Highlights from the South Ecosystem Summit in Barcelona

On 17 September, Spacewell brought together selected existing and prospective partners from across Southern Europe at the South Ecosystem Summit in Barcelona. The event created a forum for system integrators, consultants and technology specialists to explore how AI, connected building data and strong local partnerships can help organisations improve energy performance, workplace experience and real-estate decision-making.

The speakers presented a wide selection of topics in relation to technology, data and building operations, starting with a keynote from Filippo Mazza, AI research director for the Nemetschek Group. He opened the event by presenting the AI strategy for the Group, highlighting AI’s growing potential across the built environment, while underlining a key principle: useful AI must be grounded in the context of each sector, business process and user need.

After him, existing Spacewell partners Edison Next and Acorus Eneor, from Spain and France respectively, shared how their technology and consultancy help customers identify efficiency opportunities, reduce energy use and turn building information into actionable plans. Their examples illustrated the role that Spacewell Energy can play as a shared digital foundation for monitoring, analysis and ongoing optimisation.

“I’m grateful to the long standing partners that we’ve welcomed to the event, proving that hardware and implementation providers and industry experts in the field who understand the client’s environment are critical for success. It is people who understand the real challenges, ask the right questions, make decisions, and turn technology into something genuinely useful.” Alua Kistauova, Spacewell Partnerships Director for the South of Europe.

The Real Use of Workplace and Asset Data for Real Estate Management

After the partner examples, we heard two customer stories about their use of Spacewell software solutions: RATP in France and Merck Group in Germany.

Paul Pereira, account manager for France at Spacewell, presented the case of French transport and real estate leader RATP on behalf of the client. At RATP, Spacewell Workplace and Spacewell Asset are used in combination to support their workforce and tenants across 297 buildings.

Almost 60,000 people use Spacewell solutions, including their direct employees and tenants from their real estate assets. Spacewell has supported their process to move towards more flexible working policies, while providing their facilities teams a solution to centralise, manage and solve day-to-day facility management.

To close the event we had the opportunity to hear the story of pharmaceutical giant Merck, headquartered in Germany. Although the focus of the event was the South of Europe, this was an opportunity to share success across teams and countries. Their journey started by using Spacewell Workplace as a booking tool at their headquarters and evolved into using the full capacity of the software analytics to support change management.

Since the original implementation in 2021, real usage data from sensors is monitored and analysed via Spacewell and is used to inform their overall real estate strategy, helping them take decisions on where to grow or decrease space based on real usage. Thanks to the space analytics capability, they have redesigned office spaces and regrouped teams across buildings and floors.

The two success stories, although with different objectives and approaches, showcase how Spacewell solutions support the real estate strategies in such different organisations, helping their teams make informed decisions and plan based on real needs for space. During the day it was clear that Spacewell software offers clear value to partners and customers thanks to the monitoring and analysis capabilities.