Anil is passionate about Project Controls and working in multiple capacities for implementation and enhancement of this growing subject i.e., Managing Director of Projcon Group (Project Controls Consultancy), Founder of Project Controls Online (Global Project Controls e-network and knowledge base), Project Manager for Project Controls Expo (Largest Project Controls event/- show) and finally, Founder and Program Director at Project Controls Institute (Blended Project Controls learning platform), 

Anil's professional experience spans over 19 years at corporate and field offices offering diverse and in-depth exposure to implementation of Project Controls on a range of EPC Projects (Oil & Gas- upstream and downstream, CCU’s - Carbon Capture Units, Power Projects and Pipelines).

Registrations, Certifications, Publications & Voluntary Contribution 

• IEng registration with Engineering Council, UK
• Holds Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) and Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certifications from AACEI, USA
• Strategy and Marketing Chairman at ACostE, UK
• Member of APM (Association of Project Management, UK) Special Interest Group (SIG) - PMC (Planning, Monitoring and Control) ; contributor to APM's "Planning Guide"? and "Project Controls Framework".
• Member of ECITB supported Project Controls Working Group (PCWG) and support in drafting NOC (National Occupational standards) for Project Controls in UK.
• Associated with CIOB (Chartered Institute of Buildings), UK as member of TDWG (Training Development Working Group) to develop guidelines for accreditation in Time Management.
• Published Technical paper on Capital Cost Optimization of Power Project through standardization of engineering design to AACEI, USA.
• Contributed to "CPM Mechanics: The Critical Path Method of Modeling Project Execution Strategy" book by providing European perspective.

Jane MacMaster has worked as an aerospace, mechanical and systems engineer in Australia and internationally, focusing primarily on supersonic flight vehicle design, operations research and rapid prototyping in the Defense sector.

She has qualifications in Engineering (Mechanical) and International Relations. She has previously worked as a senior advisor within the strategy unit of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, as a management consultant and most recently she was Founder and Director of Ponder Enterprises, where she used her engineering skillset to address complex societal challenges.

Anil is passionate about Project Controls and working in multiple capacities for implementation and enhancement of this growing subject i.e., Managing Director of Projcon Group (Project Controls Consultancy), Founder of Project Controls Online (Global Project Controls e-network and knowledge base), Project Manager for Project Controls Expo (Largest Project Controls event/- show) and finally, Founder and Program Director at Project Controls Institute (Blended Project Controls learning platform), 

Anil's professional experience spans over 19 years at corporate and field offices offering diverse and in-depth exposure to implementation of Project Controls on a range of EPC Projects (Oil & Gas- upstream and downstream, CCU’s - Carbon Capture Units, Power Projects and Pipelines).

Registrations, Certifications, Publications & Voluntary Contribution 

• IEng registration with Engineering Council, UK
• Holds Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) and Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) certifications from AACEI, USA
• Strategy and Marketing Chairman at ACostE, UK
• Member of APM (Association of Project Management, UK) Special Interest Group (SIG) - PMC (Planning, Monitoring and Control) ; contributor to APM's "Planning Guide"? and "Project Controls Framework".
• Member of ECITB supported Project Controls Working Group (PCWG) and support in drafting NOC (National Occupational standards) for Project Controls in UK.
• Associated with CIOB (Chartered Institute of Buildings), UK as member of TDWG (Training Development Working Group) to develop guidelines for accreditation in Time Management.
• Published Technical paper on Capital Cost Optimization of Power Project through standardization of engineering design to AACEI, USA.
• Contributed to "CPM Mechanics: The Critical Path Method of Modeling Project Execution Strategy" book by providing European perspective.

Jane MacMaster has worked as an aerospace, mechanical and systems engineer in Australia and internationally, focusing primarily on supersonic flight vehicle design, operations research and rapid prototyping in the Defense sector.

She has qualifications in Engineering (Mechanical) and International Relations. She has previously worked as a senior advisor within the strategy unit of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, as a management consultant and most recently she was Founder and Director of Ponder Enterprises, where she used her engineering skillset to address complex societal challenges.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

Othman has 20 years of experience in delivering critical Capital Programs in NSW, Australia & the GCC area with a portfolio that includes NSW DPIE PMO, Qatar Rail Program PMO and Muscat International Airport Expansion Program.

Othman has unique Client, Consultant & Contractor side experience in setting up & application of robust project management & controls operations using international standards, best practices & latest tools.

Othman is currently in the public sector and is an advocate for the improvement of project management and project controls capabilities and making a real difference for communities through mature project management.

Laurie Bowman's degrees are CCP DRMP EVP PSP

Laurie Bowman, CCP DRMP EVP PSP is passionate about improving the professionalism of project controls and risk management on complex projects. Laurie is the Principal for training organisation Synchrony, where his focus is on helping clients achieve successful project, program and portfolio management outcomes through training, coaching and certification. Synchrony is an Approved Education Provider (AEP) for AACE International and is an Accredited Training Organisation (ATO) for APMG International. Laurie has over 20 years’ experience as an engineer and manager on a variety of complex, multidisciplinary engineering and construction projects having worked with government, owners, consultants and contractors. Laurie is a registered mentor with both AACE International and Engineers Australia and currently serves on the committee for Engineers Australia’s College of Leadership and Management in the Australian Capital Territory and serves as the AACE International Regional Director for Asia Pacific (Region 8).

Ben holds a degree in Computer Engineering and spent 4 years as an automation engineer before becoming a high-frequency options trader. After trading for 7 years on every major exchange across the globe Ben moved into government consulting, where he has spent the past 6 year. Having recently completed an executive MBA in Organizational Leadership, Ben has been focused on uplifting governmental modelling through consistent design and transparent architecture. A firm believer in data-driven decision-making, Ben has a passion for driving better decisions through the application of evidence-based modelling, and helping organizations produce sustainable models with trusted outputs.

Paul Harris holds an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering obtained at Brighton University in the UK and is a Certified Cost Engineer through AACEI International, a PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and a “Managing Successful Programmes” Registered Practitioner. He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project controls systems. His Melbourne, Australia based company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, offers project controls consulting and training services worldwide with a strong focus on Microsoft Project, Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject and Primavera software. Paul Harris has used a number of planning and scheduling software packages for the management of a range of project types and sizes. The first books he published were user guides/training manuals for Primavera SureTrak®, P3 and Microsoft Project users. These were well received by professional project managers and schedulers, so he turned his attention to developing books that demonstrated how the software is used with project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and the PMBOK® Guide. His latest books are on Microsoft Project 2019, Elecosoft Powerproject Version 15 and Oracle Primavera P6 PPM.

James is an Industry Consultant for Hexagon, based in Singapore. He is a certified project management professional with international experience implementing project management systems. His project controls experience spans the entire project life cycle from initiation and planning to execution and closeout.

James has a proven track record of working with leading project delivery companies to eliminate disparate spreadsheets and point solutions in favour of an enterprise projects performance system that provides a consistent platform to standardize processes and boost project outcomes. In this role at Hexagon, James is the subject matter expert on all things project management and supports companies in their evaluation of EcoSys, Hexagon’s enterprise project performance software. EcoSys helps organisations maximize returns and margins by running projects more efficiently, predictably, and with greater control.

Iscient is a specialized business unit of Lights in the Attic Project Group (LitA pg), focusing on the translation of the leading academic research to technologies for Prediction Science and Modeling in the Capital Projects and adjacent industries ( including socio-economics, recoverable and sustainable environments

Robert founded EPC Lens and Iscient while managing intensely complex capital programs (US$25B) across Canada, the USA, and Internationally. He has developed and led commercial and execution strategies, project controls, risk and supply chains for marquee and business-critical projects in mining, oil, refining and power generation, including renewables. His work has also been foundational for improving project execution efficiency, navigating markets and transforming business organizations for major international producers, and for individual engineering, procurement and construction companies.

