
Coworking Europe 2024 was organized on November 13th and 14th at National Palace of Culture, in Sofia, Bulgaria, in partnership with Campus X. Close to 350 attendees from more than 35 countries met up in Sofia for a 2-days + 1 conference.
Some memories of Coworking Europe 2024
Speaker Line-up 2024 + Program

Homan Tehrani, CEO of United Spaces (SE)
Homan Tehrani is the CEO of United Spaces (rebranded iOffice), the number one flexible workspace operator in Sweden. With a passion for entrepreneurship and technology, he has built Ioffice into a leading player in the Swedish coworking sector. By combining modern...

Xavi Bassons, CEO Monday Working Space (ES)
Xavi Bassons is the CEO and co-founder of Monday Coworking, one of the biggest coworking operators in Spain.

Katri Tuori, director operator and landlord solutions EMEA at The Instant Group (FI)
As a Director, Operator Solutions EMEA, Katri is in charge of European operator partnerships at The Instant Group, world’s largest marketplace for flex space. Curious about cultures and people, she truly enjoys the opportunity to work with operators across the region...

Joachim Gripp, CEO Design Offices (DE)
Joachim Gripp is CEO of Design Offices, market-leading provider for flexible working spaces in Germany, with close to 50 locations. The 56-year-old is responsible for business expansion in the German market. The company is currently running around 50 offices in 15...

Ana Sousa, general manager Vertical Coworking (PT)
Ana Sousa is the General Manager of Vertical Coworking, a dynamic space in Porto designed for entrepreneurs, startups, and professionals, which was co-organizer of the Coworking Europe 2023 conference in Porto. Her leadership searches for new ways of human...

Aiste Maldaikiene, head of marketing Workland (LT)
Since joining Workland when it had three locations in the Baltics, Aistė has witnessed and supported the company’s impressive expansion to 17 locations across the Baltics and Finland. With over six years of experience in the coworking industry, she leads initiatives...

Locke McKenzie, strategic tenant relations Deka Immobilien (DE)
Deka Immobilien is a global office investor with almost 500 office properties across Europe, Americas and Asia. Over the last 10 years, Locke has acted as Deka’s in-house flex specialist. He is also focused on innovation management, asset strategy, and flexibility...

Elena Montserrate, head of experience at Uncommon (UK)
Elena Montserrate dies is head of experience at Uncommon.

Martin Holy, sales director Scott.Weber (CZ)
Martin Holy is the Commercial Director at Scott.Weber Workspace, the n°1 flexible workspace operator in Czech Republic, where he is responsible for the comprehensive preparation and execution of the company’s commercial and operational objectives. During his tenure,...

Jekaterina Kosmaceva, Regional Senior Vice-President IWG (LV)
Jekaterina Kosmaceva is Regional Senior Vice-President IWG for the Balkans, Baltics and Georgia.

Yotam Alroy, co-founder Mindspace
Yotam Alroy is the co-founder and chief development officer of Mindspace, one of the world's leading coworking operators. Since its foundation in 2014, Mindspace has opened over 45 locations across Israel, Europe, and the U.S. and raised over U$150 Mio to date....

Marta Moksa, Managing Director at O4 Coworking (PL)
Managing Director of one of the biggest Polish coworkings – O4 (a coworking operating in Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk). Lawyer by education, project manager and team leader by experience and passion. Involved in Coworking movement since 2014. Participant of...

Charlène Crespel, CEO BeCentral (BE)
Charlène Crespel is the CEO of BeCentral, dedicated to supporting Europe's entrepreneurial community. With a background in business development, she has a track record of turning ideas into reality. BeCentral has transformed the iconic Victor Horta building into a...

Petya Lipeva, COO(L) of Puzl CowOrKing (BG)
Petya Lipeva is the COO(L) at Puzl CowOrKing, the largest IT coworking space in Central and Eastern Europe. With extensive experience in optimizing operational processes, Petya has been instrumental in driving member engagement and leading expansion efforts, including...

Hubert Abt, CEO & Founder at New Work (HU)
Hubert Abt – New Work CEO/Founder, is in the real estate industry since 35 + years and started New Work in early 2013. He developed the company into the Top 2 Peer Group of Flex Office Providers in CEE. Hubert´s focus is on Business Development and Investors...

Iwona Barszcz, Global Brand and Experience Manager at Brain Embassy (PL)
Iwona Barszcz is Global Brand and Experience Manager at Brain Embassy, in Warsaw, Poland. Iwona has been associated with the Brain Embassy concept since 2017 when she took on the role of Community Manager responsible for managing the second Warsaw location of Brain...

Charlotte Künzell – CEO Thinprint GmbH (DE)
Charlotte Künzell is the CEO of ThinPrint GmbH, where she leads the development of the innovative print management products ThinPrint and ezeep. With over 20 years of experience, Charlotte is a leading expert in all things printing. Her strategic vision has helped...

