Coworking Europe Podcast
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The Coworking Europe Podcast covers the news and interviews of the leader of the Coworking and Flex Spaces in Europe, industry and thought leaders, experts in new working and urban models, passionated founders, and more.
Episodes
- #75 The Rise of Managed Office: Why Flex Office Is Entering Its Next Phase
#75 The Rise of Managed Office: Why Flex Office Is Entering Its Next Phase by SocialWorkplaces.com
- #74 Insights from MIPIM: “The question is no longer whether flexibility is needed. It’s how to implement it in the best way.”
Each year, MIPIM in Cannes gathers thousands of developers, investors, and workplace innovators from around the world. To better understand how the perception of flexible workspaces is evolving within the real estate sector, we spoke with…
- #73 Insights from MIPIM: "Some years ago, landlords saw flex operators like Second-Class tenants. Now they see us as partners"
Every year, thousands of developers, investors, city leaders, and real estate professionals gather in Cannes for MIPIM, one of the most influential global events for real estate, urban development, and workplace innovation. This year, we h…
- #72 How to make coworking/flex office the obvious option for anyone in the hybrid working era? (CWE25)
Opening panel of the Coworking Europe 2025 conference (Berlin, Nov 19-20) with the top International coworking players: Paulo Dias, CEO Europe IWG Dan Zakai, Co-founder Mindspace Rebecca Nachanakian, GM Continental Europe & Middle East at…
- #71 C20 Podcast - Why is Coworking growing faster in the UK than elsewhere? (Guest: Zoe Ellis-Moore)
#71 C20 Podcast - Why is Coworking growing faster in the UK than elsewhere? (Guest: Zoe Ellis-Moore) by SocialWorkplaces.com
- #70 Yotam Alroy - The Mindspace Story
Mindspace is one of the biggest coworking operator in Europe, with dozens of locations spread across Germany, The Netherlands, the UK, Poland, Romania or Israel. It is also one of the few pure international brand. Yotam Aroy is the co-foun…
- #69 Hospitality Industry as a Model: What can coworking professionals learn? (CWE24)
Recording of the panel held in Sofia on November 2024, at the Coworking Europe 2024 conference, entitled "What hospitality industries can teach coworking and how can coworking become part of the family?" Coworking is about people and care,…
- #68 (AI Gen) Dynamic Brokers and Rising Employee Demand Propel Coworking Space Expansion in France
Coworking spaces in France are proliferating rapidly, particularly in regions with dynamic real estate markets characterized by high transaction volumes and a robust infrastructure of real estate services. This trend is extensively analyze…
- #67 (AI Gen) Bavaria’s Shift - The Impact of Hybrid Work on Mobility and (Flex) Office Use
This AI generated podcast summarize the Study “Längerfristige Auswirkungen von New Work auf die Mobilität der Menschen in Bayern”, published via the Bavarian Business Association at vbw-bayern.de and in PDF format. The findings suggest a c…
- #66 Recruiting the best team to operate a Coworking space (CWE23)
Coworking is a hospitality business where human service and interaction remain a key part of the value provided to the member How to determine the perfect job description in 2023? – What are the functions to be covered? – Is multi-tasking…
- #65 Acquiring another coworking space (CWE23)
A focus on how to create a successfully merged entity looking at strategies, best practices, and considerations for successfully merging between coworking operators, including navigating cultural differences, operational integration, membe…
- #64 Coworking Community buidling and best practices (CWE23)
To what extent is the community manager and the hospital vibe the best asset of a coworking space? – What are the most effective tips and tricks to create a socially engaging environment within a coworking space? – How to determine the rig…
- #63 Shared profits, managed services, franchising - Best partnership models with landlords? (CWE23)
Shared revenues, profit sharing, co-financing, management agreements, franchising… Many legal asset-light options exist nowadays to lower the financial risk and build partnerships with landlords. Partnerships with landlords can speed up co…
- #62 Addressing the Digital Nomads market - Portugal Example (CWE23)
Portugal has become a magnet for digital nomads who more and more consider long stays in the country to enjoy the Portuguese lifestyle. This growing population of international workers needs to integrate into the local economy. What are th…
- #61 Coworking in Ukraine in times of war (CWE23)
Recorded in Porto, at the Coworking Europe 2023 Conference, on November 29th. A testimonial on the challenges and triumphs of managing and growing a coworking business in war-torn Ukraine. With : - Ilia Keniigshtein (Creative States, Ukrai…
- #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 contact…
- #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…
- #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.
- #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 dema…
- #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…
- #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 futur…
- #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 Eur…
- #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 wit…
- #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 w…
- #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 b…
- #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 f…
- #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…
- #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…
- #47 "The European coworking market needs more consolidation" - Davide Dattoli, Talent Garden
Talent 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 op…
- #46 EDGE - A Smart Building Developer To Expand Its Coworking Brand And Services Internationally
EDGE 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 cow…
- #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…
- #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 standar…
- #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 hosti…
- #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 f…
- #41 Nooka - The tiny house of Coworking
Will 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, answe…
- #40 The Melting Pot (Edinburgh) - Shut down and rebirth, a story of coworking resilience
Claire 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 indep…
- #39 The Flex Workspace industry might have been hurt harder than we think, in 2020-21
Eduardo 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…
- #38 In Lebanon, Coworking helps to re-boot an economy of resilience - Berytech, Beyrouth
Ramy 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…
- #37 Interview With Reeves Wiedeman, Author Of Billion Dollar Loser On The Rise And Fall Of WeWork
WeWork 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…
- #36 "Provide workers with workspaces closer to their home is today's big need" - A. Kapic, IWG
Alisa 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 t…
- #35 "We will soon have the most distributed coworking offering in the city of Berlin" - Unicorn
Inga 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…
- #34 "We integrate IoT within the coworking business" Alessandro Nacci, Sofia Locks
Alessandro 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 technol…
- #33 "Our coworking activities grew twentyfold in 6 years thanks to Lisbon's sex appeal"- Idea Spaces
Joao 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…
- #32 "The international TechHub franchise will keep going!" - Viesturs Sosars, TechHub Riga
Viesturs 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…
- #31 "The wave of corporate workplace's total transformation will hit in 2021" - F Vazquez, 3G Office
Francisco 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…
- #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 managem…
- #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…
- #28 "Occupancy is back in our Bratislava coworking spaces!" - Coworking Cvernovka
Michala 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…
- #27 "The traditional office model was not facing enough competition" - John Williams, Instant Group
John 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 trend…
- #26 "With 70 locations, we are today one of the biggest European coworking players" - Rent24
Roksana 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…