World Workplace Conference Highlights People And Technology Challenges For Facilities Executives

Published 29 May 2018 by Rodolphe D'Arjuzon

Asset and Maintenance Management Facilities Management Property and Portfolio Management Smart Buildings Space and Workplace Management Events

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Executive Summary

Verdantix shares its takeaways from the recent IFMA- and RICS-organised conference in Barcelona which brought together facility managers as well as executives from the facilities services and technology sectors. The theme of the conference was ‘a people business in the digital world’ and distinctly forward-looking. The conference highlighted the challenges property managers must face up as they aim to deliver workplaces that support a new generation of worker expectations.

World Workplace Conference Highlights People And Technology Challenges For Facilities Executives

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Figure 1. Understanding The Need For HR And Property Management To Work More Closely Together

Organisations mentioned

Apple, ARCHIBUS, Deloitte, Facebook, Glose, Google, International Facility Management Association, Millennium bcp, OVG, Planon, PROCOS, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Schneider Electric, Trimble, WeWork

About the author

Rodolphe d’Arjuzon

Managing Director

Rodolphe leads the Verdantix Smart Buildings Practice. His current agenda is focused on the convergence of real estate and building software solutions and how to harness the IoT in smart buildings. Rodolphe has twenty years of experience in technology research and strategy consulting. He co-founded Verdantix in 2008 and previously worked for Barclays Bank and L.E.K. Consulting. Rodolphe holds a PhD in Physics from Cambridge University.