Friendly and No Bullshit Meetup
Friendly Buildings is an international conference for all PropTech and Real Estate lovers. The main topic of the second edition was the users and their experience from designing, managing, analyzing or simply using the buildings.
An afternoon cocktail made of great speakers, exciting topics, no clichés and an afterparty on a rooftop terrace with a splendid view together gathered more than 120 guests from the major players of the industry. 9 keynote speakers, 2 panel discussions and also a presentation of 3 important news:
- In a stress test, all participants enjoyed Sharry Europe's product solution for intuitive and clever guest management system, replacing usual tickets and locker tokens.
- CBRE presented the results of its European PropTech Index 2019 Survey for the first time.
- The conference was also the opening event of the newly designed coworking office SPACES in Prague near Národní třída.
PropTech topic is very exciting and I’m glad we had the pleasure to host Friendly Buildings Conference as an opening event at our newly opened Spaces Albatros venue. It was again a great event where I gained a lot of inspiration and many new contacts.
Karel Pelán
Country Manager, IWG
Friendly Buildings Conference has nearly evangelistic importance in the czech environment. It helps raising awareness about property technologies and it brings great inspiration through foreign speakers. While last year's edition was devoted primarily to PropTech, this year the organizers have expanded their scope to also include innovations in the workplaces and issues of building sustainability.
Markéta Miková
PR & marketing specialist, freelancer
I love events that stand out. Events where the organizers truly think about both the content and the form, because the difference is huge. Events with no bullshit talks and no last minute changes. Friendly Buildings Conference proved for the second time that it is an amazing event with loads of inspiration and full of interesting people. I am already looking forward to the next round!
Ivo Hrdina
Managing Director, JuiceUP
Je skvělé být součástí dobře zorganizované konference, kde potkáte spoustu inspirativních lidí. A tohle byl přesně ten případ! Neuvěřitelně zajímavý mix řečníků a témat v krásném místě s dechberoucím výhledem...vynikající práce, Sharry Europe!
Eva Le Peutrec
Architect, E-studio
For me, the most exciting topic of the conference was property management and different approaches to it - interviews with property managers about their tasks, responsibilities and competences. Property management is a key topic also for public spaces but it is heavily underestimated. Finances are still concentrated mainly on new projects, but care for what we already have is far behind. Seeing the private sector's approach was a confirmation that the key to success is to manage the site as a whole. Not only buildings but also public spaces need their managers.
Rozálie Kašparová
Architektka, IPR Praha
Friendly speakers
Eva, a native of Nová Paka, Czech Republic, is already being ranked among the most successful Czech architects abroad, alongside such personalities as Eva Jiřičná and Jan Kaplický. She has travelled to over forty countries and lived on four continents, and she speaks five languages. During her studies, she decided to gain experience abroad and went to work in San Francisco for two years. She arrived in Shanghai at the age of 25. She didn’t know the language nor had contacts, and despite she soon worked her way to major projects at the company she joined. She gained renown quickly – and especially for her skyscraper designs. She’s the only Czech architect whose skyscraper designs see actual execution. However, she works on projects of all varieties. Such as office buildings, shopping centers, 5-star hotels, cultural and sports centers, transport hubs, schools, luxury villas, interiors, industrial design, a 2-km-long center for a Chinese metropolis or a newly-founded city for a million inhabitants. Since 2005, she has been the main designer on over 100 projects. As she said in one interview, the only things still missing from her portfolio are jails and crematoriums. She also can count the Lamborghini family among her clients, and she regularly wins out over globally respected names in architecture competitions. The Czech news server, iDNES, has chosen her as one of the ten most inspiring women of 2018. Since 2011, she has been living in New Caledonia in the South Pacific. She founded the E-studio architectural firm, acts as an independent consultant and works on projects worldwide.
- Eva Le Peutrec
- E-studio
Neil is responsible for Strategic Consulting within Knight Frank, working with business to align real estate to strategy, largely focused on workplace experience and IOT. He has over 20 years of consultancy expertise, all at Director level following a career at BT where he developed and led a major change programme transforming how 40,000 people worked in the 1990s. The BT Workstyle 2000 Programme won the British Council’s, ‘Office Strategy of the Decade Award’. As a consultant he has worked with clients all over the world including Deutsche Bank, Bayer, Adecco, Microsoft, Skanska, Amazon, Clifford Chance, Unilever, and Roche. He is a regular conference speaker and developed Knight Franks’ DigiBytes Workplace education programme.
