Raphael Gielgen

Raphael Gielgen researches the future of work and working environments.

His workplace is the world. To do this, he travels around the globe like few other people. Always with the question of what the nature of changed knowledge work will look like in five or ten years’ time. Every year, he visits more than 100 companies, start-ups, universities and research institutions in the USA, Europe and Asia. He documents the findings and experiences from his travels on a “panorama”, a map of trends and patterns from around the world.

What drives him is his curiosity for architecture, technology and social change in the context of the working world of tomorrow.

“Work in front of a computer is usually invisible. Every company can think about architecture differently and try to make work visible and localise the community.”

Raphael Gielgen lecture topics

How quickly does the future become the present?

• How is the globalised world of work changing and what impact will this have on future business models?
• What are the key technologies, new working and organisational models of the future?
• What role will the individual, the collective and the community play in the company?

Our schools of thought – the secret operating systems of our world

• Why do we need new schools of thought?
• What logic shapes our actions – and who does it actually belong to?
• How can we recognise new models of thinking?

THE OFFICE 2025X – the place where business, technology and work are being redefined

• What kind of architecture emerges when value creation is no longer tied to specific locations?
• What kind of spaces do systems need in which humans and machines work together in real time?
• How do you design a place that can breathe, learn and constantly reinvent itself?
• Where is there room for this hybrid collaboration?
• Where do humans and machines learn not only alongside each other, but with each other?
• How do we design spaces that enable exchange, depth, real-time iteration and reflection at the same time?
• What does work mean in the age of AI, robotics and deep tech?
• What does learning mean when machines learn alongside us?
• What does leadership mean when control no longer works?

Raphael Gielgen speaks at conferences, festivals and events and generously shares his insights and experiences in more than 20 countries every year. Knowledge work is facing the biggest transformation in its young history. Companies are faced with designing the future and managing the present at the same time.

But where will we actually work tomorrow, with whom, how and, above all, on what? Raphael Gielgen deals with these questions every day.

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