The BBC's Rory Cellan Jones talks to entrepreneur and investor Joichi Ito, and Elizabeth Varely, founder of TechHub.
Wasn't the traditional office workplace supposed to be dead by now?
It is de rigeur for anyone starting a business today to use keywords like 'virtualisation' and scoff at the thought of paying for real estate and overheads.
With laptops, tablets, smartphones and teleconferencing, staff can work for their multi-national from practically any location. And cloud computing - storing information on remote servers rather on local PCs - means that projects can be synced effortlessly, no matter where you are.