Speakers

Conference Speakers

Dr. Edward Hoffman

Keynote Speaker - The Smart Mission: NASA’s Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects; #2 The Future of Work – How the Most Successful Organizations Create Cultures of Growth

Alan Mallory

Closing Keynote Speaker - Project Everest

Dr. Adam Simpson

Head of PMO and Special Advisor at UN Women - Foreign Aid Flows: Strengthening PM standards and capacities in Development Projects

Matt Drown, PEng

Sr. Project Manager, Site-C, BC Hydro - Developing and implementing procurement strategies with Indigenous Peoples

Mehran Jamshidi

Department Head, Department of Project Management - Vancouver Community College (VCC) - My Past Could Be the Future of Many

Nicholas Cheung

Marketing and Communication Manager at Project Management Volunteers (PMV) - Empowering Mindful Change

Becky Querido

Partner, Consultant & Coach, Querida Collective - Responding to Turbulence: Surviving and Thriving in Today's Workplace

John Rauser

Director of Engineering at Cisco Secure - Planning with Probabilities: Risk, Randomness and the Future of Project Management

Sunny Dhillon

Develop4Agility Consulting & UBC Agile Instructor - Kanban is Reshaping the Future of Project Management

OD Krieg

Chief Technology Officer at Intelligent City - The Productization of Housing and the Industrialization of Construction

Jennifer Fraser

Executive Project Director, Highway Reinstatement Program, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure - The project management approach to rebuilding Highway 5 (Coquihalla) after catastrophic damage

Maike Schimpf

Former Highway 5 Corridor Director, Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure - The project management approach to rebuilding Highway 5 (Coquihalla) after catastrophic damage

Dr. Blaize Horner Reich

RBC Professor of Technology and Innovation, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University - Beyond Agile: Working in a Hybrid World

Dr. Andrew Gemino

Beedie Professor of Management Information Systems, and Associate Dean, Graduate Programs in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University - Beyond Agile: Working in a Hybrid World

Building Senior Project Management Capacity and Capability: What industry needs and wants.