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GCUC Podcast - Coworking, Hospitality & The Future of WorkBONUS! GCUC Community Podcast • GCUC x Coworking EuropeBonus Europe Podcast, Introed by Liz Elam- Podcast Description
Guests: Jean-Yves Hauer Founder at SocialWorkplaces/ Coworking Europe & Zoe Ellis-Moore CEO & Founder of Spaces to Places
Liz introduces this special crossover episode spotlighting a new global initiative in which she teams up with Jean-Yves Hauer of Coworking Europe. Jean Yves is sitting down with Zoe Ellis-Moore, founder of Spaces to Places, to explore her groundbreaking report "From Hype to Operational Real Estate" and uncover the real growth trends driving the flex office sector.
From the explosive rise of managed offices to the shift toward service-driven, hospitality-inspired wor...
2025-08-2638 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#60 "Updating the coworking community concept in the early 2020's" (12/2021)This session is a panel recorded on December 2nd, 2021, during the virtual Coworking Europe Conference.
Title : "Updating the coworking community concept ? - How to create human chemistry, senses of sharing, belonging and the right contacts friendly environment"
Community has long be said to be at the core of the coworking experience. Feeling part of a community come though through weak or strong links. Create the right atmosphere to sparks human contract is more an art than a science. What are the tricks and tips ? How to develop the right storyline to which members feel connected ? How to install a feeling...
2022-07-1857 min
Go Out and Talk to StrangersS03E09 What makes coworking successful? with Jean-Yves HuwartWhy do coworking spaces fail?
As the number of location independent workers grow, the demand is rising and new coworking spaces are being open everywhere. Yet, most of the times having great Wi-Fi and comfy desks is not enough. What makes coworking successful and how can we change lives by creating the optimal work environment conditions?
Jean-Yves Huwart is the founder of SocialWorkplaces.com and the producer of the Coworking Europe conference.
Co-owner of two coworking spaces himself, Jean-Yves Huwart is devoting a growing portion of his time in accompanying decision makers with...
2022-06-0647 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#59 Coworking And Shopping Malls - A Love Story For The Coming Decade? (2/2021)We are seeing more spaces in shopping centres. And shopping centres owners are more and more looking to integrate coworking spaces within their walls, while they look for more diversification, as e-commerce takes an ever greater share from the traditional retail sector. Why? How? How much? What are the challenges? In this discussion, we will look for the perspectives of both the Shopping Centres' owners and the coworking operators.
With Tom Whittington (Director of Retail & Leisure Research at Savills), Caroline Meeder (Head of Department Office and Residential Management ECE), Clément Goutagny (Head of Innovation & Business Development at Mercialys)
2022-03-1149 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#58 Where does Flexible Workspace go next ? Human, Physical & Digital (James Rankin, Instant Group)Keynote - Latests data and trends on the Coworking Industry in Europe, by James Rankin (Instant group). Presentation given on December 1st, at the Coworking Europe 2021 Virtual gathering.
2021-12-1620 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#57 How independent coworking operators can develop singular strategies in a consolidating market?Panel - Bigger players, international operators, new providers profiles coming from other industries are entering the coworking playground. Have independent operators, active locally for some years, have an advantage? As the coworking demand is growing, is the tide rising all ships, bog or small? Or are there specific strategies and approaches to be put in place in order to create specificities? Is the future for independent spaces local boutique offering and an even stronger effort to build community identities? Or can independent operators be as ambitious and anyone, locally or nationally?
The panel is supported by LiquidSpace. https://liquidspace.com/
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2021-12-1349 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#56 How can coworking providers accommodate from 10% to 50% of corporate employees?Companies are rapidly embracing hybrid working models and reconsidering the office capacities they need. A growing number of them are turning to flex workspace operator to propose flexible solutions letting them optimize the management of square meters while proposing more activity based workplace solutions and comfort.
The session was produced during Coworking Europe 2021 Virtual on Dec 2, 2021, and is supported by Upflex.
https://upflex.com/
2021-12-1046 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#55 Why flex workspace is today a must for Talent Recruitment? (Supported by myhive Slovakia)How Flex Workspace and coworking access shall become a must in the toolbox of HR and recruitment managers at the time of the distributed workforce.
No flex and human hospitality driven solution available, no or less appeal to attract future talents ?