In pursuit of better EPC performance, Robert invented numerous processes – enabled by science-driven information technology - to improve project and program delivery. Many of these step-change solutions are integrated into the EPC Lens suite, while select others are being introduced (2020) on scaling programs for mining, LNG and large scale-pipeline. Approximately half of the research applications address inefficiencies in behavioural patterns and how to influence complex organizations and processes, while the other half improves prediction sciences and modeling for projects, programs, risk and operational performance.

Robert also researches, writes and presents on matters of emerging sciences and information technology, AI in projects and BI, strategic planning, project management, supply chain, risk and market forecast and analysis. In 2021, Iscient completes phase 1 of the virtual co-laboratory program for project controls, supply chains, project management and construction management to keep specialists and professionals in the capital project practices aware of scientific advances that are expected to translate into leading technologies.

All attendees for this lecture qualify for updates on the Iscient virtual laboratory developments and update to the ebook ‘Interim A.I.: Growing Artificial Intelligence for Projects’

Ms. Tabora has been in the Oil and Gas industry for over 20 years. She is the Managing Principal of PhilCan Industries Corp (Canada and Philippines) with an Environmental Division (R4), whose focus is organically sustaining the environment. Her magnitude of experience in Operational Excellence programs and fast-paced organizations has provided the opportunity in solutioning a holistic approach with optimizing environmental risk, assessments and mitigation plans.

Aufel holds a Masters in Social Economics and has completed the Organizational Leadership Management Program at the Harvard Business School Executive Education. Her passion in helping build healthier communities, continually developing businesses to provide solutions that fit for purpose and positively impact the world and her determination to assist organizations grow through her collaborative and cooperative nature makes her a transformational executive with foresight, creativity and vision.

Aufel and Robert have several programs underway across the Americas including mining, pipelines, infrastructure and LNG projects - where their solutions are turnkey programs for communities, owners and project management teams and supply chains. The sum value of these developments is CAD$22B.

Verghese Kochummen is a project management consultant with over 15 years of experience setting up enterprise solutions for construction and infrastructure project control teams. Verghese is the principal architect of Executive-Eye, a stakeholder management platform designed for busy project Executives needing to be updated on their project progress within ‘Executive-Time’.

In his work with industry leading infrastructure and construction companies, Verghese has had the opportunity to closely interact with Executive teams whose needs often go above and beyond conventional project control practices. Today, he works closely with owners of mega infrastructure projects to ensure they get  an accurate view of their project progress and empower them with the tools to conduct Executive level briefings to other stakeholders.

Specialist, Consultant and Instructor in Portfolio-Project Management, and PMO and Strategic Planning.

Magister, Master's Program in Business Administration at ESAN (Top 3 in Latin America and No. 01 in Peru according to the prestigious QS Global MBA Rankings 2020) - Business School Peking University (China).

Civil Engineer from the National University of Engineering (No. 01 in Peru according to América Economía Ranking 2020), with specialization studies in Strategy, Portfolio-Project Management, Digital Transformation and Agile Practices.

Certified as PMP® (Project Management Professional), PMO-CP® (PMO Value Ring Practitioner), and currently studying the 3rd Virtual Design Construction (VDC) Program at Stanford University (USA).

With more than 15 years of experience in Peru and Colombia with ascending positions and successful professional development as Contractor, EPC / M and Owner, leading Project Control Teams and Corporate PMOs of the Construction, Mining and Oil & Gas Sector in recognized companies such as the Group JJC, COSAPI and Obrainsa.

Professor at the National University of Engineering in Peru.

He has given international conferences for the PMO Global Awards Experience 2020 and for events of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Section Peru Chapter, Construction Community, in Project Management, Project Controls, Digital Transformation, Construction 4.0, VDC / BIM and Lean Construction.

Member and volunteer of the American Association of Cost Engineering International (AACEi) Peru Section, PMI, and the Project Control Association (ACP).

Also member of the Board of Directors of the VDC Latin America Network. He is currently Project Controls & PMO Lead at Compañía de Minas Buenaventura and Senior Project Controls Consultant in PMO Consulting SAC.

David is the founder of Endeavour Programme with its artificial intelligence technology Octant AI. Octant AI is a platform which prevents cost and time overrun of projects of all types through sophisticated machine learning algorithms and complex Bayesian statistical methods.

David is a project and programme leader with 30 years experience in project development and delivery across a wide range of industries. He previously founded and led a leading Project Management consultancy in Australia. In 2016, after 20 years at the helm, he undertook a sabbatical at University of Oxford, where he established Endeavour Programme with colleagues from around the world to change the paradigm of cost and time management through artificial intelligence.

He is a strong advocate for “Data Driven Project Management” which brings together the best of project management practice and methodologies with emerging machine learning and AI technology. He sees the future of project controls as inevitably linked to AI, with practitioners transitioning to “augmented professionals”.

Santosh Bhat is a civil engineer and a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) with over 20 years’ experience in Project Planning and Controls.

As well as being an independent consultant
offering Planning, Scheduling and Schedule Risk analysis services from Sydney, Australia, Santosh is also Co-Founder and CEO of Linear Project Software, developers of the time location charting tool “Turbo-Chart”

Ruben Sen is a leader in digital engineering technology and asset management consulting with a background that includes 15 + years industrial experience and success in oil and gas, mining, chemical process and manufacturing, rail infrastructure, supply chain, heavy and FMCG manufacturing.

His passion is in delivering client focused, human centred outcomes. Specialising in collaborating and managing highly skilled, multi-disciplinary, international project teams, virtually or in-person. Whether this is across multiple projects for a large tier one or prime multinational or a single small one plant manufacturing operation. I focus on scaling and right sizing solutions with people, process and IT/OT at the centre.

While he is comfortable working with detail and data. Ruben skills excel in applying data analysis to the big picture. Resulting in holistic solutions to help people meet their asset management goals.

Ruben believe’s engineering focused companies need a solid foundation, built on strong data governance, robust data management processes to be competitive in uncertain times. When these are underpinned by well-informed data driven strategies and a people orientated frameworks, Ruben Sen builds resilient asset management, operations and supply chain processes for you and your clients.

Ruben has worked for clients, collaborated with stakeholders and managed project teams from the UK, Middle East, India, Caribbean, US, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Europe and Interstate of Australia.

Ruben is currently open to contract, project or permanent opportunities. Please call on +61 434 840 312

Highlights include:
At Petrofac Ruben successfully delivered a complex multinational client project with $1m+ budget for a major oil & gas company
At ARMS Reliability Ruben delivered major software upgrade with a 100+ user base for major mining client
Ruben was the key protagonist in established a Supply Chain Planning and Customer Service team for ESCO Australasia, managing a production and inventory holding of $200m

Laith Adel is a principle Consultant with EPM Partners in Australia. With a strong background in engineering, project management and information technology, Laith provides consulting (both business and technical) and management services to customers, helping them to successfully implement and deploy project portfolio management solutions within their organisations.

He has worked with Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) product set since its early versions and has been involved in many Microsoft EPM solution implementation projects around the world.

Laith’s hands-on experience comes from his association with a number of professional services organisations which include Microsoft Consulting Services (MSC) and Strategic Data Management (SDM). With EPM Partners, Laith has successfully implemented PPM solutions for dozens of organisations, each with its own specific requirements and maturity levels.

His approach focuses on the realisation of the business objectives of the implementation of the technology by integrating it with the organisation’s process and ensuring the end-users’ adoption. Laith provides a unique style of consulting that challenges the status quo, and shares valuable insights and lessons learned from other organisations.

Project Executive and Senior Project Controls Manager with over 40 years engineering experience encompassing roles such as Project Manager, Project Controls Engineer and Manager, Site Engineer and Estimator on major projects in Australia and internationally.

