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
Panel Discussion
Dr. Eamonn O’Laocha
Principal Investigator Douglas Applied Research and Education
Ruairi Spilane
Founder of Outpost Recruitment
Terry Roberts
Canadian lead for PMI
Nicole Jenkins
National Director, Project Delivery Services for BGIS
Keith Waiz
Director, Lines & Interconnections Projects, BC Hydro
Andrew Day
Director, Primary Care, Vancouver & Richmond at Vancouver Coastal Health