One-day conference · Amsterdam

The Office Impact Summit.

The Office Impact Summit.

For the people who run the workplace, and shape it.

For the people who run the workplace, and shape it.

Friday, September 4, 2026 · DB55, Amsterdam · €55.

Friday, September 4, 2026 · DB55, Amsterdam · €55.

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Office & Facilities Managers don’t just keep the office running. They shape how it feels, how people work, and whether a team thrives. The Office Impact Summit is a one-day gathering built to prove the role is bigger than the job title.

Office & Facilities Managers don’t just keep the office running. They shape how it feels, how people work, and whether a team thrives. The Office Impact Summit is a one-day gathering built to prove the role is bigger than the job title.

The experience

The experience

Connect with your peers


A room full of people who understand your role. Meet Amsterdam's office, workplace, facilities, and community managers, share what is working, swap ideas, and build connections that last beyond the day.

Connect with your peers


A room full of people who understand your role. Meet Amsterdam’s office managers, share what’s working, swap ideas, and build connections that last beyond the day.

Inspiring Keynotes


You already know the role is bigger than the title. These speakers have proved it, and they will tell you exactly how: how they got the budget, won the room, and built workplaces people genuinely want to be in, including the parts that went wrong. Come for the stories, leave with the arguments.

Inspiring Keynotes


Hear from office managers who’ve redefined what the role can look like. Real stories, honest insights, and ideas you’ll actually want to bring back to your team.

Small Table Discussions


The best conversations happen in small groups. Structured roundtables where you share challenges, exchange best practices, and leave with fresh perspectives.

Small Table Discussions


The best conversations happen in small groups. Structured roundtables where you share challenges, exchange best practices, and leave with fresh perspectives.

Fully Catered


Morning coffee, tea, a proper lunch, snacks throughout, and drinks to close the day. Everything included. And yes, some of the food and coffee providers you'll meet are ones you could bring straight back to your office.

Fully Catered


Morning coffee, tea, a proper lunch, snacks throughout, and drinks to close the day. Everything included. And yes, some of the food and coffee providers you’ll meet are ones you could bring straight back to your office.

Meet Local Vendors


Discover Amsterdam-based suppliers and providers who can make your office better. From catering to wellness to workplace experience, meet the people behind the products worth knowing about.

Meet Local Vendors


Discover Amsterdam-based suppliers and providers who can make your office better. From catering to wellness to workplace experience, meet the people behind the products worth knowing about.

Wellbeing Activations


Chair massage, breathwork, painting workshop, and more. Built into the day so you actually get to experience them, not just hear about them. Leave feeling better than when you arrived.

Wellbeing Activations


Chair massage, breathwork, painting workshop, and more. Built into the day so you actually get to experience them, not just hear about them. Leave feeling better than when you arrived.

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The Agenda

The Agenda

One day, built to move. Talks to sit with, tables to argue at, food worth staying for, and enough breathing room that you leave with energy rather than a headache.

One day, built to move. Talks to sit with, tables to argue at, food worth staying for, and enough breathing room that you leave with energy rather than a headache.

RUNNING ALL DAY

Live painting and chair massage

Live painting and chair massage

Anastasia paints the day as it happens. Chair massages run throughout (sign up on arrival, first come first served).

9:00-9:45

Arrival and coffee

Arrival and coffee

Doors open, coffee on. Meet the facilitators, claim your massage slot, settle in. Please arrive by 9:30 to grab your coffee and breakfast before the opening talks.

10:00-10:15

Welcome from Balance and DB55

Welcome from Balance and DB55

A short hello from your hosts and a look at what the day holds.

10:15-10:30

Breathwork reset

Breathwork reset

We start with a breath together. A guided reset to land in the room, plus one tool you will still be using next month.

10:30 - 11:15

Keynote: Do You Have 5 Minutes?

Speaker: Mey Macias, Office Manager, Tony's Chocolonely

Keynote: Do You Have 5 Minutes?

Speaker: Mey Macias, Office Manager, Tony's Chocolonely

When people think about office management, they often think about logistics, facilities, and events. But behind every thriving workplace is something much more human: connection. Mey shares how a simple moment, asking a colleague if they needed five minutes to vent, changed her perspective on the role of an office manager. It made her realize the impact goes far beyond organizing spaces and experiences; it's about creating an environment where people feel seen, supported, and safe to be themselves. She'll explore how office professionals can foster psychological safety, build community, and shape company culture through everyday interactions.

30 minutes, followed by time for your questions.

SPEAKER

SPEAKER

Mey Macias

Mey Macias

Office Manager, Tony’s Chocolonely

Office Manager, Tony’s Chocolonely

Mey leads the office and events experience at Tony's Chocolonely, a company known as much for how it treats its people as for what it makes. Her work sits where logistics meets culture: the spaces, moments, and everyday interactions that decide whether people feel like they belong at work. She's a strong advocate for the idea that office professionals shape psychological safety more than most organizations realize.