With :
Adrian Bodis (Immofinanz / myhive)
Michal Rudzinsky (108 Agency)
Jakub Fekiac (Edgar Baker)
Supported by https://myhive-offices.com
From Bratislave, Slokavia, recorded on December 2nd, 2021, at Coworking Europe 2021 Virtual.
2021-12-0943 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#54 Market-Insights / Which requirements have changed among prospective tenants post-pandemic?(AOC)What corporate companies are already planning now and how operators should prepare for the increased demand for flex office solutions. By the Frankfurt based experts of AllOfficeCenters' co-founder Thomas Schulz.
Presented at Coworking Europe 2021 Virtual, on Dec 1st.
2021-12-0816 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#53 Learning from the Coworking reinvention in a time of Covid (by Mark Gilbreath, LiquidSpace)Mark Gilbreath is the CEO of LiquidSpace, one of the largest real-time flexible office spaces network. LiquidSpace is a partner of Coworking Europe 2021 Virtual.
Mark gave this fascinating presentation over the evolution and innovation within the coworking and flexible workspace market (Dec 2, 2021).
The worl of work is re-inventing everywhere.
2021-12-0336 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#52 Vibration Workingshare : "We open our coworking spaces in between big cities"Gamedy Mbaye is the COO of Vibration Workshare, an independent coworking operator based in Fribourg, a 40.000 inhabitants town in between Lausanne and Bern, two major urban areas of Western Switzerland.
The Swiss public transportation is worldwide famous for its punctuality and effectiveness. Hence, it makes a lot of sense to settle coworking spaces between bigger cities. A coworking member can meet a partner or customer anytime in one of the metros located closeby.
Founded in 2017, Vibration has since then opened up three additional locations, in Neufchâtel and Vevey, two other towns at the crossroad of bigger urban areas.
Gamedy M...
2021-09-1515 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#51 GCUC North America - "Aggregators will play a big role in structuring the coworking market"GCUC is the most important network of conferences on coworking and GCUC is a sister conference of the Coworking Europe conference (edition 2021 to take place in Vienna, on Dec 1-2). Liz Elam has initiated GCUC almost 10 years ago and has built a huge insight regarding the development of the industry in the US and in the World.
The GCUC North America conference 2021 is taking place in New York City on September 27-28-20.
The event will be live streamed and Coworking Europe viewers can get a 30% discount using the code "EUROPE". https://na.gcuc.co
This is the opportunity to...
2021-09-0829 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#50 Officenter (BE): "Regional flex offering works: we are growing our network to 16 locations!"Officenter is one of the most important regional flexible office operators in Belgium. The company is opening up 7 new centres, to grow the network to 16 locations in total, thanks to the support of local investors. The model of regional flex offering proved to be valid. A discussion with Christa Joucke, Managing Director at Officenter.
2021-07-2323 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#49 The MatchOffice 2021 Europe Coworking Survey - Analysis with Olga Fomenko, Marketing Dir.MatchOffice just released its 2021 Survey covering the situation of the flex workspace industry in Europe. The Covid-19 crisis has had a dramatic impact on the operators, with some differences between countries. The future might though be very bright. Discussion with Olga Fomenko, Marketing Director at MatchOffice.
2021-07-1921 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#48 MindPark: "We are now asked to take in charge the management of whole new buildings"Sanna Ekström is the co-founder of MindPark, a coworking operator more than a decade active in the Southern part of Sweden. The company which started in 2008 as a simple café in the small city of Helsingor, on the shore opposing the Danish capital Copenhaguen, operates now 4 coworking locations and is one of the most visible brand in the region. The company has lately signed up with a major property developer to run a big slice of a new building to be constructed in the outskirt of Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden. More and more, the coworking company is...
2021-06-2925 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#47 "The European coworking market needs more consolidation" - Davide Dattoli, Talent GardenTalent Garden is one of the most important international coworking brands in Europe. The Italy based company has locations in operations in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Spain. The operators just announced the opening of a new facility in Lille. Davide Dattoli, Co-founder and CEO of Talent Garden, is among the most important figures of the international scene. A discussion with the energy behind TAG's expansion.
2021-06-1429 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#46 EDGE - A Smart Building Developer To Expand Its Coworking Brand And Services InternationallyEDGE is a Holland based developer of smart building. Recently, the so called EDGE Building in Amsterdam was awarded the title of greenest and most efficient building in the world. As one hears a lot about landlords developing their own coworking brand, we see now real estate developers following the same way. EDGE has amplified its efforts to install cutting-edge technologies to make facilities greener and healthier. EDGE is also investing now in the hospitality service side, with EDGE Workspaces, the company's flexible workspace brand. After Amsterdam, EDGE Workspaces just opened up a new location in Berlin. We will discuss...
