Coworking Europe Speakers

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Benjamin Nick is a communication expert and digital strategist from Berlin, Germany. With more than 10 years of experience in the startup scene as a marketing analyst, marketing manager, and co-founder (50Hours, Soulfurniture), he currently works as CMO for Unicorn...

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...

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...

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.

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,...

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....

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...