Mey leads the office and events experience at Tony's Chocolonely, a company known as much for how it treats its people as for what it makes. Her work sits where logistics meets culture: the spaces, moments, and everyday interactions that decide whether people feel like they belong at work. She's a strong advocate for the idea that office professionals shape psychological safety more than most organizations realize.

11:15 - 12:15

Interactive roundtables

Interactive roundtables

The centre of the day. You will rotate through smal table discussion of your choice, each on a different topic, meeting new people at every one. Two rotations of 25-mins.


Topics:

1. Doing more with less: budgets and planning

2. Office engagement: getting people to show up

3. Culture & wellbeing

4. Sustainability in the office

5. Growing the role


The focus is on real challenges and practical ideas you can take back to your own workplace. Moderated by your peers.

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch and inspiration

Lunch and inspiration

A proper lunch by Yacinth. Over the meal, Anastasia shares the story behind her work and the painting taking shape in the room.

13:30 - 14:15

Panel: The future of the role

Panel: The future of the role

Three office and workplace leaders on how the role is changing and what it's becoming.

The conversation covers keeping an office worth showing up to when attendance is uneven, building the influence and the budget to do the job properly, specific ways of using AI beyond writing emails, and where the role can lead, including what changed how their own leadership saw them.

Panelist

Panelist

Izzy Palmer

Izzy Palmer

People & Workplace Experience Specialist, Kaiko

People & Workplace Experience Specialist, Kaiko

Izzy brings a background in education into the workplace, where creating a space people feel included in is central to the job. She checks in with every new joiner after their first month and again after their first year, runs regular company-wide events, and works to make the office somewhere people genuinely want to be.

Izzy brings a background in education into the workplace, where creating a space people feel included in is central to the job. She checks in with every new joiner after their first month and again after their first year, runs regular company-wide events, and works to make the office somewhere people genuinely want to be.

Panelist

Panelist

Derry Razen

Derry Razen

Office Manager, FeedbackFruits

Office Manager, FeedbackFruits

Derry describes herself as a manager of chaos, happiest when the ideas are big and there are plenty of moving parts. Years spent at the intersection of art, culture, and operations gave her a curator's eye for the workplace: not just what needs to run smoothly, but what needs to feel right. From scaling immersive experiences to helping build teams from the ground up, she sees the office as where culture either happens or it doesn't.

Derry describes herself as a manager of chaos, happiest when the ideas are big and there are plenty of moving parts. Years spent at the intersection of art, culture, and operations gave her a curator's eye for the workplace: not just what needs to run smoothly, but what needs to feel right. From scaling immersive experiences to helping build teams from the ground up, she sees the office as where culture either happens or it doesn't.

Panelist

Panelist

Michaela Reindlová

Michaela Reindlová

Office Coordinator, HiBob

Office Coordinator, HiBob

Michaela recently helped bring HiBob's new office to life, with the goal of creating a space where people feel comfortable, connected, and able to do their best work. Beyond the office itself, she creates opportunities for people to connect outside their day-to-day roles, from wellbeing and sports activities to social events and workshops.

Michaela recently helped bring HiBob's new office to life, with the goal of creating a space where people feel comfortable, connected, and able to do their best work. Beyond the office itself, she creates opportunities for people to connect outside their day-to-day roles, from wellbeing and sports activities to social events and workshops.

Panelist & Moderator

Panelist & Moderator

Chloe Wilms

Chloe Wilms

Chief of Staff, Ask Aletta

Chief of Staff, Ask Aletta

Chloe started out in a People & Facilities role that gave her exposure to every part of the business, which is what pulled her into operations. She's since moved through a range of operational roles and now works as Chief of Staff at Amsterdam start-up Ask Aletta, where she's focused on how a growing company runs day to day. She knows the workplace side of a business well, and what it takes to build from there.

Chloe started out in a People & Facilities role that gave her exposure to every part of the business, which is what pulled her into operations. She's since moved through a range of operational roles and now works as Chief of Staff at Amsterdam start-up Ask Aletta, where she's focused on how a growing company runs day to day. She knows the workplace side of a business well, and what it takes to build from there.

14:15 - 15:15

Networking, vendors and activations

Networking, vendors and activations

Time set aside to connect properly. You can compare notes with people who do similar work elsewhere, meet Amsterdam suppliers worth knowing, try the three minute nailboard challenge, or build your own mocktail.

15:15 - 15:30

Energising breathing break

Energising breathing break

A short breathing exercise to shake off the afternoon dip and bring your focus back for the final sessions.

15:30 - 16:15

Keynote: Making the case

Keynote: Making the case

How to get budget, buy-in, and a seat at the table for the work you do. Speaker announced soon.

16:15 - 16:30

Closing and what’s next

Closing and what’s next

What to take with you, an introduction to the ongoing Office Impact Community, and a thank you before the evening starts.

