 My name is Valerie Casey and I'm here to talk about the future of the workplace. The key questions that are being asked around the future of the workplace have to do with a generational shift. Generation Y and Z are coming into the workforce with gusto. This is a cohort that expects unbelievable technical infrastructure and they also have different attitudes and beliefs and behaviors around how they work, how they interact and how they collaborate with other people. People have a general fatigue about how corporate brands have been expanded across the globe. There's sort of a cookie-cutter mentality. An office may open in London or Mumbai or San Francisco and they all look the same. They're not sensitive to the region that they're in, to the local needs of the employees and the customers and so this is actually changing now. We're challenging the notion of collaborative workspaces. There are times when people want to work solo. There are times when people want to work in a third space like a cafe. What we're trying to do with a collaborative workspace design and a mentality around the workplace is to imbue a sense of trust and if you have a sense of trust about that individual who's working for you or with you alongside you, it allows them a lot greater latitude in how they actually execute their job. As we move towards a maker movement, we need to accommodate new kinds of ways that people can access the workspace and actually become more creative in that workspace. Another key trend in thinking about the future of the workplace has been around this theme of ecosystems. The workplace has often been seen as a fixed place, a fixed sort of structure, a fixed entity that belongs to a brand or a company. With this ecosystem thinking, we're allowing a much more permeable membrane between the outside and the inside, between the way that people work, between leadership structures where we are actually advocating for flatter structures, new kinds of collaborations and connections. A combination of these elements, authenticity, autonomy, independence, greater flexibility and a celebration of the individual's purpose is giving us a whole new momentum around the future of the workplace. It's putting us on the path towards greater innovation and creativity.