BCO Annual Conference Milan 2025 | British Council for Offices (BCO) | 27 May 2025 | TBA, Milan

This year’s packed agenda included plenary sessions from leading voices, seminars to facilitate a closer discussion, office tours and networking opportunities.

The conference explores the transformative power of brand, design and quality. We are heading to the home of Italy’s most iconic names and host to the 2026 Winter Olympics to uncover how exceptional craft, design and industry drives the world’s most successful cities and places.

Known to many as one of the world’s capital cities of fashion and design, Milan houses some of the boldest and most experimental modern and contemporary buildings. The city’s spaces marry beautifully-crafted and ornamental heritage with modern, post modern and contemporary monuments and architecture, creating a unique urban fabric.

We will see how Milan is building on its extraordinary heritage of creativity and commerce to evolve towards reinvention as a net zero carbon and socially diverse city. We’ll explore Milan’s success in drawing major inward investment and the attraction of a new demographic, with some seven universities diversifying the city’s offer. As well as becoming a start-up and innovation hub, Milan recently developed excellence in life sciences and a mature Fintech ecosystem with over 13,000 financial services companies in Milan alone.