What Makes a Smart Building Smart: Roundtable
A smart building can understand how it is being used, respond to the needs of its occupiers, and continually improve its performance over time. This roundtable brings together facility managers, fit‑out specialists and wider industry voices to explore how useful that intelligence is, how it is created, how occupiers expectations are shifting, and how the industry can deliver smarter outcomes.
The discussion will also examine the evolution of smart buildings, and the impact of AI in buildings, all while analysing the close collaboration between facility managers, fit‑out and end‑user experience in order to not only support the occupier, but the building itself.
By uniting these perspectives, this roundtable aims to clarify what truly makes a building ‘smart’, highlighting the future potential of AI and demonstrating how joined‑up thinking from construction to delivery can enhance outcomes for clients.
Session Speaker
Anna is CEO and Founder of INFORMARE. a PR and marketing communication business specialising in the built environment. Headquartered in London, Informare manages clients with its partners in UK, Europe, North America, the GCC region, and Australia, to support the increasing need for a global perspective. The workspace design sector is an important part of the Informare business and the potential of business to impact people, economies, the environment and society.
Anna began her career in-house at WPP, and grew Informare from a few freelancers to its current size with a robust team of experts across the sector. The company represents developers and occupiers, through to manufacturers and everything in between, working with the best-in-class in every segment.
A regular contributor in the trade press, Anna can also be found speaking at events such as the Future Worktech Forum, Workspace Design Show, Surface Design Show, Women in Office Design, Modern Woman and Top Drawer where she offers advice on marketing strategies.
Anna is the a new and active member of the Saudi British Joint Business Council , member of the Design Guild Mark committee, IWFM Risings committee, former President of Exchange Club and an active supporter and ambassador for a number of charities including Helen Bamber Foundation, 65 Degrees North, Freddie Farmer Foundation, and Furnishing Futures.
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