2021-06-0825 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#45 "Rules of residence in Greece are considered to be soften to boost co-living and remote working"Haz Memon is the founder of Swiss Escape a co-living and coworking company running operations in Switzerland and and in Crete. Haz is also involved in Co-Living Hub, an association of 250 Co-living operators across the world. The pandemic has had a huge impact on the demand, he says. Employers are now coming into the games. While we had mainly guests coming from international background, in Valais, where we operate a location, the proportion of Swiss Guests has jumped from 10 to 70% in the last year. The travel bans played a role, but not only. Now, companies are investigating how to implement...
2021-05-1420 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#44 "We raised €1 million and plan to open 30 locations in Sweden"Niclas Söör is the founder of DoSpace, a coworking operator born in Linköping, Sweden, in 2017, and which today operates 7 locations in 4 different cities. Despite being the 5th largest city in Sweden, Linking remains small by some standards, with 160.000 inhabitants. DoSpace has found is niche market in the area where demand is different than what one will have in bigger cities, such as Stockholm. "We have a lower audience of freelancers in the region", says Niclas Söör.
This niche has a big potential, though. DoSpace just raised about 1 million € to fund its expansion. The company wants 30 locations by 2026. Despite...
2021-05-1025 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#43 "No more plexiglass, no more social distance: coworking life is back in vaccinated Israel!"Nir Kelner is CEO of Brain Embassy, a coworking brand operating in Tel Aviv, Warsaw and Antwerp. Israel is the most Covid19 vaccinated country in the world. 90% of the capacity is now filled, explains Nir Kelner. The waiting list for hosting events is getting longer. We see new profile of prospect, with companies which gave up their office and now are putting their head office in coworking spaces. Hybrid working, between the home and the HQ, becomes a reality in a growing number of companies. And there is no more plexiglass and social distancing measures. We shake hands and give...
2021-05-0528 min
Powering ProductivityEp.4 The future of flexible working with Jean-Yves HuwartEpisode 4 with Jean-Yves Huwart Founder of Coworking Europe launched back in 2010 & founder of Social Workplaces - a consultancy firm focusing in on the education and benefits of coworking and flexible workplaces, leading edge innovation and new workplace models.
https://coworkingeurope.net/
socialworkplaces.com
We discuss how we can take the concept of ‘flexible working’ & coworking and make it work really smartly for us as individuals. How can we use these workspaces to make best value of our time, our personalities to lead to more productive, energetic, connected & happy lives. Are flex spaces for ever...
2021-04-2939 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#42 What does it take to digitise building operations and turn them into platforms of services?The purpose of the discussion is to have an overview of what are the possibilities to integrate more and more technologies into buildings to transform them into digitized service oriented assets. With years and years of experience in the flexible workspace industry, Essensys has seen the development of a growing number of technologies and enablers supported by new online services and tools.
2021-04-1429 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#41 Nooka - The tiny house of CoworkingWill we have tiny-coworking spaces soon like we have tiny houses ? It could be. Nooka has created "coworking" containers for just a few people, that are movable to any place. Could it open a whole new coworking segment in the market, answering some remote workers needs ?
Discussion with the Sergiu Babasan, based in Cluj (Romania) manager at Nooka.
2021-04-1217 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#40 The Melting Pot (Edinburgh) - Shut down and rebirth, a story of coworking resilienceClaire Carpenter has been operating The Melting Pot in Edinburgh for many years. The Covid19 crisis forced her to shut down. Just a few months later, Claire is re-opening within a new location (better and nicer) showing how resilient independent coworking operators can be.
A discussion about the practicalities of reboot, motivation and keeping the faith in the business that no pandemic can kill.
2021-04-0733 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#39 The Flex Workspace industry might have been hurt harder than we think, in 2020-21Eduardo Salsamendi is the president of ProWorkspaces, the Spanish association of flexible workspaces. Olga Fomenko is the Head of marketing for MatchOffice, one of the most important online booking platform for coworking spaces and meeting rooms in Europe. Both organisations released a report on the market data for the flex workspace industry, for Spain, in collaboration with Cushman & Wakefield, as well on an international level, from the user's perspective. The least one can say is that the drop in take-up and contract duration has been very steep. The coworking market seems to have been hit even harder than one might...
