BIFMA 360° Leadership Conference Inspires Industry Executives

Have you ever wondered how AI will affect design? Perhaps economic risks and opportunities keep you up at night. What is the generational influence on the workplace? Or maybe you fret about big ideas and how to implement them. All of those topics and more were covered at the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association 360° Leadership Conference, held last week in Sarasota, Fla. The event attracted nearly 200 executives from the commercial interiors industry who gather annually to explore big picture topics and how they might affect the workplace. The topic of the 2024 BIFMA 360° was “Experimental Excellence” and challenged attendees to throw out preconceived notions about topics like AI and generation gaps to simply experiment more. By all accounts (including my own after covering dozens of the BIFMA Leadership Conferences past), it was one of the most successful held. After several stunted BIFMA conferences due to COVID, …