Experienced in all facets of Project Controls management, Estimating, Budget Preparation, Cost Engineering, Change Management, Planning, Scheduling, Documentation Control and Reporting, on all phases of Projects from Concept to Implementation and Handover.

Experience has included working with Owners teams and EPCM contractors.

A proven ability to successfully build teams through training and staff development, extensive experience developing and implementing new processes and systems for major projects and integrating project processes across project groups.

Training and mentoring of Project Controls personnel.

Graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT), Vladimir created his first project management software for mainframe computers in 1978. This program included not only CPM calculations but also advanced resource leveling.
In 1990 he organized Spider Project Team for creating the best project management tool. Spider Project was launched to the market in 1993 and today it is most functional project and portfolio management software that is used in 36 countries and for management of most large-scale programs in Russia like preparation of 2014 Winter Olympic Games and construction of all stadiums used for 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Spider Project Team became the leading project management consulting and training company with the branches and partners in many Russian cities and abroad.
Vladimir is an author of 4 books on project management and more than 150 papers and has an experience of managing projects and consulting project management teams in aerospace, construction, energy, oil & gas, telecommunications, retail, shipbuilding and other application areas.

Possess B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, M.B.A. in Project Management and PMP certification.

Have above 20years of work experience in Project Management with a blend of both Home office and Project Site experience.  Worked in various large EPC projects as a Project Control Professional.

Teaches Project Control Stuffs online.  Running a YouTube channel named “RJ Project Control” covering practical stuff of EPC projects.

Tim Baillie is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 14 years of experience in the construction and engineering industry. He has significant experience in the design, procurement, construction, management and commissioning of major projects, most recently as a Project Director.

He has a wealth of experience gained across a diverse range of public and private sector markets throughout the UK, utilising both standard and bespoke forms of contract and various funding mechanisms, such as PPP. This experience was gained on healthcare, residential and civil engineering projects.

Tim holds a MSc in Major Project Management from the University of Oxford and a MSc in Civil Engineering from Heriot Watt University. He has also been a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers since 2013.

Gareth is a geotechnical engineer and delay analyst with over nine years of professional experience in the construction and engineering industry. He has practiced forensic delay analysis and been involved in the preparation of expert reports on delay and disruption analysis for a wide range of projects. He has first-hand experience in both international arbitration and adjudication.

Gareth has extensive experience on large infrastructure projects throughout Africa and the Middle East. He has also advised clients on rail facilities, dams, high-rise buildings, and offshore energy projects. He has experience as an engineer in all stages of the lifecycle of projects, from tendering through design, construction, and construction supervision.

Gareth holds a Post Graduate Diploma in International Construction Contracts from Panthéon-Assas University Paris II.

Alex is a Project Planning and Delivery Specialist with over 20 years’ experience in project management across different industries and countries. Alex has worked within multiple portfolio and program offices to support organisations to implement best scheduling practices including reliable scheduling processes, use of the most appropriate scheduling tools, methods and techniques. He has a proven record in implementing best scheduling standards, methodologies and frameworks.

Enterprise Master Schedule (EMS), DSPM Interdependency Framework, Waterfall & Agile integration Roadmaps, Schedule Maturity Planning & Assessment, Portfolio Planning, Program Schedule Optimization, and other methods and techniques support customers integrate projects across different part of business.

Paul has over 20 years’ experience in leading and delivering strategic change and transformation across the private sector, public sector and NGO’s. In rôles including Executive Management, Programme Leader, Facilitator and Leadership Coach he has gained a unique insight into the challenges of creating, delivering and realising sustained benefits from complex organisational change.

Over recent years Paul has focused on how to support the human side of change and leads the changemaker human change practice. This group supports leaders and their teams in times of transformation and change to fully embrace new ways of working, encourage cultural shift and adopt behavioural changes that in turn lead to the realisation of tangible business benefits and competitive advantage.

As well as being a regular and popular conference and event speaker, Paul is also a leadership coach, a qualified practitioner using the Lumina Learning psychometric tools and a Prosci Certified Change Management practitioner.

I am a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with an eclectic knowledge gained from 32 years of working in the construction industry, out of which 28 years have been gained in the UAE.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – UK, Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Arbitrators – UK, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors – Australia, Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors - India.

I am a Director and Global Vice President of the Indian Institute of Quantity Surveyors – India and a Trustee of the International Ethics Standards Coalition – UK.

Building on the Civil Engineering and Quantity Surveying qualifications attained from India, I have obtained a Graduate Diploma in Surveying from College of Estate Management, UK and a Masters in Construction Law and Arbitration from Robert Gordon University, UK.

I have extensive experience in project development, pre and post contract quantity surveying functions, tendering and contractual matters on a wide variety of building and civil engineering projects. I have been a guest speaker at various seminars and workshops. I have written number of articles on the topics including professional ethics, quantity surveying and contract administration.

Vishal Singh
Associate Director, ProjCon Group

Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering

Graduate Diploma in Construction Management & Infrastructure Development

Over 16 years of experience in Project and Programme management throughout the Project lifecycle

Area of expertise in Project Controls, Cost Engineering, Management Reporting, Change Management, Earn Value Management & Dashboard Preparation

Presently supporting clients in setting-up of their Cost Management Process and Reporting Framework

Vaibhav has over 10 years of Project Controls experience in planning and controlling major Capex projects. He has vast experience in establishing the Project Controls at the organization/project level, establishing a robust reporting framework, organizing projects for Project Controls, planning projects, developing and maintaining schedules, schedule health checks, risk management, performance tracking and reporting. He has worked in different industries including infrastructure, transportation and utility. He is a passionate Project Controls professional supporting Clients to develop and improve their project controls maturity and competency development.

Andy Verone is the Global Vice President for Oracle’s Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit responsible for Innovation, Industry and Customer Strategy. Andy is also the cofounder of Oracle’s Construction and Engineering innovation lab located in Chicago, IL.

Andy has over 30 years of executive and international business experience across the globe in the Engineering and Construction industry, including previously serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at both Michael Baker International and Broadspectrum. His background includes the implementation of global project-based information and delivery systems, including collaboration management programs, as well as Board of Directors-level experience developing IT Strategic Plans and Governance programs. He also has managed large capital infrastructure projects and government contracts.

Andy servers on the board of advisor of Construction Industry Institute (CII) the premier Research & Development center in the capital projects industry.

Yoshi is a Project Data Analyst at Projecting Success and Organiser of the Project Data Analytics Community. His role spans a wide range of responsibilities including business analysis, process engineering, power bi and automation, and data security. He has been instrumental in the development of the project data academy, Project:Hack and community of practice for both organisations.

Yoshi’s background is in the cognitive sciences where he has completed a masters degree with publications in brain stimulation and eye-tracking. His path into data analytics commenced when he conducted a big data study from the UK BioBank, which he’s now advancing through the Data Analyst apprenticeship at Projecting Success

Ari Isaacs, co-founder and CEO of ShapeDo, consults for major national and international construction and infrastructure projects where he has developed a deep knowledge of dispute avoidance and resolution. Ari helped parties in conflict to resolve disputes leveraging technology and using processes and procedures he has designed and put in place to ensure effective project controls and delivery. ShapeDo specializes in drawing-driven distressed project recovery, delay analysis and dispute avoidance and resolution.

Chris is a Business Development Executive at RPCuk, this year’s Project Controls Expo Platinum Sponsor.
Chris is a seasoned sales professional with over 20 years’ experience, the last 10 of which have specialized in Project Controls, PPM and associated software in the Architectural, engineering and construction arena.
During his time working for Conject, Aconex and Oracle Chris gained extensive experience within the Information technology and services sector with a particular focus on Document Collaboration, Contract Management (Predominantly NEC3 & 4) and Cost Management.
Chris has worked with some of the largest Contractors, consultants and Public Sector organizations on some of the highest-profile projects in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
On top of his Sales and Account Management work, Chris is also a keen networker and a founder member/organizer of some of the largest conferences and Special Interest Groups for Projects Controls and NEC Contract management.

