Work Culture Festival 2026: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Our World and What We Can Gain from It, Photo: © Henning Ross
Oct 27 11:15 Hall 6, Theatre Radical Impact

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Our World and What We Can Gain from It

Artificial intelligence is now available to everyone for the first time. With programs like ChatGPT, we are standing at a pivotal threshold in our cultural evolution. Everything is changing everywhere at once.

Prof Miriam Meckel highlights the opportunities – as well as the challenges – that crossing this threshold entails.

Photo: © Henning Ross

Presentation language: German

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The programme is constantly expanding with new talks, panel discussions, workshops and interactive spaces.

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Theatre

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Our World and What We Can Gain from It
Professor of Communication Management
The Return of Proximity: Why Innovation Still Needs Place
Director MIT Senseable City Lab & Founder of Carlo Ratti Associati
The Social Office: Rethinking Time, Productivity and Connection at Work
Founder & CEO WORKATHON
The Office as a Control Center: From Administration to Decision-Making. What Can We Learn from the Control Center?
Trend expert and futurologist

Board Stage

Returning to the Office, but How? How Workspace Design Can Determine the Success of Return-to-Office Strategies
HR Researcher
Level certification for sustainable office furniture in the US and in Europe: US market, common goals, individual approaches, long-term perspectives
Sustainability Expert & Head of European Level Director of Health and Sustainability at BIFMA

Others

Workshop: What Is Holding Your Product at the Border? Product Journey: On the Path to Global Approval
Global Head of Technical Expertise in Furniture at TÜV Rheinland Head of Furniture Business at TÜV Rheinland

Prof Miriam Meckel

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Our World and What We Can Gain from It

Carlo Ratti

The Return of Proximity: Why Innovation Still Needs Place

Julia Hobsbawm

The Social Office: Rethinking Time, Productivity and Connection at Work

Birgit Gebhardt & Christian Most

The Office as a Control Center: From Administration to Decision-Making. What Can We Learn from the Control Center?

Dr Katharina Radermacher

Returning to the Office, but How? How Workspace Design Can Determine the Success of Return-to-Office Strategies

Steve Kooy & Volker Weßels

Level certification for sustainable office furniture in the US and in Europe: US market, common goals, individual approaches, long-term perspectives

Kai-Uwe Schlegel, Alina Selbach, Corinna Regel & Surprise Guest

Workshop: What Is Holding Your Product at the Border? Product Journey: On the Path to Global Approval

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Our World and What We Can Gain from It

Prof Miriam Meckel

Work Culture Festival 2026: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Our World and What We Can Gain from It, Photo: © Henning Ross
Oct 27 11:15

The Return of Proximity: Why Innovation Still Needs Place

Carlo Ratti

Work Culture Festival 2026: Human After All: Designing Workplaces in the Age of AI, Photo: © Mattias Nutt
Oct 27 12:00

The Social Office: Rethinking Time, Productivity and Connection at Work

Julia Hobsbawm

Julia Hobsbawm, speaker at the Wherever Whenever – Work Culture Festival 2026. Photo: © Henrietta Photography
Oct 27 12:45

The Office as a Control Center: From Administration to Decision-Making. What Can We Learn from the Control Center?

Birgit Gebhardt & Christian Most

Work Culture Festival: CONTROL – The Office as a Control Center, Photo: © Birgit Gebhardt
Oct 27 15:00

Returning to the Office, but How? How Workspace Design Can Determine the Success of Return-to-Office Strategies

Dr Katharina Radermacher

Work Culture Festival 2026: Rückkehr ins Büro – aber wie? Wie Workspace Design über den Erfolg von Return-to-Office-Strategien entscheiden kann, Foto: © Wirtschaftsförderung Kreis Soest
Oct 27 13:00

Level certification for sustainable office furniture in the US and in Europe: US market, common goals, individual approaches, long-term perspectives

Steve Kooy & Volker Weßels

Work Culture Festival 2026: Level certification for sustainable office furniture in the US and in Europe: US market, common goals, individual approaches, long-term perspectives, Photos: © Steve Kooy, Carsten Lerp
Oct 27 16:00

Workshop: What Is Holding Your Product at the Border? Product Journey: On the Path to Global Approval

Kai-Uwe Schlegel, Alina Selbach, Corinna Regel & Surprise Guest

Work Culture Festival 2026 - TÜV Rheinland, Photo: © Perplexity 
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