Workplace Design Conference is an experience-based, results-focused event bringing together professionals and business leaders who strive to create more efficient workspaces for their organizations.
A day full of questions and answers, challenges and solutions and best practice case studies from the local and international workplace strategy projects.The latest Slovenia Workplace Survey 2020 was presented at WDC20. It provided great insight into what hundreds of Slovenian and International companies think about the link between the quality of the workplace, productivity, and business performance.
WDC20 was a great success with over 100 attendees, 10 sponsors & exhibitors and a new media partner The Slovenia Times. See photos from the event.
Workplace Design Conference is designed for Business Leaders, Workplace Strategists, HR Professionals, Facility Managers, Real Estate Professionals, Interior Architects, Designers and other key people who want to improve performance, collaboration and talent retention in their organizations by matching design and technology with strategic vision and sound management.
Randy Gage is an American thought leader with a unique vision of how to succeed in the new economy. He is the author of 13 books that have been translated into 25 languages, including the New York Times bestsellers Risky Is the New Safe and Mad Genius. Randy has worked as a marketing strategist by private and public companies in Slovenia, Croatia, and other countries in the region.
With a background supporting major international consumer brands and retailers delivering their products to market, Kyle specialises in providing solutions to complex business challenges across the globe. Kyle now applies that experience to the workplace industry, delivering analysis and insights to the CRE, FM and HR communities at many of the world’s largest and most forward thinking organisations.
Leesman measures employee experience via the Leesman Index – a global business intelligence tool that captures employee feedback on how effectively the workplace supports them and their work, and provides organisations with critical insights into how their buildings are performing. Performance is then benchmarked against the world’s largest employee experience database of 800,000 individual responses – of which the statistical robustness, research richness and diversity is unrivalled.
Kyle de Bruin (video call)
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We are currently in the most cataclysmic and disruptive decade in human history. And the speed of change is increasing. Workplaces will need to change, organizational culture will need to change, and most importantly, leaders will need to change. The solutions to many of the challenges you’ll be facing haven’t even been developed yet.
Join thought leader Randy Gage for a provocative and candid exploration on the challenges you will face ahead as you lead your teams and your organization. You will discover what the future of leadership is going to look like, how to best “see around the corner” to anticipate it, and how to prepare yourself to lead in this new reality. Pre-conference read: Bostjan Erzen interviews Randy Gage for Slovenia Times.
Randy Gage was brought to WDC20 with the support of

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Daaf Serné has spent nearly two decades running workplace strategy inside some of tech’s fastest-growing companies — not as a consultant watching from the outside, but as the operator in the room when the decisions got made.
As Global Head of Workplace at Miro, he built the company’s entire global real estate function from the ground up — scaling from a single Amsterdam headquarters to a distributed portfolio across 12+ countries. At ServiceNow, he served as Sr. Director of Global Real Estate & Sustainability, overseeing 150+ transactions across three continents, controlling a $122M real estate budget, and leading the company’s journey from no sustainability baseline to a Board-approved Net Zero commitment and SBTi targets.
Today, Daaf is the founder of PlaceWorks Advisory — operator-grade workplace strategy for leaders who are done with the deck factories. His work bridges corporate real estate, human-centric design, and the harder question most workplace discussions avoid: what would actually make people want to come in?
His approach is built on a simple idea — real estate is a product. Treat it like one. That means designing for the people who use it, making decisions with data that actually changes behaviour, and building sustainability in from day one rather than retrofitting it at the end.
Daaf holds the Master of Corporate Real Estate (MCR) and Senior Leader of Corporate Real Estate (SLCR) designations. He is based in Amsterdam and works with organisations across Europe and globally.
Steve Henigan is the founder and CEO of HCG with responsibility for delivery of workplace consultancy and change management, working with clients on a global scale.
He is the past chair of the Corenet UK Workplace community and is recognised in the Workplace Leaders Top 50 for 2024, he was also named Business Person of the Year at the 2025 London SME Business Awards.
He regularly presents at various workplace and Facilities Management events for organisations such as the RICS, IFMA, BIFM and Corenet. He has a keen interest in research and has published a number of papers/ articles exploring the relationship between workplace and wellbeing, productivity and profitability.