The unstoppable growth

of coworking

Rural Europe 2.0 Conference Aalborg, September 17th

Génération CO

Jean-Yves Huwart Coworking Europe

1. A decade long rise of coworking 2. This is not about desks and chairs 3. Coworking in remote areas 4. On the Coworking Europe 2014 conference in Lisbon

Today, we will speak about :

1. A decade long rise of coworking

Citizen Space, San Francisco : where Coworking is admitelly born

Flickr MikeBladon

Why Coworking wasn’t there in the 90’s…

A bootstrapped and community based model

Flickr Marielle Peeters : Seats2Meet, Den Bosch (The Netherlands)

Coworking follows the traditional growth pattern of a new born industry

Professionalisation

Bigger spaces

Higher quality

Finaly, the emergence of brands and multi-spacescoworking chains

(Talent Garden, Italy)

With a growing international community (Coworking Conference 2010)

Coworking Conference 2013

Close to 1.600 Coworking spaces in Europe (source : Deskmag, 2013)

155 business and innovation centres in Europe (source : EBN, 2012)

About 140 acceleration programs in Europe (source : Tech.eu, 2013)

More than 12.000 coworking spaces expected in 2018 (source : Emergent Research)

One million users expected worldwide in 2018 (source : Emergent Research)

2. This is not about desks and chairs

The coworking business is not this…

The coworking business has much more to do with this…

A matter of hospitality

Flickr : Barbswyers1

Dealing with people, not companies…

Social connections matter

Forget it, and here is what you have…

Coworking Europe survey 2010

YES !

3. Coworking in remote areas

Coworking Pomerol, France (1.000 inhabitants)

Totnes WorkHub, UK (7.500 inhabitants)

«Rien a voir avec les coworking que je connaissais de Bruxelles. Beaucoup plus petit et modeste. Mais celui dans lequel j'ai été interviewé à Boitron dans un tout petit village est beaucoup plus dynamique que le coworking flambant neuf d'Alencon. Ça illustre bien l'importance de la communauté et de la personnalité des animateurs de la communauté.// Définitivement pas. Autant rester bosser chez moi et m'économiser une demi-heure de route (de Gacé) »

Alternative : fiber hubs (Google Fiber)

Space colonizing

4. On the Coworking Europe 2014 conference in Lisbon

Flickr Betagroup Coworking, Brussels