Ivo is Co-Founder and Trustee of the City of Opportunities Charity He is Founder and CEO of Evolution Global Investors with over 20 years’ of real estate investment experience across the world and a strong investment performance and ESG track-record. In addition, Adjunct Professor & Senior Fellow at Columbia Business School in New York He holds a Ph.D from Maastricht University and an MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School

Marnix leads the global Real Estate & Workspace Services team at Booking.com. He has a background in international HR and held general management roles across various multinational companies and continents prior to joining Booking.com in 2012. His key interest centres around how the physical workspace can best enable the success and work of the people, based on data and experiments.

Over the last 5 years, Lisa has been working in the leading flexible offices businesses in the enterprise sales leadership capacity, having built and grown the enterprise and account management teams globally. Lisa was the Head of Enterprise Sales and Account Management at Industrious, the third biggest flex operator in the US; the Head of Enterprise Sales for Hana in EMEA (CBRE subsidiary company) and most recently the Senior Vice President of Sales for the U.K. in IWG. Lisa is a successful business leader with passion for client solutions, business development, and building high performing teams.  Lisa has spent 15+ years of her career in the leading commercial real estate companies (Cushman and Wakefield, JLL and CBRE) in transaction management, strategic advisory and portfolio management capacity, scaling up the businesses across geographies, clients and product lines. Lisa is a globally recognised industry expert and thought leader on flexible office and co-working. Her thesis on WeWork and the Rise of Co-Working and research materials on the flexible office market have been published by Columbia Business School and are currently used by the recognised professors to teach students on the subject of flexible offices and asset management. Lisa herself is a visiting lecturer in Columbia Business School and Oxford Said Business School teaching MBA students on the active asset management, operational real estate, flex office space and the future of offices.  Lisa has MBA degrees from Columbia Business School and London Business School. Lisa is passionate about hospitality and making a difference to people's well-being through built environment.

A Corporate Real Estate professional specialising in advising high growth tech companies on their real estate interests. I have worked in CRE for over 10 years and my career spans working in London and having previously worked in Melbourne, Australia. I have held the position of Head of Real Estate at two of the UK’s largest tech unicorns, Revolut and Deliveroo. My specialisms include Real Estate Strategy, business partnering and client side advisory for corporate real estate transactions.

Simon is Vice President, Research & Advisory Services at the Urban Land Institute (ULI), where he is responsible for managing its innovative research agenda covering the key issues shaping the future of the real estate industry including climate change and sustainability, investment and development trends and shifts in demography and technological change. Prior to joining ULI, Simon specialised in research on global cities and real estate for Grosvenor, one of the world’s largest privately-owned international property businesses. Simon’s role involved undertaking analysis on global city developments to inform the company’s long-term strategy and thinking on cities. He has undertaken major research projects on megatrends for real estate, examining topics such as urbanisation, demographic change, digital disruption and climate change. Simon also has previous experience working in urban planning, economic development and strategic consulting for the retail sector. He holds an MSc in Urban Economic Development from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.

Nils Kok is Professor in Real Estate Finance at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research interests range from urban economics to institutional real estate investments, with a strong focus on the economics of energy efficiency and sustainability in the real estate sector. In addition to his academic position, Nils serves as non-executive board member at GeoPhy, the leading provider of automated valuations for the real estate sector. Previously, Nils was the founder and CEO of GRESB, a global ESG rating company for real estate and infrastructure investments. Nils’ research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Public Economics, The RAND Journal of Economics, and Real Estate Economics. You can also find his research in newspapers, such as the Guardian, the Australian Financial Review, Das Handelsblatt, Le Monde and Het Financieele Dagblad, and in industry publications, such as Bloomberg, Europe Real Estate and Vastgoedmarkt. Nils received his PhD from Maastricht University (Netherlands) and, after a 4-year stint on the East coast, currently lives in Maastricht (NL) with his wife, Lian, and his three kids.