Kristelina Staykova, CEO Networking Space (BG)
Kristelina is CEO of Networking Space, in Bulgaria. Before, she used to be the general manager of Entract127, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Kristelina is a Sales and Marketing Specialist with many years of experience in hospitality, operations management, and event management....

Alexandra Livesey, COO at Clockwise (UK-DE)
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...

Thom Wernke, Co-Founder of StartDock (NL)
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, COO at Aticco (ES)
Naiara Chaler joined the Aticco team 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 COO & Partnerships Manager at the group that offers flexible...

Christa Jouck, Founder/CEO, Officenter (BE)
Christa Jouck is the CEO - Founder/Owner of Officenter Group in Hasselt, Belgium.

Sergi Tarragona, Founder of Cloudworks (ES)
Sergi Tarragona is the founder of Cloudworks.

Juanjo Martinez, founder and CEO of Networkia (ES)
Juanjo Martinez is the founder and CEO of Networkia, on of the biggest flexible workspaces network operating in Spain.

Jesse Derkx, EMEA Flex Brokerage Lead at CBRE
Jesse Derkx is a Director at CBRE, heading up the EMEA Flex Brokerage department. In his current role, Jesse coordinates and executes international/multi-market transactions in the EMEA region, managing and aligning a wide variety of stakeholders while delivering...

Achraf Sedyane, head of marketing strategy Bureaux & Co (FR)
Achraf SEDYANE is head of digital and marketing strategy at Bureaux & Co, one of the top 10 operators of coworking spaces in France. In this position, he is responsible for the brand's strategic marketing development, liaising with customers, partners, and...

Yuta Aoki, founder Japan Coworking Space & Community Manager Organization (JCCO)
After graduating from the Graduate School of Agricultural Science at Tohoku University, Yuta Aoki joined Panasonic in 2016. In March 2018, he joined 01 Booster Co., Ltd., where he worked on open innovation and startup support for large corporations. In February 2019,...

Stefania Pasquarelli, community manager Toolbox (IT)
Stefania Pasquarelli isCommunity Manager and Event Specialist at Toolbox, in Turin, Italy.

Sedat Adiyaman, director Coworking Neuchâtel (CH)
Sedat Adiyaman is the director of the innovation consulting company think2make.ch and coworking-neuchatel.ch. He studied industrial design and business processes. He is an author, trainer, and speaker on the themes of collaborative innovation. Since 2014, he has...

Stefanie Mayer, Immofinanz (AT)
Stefanie Mayer is Leasing Operations manager at Immofinanz, owner of the coworking brand MyHive. Stefanie Mayr, MA is a young and thriving real estate professional from Vienna, Austria. She is member of the young professional board of the Austrian Association of the...

Francesco Decamilli, CEO of Uniti AI
Francesco Decamilli is the CEO and co-founder of Unity AI. Uniti AI is a leading AI-powered lead engagement and conversion platform, trusted by over 25 coworking and flex space operators across the US, Europe, and Asia. Designed specifically for the flexible workspace...

Plamen Hristov, CEO BIZ HUB (BG)
Plamen Hristov is a founder and CEO at Biz Hub Coworking space. He is an experienced expert in sales and marketing fields. Always open for finding new opportunities and meeting like-minded people. He strongly believes that the success comes when we all walk together,...

Giles Blanchard, founder Sterling Offices and This Way Coworking (BG)
Giles arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2002 and soon realised that there were no serviced offices in the city. In 2004, with a great team behind him and together with The Executive Centre based in Hong Kong, he opened the Bulgaria’s first premium serviced office...

Miguel Gomes, founder Nimbler Spaces (PT)
Miguel Gomes is the founder Nimbler Spaces, a flexible workspaces brand which operates locations in the US, Spain and Portugal. Miguel’s journey in the flexible offices market began in 2015 in central Lisbon when he co-founded Goldenhub, now known as Maleo. Initially...

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

Andrew Clough, CEO of The Brew (UK)
Andrew Clough is the CEO of The Brew, in London. Prior to founding The Brew, Andrew worked in publishing and new media for 20 years in the UK and overseas. He was responsible for the sales, marketing and business development for major organisations. Developing teams...

Tjeerd Bongers, co-founder Wezoo (NL)
Tjeerd Bongers is the co-founder of Wezoo.com, a platform that empowers individuals and teams to reach their highest potential by providing easy access to the right workspaces—no matter where they’re from or where they’re headed. Wezoo.com is currently live in the...

Charles Armstrong, Founder of The Trampery (UK)
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...

Juan Barbed, founder Rooral (ES)
After working remotely in over 40 countries and witnessing the unstoppable rise of flexible work, Juan saw an opportunity to use remote work as a means to revitalize rural areas and improve people's well-being. Juan co-founded Rooral.co, a social enterprise that...