- Neil McLocklin
- Knight Frank
Bernard has exceptional experience on a wide range of commercial, residential, institutional and hospitality projects in the UK, Europe, India and the Middle East. He is one of PLP’s key creative thinkers and designs in an open and accessible manner that emphasises team involvement and end-user satisfaction. Current work focusses on projects delivering transformative urban regeneration through dynamic, mixed-used developments including the Westferry Printworks Redevelopment site on the Isle of Dogs in London, Sampson & Ludgate House, nestled between the Tate Modern and Southbank Centre in London, and the new Tower at the Ten World Trade Center in Amsterdam, which has been conceived as a sensitive, evolving urban and workplace regeneration that integrates with existing space and buildings. Recent work includes the award-winning Sky Central, the BREEAM-Excellent headquarters which provides large and flexible workspaces for 3,500 employees of Sky Television on their campus in west London. Bernard was also involved in the design of Danube House and Nile House office buildings at the River City Prague site. Bernard earned his Master of Arts degree in the field of architecture from the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague.
- Bernard Storch
- PLP Architecture
Ferdinand studied Landscape Planning in conjunction with garden engineering at the Czech University of Life Sciences. He founded Flera Studio, one of the largest in Europe, where he works on projects involving both private and public space. He and his team have been awarded the Garden of the Year prize several times. He works on projects in Europe and around the world – in Canada, Central America, or for example Zanzibar, Africa. He is the co-creator and host of an award-winning TV programme entitled “Ferdinand’s Gardens”, the second season of which was broadcast this spring on Czech Television. He has published a book, Žijte ve své zahradě (translated into English under the title Live in Your Garden, and also published as an e-book), and a book for children, Kukadýlko. He organizes an annual art show in public spaces entitled Art in the City, is the co-owner and one of the curators of Flera Gallery, which exhibits exterior art. Within the scope of the Flera Academy, he strives to raise awareness of garden architecture and encourage discussion between the professional community and the public.
- Ferdinand Leffler
- Atelier Flera
A light technician by trade, Hynek has been designing and supplying lighting for apartments, buildings, offices, and other spaces for 27 years now. For the past ten years he has been investigating the effect of light on the human body and all living things, on both a theoretical and practical level. He discusses findings about light, seeing, and the non-visual system with leading Czech scientists and doctors. He researches the best way to emulate the pro-cognitive effects of daylight using artificial LED sources, and supplies pro-cognitive lights for schools, offices, and other interiors. The results of an experiment performed at a pilot high school demonstrated that pro-cognitive LED lighting has a significantly positive impact on learning. He works with the Ministry of the Environment in an effort to reduce light pollution, which has in recent times been decimating the insect and bird population, as well as other animals. He has participated in experiments at the National Institute of Mental Health investigating the effect of light at night on melatonin levels. In February 2017 he submitted a patent application for an invention based on the principle of lighting to affect cognitive brain functions and circadian rhythms, for both interiors and exteriors. He has also submitted a patent application for a switching LED light bulb with day, evening, and night modes that is being manufactured in the Czech Republic as of April 2019.
- Hynek Medřický
- Spectrasol
Marian Beno is a Product Manager at Innovatrics, where he is in charge of one of its key products - SmartFace. SmartFace is a high-performance, scalable, face recognition server platform able to process multiple real-time video streams in parallel. Steering it towards technological and commercial success, his responsibilities include formulating requirements, the product roadmap and a clear strategy to stakeholders. Prior to joining Innovatrics, Marian was responsible for the CRM platform developed for real estate firms based in Australia.
- Marián Beňo
- Innovatrics
After studying in Sweden, architect Rozálie Kašparová returned to Prague, where at the Public Space Office of the Prague Institute of Planning and Development she has been working on projects of various scales dealing with public spaces. From the smallest detail of the city, which is developing the Prague Chairs & Tables project, to the revitalization of Karlovo náměstí, where the design was selected through an innovative competitive dialogue process. All projects naturally have a social dimension, use participative methods, and look for ways to create inclusive public spaces in Prague.
