The Workplace Event Agenda 2026

Workplace Reimagined, created by Bevi, has been bringing together end users across EMEA and the US for open, peer-led conversations under Chatham House rules. These sessions have created space for honest dialogue around the evolving world of work and the growing importance of workplace experience in shaping culture, performance, and belonging.

This time, we’re breaking the mould.

Join us for a special fireside chat hosted by Bianca Angelico, who will moderate a candid and thought-provoking discussion alongside Rod from UKTV, Chloe from LinkedIn, and Sarah from Lloyds Banking Group. Together, they will explore workplace experience through the lens of culture and strategy, asking whether it is simply another industry buzzword or a genuine business driver.

Expect an open, engaging conversation that moves beyond theory to real-world insight, examining how organisations are reimagining the workplace to create environments where people can connect, collaborate, and thrive.

Social value is no longer a “nice to have” but for many organisations, knowing where to start or how to turn intent into impact remains a challenge. This panel brings together leaders from across social enterprise, workplace strategy, and global FM to explore how workplace and facilities management teams can move beyond tick-box commitments and embed social value into everyday decisions, contracts, and partnerships. From social impact procurement and supplier collaboration to delivering measurable outcomes for people, communities and the planet, the discussion will unpack practical approaches that work at scale and the critical role workplace and FM leaders play in driving meaningful, long-term impact across their organisations.

As workplaces continue to prioritise wellbeing, safety, and performance, gambling related harm remains one of the least recognised risks. This session highlights how gambling can impact both employees and employers, influencing decision making, concentration, safety behaviours, culture, and overall organisational stability.

The session explores how gambling harm can lead to unsafe shortcuts, reduced situational awareness, emotional strain, financial vulnerability, and compliance risks. Attendees will gain practical insight into how workplaces can recognise early signs, reduce stigma, and introduce supportive, preventative measures that protect people, performance, and organisational integrity.

When people feel they belong, work works better: How belonging unlocks productivity, retention and customer experience in FM.

Tess is someone organisations turn to during periods of growth, acquisition or strategic change when culture is under pressure.

For over 15 years, Tess has partnered with boards and executive teams across the public and private sector, known for her systemic approach to addressing root cause rather than surface level issues.

Her research reveals that over 40 percent of senior leaders fail in the first 60 days of a new role because a critical piece is missing from how organisations onboard and integrate leaders.

Today, Tess will share hot off the press insights into what truly makes or breaks senior leaders in those early days, drawn from her forthcoming book, Your First 60 Days.

What if the best FM solutions aren't in your country? Join our panel as we explore how facilities and workplace management practices differ across Europe. Borders divide countries, but the best ideas travel.

Everything happens somewhere, and increasingly, things now happen in two places: physical and digital. This is the essence of the modern-day digitised workplace. The digital realm is increasingly being used to manage and control the physical space, and the effectiveness of this management is determined by how accurately these two realms reflect each other.

In property and facilities management, our role is to provide spaces where activities can occur. We strive to optimise these spaces to meet the needs of their users in the most efficient and effective manner. Delivering the best service requires a precise and ongoing dialogue between the users of the space, the properties that house these spaces, and the entities responsible for their upkeep. Technology plays a key role in facilitating this conversation, but it does not create value on its own.

This session will share insights and lessons learned on how to transform technological innovation into real business value by bringing people, data, and properties together. The goal is to create a truly modern digitised workplace.

Culture isn’t what’s written on the wall. It’s how people feel at work, especially when things are uncertain.

In today’s workplace, change is constant. New technologies, restructures, AI adoption, and shifting expectations ask people to adapt again and again. And in these moments, culture is revealed, not through values statements or engagement surveys, but through the emotional experience of everyday work.

Despite decades of leadership models and culture initiatives, organisations continue to struggle with the same blind spot: emotion. Leaders often focus on the culture they want to prescribe, while overlooking the emotional signals that shape the culture people actually live.

For some employees, change feels energising and full of possibility. For others, it creates anxiety, fatigue, or quiet disengagement. These emotions don’t just affect morale, they define trust, belonging and performance. Over time, they become the real culture of the organisation.

This is where culture, health and wellbeing intersect, not as programmes or perks, but as outcomes of how emotion is led every day. When emotional signals are ignored, pressure builds, psychological safety erodes, and wellbeing conversations start far too late. When emotion is understood and addressed early, people feel safer, more engaged, and better able to cope with change.

Drawing on the core ideas from Jennifer Bryan’s upcoming book, this keynote explores how leaders shape culture, intentionally or not, through the emotional experience they create in times of change. Jennifer reframes emotion as a leadership capability that directly influences culture, trust, and sustainable performance.

This is about closing the gap between prescribed culture and lived culture, and giving leaders practical ways to lead emotion with clarity, confidence, and humanity so change strengthens culture instead of draining it.

Facilities management margins are under increasing pressure — from competitive pricing, rising labour costs, and growing complexity across assets, contracts, and suppliers. Many organisations respond by investing in more technology, yet still struggle to see impact.

In this session, Stephanie focuses on how better information, not more tools, helps FM leaders protect margins by improving reliability, purchasing decisions, and client advice, without adding headcount.

You’ll take away:

- What “data” really means in FM and why it drives margin erosion
- How poor information increases admin, rework, and reactive maintenance
- Practical principles for improving data quality and system design so people work faster and with more confidence
- How to use existing asset, contract, and invoice information to make decisions more accurate and less manual

The session closes with a real-life hard services example showing how an organisation used better information to reduce complexity, support less experienced staff, and create commercial headroom — without replacing their core systems.

Can you design a workplace that works for everyone? In this hands-on workshop each group faces the challenge of creating a workplace that genuinely works for people with different needs, work styles, and backgrounds. One-size-fits-all might not be the answer?