Below, we present the Coworking Europe Program for 2021 conference in Vienna.
Nov. 30th - Pre-conference
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09.00-18.00 Coworking Tour Day
Self-guided Coworking Tour – Coworking Spaces in Vienna and Bratislava are opening their doors to the international community.
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14.00-18.00 Coworking Tour around Coworking Spaces in Vienna lead by the Vienna Business Agency
Official Program – Introduction and guiding by the Vienna Business Agency (VBA). VBA will show some coworking spaces in Vienna to the first Coworking Europe attendees on the scene.
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20.00-23.00 Welcome Dinner at Schweizerhaus
Join the evening in a rustic beer hall & garden with 19th-century origins serving traditional Viennese dishes.
Schweizerhaus (Prater, Vienna)
Dec. 1st - Austria Center Vienna
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09.30-09.35 Welcome speech
Welcome Speech and briefing of the conference
Jean-Yves Huwart, Coworking Europe
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09.35-09.45 Vienna: How the city uses new working patterns to increase the quality of living
Keynote – Vienna is ranked as the city with the highest quality of living worldwide. How are developments like coworking offerings and soft mobilty solutions contributing? How can Vienna move further into this direction?
City of Vienna
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09.45-10.05 An overview of the Vienna and Austrian Coworking ecosystem
Collective talk with some of the representative of the Austrian and Viennese coworking scene.
Dusan Duffek, Coworking Campus (Bratislava); Herwig Zöttl, Coworking Austria (Innsbruck); Anita Komarek, Hotel Schani (Vienna) TBC
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10.05-10.20 Global Coworking Survey - Latest Data
Keynote – The Global Coworking Survey is the world most comprehensive study on coworking. The latest outcome will be presented in Vienna.
Carsten Foertsch, Deskmag (Berlin)
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10.20-10.35 An overview of the European coworking market almost two years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Keynote – Latests data and trends
James Rankin, The Instant Group (London)
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10.35-10.50 Corporate workspace strategy - What has changed and is the current acceleration sustainable?
Keynote – What corporate companies are already planning now and how operators should prepare for the increased demand for flex office solutions.
Richard Louis Gross, AllOfficeCenters (Frankfurt)
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10.50-11.15 How to enter the new reality of commute-less working in a mix of Home Work and working from coworking spaces nearby? A society perspective.
The Covid-19 transformed the working model of medern societies. Forced homeworking changed companies’ cultures and and methods. Where will the commuteless soceity influen the coworking industry the most?
TBC
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11.15-11.25 Can coworking operators support the hybridization of everything and how to transform it into easy to use products? (Events, meeting, work)
Podcast studios or visio-conference rooms are now avalialble for rent in a growing number of coworking spaces. Are coworking operators the key to transform any organization into a hybrid one, physycial and digital?
TBC
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11.25-11.35 The Story of Impact Hub - The worldwide largest coworking and how it weathered the pre-vaccination time over the globe
Keynote – Barbara Inmann leads Impact Hub Vienna one among the more than 100 locations worldwide. In 10 years, Impact Hub has become the widest network of non for profit coworking communities, with presence on the five continent. How did the network succeed and what are the challenges they overcome daily? Explanation through the lenses of one of it’s first and most important member space.
Barbara Inmann, ImpactHub (Vienna)
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11.35-12.00 Coffee Break & Network
Take a break and network!
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12.10-13.00 Are today's coworking space operators strong enough to address the growing demand to host bigger teams and organizations?
Panel
TBC
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12.10-13.00 TBC
Talk
TBC
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13.00-14.15 Lunch Break
Eat something & network!
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14.15-15.05 Managed services, shared revenus, commissioning... What are the alternatives to the traditional lease contracts and costly deposits?
Panel
TBC
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14.15-15.05 TBC
Talk
TBC
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15.10-16.00 TBC
Panel
TBC
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15.10-16.00 What is the value of my coworking space? How can I sell my coworking space and merge it with another player?
Workshop
TBC
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16.00-16.30 Coffee Break & Network
Take a break & network!