2021-03-0943 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#38 In Lebanon, Coworking helps to re-boot an economy of resilience - Berytech, BeyrouthRamy Boujawdeh is the managing director of Berytech, one of the biggest network of incubation services for entrepreneurs and coworking services in Lebanon.
One of their three locations in Beyrouth was destroyed by the explosion of August 4, 2020. Hope is there, though, and they are developing the concept of "resilience innovation".
2021-03-0814 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#37 Interview With Reeves Wiedeman, Author Of Billion Dollar Loser On The Rise And Fall Of WeWorkWeWork has been, and still is to some extend, the most global coworking champion. One of the most valued startup in the world, the breakneck expansion was not without damages. Based on more than two hundred interviews, this book chronicles the breakneck speed at which WeWork's CEO built and grew his company along with Neumann's relationship to a world of investors, including Masayoshi Son of Softbank, who fueled its chaotic expansion into everything from apartment buildings to elementary schools.
Interview with Reeves Wiedeman, journalist at the New York Magazine and author of "Billion Dollard Loser", the epic story on WeWork.
2021-03-0827 min
GCUC Podcast - Coworking, Hospitality & The Future of WorkJean-Yves Huwart - Founder at Social Workplaces and the Coworking Europe ConferenceLiz Elam and Jean-Yves Huwart, founder at Social Workplaces and the Coworking Europe Conference talk about how they met and how Jean-Yves began. We explore the survival of coworking during the pandemic and how to keep high quality connection through each lock down wave. We talk about future offerings, high coworking demand and how we are going to handle the “coworking bonanza”. You’re going to love it!
#gcucpodcast #JeanYves #SocialWorkplaces #CoworkingEurope #entrepreneur #coworking #community
2020-11-2329 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#36 "Provide workers with workspaces closer to their home is today's big need" - A. Kapic, IWGAlisa Kapic is the VP Sales Northern Europe of IWG, the mother company supervising major Flex and Coworking brands in the world such as Regus, Spaces, Basepoint or Signature.
Nowadays, with 3.400 locations around the world, IWG is by far the biggest provider of flexible workspace solution on the planet. It also was one of the first mover towards a multi-brands strategy in the field of coworking, in order to address the rising different segments one see surfacing in the market, from freelancers to corporates.
Today, has one moves into the post-pandemic times, the work culture is embracing the models employees...
2020-09-1019 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#35 "We will soon have the most distributed coworking offering in the city of Berlin" - UnicornInga Kayademir is the COO of Unicorn, one of Germany's most important coworking player, with 20 locations spread around Berlin, Munich, Cologne or Potsdam. The company is coming out of the Covid-19 crisis stronger. They manage to keep most of their members, raised money and kept their plans to open new locations.
It's in Berlin that Unicorn is likely the most ambitious. "The capital is a very dynamic ecosystem and we work on opening locations in every district of the city. We will complete two new locations in the coming six months, making us the biggest coworking operator in the city...
2020-09-0317 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#34 "We integrate IoT within the coworking business" Alessandro Nacci, Sofia LocksAlessandro Nacci is the CEO of SOFIA Locks (technology partner of ISEO), an Italy based company developing IoT (Internet of things) related smart access solutions. They have been focusing a lot, lately, on the coworking industry as technology allows to flexibilize office and real estate assets.
"Coworking and Coliving services is a very important area of development for modern access and wireless technologies", says Alessandra Nacci.
The company works closely with ISEO, one of the most important key and locking systems producers in Europe, with more than 50 years experience. Sofia develops the software part and relies on ISEO's hardware to...
2020-08-2918 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#33 "Our coworking activities grew twentyfold in 6 years thanks to Lisbon's sex appeal"- Idea SpacesJoao Simoes is the co-founder of Idea Spaces, a Lisbon based coworking operator which started its activities in 2014 within a 400 m2 big space. Six years later, Idea Spaces is soon to open a third location, cumulating a total of 10.000 m2 surface under coworking management.
"The strategy initiated in the early 2010's to make Lisbon a magnet for tech and foreign talents clearly delivered. The quality of life, the cost of living, the culture, food, climate has transformed Portugal into a great place to gather teams for international scaling up tech companies looking for talents. It's easier for a Finnish startup...