Patrik Aström, CEO and co-founder Helio (SE)
Patrik Åström is the CEO and founder of Helio, a leading coworking operator in the Nordic region. With a forward-thinking and holistic approach to workplace design, Helio integrates amenities such as restaurants, wellness services, and neuroscience-inspired spaces to...

Miryana Stancheva, Business Operations Manager at OfficeRnD
As a Business Operations Manager at OfficeRnD with a PhD in organizational psychology focused on the global coworking movement, Miryana specializes in driving growth through process optimization and strategic innovation. She leads organizational transformation efforts...

Suzanne Murdock, Co-Founder and Managing Director The Hub Newry (UK/Ireland)
Suzanne has always been relationship driven with extensive experience in client facing roles across banking, real estate and coworking. She’s been working in the flexible workplace & coworking industry for over 13 years and cofounded her network of flexible...

Jonny Rosenblatt, co-founder Spacemade (UK)
Jonny Rosenblatt is the co-founder of Spacemade, the first-of-its-kind operational platform that empowers building owners to deliver their own, individually crafted, flexible workspace products directly to customers. Spacemade works with building owners to...

Miro Miroslavov, CEO OfficeRnD (BG)
Miro Miroslavov is a software engineer turned into a tech entrepreneur. In 2015 he co-founded OfficeRnD - a leading flex space and hybrid work management platform. As a CEO at OfficeRnD, he grew the company from inception to a global company with 4 offices that serves...

Michal Dorszewski, Regional Director Network development at IWG (PL)
Michal Dorszewski is Regional Director Network development at IWG (PL)

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

Florian Kosak, CEO Unicorn Workspaces (Berlin)
Florian Kosak is the CEO of Unicorn Workspaces, a German based network of coworking spaces, expanding rapidly across Europe. Florian is an entrepreneur, through and through. More than ten years ago, the native Berliner founded his first company in the event and...

Miriam Constantin, founder V7 Startup Studio (Bucharest)
Miriam Constantin is the founder of V7 Startup Studio in Bucharest, Romania. Miriam has been a legal professional for 17+ years, with approx. EUR 1,4 billion worth track record in private & public sector managed deals. While turning to entrepreneurship to develop...

Vedran Šimunović, CEO Intera Tech Park (BH)
Vedran Šimunović is the CEO of the Intera Tech Park in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, since 2016, where he leads initiatives focused on innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. He has extensive experience in developing coworking spaces and fostering ecosystems for...

Krasimir Petrov, co-founder MyFlex (BG)
Krasimir is the Manager of MyFlex, a leading serviced office provider in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a visionary leader who believes in supporting innovative ideas and bringing them to life. With over 15 years of experience in asset and property management for commercial...

Tony Aleksandrov, co-founder and CEO Work Better (Sofia)
Tony Aleksandrov is obsessed with the coworking idea and believes that flex spaces are the future of the new office reality. He was part of the Mindspace Germany team from where he got the best education for the industry. During his time in the company he worked with...

Sander van Gogh, segment leader ISEO Access Technologies (NL)
Based in Amsterdam, Sander van Gogh has been the Segment Leader at ISEO Ultimate Access Technologies since 2022, focusing on the Real Estate segment, with flexible working spaces as a key area. He oversees the Systems & Services strategy and leads the integration...

Florian Kappes, Founder, Flex Forward
Florian has been part of the European coworking scene since 2008. Before starting his own advisory firm Flex Forward in 2025 he held key roles across various segments of the industry, including brokerage (The Instant Group), operator side (Fora), strategic advisory...

Konstantin Botev, Bulgaria SME Promotion Agency (BG)
Konstantin Botev has been head of department in Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency since 2023. Over 10 years he has experience on business management and was a geopolitical journalist and author. In 2018 he was a Civil society NGO representative...

James Walton, Head of Global Flex Workspace Advisory at Colliers
James Walton joined Colliers in 2023 to lead the EMEA SmartFlex (Flexible Occupier Workspace Consulting) line. He is now Head of Global Flex Workspace Advisory at Colliers. With 18 years of global experience in the flexible workspace sector, he works consultatively...

Nikolay Bonev, CEO of Campus X (BG)
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...

Sam Jackman, Chief Development Officer, Shared Access (UK)
Sam Jackman is Chief Development Officer at Shared Access, an owner and operator of shared wireless infrastructure across the UK and Europe. Shared Access delivers in-building mobile connectivity for leading coworking operators, including WeWork and Cubo, helping...

John Milhado, Founder Office Improvers (NL)
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...

Bozhidar Georgiev, CEO Work & Share (BG)
Bozhidar Georgiev îs the CEO of Work & Share, in Sofia.