Having worked as a Project Controls and Asset Management specialist for the past 20 years, across a broad range of sectors and business models.  Richard became CEO of Safran in February 2018, where he has introduced a new breed of risk analytics software, designed to support more effective risk based decision making for both risk professionals and project stakeholders.

Mike has worked for a number of years providing Risk Management and Risk Analysis consultancy to a wide array of clients across the UK. His extensive experience, demanding customer base, and commitment to adding value drive him to seek out the best practices and technologies to generate the right solutions for his clients.  In particular Mike is focused on making the role of risk manager as effective as possible.  He uses best practices captured by the latest technologies to set new benchmarks for performing Risk Analysis and improving customer experience.

Paul is a Director of Adept Management where he takes responsibility for the development of the company’s Project Controls tools and services, as well as supporting clients and projects across the construction industry. He is a Mechanical Engineer by background and has over 20 years’ experience in Project Management and Controls. In addition, Paul has spent time as a researcher where he developed some of Adept Management's innovative approaches to Planning and Project Controls. Paul has a wide range of consultancy skills including the provision of Project Controls and Design Management services, project planning services, development of design and project management procedures, and definition of Key Performance Indicators for project and business level activities.

He also has extensive experience introducing new management practices, and technologies to support them. Paul is a specialist in the use and implementation of Oracle Primavera including products such as P6 (EPPM & PPM), Primavera Analytics, PCM (Contract Management) and Primavera Risk Analysis. In recent roles he has led the implementation of Primavera, and its integration with SAP, within the Project Management Offices of client organisations in the utilities and energy sectors. In addition to experience in the construction and civil engineering sectors, Paul has successfully planned and managed capital works projects in the defence and IT sectors.

Elmer Sachteleben is an experienced Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) holding an MSC in applied physics. After providing consultancy services to major companies, Elmer now leads Cost Engineering Academy. He is also a teacher at the Dutch Association of Cost Engineers (DACE) and a frequent speaker at industry events.

Elmer applies his broad experience and enthusiasm to provide traineeships, develop courses and organize workshops in the field of project controls and turnarounds.

He has provided consulting services in process assessment, development, and implementation to major multinational companies such as Shell, Unilever, Bayer, Cargill, CB&I, Mott MacDonald, Heineken, Vopak, Enbridge, Yara, and Rijkswaterstaat.

Recognized expert in construction cost estimating, planning and contract management. He is graduated in Civil Engineering (30 years of experience) and has a Law degree too, as well as a Masters degree in Geophysics. His international experience spans multiple industries, including energy, transportation, water resources and public housing in 12 countries. Aldo is founder and former president of AACE Brazil Section. Author of 5 books on cost estimating and construction planning, he is an active lecturer on a wide range of construction-related topics. He often presents papers at international events and writes articles for technical publications.

As a consultant, he has assisted public entities and private companies in quantity surveying, cost control, estimating, planning scheduling, feasibility studies and disputes resolutions with high satisfaction of his clients. His experience also includes the role of Owner’s Representative at an airport expansion project. Aldo is very skilled in training and motivating teams and is a consultant for the United Nations in infrastructure projects.

JR has over thirty years of experience in the execution of worldwide projects on behalf of Fortune 500 owners and ENR 400 contractors in engineering, construction and maintenance related to project management and project controls. He has blended these management skills with technical expertise in large and medium-sized new construction capital projects. Moreover, JR has meticulously executed projects both domestically (USA) and internationally in 7 countries primarily in the oil / gas, fossil-fueled power, nuclear, petrochemical, US government sector, and pulp & paper industries. Always in the pursuit of knowledge sharing, his passion and enthusiasm for project management and project controls will resonate with all levels of experienced professionals.

JR is the President of KPMC International LLC (a Texas Limited Liability Company) providing professional project management consulting and refined project controls subject matter expertise for clients across various diverse industries. His value proposition relies on his previous experience across 7 countries as a preeminent authority – both from the contractor’s and owner/operator’s perspective in all areas of project management and project controls. Clients benefit from his comprehensive knowledge of industry best practices from well-established professional organizations and wide-ranging field experience. He distinguishes himself from others with his acute ability to understand and translate universal business needs and apply that knowledge against deliverables in a practical fashion to solve core problems.

JR has authored numerous project controls and project management technical papers and presented at industry conferences including; PMI-AGC International Conference, AACE International Conference & Expo, and Project Controls Summit.

He has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Project Management from Capella University. JR is a certified Project Management Professional – PMP® from PMI since 2008 and a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional – PSP™ from AACE International since 2013.

Jeancarlo is a project controls, planning and PMO leader. With over 12 years of experience across rail, civils, mining, and building projects, he has impressive capabilities in different project environments, including leading large teams & project setup in South America and Europe.

He has been an active member of AACE International, founding the AACE Peru Section in 2013 and serving on the Board of Directors of AACE International 2017-2019 as Director-Region 10 (Latin America).

His background lies in Civil Engineering; however, this is complemented by an MBA from the Vlerick Business School (Belgium). His in-depth knowledge and experience in project controls best practices are widely validated with international certifications in the areas of project and cost management. His credentials as Certified Cost Professional (CCP), Earned Value Professional (EVP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Primavera P6 EPPM Certified Specialist are a testimony to Jeancarlo’s management, motivation, and interpersonal skills.

Jeancarlo is currently working as a Planning Manager for BAM Nuttall on a multi-million pound rail project in the UK (Transpennine Route Upagrade), connecting Manchester to Leeds.

Construction project management professor, consultant, author, public speaker, and trainer.
BS, MSc, and PhD in civil engineering specialized in Construction Project Management.

Experience: 30 +years, diversified:
Industrial: private and public sectors, in the U.S. and international. Positions occupied include project engineer / manager, cost estimator, planner / scheduler, project controls manager, cost manager, training manager.

Academic: faculty member / professor, head of department.
Extensive experience in continuing education and professional training around the world. Topics are mainly technical (construction planning / scheduling, project controls, project management, cost estimating) but also include soft skills. Have been doing a lot of volunteer presentations and training as well.

Author of:
Construction Project Scheduling and Control, 4th edition, published by Wiley
How to Estimate with Means Data: Basic Skills for Building Construction 5th edition, published by Wiley
Many articles; technical and others

Many presentations in professional conferences such as PMI, AACE International. Public speaker in many local, regional, and international events.
An authority on project planning, scheduling, and project control.
An advocate of holistic healthy living

Martin Paver, Data Scientist, Registered Project Professional, Chartered Engineer, BEng, MBA, MAPM, MIMechE, is CEO of Projecting Success Ltd. and Founder of the London Project Data Analytics meetup. Martin is a Registered Project Professional with the APM and a Chartered Engineer with the IMechE. He is the CEO/Founder of a P3M and data science consultancy called Projecting Success who help project organisations to connect and understand their data for a more certain, evidence-driven project delivery by analysing historical and real-time data to discover insights and make recommendations with improved confidence in outcomes. He has 30 years of delivery experience spanning senior strategic roles across government and the private sector, led projects of up to $1bn, both client and supply side and he also led a PMO for a $multi-billion portfolio of ICT projects. In late 2017 Martin established the London Project Data Analytics Meetup, the UK's largest community that combines the cutting edges of data science and project management ranging from hosting talks, delivering hackathons through to influencing future thinking on project data science. He is on a mission to leveragae the benefits of advanced data science for the benefit of the project management profession, ensuring that we shape the direction of the industry and prepare us for a new future.

