At Entrepreneur First we believe that technology is a powerful tool that can disrupt the most aging industries and deeply change societies.

Looking back at 2020, there is one deep social change that Covid-19 pandemic led to: it is called remote working.

Due to a sanitary crisis that affected our lives and working habits, companies had to quickly adapt to maintain their productivity. In these unique circumstances, adapting usually meant providing employees with a remote working environment, leaving behind their offices.

When only a year ago remote working was the exception, it is today the norm.

More than just a social change, remote working represents a market opportunity that more and more startups seize, such as big players like Zoom or Slack.

Part of them is a newcomer called Semana, one of our portfolio startups which graduated from Entrepreneur First’ Paris last cohort. They create a tool that helps companies organise remote working to optimise their office space.

Such as the consulting firm EY in their recent study, Semana expects remote working to become the “new normal” and even predicts an increase x6 by 2021.

However, as the situation changed very fast, companies are not ready yet. Business leaders and HR managers all face the same issue: managing and planning their workforce between the office and remote working is a complex and time-consuming task that requires optimisation. A technical solution that brightly created Semana’s team.

In an insightful discussion led by Thomas Poitrineau, Manager at EF Paris, Albert Reynaud, CEO of Semana, will shed some light on the market opportunities that remote working represents today, what led him and his co-founder Valerio Volpati to launch a startup in this field and how ultimately technology is shaping the future of work.

More on our speaker: Albert has spent 10 years working at Google doing business development for the Ads and product partnerships teams. He headed a vertical of the Android Apps EMEA team. Last year he launched an electric car subscription service and then decided to join the EF Programme in April 2020 to start a new venture.

Our webinar will be split in two parts:

6.00pm-6.30pm: Discussion with the CEO of Semana moderated by EF

6.30pm-7.00pm: Q&A with the speakers with open questions from the audience

Join us online for this webinar on Wednesday, February 24th at 6.00 pm → Register for virtual meeting link!