

Sergiu Babasan, Country Manager at Nooka Space (Romania)

Stéphane Delaporte, CMO at Deskeo (Paris)
Stéphane Delaporte is the new Chief Marketing Officer at Deskeo.

Petr Boruta, Head of Marketing at Spaceflow (Prague)
Expertise: Marketing | PR | Real Estate | CRE | PropTech | Tenant experience | Space as a service

Turlough O’Brien, Assistant Principal Officer, Regional Development and Innovation Unit at Department of Rural and Community Development (Ireland)
Turlough O’Brien, from Dublin, Ireland, has served in the Irish Civil Service for the last 13 years. In that time he has worked across a wide-range of policy and operational areas including labour market activation, cyber security and public sector pay policy. He is...

Ruth Morrissy, Assistant Principal Officer, Labour Market and Skills Unit at Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Dublin)
Ruth Morrissy is the Assistant Principal Officer, Labour Market and Skills Unit at Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's vision is to make Ireland the best place to succeed in business, delivering...

Hilke Zedler, Founder at Coworking Elbvororte (Wedel)
Hilke Zedler is one of the founders of the Coworking Elbvororte in Wedel in the suburban countryside of Hamburg. She is Marketing and communication professional with experience in B2B and B2C. She started her carrier with Bentley Motors as a marketing coordinator...

Nuno Fernandes, Design Director Tétris EMEA at JLL (Lisbon)
Over 20 years experience in all phases of architecture / interior design in the areas of commercial/corporate fitout, retail concepts and rollout, education, defense, transportation and healthcare located in - Europe, North America, Middle East, Asia and Australia -...
Program & Content 2022