Ivor Barbrook is an expert in the UK in digital construction (BIM) and is also responsible for the delivery of engineering surveying and planning functions within BAM Nuttall. Ivor has worked with engineering design consultants to establish and implement strong design / contractor interface management procedures used as a management tool on design and construct projects. In partnership with LoadSpring, Bentley, Autodesk the supply chain and employers, he has put in place BIM workflows for civil engineering infrastructure within BAM Nuttall. This has enhanced the delivered product value and quality, providing benefit to all parties. The processes and technology that have been developed and implemented are recognised as market leading and collaborative in approach by leading engineering consultants and BAM Nuttall’s civil infrastructure joint venture partners. Ivor continues to influence the implementation of BIM as a corporate approach within BAM Nuttall to deliver LEAN business process.

After twenty years working for a general contractor, Bill started his own company and now works for owners and engineers providing preconstruction services such as opinions of probable cost (OPC), planning and scheduling, constructability and value engineering recommendations, and risk assessment and management. His company, Canterbury CMS, Inc, brings extensive and proven experience in providing OPCs based on real pricing, planning and scheduling based on real project experience, meaningful constructability and value engineering recommendations, and comprehensive risk assessments and management from more than two decades of actual construction experience in heavy civil construction, primarily water/ wastewater and pipelines. Additionally, Canterbury CMS, Inc. will often stay on board through the construction phase for program/ project management services. Bill is a CEP and PSP through AACEi; a CCM through CMAA; and a National Standard General Building Contractor A through ICC.

Dr. Amin Terouhid has served as a project management expert since 2003, and is currently the principal consultant with Adroit Consultants, LLC. He has received a Ph.D. in construction management from the University of Florida, and holds the following professional certificates: Professional Engineer (P.E.) – Texas, Project Management Professional (PMP), Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP), and Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP).

Amin’s expertise in project management is focused on project planning and control, cost engineering, risk management, and project construction claims. He has worked on projects throughout the United States as well as in the Middle East and Southern Africa involving the design and development of project management offices, developing construction project management systems, managing project scheduling and control teams. He has published a variety of articles, with a focus on construction management, in scientific journals and presented his works in international conferences. He is a primary author of AACE Recommended Practices 89R-16, 92R-17, and 91R-16. Amin was a recipient of the 2018 AACE Technical Excellence Award.

Dev is the Co-Founder and CEO of nPlan, a machine learning company that learns how completed construction projects performed to predict the outcomes of future projects. nPlan delivers a new paradigm in the management of risk and uncertainty.

Dev’s experience is in delivering construction projects for the energy industry, spanning 3 continents over 9 years. Following this, Dev worked within the UK government to launch and deliver the national review on AI, which was published as part of the Industrial Strategy in 2017.

Dev has a strong passion to change the way projects are delivered through empowered decisions, enabled by data. nPlan has scaled to operate in 8 countries and has processed schedules representing over $450B of construction spend, the largest dataset of its kind in the world. nPlan is also pioneering an innovative approach that quantifies the risk of construction delays, coupled with an insurance product to mitigate these risks.

I identify myself as an innovation leader and an industry change agent specialized in digital transformation of the digital building lifecycle. The industry has recognized me as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking people in the sector. My strategy is to unify a clear vision around the Digital Building Lifecycle framework: consolidating the physical, social, and digital environments as a data centric entity, and empowering the end-user experiences with emerging technologies. I have built my competence to achieve goals for real estate and security vision by becoming the strategist and the developer of digital platforms, extended reality, and digital construction. I am versed in technology R&D, innovation, and digital transformation of the global construction industry.

I have a proven track record of successfully managing multimillion-dollar projects and programs with a democratic leadership style. I am a frequent keynote speaker in national and international industry forums, evangelizing digital transformation and its impact on people, business, and technology.

As my foundation, I have a Master of Science degree with 20 years of experience in working collaboratively with senior management teams in the academia and in the industry. I have authored and co-authored multiple award-winning publications on emerging technology, innovation, BIM, and construction management. My awarded thesis work has been adopted in the national BIM standards in the USA and European Union.

Danilo Arba is a project controls & management enthusiast, with 20 years of experience. Certified Cost Engineer and Executive MBA from Politecnico di Milano. Thorough understanding of EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) industry, with verifiable track record of planning multimillion/billion-dollar worldwide construction projects. He lived & worked all his life around the world from South America, Africa, South East Asia to Europe. Adept at building and leading cross-functional teams from project conception to completion, optimizing performance, contractual, and financial deliverables. Currently Senior Partner of Piemme Group in Italy and PMO Lead for a governmental programme involving France and Peru’ for the construction and upgrade of various hospitals in Peru’.

Construction project management professor, consultant, author, public speaker, and trainer.
BS, MSc, and PhD in civil engineering specialized in Construction Project Management.

Experience: 30 +years, diversified:
Industrial: private and public sectors, in the U.S. and international. Positions occupied include project engineer / manager, cost estimator, planner / scheduler, project controls manager, cost manager, training manager.

Academic: faculty member / professor, head of department.
Extensive experience in continuing education and professional training around the world. Topics are mainly technical (construction planning / scheduling, project controls, project management, cost estimating) but also include soft skills. Have been doing a lot of volunteer presentations and training as well.

Author of:
Construction Project Scheduling and Control, 4th edition, published by Wiley
How to Estimate with Means Data: Basic Skills for Building Construction 5th edition, published by Wiley
Many articles; technical and others

Many presentations in professional conferences such as PMI, AACE International. Public speaker in many local, regional, and international events.
An authority on project planning, scheduling, and project control.
An advocate of holistic healthy living

As a principle founder of 4castplus Project Cost Management Solutions, Chris Ronak has been a key contributor to the project controls and construction project management industry for over 25 years. He has held senior positions in energy and technology companies in Canada, USA, Germany and the UK. He has a passion for providing high quality solutions that truly deliver improved business efficiencies and productivity to organizations worldwide. With a background in technology and project management, he believes that the right kind of business software can have an enormous impact on an organization’s bottom line; and, used wisely, can bring about tangible improvements to worker satisfaction.

Experienced project control consultant in the sectors of Mining, Energy and Oil&Gas, helping Owners, EPCM contractors and Contractors to apply best practices of Asset Management, Portfolio Management and Project Management for all size of projects.

His last participation was as Leader of Cost for the PMO and as Owner Support consultant for a Refinery Megaproject in Peru (more than 5 Billion USD) giving support for implementation of project cost plans, identify potential deviations and the decision-making process.

Piero is a consultant for Owners and EPCM contractors in the decision-making process, PMO, Audits of Asset Management or Portfolio Management and Implementation of New Technologies for project controls.

Piero is a Guild of Project Controls Fellow, Certified Cost Professional and Project Management Professional.

He has collaborated with PM World Journal as an author in the topics of Contingency, Estimating, Drones, 5D BIM, Business Intelligence and E-contracting.

Piero was president of AACE International Peru Section, speaker, and volunteer in the Latin American region.

My current international experience is geared towards training, consulting, developing and communicating quantitative risk, financial applications and decision making models. As a consultant and trainer since 2003, I have helped organizations on a wide array of industries to set up their decision-making models and to quantify and correctly understand and deal with their risks.

Conceptualizing, creating, testing, communicating and teaching quantitative risk and decision-making Excel-based models bring an array of hard and soft skills:

• Ability to understand and customize the client’s needs by understanding the industry’s business.
• Creativity and a vast experience on Excel modelling techniques to develop robust and high quality models.
• Outstanding multi-lingual communication skills to effectively convey ideas, convince audiences and motivate people at different hierarchy levels and quantitative skills, constantly teaming up with professionals on the organizations served.

