Some memories of Coworking Europe 2022

Gizem is a serial entrepreneur who has launched and managed businesses and platforms for conglomerates and startups in Turkey for the last 15 years. She is the CEO of HAN Spaces, an international flex space operator & prop-tech platform that focuses on making...

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,...

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...

Fernando Ramírez has experience as a real estate professional since 2000. Prior to joining MERLIN, he worked at KPMG, Ahorro Corporación Desarrollo y RREEF, as Vice President, having participated in both corporate and investment transactions in all types of real...

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...

Niclas is the founder and CEO of the coworking operator Dospace. Dospace operates 7 offices in regional towns across Sweden.

Rasa is passionate about growing impact-driven ventures and for the last +12 years, she has been initiating and running various initiatives across Europe. In 2014 Rasa joined the founding team of Talent Garden which after rolling out a European network of coworking...

Manuel has a background in Economics and Management. He has worked in hospitality in Europe, the US and Japan. Prior to co-founding Heden, Manuel co-founded an f&b startup in California and was the customer relations manager, operations manager, and cultural...

Sarah Travers is CEO of Workbar, a Boston, MA-based coworking company in North America that's mission is to provide businesses with a professional workspace that fosters productivity, happiness, and inspiration. At Workbar, Sarah has built a regional model at scale,...

Mountain climber. Made 3G & PayPal happen in Ukraine. Public figure, mentor, and evangelist of innovations that disrupt modern lives.  Ilia builds the Creative States as a modern Ukrainian service company that creates an ecosystem of products for a full-cycle...

Sofia Stolberg is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, and entrepreneurship ecosystem developer with experience across diverse industries and international markets. She is the CEO of PilotoMail, a postal mail management software that allows mailbox operators all over the...

Alexander is the co-founder of Stories, an innovative co-working space designed specifically for independent mind care professionals. Together with his co-founder and wife Emilie, their vision to create a nurturing community and an inspiring workspace has seen Stories...

Since joining the company in 2020, Alexandra set an ambitious goal for Clockwise: to become the leading flexible workspace operator in Europe. However, she has always maintained that she will only consider the business to be a success if she can demonstrate it has...

Tiago is a Cluster General Manager for Selina in Portugal, overseeing several hotels and coworking spaces all around the country. With a background in Hotel Management and having started his career in traditional hospitality, he has now +10 years of experience in the...

Maria Piovano is the Regional Operations Manager SE at The Social Hub with more than 10 years of experience in the coworking business. In the last decade, she committed herself to manage communities and operations focused on delivering high-quality experiences and...

Cliff Ho is co-founder of The Commons, an eco-system of entrepreneurs, and businesses working, connecting, and growing under a common roof. The Common's mission is to provide an environment that allows businesses to connect and grow, achieved through continuous...

Meet Maudy Westervel, the General Manager of EBC Amsterdam, a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry. With expertise in hospitality, people management, real estate, IT, problem-solving, sales, and marketing, they are...

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...

Josie Baum is the Managing Director of ARC Club - where the neighbourhood comes to work. Founded in 2020 to deliver accessible, friendly co-working space to workers looking to avoid working from home or daily commutes to a central office, ARC Clubs are a network of...

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.

Ewelina has over 18 years of experience in the commercial office real estate industry. From 2021, Ewelina combines two roles in the Skanska Group, she is the Managing Director of Business Link and the Head of the Strategic Workplace Advisory at Skanska in Central and...

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.

Pauline is the content manager of Coworking Europe. She is also the co-founder and CEO of Coworkies, 1st global job board for coworking spaces and their members as well as co/author of "Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces".

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

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

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...

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...

Charles Armstrong is an entrepreneur focused on social change. In 2009 he founded The Trampery, one of London's earliest coworking businesses. Today The Trampery is London’s leading purpose-led workspace operator, with six award-winning campuses across the city. The...

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...

Teresa Jackson is the founder of Collabor8te, an independent coworking space in Glasgow, Scotland. Launched in 2014 out of a desire to work alongside other business owners, she hadn't even heard of coworking at the time of opening the doors of the original space but...

Matthias Zeitler is a passionate entrepreneur devoted to transforming Bansko, Bulgaria, a picturesque mountain resort, into a premier destination for digital nomads. Since 2016, he has been working at Coworking Bansko to convert digital nomads into digital residents....

Producing market leading insight and reports to support commercial growth, while developing our internal industry data platform. The Instant Group Research and Insight team support business growth using both data analytics and research techniques to better understand...

Inês Petiz started as an entrepreneur in 2005, at the age of 19, when she didn't even know what entrepreneurship was. Together with her partner, Helder Vilares, they created and went bankrupt the first companies in areas as diverse as a Computer Store, a Communication...

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...

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...

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...

Maria Svensson Wiklander is one of the founders of the coworking space Gomorron Östersund with three locations in the city of Östersund, Sweden. Gomorron was founded in 2017 and has been growing organically ever since. It is focused on building a strong and inclusive...

Tudor Popp has over 17 years of experience in real estate across Austria, Germany, and Romania. He is the founder of REC Immpuls, the group being present both in Germany and Romania with a focus on commercial buildings and office consultancy. In 2013 he published the...