2020-08-2417 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#32 "The international TechHub franchise will keep going!" - Viesturs Sosars, TechHub RigaViesturs Sosars is the co-founder of TechHub Riga. The tech coworking and incubator was launched eight years ago and since then played a major role structuring the Latvian tech and startup ecosystem and connecting it with the international tech scene.
Named after TechHub London, one of the UK pioneer in the early 2010's, which has been among the most important players who supported the rise of the Silicon Roundabout in London, TechHub Riga has not been proportionally less important for the Baltic country tech scene.
TechHub London - which had been co-founded by Mike Butcher, from TechCrunch - announced the...
2020-08-1814 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#31 "The wave of corporate workplace's total transformation will hit in 2021" - F Vazquez, 3G OfficeFrancisco Vazquez is the Founder and President of 3G Office, a major Madrid based architecture firm operating in close to 50 countries, including Spain, Portugal and most of the Latin American countries. 3G Office designs corporate offices for big companies such as KPMG, Orange or Google. The last couple of years, coworking and flex workplace grew so much in 3G Office's portofolio that it now represent 30% of its activities. "It could grow up to 50% within the coming years, and the Covid-19 will accelerate a wave of transformation never seen so far in the workplace industry", explains Francisco Vazquez.
2020-08-1226 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#30 "We are the hot desking of parking lots" - Daithi de Buitleir, Park Office (Dublin)Daithi de Buitleir is the Chief Marketing Officer of Park Office, a Dublin based startup which optimizes the management of parking lots for companies and landlord. The service is a natural extension of what happens with hot desking management within flexible workplaces and coworking spaces.
"Flexibility becomes the norm, especially in the post-Covid19 crisis", does he say.
Park Office allows, a.o., to pool parking lots from different owners within a same neighborhood.
"We optimize infrastructure and costs management". In line with coworking and other sharing economy related innovative new services.
2020-07-3114 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#29 "The risk for commercial real estate companies is to not embrace coworking" - Castellum (Sweden)Henrik Saxborn is the CEO of Castellum, the second biggest commercial real estate company in Sweden. The Swedish company manages an assets portfolio of more than 600 properties, mainly in commercial real estate, representing a total value of more than 9 bn €.
One year ago Castellum took over UnitedSpaces, one of the most famous coworking operators in Sweden, which is active in five cities and operates a total of 6.600 sqm of coworking spaces.
We discussed the reasons for this acquisition and his take on the evolution of coworking/office from the perspective of a major property management company.
2020-07-2314 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#28 "Occupancy is back in our Bratislava coworking spaces!" - Coworking CvernovkaMichala Hrnčiarová is the founder of Coworking Cvernovka, a small coworking space located in the suburb of Bratislava, Slovakia, which also offers childcare services. In february 2020, just before the Covid19 outbreak, Coworking Cvernovka had just opened up it's second location, in a shopping mall.
2020-07-1713 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#27 "The traditional office model was not facing enough competition" - John Williams, Instant GroupJohn Williams and James Rankin are respectively CMO and Head of Research of The Instant Group, a multi-services company focused on Flexible Workspaces and Coworking products.
The Instant Group has a unique position to spot the latest trends in the coworking market on the EMEA level has well as on the international field.
Conversation with two very knowledgeable gentlemen who know a lot about the coworking world internationally and where it is heading to post-Covid19.
In addition, here are some of the figures observed by The Instant Group:
-Demand for flexible workspace seems to have regained a lot of its...
2020-07-1225 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#26 "With 70 locations, we are today one of the biggest European coworking players" - Rent24Roksana Witusinski is the communication manager of the group Rent24, one of the biggest Europe based coworking operators.
Founded in 2015 in Berlin, the company operates 70 locations on the continent and beyond like in Israel and in the US. Rent24 provides services to almost 35.000 members.
Rent24 cultivates the idea of mixing freelancers, corporates and startups. The company has been growing rapidly thanks to organic and external growth and has partnerships with major corporations, such as the German insurance group Allianz.
"It's important for us to keep the local team in place. They know the market, the people, the culture and vibe...