My current international experience is geared towards training, consulting, developing and communicating quantitative risk, financial applications and decision making models. As a consultant and trainer since 2003, I have helped organizations on a wide array of industries to set up their decision-making models and to quantify and correctly understand and deal with their risks.

Conceptualizing, creating, testing, communicating and teaching quantitative risk and decision-making Excel-based models bring an array of hard and soft skills:

• Ability to understand and customize the client’s needs by understanding the industry’s business.
• Creativity and a vast experience on Excel modelling techniques to develop robust and high quality models.
• Outstanding multi-lingual communication skills to effectively convey ideas, convince audiences and motivate people at different hierarchy levels and quantitative skills, constantly teaming up with professionals on the organizations served.
• Expert on hard quantitative skills: Monte Carlo simulation, advanced Excel, statistical analysis and forecasting, artificial intelligence, optimization algorithms, financial modelling, project evaluation, database architecture, risk registers, VBA coding, website design, financial risks quantification.
• Persistent, highly-energetic personality geared towards obtaining concrete results over timelines and budgets.

I live and work out of San Jose, Costa Rica. I have delivered over 430 trainings, workshops and conferences, on three languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese), delivering close to 10,000 hours of consulting and training, on 37 countries and 78 cities.

Before becoming consultant and trainer, I developed a ten-year career in corporate finance as chief financial officer on various industries: banking, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, health services and information services.

I have taught graduate-level courses at prestigious national universities and brokerage academies, including: “Intro to Corporate Finance”, “Financial Simulation”, “Budgeting”, “Capital Structuring”, “Value at Risk” and “Investment Decisions”. I am proud of consistently being named an outstanding trainer and consultant by professionals, colleagues and students, many times obtaining perfect scores on teaching evaluations.

Dr. Anamaria I. Popescu is a Managing Director of BRG’s Construction Practice based in Denver, CO. She is a construction arbitrator with the AAA and a licensed Professional Engineer with more than 26 years of experience in project management, construction claims, schedule delay analysis, project controls, and contract management. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas in Civil Engineering. Her doctoral thesis was on Forensic Schedule Analysis. She is also the Chairman of the Society of Construction Law North American Section.

Dr. Popescu's project experience includes power generation, natural gas drilling, pipelines, petrochemical and process plants, oil and gas production platforms, mining, water treatment plants, airports, telecommunications, and commercial construction in Australia, Canada, United States, Mexico, South America, South Africa, and China.

Dr. Popescu provided program/project management and project control services for projects ranging from $500,000 to $50 billion. As an Expert Witness, she has written numerous expert reports that led to successful settlements as well as testified in international and national arbitration hearings and dispute review board proceedings regarding delay and disruption claims. She has also taught seminars and courses on scheduling, effective project controls, and dispute avoidance in the United States and internationally. She speaks fluent Romanian and intermediate Spanish.

Mr. Florez is an expert witness and construction claim consultant with over 33 years of progressive management experience in construction and contracting with a focus on large complex Federal/Military projects and or projects subject to challenging conditions. Former warranted contracting officer for both the U.S, Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC). Intimately familiar with both Army and Navy construction contracting policies, procedures and practices. Certified by the Association for Advancement of Cost Engineers (AACE international) as a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC), one of only 70 individuals worldwide to currently hold that distinction. Mr. Florez also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Arizona and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Heath Engineering for the University of Texas in Austin.

After twenty years working for a general contractor, Bill started his own company and now works for owners and engineers providing preconstruction services such as opinions of probable cost (OPC), planning and scheduling, constructability and value engineering recommendations, and risk assessment and management. His company, Canterbury CMS, Inc, brings extensive and proven experience in providing OPCs based on real pricing, planning and scheduling based on real project experience, meaningful constructability and value engineering recommendations, and comprehensive risk assessments and management from more than two decades of actual construction experience in heavy civil construction, primarily water/ wastewater and pipelines. Additionally, Canterbury CMS, Inc. will often stay on board through the construction phase for program/ project management services. Bill is a CEP and PSP through AACEi; a CCM through CMAA; and a National Standard General Building Contractor A through ICC.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

Laurie Bowman's degrees are CCP DRMP EVP PSP

Laurie Bowman, CCP DRMP EVP PSP is passionate about improving the professionalism of project controls and risk management on complex projects. Laurie is the Principal for training organisation Synchrony, where his focus is on helping clients achieve successful project, program and portfolio management outcomes through training, coaching and certification. Synchrony is an Approved Education Provider (AEP) for AACE International and is an Accredited Training Organisation (ATO) for APMG International. Laurie has over 20 years’ experience as an engineer and manager on a variety of complex, multidisciplinary engineering and construction projects having worked with government, owners, consultants and contractors. Laurie is a registered mentor with both AACE International and Engineers Australia and currently serves on the committee for Engineers Australia’s College of Leadership and Management in the Australian Capital Territory and serves as the AACE International Regional Director for Asia Pacific (Region 8).

Iscient is a specialized business unit of Lights in the Attic Project Group (LitA pg), focusing on the translation of the leading academic research to technologies for Prediction Science and Modeling in the Capital Projects and adjacent industries ( including socio-economics, recoverable and sustainable environments

Robert founded EPC Lens and Iscient while managing intensely complex capital programs (US$25B) across Canada, the USA, and Internationally. He has developed and led commercial and execution strategies, project controls, risk and supply chains for marquee and business-critical projects in mining, oil, refining and power generation, including renewables. His work has also been foundational for improving project execution efficiency, navigating markets and transforming business organizations for major international producers, and for individual engineering, procurement and construction companies.

In pursuit of better EPC performance, Robert invented numerous processes – enabled by science-driven information technology - to improve project and program delivery. Many of these step-change solutions are integrated into the EPC Lens suite, while select others are being introduced (2020) on scaling programs for mining, LNG and large scale-pipeline. Approximately half of the research applications address inefficiencies in behavioural patterns and how to influence complex organizations and processes, while the other half improves prediction sciences and modeling for projects, programs, risk and operational performance.

Robert also researches, writes and presents on matters of emerging sciences and information technology, AI in projects and BI, strategic planning, project management, supply chain, risk and market forecast and analysis. In 2021, Iscient completes phase 1 of the virtual co-laboratory program for project controls, supply chains, project management and construction management to keep specialists and professionals in the capital project practices aware of scientific advances that are expected to translate into leading technologies.

All attendees for this lecture qualify for updates on the Iscient virtual laboratory developments and update to the ebook ‘Interim A.I.: Growing Artificial Intelligence for Projects’

Ms. Tabora has been in the Oil and Gas industry for over 20 years. She is the Managing Principal of PhilCan Industries Corp (Canada and Philippines) with an Environmental Division (R4), whose focus is organically sustaining the environment. Her magnitude of experience in Operational Excellence programs and fast-paced organizations has provided the opportunity in solutioning a holistic approach with optimizing environmental risk, assessments and mitigation plans.

Aufel holds a Masters in Social Economics and has completed the Organizational Leadership Management Program at the Harvard Business School Executive Education. Her passion in helping build healthier communities, continually developing businesses to provide solutions that fit for purpose and positively impact the world and her determination to assist organizations grow through her collaborative and cooperative nature makes her a transformational executive with foresight, creativity and vision.

Aufel and Robert have several programs underway across the Americas including mining, pipelines, infrastructure and LNG projects - where their solutions are turnkey programs for communities, owners and project management teams and supply chains. The sum value of these developments is CAD$22B.

Verghese Kochummen is a project management consultant with over 15 years of experience setting up enterprise solutions for construction and infrastructure project control teams. Verghese is the principal architect of Executive-Eye, a stakeholder management platform designed for busy project Executives needing to be updated on their project progress within ‘Executive-Time’.