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16.30-17.20 Integrating technology to optimise coworking management's processes
Panel
Essensys, Ezeep, Salto, Iseo, Nexudus
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16.30-17.20 How coworking is to become the corner stone of the future Hybrid Working generation ?
Talk
TBC
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17.30-20.00 Coworking Tour / Free Time
Coworking Tour / Free Time
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20.00-23.30 Coworking Europe Opening Night
Coworking Europe Opening Night at The Student Hotel (TBC)
Dec. 2nd - Austria Center Vienna
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09.10-09.40 Unconference Presentation
Unconference explanation
Julianne Becker, Iris Wolfer (TBC)
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09.50 - 10.40 Franchise - The scale up recipe for the Coworking industry
Panel
TBC
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09.50 - 10.40 TBC
Talk
TBC
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09.50 - 10.40 Unconference Session 1
Unconference Topic & Format
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09.50 - 10.40 Unconference Session 2
Unconference Topic & Format
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09.50 - 10.40 Unconference Session 3
Unconference Topic & Format
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10.45-11.35 When the space is a mean for a goal - Purpose driven coworking spaces. How to make it succesful?
Panel
TBC
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10.45-11.35 TBC
Talk
TBC
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10.45-11.35 Unconference Session 1
Unconference Topic & Format
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10.45-11.35 Unconference Session 2
Unconference Topic & Format
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10.45-11.35 Unconference Session 3
Unconference Topic & Format
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11.35-12.10 Coffee Break & Network
Take a break & network!
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12.10-13.00 How to create ``individual company culture compliant`` coworking spaces for corporate ?
Panel
TBC
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12.10-13.00 TBC
Talk
TBC
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12.10-13.00 Unconference Session 1
Unconference Topic & Format
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12.10-13.00 Unconference Session 2
Unconference Topic & Format
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12.10-13.00 Unconference Session 3
Unconference Topic & Format
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13.00-14.15 Lunch Break
Eat something & network!
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14.15-15.05 Between international brands and property companies backed operators, what can be the positioning of independant spaces?
Panel
TBC
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14.15-15.05 TBC
Talk
TBC
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14.15-15.05 Unconference Session 1
Unconference Topic & Format
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14.15-15.05 Unconference Session 2
Unconference Topic & Format
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14.15-15.05 Unconference Session 3
Unconference Topic & Format
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15.10-16.00 TBC
Panel
TBC
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15.10-16.00 TBC
Talk
TBC
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15.10-16.00 Unconference Session 1
Unconference Topic & Format
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15.10-16.00 Unconference Session 2
Unconference Topic & Format
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15.10-16.00 Unconference Session 3
Unconference Topic & Format
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16.00-16.30 Coffee Break & Network
Take a break & network!
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16.30-17.10 Wrap-up Unconference
Short presentation of the findings
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17.15-20.00 Coworking Tour / Free time
Coworking Tour / Free time
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20.00-23.00 Christmas markets around Vienna
Evening Program- The most beautiful squares in Vienna transform into magical Christmas markets from mid November on. The smell of hot punch and Christmas bakery creates a Christmas atmosphere not to be missed. Let’s check it out together!
Dec. 3rd - Bratislava
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09.00-18.00 Coworking Tour Day
Coworking Spaces in Vienna and Bratislava are opening their doors to the international community.
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11.00 - 11.50 Interactive Talk
Interactive Talk
HubHub Bratislava (TBC)
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11.50-12.40 Interactive Talk
Interactive Talk
HubHub Bratislava (TBC)
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12.45-14.15 Lunch break
Let’s go together to eat some traditional slovak food!
Slovak Pub (TBC)
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14.20-15.10 Interactive Talk
Interactive Talk
Slovak Pub (TBC)
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15.10-16.00 Interactive Talk
Interactive Talk
Slovak Pub (TBC)
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16.00-16.30 Coffee Break & Network
Take a break & network!
Slovak Pub (TBC)
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16.30-19.00 Coworking Tour / Free time
Coworking Tour / Free time
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20.00-23.00 Coworking Europe Farewell Dinner
Farewell dinner in a traditional viennese Heurigen (wine tavern)