In this exclusive interview with Lucia Diana, Global Real Estate, Verizon, we dive into her thoughts on coworking, open offices, and the latest workplace developments at Verizon.

At Future Offices Winter 2020 (January 22 – 24), we had a chance to speak with Don Watson, Vice President, Global Workplace at Merck about:

• How Merck has aligned functions and divisions on priorities to reduce silos
• Key tips for those in the process of building a successful global real estate team
• Tackling strategic partnerships from a real estate standpoint
• The projects that excite him the most heading into 2020
• And more!
  

At the 2020 Future Offices Winter, Michael Berretta, Vice President Network Development, Americas at IWG sat down with us and shared:

• His favorite ways to promote collaboration among employees in the workplace
• How some industry earthquakes, like WeWork or the fear of another recession, have affected IWG’s strategy or mindset
• The future of coworking
• His biggest office pet peeves
  

We got the opportunity to have a one-on-one with Gavin Hughes Daniels, Principal & Co-Founder at Wingate Hughes. He discusses the future of work, how optimism should be the focus for all organizations, the intersection of data and humanity and more.

Onsite we had the pleasure of interviewing Simantinee about creating a modern workplace. She mentions challenges she’s encountered when implementing workplace strategies and personal advice on how to overcome them.