In his work with industry leading infrastructure and construction companies, Verghese has had the opportunity to closely interact with Executive teams whose needs often go above and beyond conventional project control practices. Today, he works closely with owners of mega infrastructure projects to ensure they get  an accurate view of their project progress and empower them with the tools to conduct Executive level briefings to other stakeholders.

David is the founder of Endeavour Programme with its artificial intelligence technology Octant AI. Octant AI is a platform which prevents cost and time overrun of projects of all types through sophisticated machine learning algorithms and complex Bayesian statistical methods.

David is a project and programme leader with 30 years experience in project development and delivery across a wide range of industries. He previously founded and led a leading Project Management consultancy in Australia. In 2016, after 20 years at the helm, he undertook a sabbatical at University of Oxford, where he established Endeavour Programme with colleagues from around the world to change the paradigm of cost and time management through artificial intelligence.

He is a strong advocate for “Data Driven Project Management” which brings together the best of project management practice and methodologies with emerging machine learning and AI technology. He sees the future of project controls as inevitably linked to AI, with practitioners transitioning to “augmented professionals”.

Santosh Bhat is a civil engineer and a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) with over 20 years’ experience in Project Planning and Controls.

As well as being an independent consultant
offering Planning, Scheduling and Schedule Risk analysis services from Sydney, Australia, Santosh is also Co-Founder and CEO of Linear Project Software, developers of the time location charting tool “Turbo-Chart”

Graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT), Vladimir created his first project management software for mainframe computers in 1978. This program included not only CPM calculations but also advanced resource leveling.
In 1990 he organized Spider Project Team for creating the best project management tool. Spider Project was launched to the market in 1993 and today it is most functional project and portfolio management software that is used in 36 countries and for management of most large-scale programs in Russia like preparation of 2014 Winter Olympic Games and construction of all stadiums used for 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Spider Project Team became the leading project management consulting and training company with the branches and partners in many Russian cities and abroad.
Vladimir is an author of 4 books on project management and more than 150 papers and has an experience of managing projects and consulting project management teams in aerospace, construction, energy, oil & gas, telecommunications, retail, shipbuilding and other application areas.

Alex is a Project Planning and Delivery Specialist with over 20 years’ experience in project management across different industries and countries. Alex has worked within multiple portfolio and program offices to support organisations to implement best scheduling practices including reliable scheduling processes, use of the most appropriate scheduling tools, methods and techniques. He has a proven record in implementing best scheduling standards, methodologies and frameworks.

Enterprise Master Schedule (EMS), DSPM Interdependency Framework, Waterfall & Agile integration Roadmaps, Schedule Maturity Planning & Assessment, Portfolio Planning, Program Schedule Optimization, and other methods and techniques support customers integrate projects across different part of business.

Paul has over 20 years’ experience in leading and delivering strategic change and transformation across the private sector, public sector and NGO’s. In rôles including Executive Management, Programme Leader, Facilitator and Leadership Coach he has gained a unique insight into the challenges of creating, delivering and realising sustained benefits from complex organisational change.

Over recent years Paul has focused on how to support the human side of change and leads the changemaker human change practice. This group supports leaders and their teams in times of transformation and change to fully embrace new ways of working, encourage cultural shift and adopt behavioural changes that in turn lead to the realisation of tangible business benefits and competitive advantage.

As well as being a regular and popular conference and event speaker, Paul is also a leadership coach, a qualified practitioner using the Lumina Learning psychometric tools and a Prosci Certified Change Management practitioner.

Andy Verone is the Global Vice President for Oracle’s Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit responsible for Innovation, Industry and Customer Strategy. Andy is also the cofounder of Oracle’s Construction and Engineering innovation lab located in Chicago, IL.

Andy has over 30 years of executive and international business experience across the globe in the Engineering and Construction industry, including previously serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at both Michael Baker International and Broadspectrum. His background includes the implementation of global project-based information and delivery systems, including collaboration management programs, as well as Board of Directors-level experience developing IT Strategic Plans and Governance programs. He also has managed large capital infrastructure projects and government contracts.

Andy servers on the board of advisor of Construction Industry Institute (CII) the premier Research & Development center in the capital projects industry.

Chris is a Business Development Executive at RPCuk, this year’s Project Controls Expo Platinum Sponsor.
Chris is a seasoned sales professional with over 20 years’ experience, the last 10 of which have specialized in Project Controls, PPM and associated software in the Architectural, engineering and construction arena.
During his time working for Conject, Aconex and Oracle Chris gained extensive experience within the Information technology and services sector with a particular focus on Document Collaboration, Contract Management (Predominantly NEC3 & 4) and Cost Management.
Chris has worked with some of the largest Contractors, consultants and Public Sector organizations on some of the highest-profile projects in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
On top of his Sales and Account Management work, Chris is also a keen networker and a founder member/organizer of some of the largest conferences and Special Interest Groups for Projects Controls and NEC Contract management.

Paul is a Director of Adept Management where he takes responsibility for the development of the company’s Project Controls tools and services, as well as supporting clients and projects across the construction industry. He is a Mechanical Engineer by background and has over 20 years’ experience in Project Management and Controls. In addition, Paul has spent time as a researcher where he developed some of Adept Management's innovative approaches to Planning and Project Controls. Paul has a wide range of consultancy skills including the provision of Project Controls and Design Management services, project planning services, development of design and project management procedures, and definition of Key Performance Indicators for project and business level activities.

He also has extensive experience introducing new management practices, and technologies to support them. Paul is a specialist in the use and implementation of Oracle Primavera including products such as P6 (EPPM & PPM), Primavera Analytics, PCM (Contract Management) and Primavera Risk Analysis. In recent roles he has led the implementation of Primavera, and its integration with SAP, within the Project Management Offices of client organisations in the utilities and energy sectors. In addition to experience in the construction and civil engineering sectors, Paul has successfully planned and managed capital works projects in the defence and IT sectors.

JR has over thirty years of experience in the execution of worldwide projects on behalf of Fortune 500 owners and ENR 400 contractors in engineering, construction and maintenance related to project management and project controls. He has blended these management skills with technical expertise in large and medium-sized new construction capital projects. Moreover, JR has meticulously executed projects both domestically (USA) and internationally in 7 countries primarily in the oil / gas, fossil-fueled power, nuclear, petrochemical, US government sector, and pulp & paper industries. Always in the pursuit of knowledge sharing, his passion and enthusiasm for project management and project controls will resonate with all levels of experienced professionals.

JR is the President of KPMC International LLC (a Texas Limited Liability Company) providing professional project management consulting and refined project controls subject matter expertise for clients across various diverse industries. His value proposition relies on his previous experience across 7 countries as a preeminent authority – both from the contractor’s and owner/operator’s perspective in all areas of project management and project controls. Clients benefit from his comprehensive knowledge of industry best practices from well-established professional organizations and wide-ranging field experience. He distinguishes himself from others with his acute ability to understand and translate universal business needs and apply that knowledge against deliverables in a practical fashion to solve core problems.

JR has authored numerous project controls and project management technical papers and presented at industry conferences including; PMI-AGC International Conference, AACE International Conference & Expo, and Project Controls Summit.

He has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering Technology from Texas A&M University and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Project Management from Capella University. JR is a certified Project Management Professional – PMP® from PMI since 2008 and a certified Planning and Scheduling Professional – PSP™ from AACE International since 2013.