- Rozálie Kašparová
- IPR
Zdeněk Brisuda is the director of the Wiesner-Hager furniture company in the Czech Republic. After graduating from architecture he went on to collect additional experience abroad, at the University of South Florida and SACD – USF School of Architecture and Community Design. He joined Wiesner-Hager in 2002, and today is responsible for managing its Czech branch, which in addition to furniture for offices, hotels, and other facilities also currently offers completely interior architecture design solutions. The company’s clients include companies such as Škoda Auto, Notino, BMW, Kiwi.com, and L’Oréal.
- Zdeněk Brisuda
- Wiesner-Hager
Jana Prokopcová has been involved in the real estate market since 2007. As a Head of Research in CBRE, she focuses mainly on Office, Industrial and Investment real estate market segments. Since joined CBRE in 2008, she has been responsible for numerous presentations, clients´ tailored made reports and regular reports across all segments of the real estate market in the Czech Republic.
- Jana Prokopcová
- CBRE
- Michal Bako
- EMU
- Ladislav Veselý
- Slevomat
- Miloslav Tuček
- Česká spořitelna
- Matyáš Procházka
- Colliers
- Petr Machula
- Savills
- Petra Stiller
- MVGM
Our friendly hosts
- Michael Mareš
- Forbes
- Ivo Hrdina
- JuiceUP
- Josef Šachta
- Sharry Europe
Schedule
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13:00 - 13:30
Open door & coffee
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13:30 - 14:10
Welcome word
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14:10 - 14:30
Bernard Storch
Space, Place, Innovation: Fostering creativity in workplace environment
Emerging technologies and digital realities are increasingly interwoven with human society and they have profound effects on the way we communicate and interact with each other. In the workplace, the nature of work and the type of skills that are needed for the future are changing. Human creativity that can drive innovation is the asset of tomorrow. Built environment needs to react and be adaptable to future shifts in the way we use spaces and the way we organise our workplace. We are excited about the effects and impact that technology has on buildings, but our focus is always on human beings. We design buildings for people, not for technology. We see technology and buildings as platforms that can enable people to thrive at doing what they do best. Our goal is to design spaces that bring meaningful and transformative experiences.
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14:30 - 14:50
Ferdinand Leffler
Parks are for people!
What is the sustainability in the contemporary urban landscape architecture? What does a developer expect from an architect and what does a client expect from a developer? Social aspects inside of the new development projects.
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14:50 - 15:10
Rozálie Kašparová
Building (un)friendly to its surroundings
Every building has its context. A truly friendly building must be friendly also to its surroundings. When a building is friendly to its city? Are we able to figure it out? Are there any rules for that? Is the society as a whole influenced by it? And the individuals? This talk aspires to make you look at buildings and public spaces in a way that will change your city strolls forever.
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15:15 - 15:45
panel-discussion - Ivo Hrdina
Friendly Buildings and the satisfaction of people working inside them
- - Michal Bako (EMU)
- - Ladislav Veselý (Slevomat)
- - Miloslav Tuček (Česká spořitelna)
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15:45 - 16:00
Coffee break
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16:00 - 16:20
Jana Prokopcová
How smart are our offices and what do end users desire?
CBRE has undertaken a study in Central and Eastern Europe region (CEE) to find answers to the following questions. SMART BUILDING (PROPERTY OWNER / MANAGER PERSPECTIVE): What are the market trends? What is the level of innovation used in office buildings for increasing asset operation and enhancing the occupier experience? How technologically advanced are office buildings in the capital cities of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia? What makes a building attractive in terms of new technology? TENANT (COMPANY) EXPERIENCE: Which digital functionalities are offered to tenants by office building owners? What are the digital needs of our employees? What can the tenant (company) offer in terms of new Proptech solutions in the workspace to attract employees?