Thom Wernke is the co-founder and CEO of StartDock Coworking. StartDock gathers innovative pioneers in classical monumental buildings and creates a '2nd home experience' in an office environment. StartDock currently has 4 locations in Amsterdam and 1 in Rotterdam,...

Naiara Chaler joined the Aticco team 4 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...

Justin Harley, regional director for Yardi has over 20 years of experience in building and implementing software solutions to make portfolios operationally efficient. Harley joined Yardi in 2019 and helps clients and prospects adopt the best tech solutions for their...

Mike leads client journey engagement as part of the sustainability senior leadership team at Incendium, part of The Instant Group. As well as delivering strategic client work across key accounts Mike leads the firm's sustainability thought leadership, marketing, and...

Zoe has built an 18-year career out of being passionate about commercial spaces and how people engage with them. In her role at Spaces to Places, she works with investors, landlords, franchisees, and operators in the flexible office space. Her approach is built on the...

Hans-Peter Sander: studied journalism; has been a freelance PR consultant since the 1990s (main client: International Association of Controllers ICV); has worked in the management of the local action group LAG Ammersee in the EU support program LEADER since 2014;...

Joao is the co-founder of the DNA Portugal and the Thriving Nomads community and while living in the Canary Islands is a founding member of the first coworking community garden in the world.

Fernando Mendes is the co-founder of Now Beato coworking, a pioneer of the Coworking Industry in Europe. Prior to Now, Fernando founded CoworkLisboa. Fernando has worked as a connector and a pioneer, bringing together the whole coworking and innovation spaces...

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...

Claire founded The Melting Pot – Scotland’s Center for Social innovation – and one of the world’s’ first coworking spaces back in 2005. Claire is an Award-winning non-profit leader, a successful social entrepreneur, and an excellent executive coach. By gathering and...

Stephen Carolan, is the National Hubs Network Programme Manager at the Western Development Commission in Ireland. Stephen took up the role in 2019 and in the intervening period, he has spearheaded the establishment of the Connected Hubs platform www.connectedhub.ie....

Joachim Azria is a French entrepreneur, CEO, and Co-founder, along with his brother Dr. Alexandre Azria, of Instacare, an innovative company that provides specialized dental and medical co-working spaces for independent doctors. Prior to founding Instacare, Joachim...

Tom Heckmans is the Community Manager at The Villy (Hanex Hospitality Group) (NL). He is seen as a social butterfly with a strong organizational connection. He has a degree in marketing, business administration, and hotel management. Present and active in The Villy...

Michael Poell studied business education at the economic university of Vienna and the University of St. Gallen A tennis teacher and entrepreneur with different business ideas, a teacher at a vocational school and economic university, and an educational coordinator for...

Benjamin Nick COO Unicorn Workspaces  "Work Simplified" Benjamin brings over a decade of startup experience, thriving as a digital marketing manager and co-founder of successful ventures. Since 2017, he has been instrumental as the CMO and CSO at Unicorn Workspaces,...

Yoshio Tsuda runs a project design firm called Route Design Inc. and is the founder of two coworking spaces in Japan: Mori-no Office in Fujimi Town, Nagano Prefecture, and PILE in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. His skills in service & communication design...

Allow me to introduce myself, Cecilia Berglund, a lifelong learner and enthusiast in the field of coworking and tourism. With a background in hospitality and a knack for nurturing communities, I find immense joy in others' professional growth and personal passions,...

Nikolay Bonev is a seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience in various financial roles across the pharma and IT sectors, marking his excellence at companies like IBM, Telerik, Progress, AbbVie, and Telerik Academy. He has been a part of the Campus X team...

João Simões is the CEO and co-founder of IDEA Spaces, a community disguised as a coworking spaces network. The project that started in 2014 with the dream to help people grow in all their individual and collective spheres, now is making it happen for more than 2.900...

Ivone Cruz is the founder of LINK Cowork. As a project promoter and manager, she supports the design and submission of applications for EU funds from different sectors. She is also the consultant for IPDJ's entrepreneurial space, providing support for business ideas...

Founder and Editor of Deskmag.com. A social scientist, Carsten is passionate about new trends in urban affairs and the creative labor market, two things that are perfectly combined in the concept of coworking.

After 8 years in various management positions for Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg and Moscow, Robert Beddies became Managing Director of betahaus Hamburg in 2015 - a home to Hamburg's creative, digital, and startup scene and its community. After setbacks due to the covid...

A leader of the global coworking movement, Liz Elam blends a spirit of collaboration and innovation with an unwavering commitment to excellence and pushing boundaries. Founder of the largest coworking conference in the world, Elam has grown the Global Coworking...

John has been in the Flex industry for over 35 years in The Netherlands, Europe, and World Wide. Hospitality and flex space he has seen from the beginning and helped to develop. He assisted many companies to come into this industry and to grow. He sold his company...

Luuk Visser, once a passionate furniture maker, has embarked on a remarkable journey. He is a co-founder of Microlab and Microstad, two companies that provide inspiring coworking spaces for makers, creatives and innovators. Luuk strongly believes in personal...

Sybille "Syba" Tschopp is responsible for the workation programs, Community Building, and the Office Caravan at miaEngiadina. The goal of this organization is to develop the rural mountain region of the Engadine (Switzerland) by bringing high-speed internet to the...