2020-07-0918 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#25 "Seen printout numbers, we know people are coming back in coworking spaces" - C. Hammer, EzeepChristoph Hammer is Senior Vice President and Product Owner at ezeep, a cloud printing platform for coworking and flexible workspaces. ezeep stands for “easy printing“; the solution takes away the technical hassle of administrating network printers as well as tracking and charging printouts of coworking members. The company also cares about planting trees to offset the carbon footprint of coworking spaces’ print jobs. Christoph Hammer witnessed how Covid-19 hit coworking spaces from the other side and shares some thoughts with us about how he envisions what’s to come.
Main takeaways:
According to ezeep, on average, 30% of coworking spaces members print ev...
2020-07-0623 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#24 "We transform C Class buildings into coworking communities" - Puzl Coworking (Bulgaria)Zsofi Toth is the "Navigator" at Puzl Coworking, a Bulgarian based coworking operator with a community of more than 600 members. She is also co-founder of the Budapest office.
Puzl Coworking is working on the opening on new locations in Hungary and Romania with a model based on the reconversion of C Class Buildings and old factories into cool coworking communities with a focus on the digital industries.
The company initially was a offering IT services and was looking for new offices. As it struggled to find a proper location, Puzl figured out to create its own environment taking the opportunity...
2020-07-0224 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#23 "With Hana, CBRE adds coworking to its facility management offering" Paul Nellist, Hana EMEAPaul Nellist is the EMEA Managing Director of Hana, the coworking service launched by CBRE, the world biggest Real Estate advising and brokerage company.
Hana is today a fully owned subsidiary of CBRE with operation in the UK and the US. The company operates 10 locations in total, 6 in the US and 4 in the UK (London and soon Manchester). The company has plans to open further spaces in Amsterdam, Dublin, Madrid, Paris and Berlin. Hana is discussing partnership with Landlords interested in these different cities.
The model is very much based on partnership management agreement with landlords, similar to what hotels...
2020-06-2915 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#22 "We make 80 railway stations in Switzerland coworking enabled" - Jenny Schäpper, Village OfficeJenny Schäpper is the co-founder of Village Office, a cooperative gathering 72 coworking spaces all over Switzerland.
Village Office signed up a deal with the Swiss Railway company to make 80 railway station coworking enabled. They will work closely with local coworking operators to deliver this mission. The goal is to increase the coworking offering in the smaller town and remote areas.
Coworking Switzerland also achieved to get the consensus from all political parties in Bern to support the opening up of a total of 100.000 coworking in the country, in the coming future. Public-private partnerships could be the way to follow, s...
2020-06-2223 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#21 "We are working on building the Knotel offering in Europe" - Frank Zorn, CEO Deskeo (Knotel)Frank Zorn is the co-founder of Deskeo, nowadays one of the biggest coworking operators in France, with 75.000 m2 under management, spread across 50 locations, mainly in the Paris and Lyon areas.
Deskeo is the French arm of the US coworking giant Knotel, that recently invested in the company.
Knotel policy, so far, was to keep building on the local brand. Ahoy!, the Berlin based operator taken over by Knotel in 2019 is operating under the Ahoy! brand as well.
"Knotel had the same positioning as ours. We rapidly figured out there was a good fit between us. We have the same understanding...
2020-06-1922 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#20 "A financially sustainable Coworking Space in the countryside? We did it!" - Aurora CoworkingJose Antonio Morales is the founder of a small Coworking Space located in the Slovenia countryside. No more than 14 people. Though, he made it financially sustainable.
Five years later, things are going well. The model is different than the tradition commercial model big coworking brand operate in big metropoles. The Aurora model relies on a flexible cooperative approach, and could be replicated in any Europe rural area, says Jose Antonio Morales.
2020-06-1630 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#19 "The Coworking value chain will soon integrate 3 different kinds of players" - Andri RabetanetyAndri Rabetanety is senior lecturer in Real Estate finance at the Glion Institute of Higher Education. Expert in the hotel industry, Andri sees a similar economical value chain taking place in the coworking industry.
In the hotel industry, the economical model is supported by three kinds of different players all focusing one of portion of the value chain.
The property owner is responsible for the financing of the infrastructure, of the building. The operational manager runs the facility, the operations like the laundry services, the A/C, the rooms cleaning, the Food & Beverages, le security, etc. And the brand owner...
2020-06-1528 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#18 "Coworking operators still expect 6 very difficult months ahead" - MatchOffice (Survey)Olga Fomenko is the head of Marketing of the online workspace and meetingroom booking platform MatchOffice, based in Denmark and Ukraine.
