Register for the breakfast forum
Date: Thursday, 19 February
Time: 8:30am – 10:30am
Where: Lloyd’s of London | 1 Lime St, London EC3M 7HA
Register interest to AWA’s Practice Manager, Amy Thornbury — athornbury@advanced-workplace.com
*All registrations will be verified and invitations confirmed.
Infrastructure leaders are no longer operating behind the scenes. In a world shaped by hybrid work, AI transformation, rising operational complexity and changing employee expectations, infrastructure decisions are now business-critical, influencing performance, resilience, trust and experience at scale.
This breakfast forum is designed for senior workplace, facilities, real estate, IT and operations leaders navigating that shift. We will explore how the infrastructure function is evolving from delivery and compliance to strategic enablement, and what it takes to build future-ready foundations that support both organisational agility and human performance.
Expect a focused, peer-led discussion grounded in evidence-based insights and real workplace realities: what “futureproof” really means, where infrastructure strategies are falling short, and how leaders can align place, technology and operations to the demands of the next era of work.
Your expert panel of speakers
Stuart Cranna - Head of Private Market Services, Aviva Investors
Stuart Cranna sits at the intersection of capital, infrastructure and long-term value creation. His role spans real assets, private markets and complex investment programmes, giving him a front-row view of how infrastructure decisions made today shape organisational performance for decades to come.
With deep experience across property, real estate operations and institutional investment, Stuart brings a rare perspective on how infrastructure leaders can balance commercial discipline with adaptability in a rapidly changing world of work. He understands the pressures facing organisations as they navigate ESG expectations, hybrid working realities and the need for resilient, future-ready assets.
Andrew Mawson - Founder & Managing Director, AWA
Andrew Mawson is the Founder and Managing Director of Advanced Workplace Associates and one of the UK’s leading thinkers on the relationship between work, place and organisational performance. For over three decades, he has advised global organisations on how to design workplaces that enable strategy, culture and human performance.
Andrew’s work consistently challenges conventional thinking about offices, infrastructure and utilisation. He argues that the future of work is not a property problem to be solved, but a system to be designed, one that integrates leadership, behaviour, technology and place.