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16:20 - 16:40
Marián Beňo
Seamless Access Control powered by Facial Recognition
Thanks to technology, smart phones, smart watches, and even smart refrigerators are part of our daily routine. But can buildings be smart too? If your friend is able to recognize you by merely looking at you, can a building do the same? Facial recognition technology powered by machine learning and neural networks allows you to detect and identify people with almost 100% accuracy. Such technology can empower a building to be accessible to its tenants and visitors with seamless restrictions and obscurity, so it becomes more friendly and welcoming. In my presentation, Seamless Access Control powered by Facial Recognition, I will talk about current trends, challenges, and future expectations.
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16:40 - 17:00
Neil McLocklin
Using data to enhance experience of all building's users
The importance of providing a great experience for occupiers to attract the best talent and for landlords to attract the best tenants and highest rents. The data sources available in existing buildings as well as smarter Internet of Things (IOT) enabled Buildings. Key metrics to measure experience. The importance of marginal gains to enhance experience.
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17:05 - 17:15Ondřej Langr
Unique visitor experience by Sharry Europe
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17:15 - 17:30
Surprise
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17:30 - 17:50
Coffee break
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17:50 - 18:10
Eva Le Peutrec
Is friendliness of the building culturally transferrable? Key elements of designing a Friendly Building
Do we really know what friendly buildings are or are we judging it based on our cultural and socioeconomic background? Why there are places where we feel comfortable and others that we try to avoid? How to design places that support analytical thinking and how to design those that make you more creative. Can open space be popular? What will bring the future with the VR and what impact it will have on our lives? What are the principal elements for designing a Friendly Building? We will find the answers together 24th October.
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18:10 - 18:30
Zdeněk Brisuda
The future of work and offices
How do "modern offices" look like? Each company has its own opinion, but they're mostly influenced by general ideas and trends. Building of new workspaces then focuses more on the external aspects instead of function. Modern office reflects both visible and hidden needs of concrete company. It's necessary for companies to define an identity, to know their technologies for all processes and embeded emotions before building a new workspace. Modern office is tailor-made to company as a whole as well as to all individuals and their needs. How is the workspace going to change? And what changes are there for working itself?
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18:30 - 18:50
Hynek Medřický & Daniel Jesenský
Lighting, Light and its Effects on People
Humans as diurnal animals have evolved so that exposure to daylight enables their body and brain to achieve a state of full activity, ie. the highest state of alertness, concentration, effectivity of memory recall and storage and the highest cognitive performance of the brain, as well reaching highest metabolic rates, physical performance, and wellbeing. For the first time in history, the developments in LED technology nowadays enable us to simulate the beneficial impacts of staying outdoors in daylight, using artificial lighting indoors. To achieve the desired alertness and performance boost, it is however necessary to cherry-pick suitable lightsources and components, and to select their location and direction correctly, to create artificial lighting that is sufficiantly even, bright, has effective spectral power distribution and high colour rendering index, while avoiding flicker and glare. Pro-cognitive lighting is capable of achieving just that, thanks to the use of cutting-edge LED chips with highly specific parameters. Apart from maximum boost of the human body and brain performance, pro-cognitive lighting brings further benefits to well-lit buildings' occupants by supporting serotonin production, which in the evening can get converted to melatonin, the hormone necessary for healthy sleep and successful night-time regeneration and immunity processes.
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18:55 - 19:25
panel-discussion - Josef Šachta
Future of property management
- - Matyáš Procházka (Colliers)
- - Petr Machula (Savills)
- - Petra Stiller (MVGM)
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19:30 - 23:30
Friendly networking party with banquet on a terrace
What will be next?
Friendly Buildings is now established as an event for people who are obsessed with buildings and how buildings work from a variety of angles. “We are considering extending this brand by smaller meetups focused on one topic,” outlines Josef Šachta.
This new format was premiered in January 2019 in New York. At VentureOut in the New York City the discussion was not only about PropTech innovations. The panel discussion was moderated by Bill Staniford, former CEO of PropertyShark.
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- Lukáš Rozmajzl
- Organizer
- +420 737 22 00 38
- lukas@friendlybuildings.eu
- Kateřina Hellebrandová
- Organizer
- +420 774 89 11 14
- katerina@friendlybuildings.eu