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Dave Cairns is an office leasing broker at CBRE focusing on the flex/coworking sector.
Dave has embraced the opportunities of distributed working in a post covid world, having moved last year from Toronto to Prince Edward Island. He is proving that with modern tools and technology, we have more options for how we wish to live than ever before.
In a past life, Dave was a professional poker player, which has informed what some have called a somewhat iconoclastic take on the real estate market and the broader Future of Work conversation.
Dave is also an avid explorer of new technologies and ways of gathering. In 2023, he co-founded a conversation series called Inspired People, Inspired Places, which seeks to explore the future of the human experience, where participants and speakers meet inside a virtual world to wrestle with important topics.

Episode 6 welcomes the one and only Dror Poleg an Economic Historian researching technology's impact on the way people work and live. He regularly briefs and advises companies such as UBS, Bank of America, HSBC, Recruit Holdings, BCG, AvalonBay, CBRE, Hines, British Land, Liberty Mutual, Dubai Holding, Cushman & Wakefield, and others.
Dror is the author of Rethinking Real Estate, an award-winning book that predicted the current reshuffle of offices, homes, and cities. His insights have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NBC, Bloomberg, and beyond.

AI technology is evolving rapidly. What are the risks, what are the opportunities and how can we avoid being left behind? Jamie brings great clarity to the world of Web3 and AI - demystifying them both for anyone interested to learn more.

Lee is an internationally recognised architect and the Founding Partner and President of PLP Architecture. PLP are responsible for some of the most innovative and sustainable projects around the world and it’s no exaggeration to say that technology runs through their veins.

In this episode we talk with Gregory Dewerpe the founder of A/O PropTech, Europe’s largest PropTech venture capital firm. We explore how his early life and subsequent banking career led him to become one of Europe's most forward thinking VCs, and how his optimism and human centric approach helps drive his investment strategy. 

02.31: On demand groceries - fabulous or fad?
14:00: Antony on becoming an Influencer
19:00: Setting up internet businesses
23:17: The threats of automation
29:11 The impact and importance of the metaverse
36:20 Is our education fit for a post AI world
40:20 Climate change, the built environment and productivity
48.30: Biggest drivers in actioning climate change
51:15: The future of the office and work
1:10:14 What’s driving people to the Real Innovation Academy