16:30 - 19:00

Social: painting workshop, live DJ, wine tasting and bites

Social: painting workshop, live DJ, wine tasting and bites

The day moves into the evening with an optional painting workshop, a live DJ, wine tasting, and food. Anastasia keeps painting, so you can pick up a brush and add to the canvas whenever you like. More people from the wider network join for this part. Ends 19:00.

Programme subject to final timings. Speakers announced as they confirm.

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About DB55, Our Co-Host

About DB55, Our Co-Host

DB55 is one of Amsterdam's most inspiring spaces, set in the Houthavens, and our partner in creating this day.


It is a blended venue, where work, creativity, wellbeing, learning, hospitality, art, and community share the same roof. That combination gives the building an energy you feel the moment you walk in, and it is why the Summit is happening here.


DB55 is also available to book for offsites, team days, and company events, so you can experience the space on September 4 and know exactly what you are working with next time.

DB55 is one of Amsterdam’s most inspiring event venues, set in the vibrant Houthavens neighborhood. A space that feels nothing like a typical conference room. Warm, creative, and designed to bring people together.


The kind of place that makes the day feel like an event worth attending. And if you’re looking for a venue for your next team offsite or company gathering, it’s one worth having in your back pocket.

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Our collaborators

Our collaborators

The people bringing the day to life. Every part of the Summit, from what you eat to what happens on the walls, is made by someone doing genuinely interesting work in Amsterdam.

The people bringing the day to life. Every part of the Summit, from what you eat to what happens on the walls, is made by someone doing genuinely interesting work in Amsterdam.

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What you’ll walk away with

What you’ll walk away with

Fresh inspiration from people who’ve redefined the role

Fresh inspiration from people who’ve redefined the role

New ideas and best practices you can use

New ideas and best practices you can use

Real connections with peers and providers

Real connections with peers and providers

Your place in an ongoing Amsterdam community

Your place in an ongoing Amsterdam community

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How to attend on your company’s budget

How to attend on your company’s budget

The ticket price covers the full day: a premium venue in Houthavens, catering from morning coffee, lunch, and through closing drinks, wellbeing activations you take part in rather than watch, and a programme built around the questions you actually deal with.


Most attendees find at least one of these works:

  • Expense it through L&D or professional development budget. It qualifies as training and directly supports your role.

  • Put it on your company card. At €55 it rarely needs sign-off.

  • Pay personally by credit card. Less than a dinner out, for a full day that gives back far more.

  • Ask your manager. We can provide an invoice and a one paragraph summary you can forward.


However you get here, we'll make it worth it.

Because of DB55, of course. (Kidding. Kind of.)

At €55, the day covers a premium venue, full catering, wellbeing activations, and a carefully curated programme. For what’s included, it’s one of the best value days you’ll spend this year.

Most attendees find at least one of these works:


  • Expense it through L&D or professional development budget — it qualifies as training and directly supports your role

  • Put it on your company card — at €55 it rarely needs sign-off

  • Pay personally by credit card — less than a dinner out, for a full day that gives back far more

  • Ask your manager — we can provide an invoice and a one-paragraph summary you can forward, making approval as easy as possible


However you get here, we’ll make it worth it.

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Buy Your Ticket Here

Friday, September 4, 2026 · DB55, Amsterdam · €55

Friday, September 4, 2026

DB55, Amsterdam

Brought to you by Balance, DB55, and Anastasia Gangaev.

Practical information

Practical information

Where
DB55, Danzigerbocht 55, 1013 AM Amsterdam
Houthavens, about 15 minutes from Amsterdam Centraal.
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When
Friday, September 4, 2026
Doors 9:00, programme starts 9:45, drinks until 19:00.

Getting there
Bus [22 / 48] from Centraal, then a ~7 minute walk.
By bike: 15 minutes from Centraal, parking at the entrance.
By car: Limited Parking Available on Site.

Accessibility
[Step-free access and accessible toilets.] A quiet space is available all day.
Specific access needs? Email us and we will arrange it in advance.

Food
Coffee, lunch, snacks, and closing drinks included, catered by Yacinth at DB55.
Vegetarian and vegan as standard. We will collect dietary requirements before the event.

Tickets
€55 all inclusive. Need an invoice to expense it? Email us and we will send one the same day.

Join the Community

Join the Community

Not available on Sept. 4th? Sign up to join the Office Impact Community, a network for office, workplace, facilities, employee experience, and community professionals in Amsterdam, and hear about future events and meetups first.

Not available on Sept. 4th? Sign up to join the Office Impact Community, a network for office, workplace, facilities, employee experience, and community professionals in Amsterdam, and hear about future events and meetups first.

FAQ'S

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know before joining us at DB55.

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Who is the Office Impact Summit for?

What is included in the €55 ticket?

Where and when does the Office Impact Summit take place?

Can I expense the ticket through my company?

What happens if I can only attend part of the day?

Do I need any experience with breathwork or wellbeing sessions?

Who is organising the Office Impact Summit?

Can I bring a colleague, or transfer my ticket?