No longer accepting speaking applications
This is Tradeline's 12th annual conference detailing critical space planning and management data, metrics, processes, and technology solutions that owners will need to meet goals for successful hybrid workplace initiatives, higher space utilization, increased flexibility, and better workplace engagement and experience. This includes multi-purpose spaces, improved space allocation processes, more effective data collection and reporting, change management, lower occupancy cost, and greater organizational performance.
Tradeline conferences are produced for the benefit of building owners/end users, and individuals from owner organizations typically represent more than 50% of the total conference audience. At Space Strategies 2023, 78% of registered attendees were owners.
All stakeholders who are interested in speaking at the conference are tasked to demonstrate innovative ideas, models, processes, equipment, technology, and/or solutions for space planning and space management. Your speaking proposal should address one or more of the priorities and elements below.
General presentation objectives:
- Reassessing workplace and occupancy strategies
- Hybrid workplace models that get the interaction, collaboration, communication equation right
- More accurate utilization studies, occupancy data, metrics, and analytical techniques
- Multi-purpose spaces for increased flexibility
- Change management in transitioning to new workplace models
- Space planning and design for a more transient workforce
- Balancing open, activity-based, private, and unassigned workspace
- Financial impacts of space decisions
- Impact of space plans on health and wellness, human behavior, and productivity
- Master planning strategies: portfolio/campus space assessment, program location, utilization
Your presentation may call upon one or more of the following elements (and your own creative elements) to meet the objectives above:
- Improved flexibility, functionality, space utilization
- More accurate space utilization data, metrics and analytical techniques
- Space planning and design concepts for improved workplace engagement
- Space allocation processes, issues, rationales, and solutions
- Hybrid workplace models
- Change management processes
- Capturing and using reliable data for space utilization
- Accommodating growth without the need for physical expansion
- Occupancy costs and financial impacts of space decisions
- Space plans and strategies that reduce footprint
- New metrics and standards for hybrid workplaces
- Wellness and health of building occupants
- New technology, tools, and methods for measuring space utilization
- IWMS, database, and cloud technologies that improve space management
- Balanced solutions for collaboration/personal work environments
- Facility design features for recruitment
- New metrics and standards for unassigned workspace
- Case studies of new workspace initiatives with results
- Space plans for interaction, collaboration, communication
- Findings on human performance outcomes of new space plans
- Transitioning to hybrid, unassigned, and/or activity-based workspace
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
To complete a speaking application, you will need:
- Presentation title, one-paragraph summary, and up to four takeaway ideas
- Speaker names, contact information, Bio/CV, and headshot image