Romain Mefret, Business Dev Mger Bureaux & Co (Fr)
Romain Mefret is Business Development manager at Bureaux & Co

Adam Case, technical director at technologywithin (UK)
Adam Case is technical director at technologywithin (UK)

Berta Calders, Prullans (ES)
Events Specialist and former Head of Events at Betahaus Barcelona, then the number 1 Coworking Space & Events Venue in Barcelona. Ample experience at organising events from TEDxVienna conferences to tourism fairs or golf tournaments for the United Nations. Full...

Ben Nachoom, co-founder OneCowork (Barcelona)
Ben Nachoom is the co-founder and CEO of OneCowork, a fast growing coworking brand running locations in some of the nicest and most dynamic districts of Barcelona and now Northern England.

Alexander Mihaylov, CEO Betahaus Bulgaria
Alexander Mihaylov is the CEO of Betahaus Bulgaria.

Eric Spongberg, chief commercial officer and co-founder Helio (SE)
Eric is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and co-founder of Helio, a pioneering coworking operator in the Nordic region. Helio is renowned for its innovative approach to workspace design, seamlessly blending amenities like restaurants, wellness programs, and...

Rasa Strumskyte, Co-Founder at Talent Garden (IT)
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...

Real Estate & Business Development Director @ 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....

Nuno Trigo, co-Founder & CEO at Vertical Coworking (PT)
Nuno Trigo is Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Vertical Coworking. 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...

Maria Piovano – Coworking Operations Manager The Social Hub (NL)
Maria Piovano is the Coworking Operations Manager at the hybrid hospitality brand The Social Hub, with more than 10 years of experience in the coworking business. In the last decade, she committed herself to managing communities and operations focused on delivering...

Pauline Roussel, co-founder Coworkies (FR)
Pauline is 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".

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

Nir Kelner, CEO Brain Embassy and Head of Global Coworking Unit Adgar Investments & Development (IL)
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...

Carlos Gonçalves, Founder Avila Spaces (PT)
Carlos Gonçalves founded Avila Spaces in Lisbon in 2004, following a professional career in project management, consultancy, and hospital administration. In 2007, he became an ambassador for eOffice, the UK’s first coworking space network, and piloted a pioneering...

Zoe Ellis-Moore, CEO & Founder at Spaces to Places (UK)
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...

Tom Sleigh, Head of Flexible Workspace Consulting Colliers EMEA
Tom has 17 years of experience in the flexible workspace sector and he has experience working for both operators and consultants. He is Head of Flexible workspace consulting at Colliers EMEA, where he is responsible for the SmartFlex advisory platform of 7 specialist...

Benjamin Nick, COO Unicorn Workspaces (DE)
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,...

Carsten Foertsch, Founder and Editor of Deskmag (DE)
Carsten is an expert in empirical studies and data analysis. For 15 years, he has conducted coworking surveys for Deskmag, making him one of the most experienced researchers in the field. If you’ve seen coworking survey results floating around, there’s a good chance...

Liz Elam, Founder of GCUC (US)
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...

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Professor at the School of Administrative Sciences at Téluq University (CA)
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay is a professor at the School of Administrative Sciences at Téluq University (University of Quebec) and the director of the ARUC on the management of ages and social times (www.teluq.ca/aruc-gats). In recognition of the quality of her research...

Vanessa Sans, HWL Founder (ES)
Vanessa Sans runs HWL, a developer consulting agency specialised in coworking, coliving and hybrid workplace. She has a professional background deep in the roots of the coworking field, having founded a coworking herself and delivered close to 50 projects around the...

Axel Minten, FOM University and vice-president Bundesverband Coworking Spaces – BVCS (Germany)
Axel Minten is the vice-president of the German Coworking Association Bundesverband Coworking Spaces BVCS. A researcher, speaker and New Work specialist from Germany. He is professor in Economicy, specialized in Communications and Human Ressources Management, at the...

Claudius Krucker, CEO & host at CreativeSpace / Co-President of Coworking Switzerland (Sankt Gallen)
Claudius Krucker, CEO & host at CreativeSpace / Co-President of Coworking Switzerland (Sankt Gallen)

Eduardo Salsamendi, Founder at Proworkspaces (Madrid)
Eduardo Salsamendi is the Founder at Proworkspaces, the spanish business centers association. Eduardo is also the Managing Partner at Klammer Workspaces, a business center in Pamplona.

Jean-Yves Huwart, founder Coworking Europe (BE)
Jean-Yves Huwart is the founder of the Coworking Europe conference, launched in 2010 and now the largest international gathering of coworking, flexible-working and managed-office operators and stakeholders. Coworking Europe later grew into a specialist media platform...

Robert Faulhaber, COO Coworking Europe (AT)
Robert Faulhaber is the COO of Coworking Europe.