MatchOffice released its Report 2020 on the situation of coworking and flexworkspace in Europe and beyond. According to the surveyed spaces, more than 60% of them expect a very difficult situation still to last for the coming six months, before occupancy rate comes back on an average normal.
Prior to the Covid-19 outbreak, occupancy rates were very high, close to 90% in most of the European countries, as well as in Asia and Northern America.
Meeting rooms are now being equipped more...
2020-06-1017 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#17 "We pivoted our coworking business model to offer Com-PR services" - Seed Factory (Brussels)Edouard Cambier is the founder of Seed Factory, a Flex Workspace and Coworking space operating in Brussels since the early 2000's. Edouard is also the president of the Belgian Workspace Association (BWA), which gathers more than 200 Belgian coworking and flex workspace members.
Seed Factory pivoted immediately after the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. The space, which normally hosts more than 150 people, created it's own PR and news agency for its members and started a communication campaign both on mainstream local media as well as on social networks. Seed Factory also engaged with local organic food producers and created its own local market...
2020-06-0526 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#16 "Our coworking space is moving from a low tech to a high tech environment" - ImpactHub ViennaBarbara Inmann is the managing director of ImpactHub Vienna.
The coworking space, which a.o. hosts the HQ of the global ImpactHub network (more than 100 non for profit coworking spaces and communities across the globe), and is one of the important coworking players within the Austrian coworking scene.
In order to rapidly pivot due to the Covid-19 crisis, ImpactHub Vienna partnered up with one of its tenant, an agency operating online streaming for the movie industry, to equip permanently its event room with the right caption and sound materials.
The coworking space had no tech people on its own payroll...
2020-05-3016 min
Coworking Europe Podcast#15 "The growth of the coworking offering is now fueled by partnerships" Lee Elliott, Knight FrankLee Elliott is a based in London expert on Flexible workspace for the international real estate advise company Knight Frank.
Lee is the co-author of a report on the new "Power of partnership" with the workplace as a service sector.
"The coworking phenomenon has changed real estate for the better", say Lee Elliott. "However, we need more discipline to figure out what coworking is about. There is a melting-pot which doesn't help the market, in my views."
The report's aim is to make the different understandings clearer.
The report looks at the last decade of coworking in London and the...
2020-05-2534 min
Coworking Values PodcastWhere We're Going Next With Jean Yves from Coworking EuropeJean-Yves Huwart is the founder of the mighty Coworking Europe conference, launched in 2010 as well as Coworking Africa, Coworking India and Social Workplace conferences.
Coworking Europe this year is Warsaw Wednesday 13th – Friday 15th November 2019 - get your ticket here
He runs SocialWorkplaces.com, a consultancy firm focused on open innovation and new working models.
Subscribe to Coworking Values Podcast on Soundwise
2019-11-0538 min
Coworking Values PodcastWhere We're Going Next With Jean Yves from Coworking EuropeJean-Yves Huwart is the founder of the mighty Coworking Europe conference, launched in 2010 as well as Coworking Africa, Coworking India and Social Workplace conferences.
Coworking Europe this year is Warsaw Wednesday 13th – Friday 15th November 2019 - get your ticket here
He runs SocialWorkplaces.com, a consultancy firm focused on open innovation and new working models.
Subscribe to Coworking Values Podcast on Soundwise
2019-11-0538 min
Coworking Values PodcastWhere We're Going Next With Jean Yves from Coworking EuropeJean-Yves Huwart is the founder of the mighty Coworking Europe conference, launched in 2010 as well as Coworking Africa, Coworking India and Social Workplace conferences.
Coworking Europe this year is Warsaw Wednesday 13th – Friday 15th November 2019 - get your ticket here
He runs SocialWorkplaces.com, a consultancy firm focused on open innovation and new working models.
Subscribe to Coworking Values Podcast on Soundwise
2019-11-0538 min
RemoteOfficeFMGlobal Coworking Landscape with JY Huwart, CEO of SocialWorkplaces - Organizer Coworking Europe, Africa and India conferences[00.55] Definition of Social Workplaces [04.06] Coworking Movement [11.13] Coworking development in Europe, America, Australia and Asia [20.20] Strategy when price of renting more higher [24.25] The best coworking business model [26.30] Step to build coworking spaces [30.00] The recommended features of coworking software [31.40] Social Workplaces value proposition [33.20] The future plan of Social Workplace
2017-09-0500 min