18 September 2024 5.30pm – 8.30pm Community London, UK

Overview

The IWFM Rising FMs Network and Workspace SIG will come together in London to discuss the importance of integrating ergonomic excellence in the hybrid workplace.

Today’s workforce embraces hybrid working as the new normal but who’s taking care of our postures?

Flexibility celebrates touch-down zones, hotdesking and drop-in booths and we find ourselves with laptops on sofas and at kitchen-table workstations, or in the coffee shop; a new normal in the workplaces of today, but are the ergonomic priorities of old now unfashionable in today’s workplace? How will this affect the workers of tomorrow and who is taking responsibility for this?

Don’t miss this fascinating panel debate where ergonomic and design experts discuss how ergonomic excellence can be achieved for today and tomorrow’s workforce.

Sponsors

Nowy Styl and Bakkerelkhuizen

Speakers

Yorgo Lykouria

Founder and Creative Principal, FRSA, Nowy Styl

Founder and Creative Principal | Yorgo Lykouria, FRSA (Fellow Royal Society of Arts)

Yorgo Lykouria is an award-winning designer and the founder of Rainlight Studio, a renowned multi-disciplinary design studio based in London. For more than 20 years Yorgo has created artefacts that inspire people to live imaginatively and courageously in the present. With an extensive career in architecture, interiors and industrial design - across continents and cultures - Yorgo brings an expansive, holistic perspective to any design challenge.

Yorgo has gained international recognition for his innovative and human-centric approach to design, creating spaces and artefacts that blend beauty, functionality, and sustainability. Yorgo has collaborated with some of the world’s leading manufacturers for more than two decades. His work has been widely recognized with numerous accolades, including the Red Dot Best of the Best Design Award, the iF Design Award, German Design Awards, Good Design Awards, and named Product Designer of the year in 2021.

“Every project begins with a blank page, a robust exchange of ideas and diligent research. In our work, we create a unique process for every project so that unexpected solutions emerge that solve profound functional and technical challenges and most importantly, create tangible excitement.”

“Lykouria, reintroduces moments of conscious reflection, pleasure and awe into everyday life, turning the prosaic into poetry. From “Industrial Poet.” Simon Cowell, Architectonic.

Guy Osmond

Ergonomics Innovator, Osmond Group

Guy Osmond has been working for nearly fifty years and in ergonomics and wellbeing for over thirty. Along the way, he has learned an enormous amount about people, performance, culture, workplace and engagement. Unfortunately, he has forgotten most of it but he still has quite a lot to say about almost anything.