Martin Paver, Data Scientist, Registered Project Professional, Chartered Engineer, BEng, MBA, MAPM, MIMechE, is CEO of Projecting Success Ltd. and Founder of the London Project Data Analytics meetup. Martin is a Registered Project Professional with the APM and a Chartered Engineer with the IMechE. He is the CEO/Founder of a P3M and data science consultancy called Projecting Success who help project organisations to connect and understand their data for a more certain, evidence-driven project delivery by analysing historical and real-time data to discover insights and make recommendations with improved confidence in outcomes. He has 30 years of delivery experience spanning senior strategic roles across government and the private sector, led projects of up to $1bn, both client and supply side and he also led a PMO for a $multi-billion portfolio of ICT projects. In late 2017 Martin established the London Project Data Analytics Meetup, the UK's largest community that combines the cutting edges of data science and project management ranging from hosting talks, delivering hackathons through to influencing future thinking on project data science. He is on a mission to leveragae the benefits of advanced data science for the benefit of the project management profession, ensuring that we shape the direction of the industry and prepare us for a new future.

I identify myself as an innovation leader and an industry change agent specialized in digital transformation of the digital building lifecycle. The industry has recognized me as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking people in the sector. My strategy is to unify a clear vision around the Digital Building Lifecycle framework: consolidating the physical, social, and digital environments as a data centric entity, and empowering the end-user experiences with emerging technologies. I have built my competence to achieve goals for real estate and security vision by becoming the strategist and the developer of digital platforms, extended reality, and digital construction. I am versed in technology R&D, innovation, and digital transformation of the global construction industry.

I have a proven track record of successfully managing multimillion-dollar projects and programs with a democratic leadership style. I am a frequent keynote speaker in national and international industry forums, evangelizing digital transformation and its impact on people, business, and technology.

As my foundation, I have a Master of Science degree with 20 years of experience in working collaboratively with senior management teams in the academia and in the industry. I have authored and co-authored multiple award-winning publications on emerging technology, innovation, BIM, and construction management. My awarded thesis work has been adopted in the national BIM standards in the USA and European Union.

Experienced project control consultant in the sectors of Mining, Energy and Oil&Gas, helping Owners, EPCM contractors and Contractors to apply best practices of Asset Management, Portfolio Management and Project Management for all size of projects.

His last participation was as Leader of Cost for the PMO and as Owner Support consultant for a Refinery Megaproject in Peru (more than 5 Billion USD) giving support for implementation of project cost plans, identify potential deviations and the decision-making process.

Piero is a consultant for Owners and EPCM contractors in the decision-making process, PMO, Audits of Asset Management or Portfolio Management and Implementation of New Technologies for project controls.

Piero is a Guild of Project Controls Fellow, Certified Cost Professional and Project Management Professional.

He has collaborated with PM World Journal as an author in the topics of Contingency, Estimating, Drones, 5D BIM, Business Intelligence and E-contracting.

Piero was president of AACE International Peru Section, speaker, and volunteer in the Latin American region.

After twenty years working for a general contractor, Bill started his own company and now works for owners and engineers providing preconstruction services such as opinions of probable cost (OPC), planning and scheduling, constructability and value engineering recommendations, and risk assessment and management. His company, Canterbury CMS, Inc, brings extensive and proven experience in providing OPCs based on real pricing, planning and scheduling based on real project experience, meaningful constructability and value engineering recommendations, and comprehensive risk assessments and management from more than two decades of actual construction experience in heavy civil construction, primarily water/ wastewater and pipelines. Additionally, Canterbury CMS, Inc. will often stay on board through the construction phase for program/ project management services. Bill is a CEP and PSP through AACEi; a CCM through CMAA; and a National Standard General Building Contractor A through ICC.

Othman has 20 years of experience in delivering critical Capital Programs in NSW, Australia & the GCC area with a portfolio that includes NSW DPIE PMO, Qatar Rail Program PMO and Muscat International Airport Expansion Program.

Othman has unique Client, Consultant & Contractor side experience in setting up & application of robust project management & controls operations using international standards, best practices & latest tools.

Othman is currently in the public sector and is an advocate for the improvement of project management and project controls capabilities and making a real difference for communities through mature project management.

Ben holds a degree in Computer Engineering and spent 4 years as an automation engineer before becoming a high-frequency options trader. After trading for 7 years on every major exchange across the globe Ben moved into government consulting, where he has spent the past 6 year. Having recently completed an executive MBA in Organizational Leadership, Ben has been focused on uplifting governmental modelling through consistent design and transparent architecture. A firm believer in data-driven decision-making, Ben has a passion for driving better decisions through the application of evidence-based modelling, and helping organizations produce sustainable models with trusted outputs.

Paul Harris holds an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering obtained at Brighton University in the UK and is a Certified Cost Engineer through AACEI International, a PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and a “Managing Successful Programmes” Registered Practitioner. He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project controls systems. His Melbourne, Australia based company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd, offers project controls consulting and training services worldwide with a strong focus on Microsoft Project, Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject and Primavera software. Paul Harris has used a number of planning and scheduling software packages for the management of a range of project types and sizes. The first books he published were user guides/training manuals for Primavera SureTrak®, P3 and Microsoft Project users. These were well received by professional project managers and schedulers, so he turned his attention to developing books that demonstrated how the software is used with project management methodologies such as PRINCE2 and the PMBOK® Guide. His latest books are on Microsoft Project 2019, Elecosoft Powerproject Version 15 and Oracle Primavera P6 PPM.

Ruben Sen is a leader in digital engineering technology and asset management consulting with a background that includes 15 + years industrial experience and success in oil and gas, mining, chemical process and manufacturing, rail infrastructure, supply chain, heavy and FMCG manufacturing.

His passion is in delivering client focused, human centred outcomes. Specialising in collaborating and managing highly skilled, multi-disciplinary, international project teams, virtually or in-person. Whether this is across multiple projects for a large tier one or prime multinational or a single small one plant manufacturing operation. I focus on scaling and right sizing solutions with people, process and IT/OT at the centre.

While he is comfortable working with detail and data. Ruben skills excel in applying data analysis to the big picture. Resulting in holistic solutions to help people meet their asset management goals.

Ruben believe’s engineering focused companies need a solid foundation, built on strong data governance, robust data management processes to be competitive in uncertain times. When these are underpinned by well-informed data driven strategies and a people orientated frameworks, Ruben Sen builds resilient asset management, operations and supply chain processes for you and your clients.

Ruben has worked for clients, collaborated with stakeholders and managed project teams from the UK, Middle East, India, Caribbean, US, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Europe and Interstate of Australia.

Ruben is currently open to contract, project or permanent opportunities. Please call on +61 434 840 312

Highlights include:
At Petrofac Ruben successfully delivered a complex multinational client project with $1m+ budget for a major oil & gas company
At ARMS Reliability Ruben delivered major software upgrade with a 100+ user base for major mining client
Ruben was the key protagonist in established a Supply Chain Planning and Customer Service team for ESCO Australasia, managing a production and inventory holding of $200m

Project Executive and Senior Project Controls Manager with over 40 years engineering experience encompassing roles such as Project Manager, Project Controls Engineer and Manager, Site Engineer and Estimator on major projects in Australia and internationally.

Experienced in all facets of Project Controls management, Estimating, Budget Preparation, Cost Engineering, Change Management, Planning, Scheduling, Documentation Control and Reporting, on all phases of Projects from Concept to Implementation and Handover.

Experience has included working with Owners teams and EPCM contractors.

A proven ability to successfully build teams through training and staff development, extensive experience developing and implementing new processes and systems for major projects and integrating project processes across project groups.

Training and mentoring of Project Controls personnel.

Possess B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, M.B.A. in Project Management and PMP certification.

Have above 20years of work experience in Project Management with a blend of both Home office and Project Site experience.  Worked in various large EPC projects as a Project Control Professional.

Teaches Project Control Stuffs online.  Running a YouTube channel named “RJ Project Control” covering practical stuff of EPC projects.

Tim Baillie is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 14 years of experience in the construction and engineering industry. He has significant experience in the design, procurement, construction, management and commissioning of major projects, most recently as a Project Director.

He has a wealth of experience gained across a diverse range of public and private sector markets throughout the UK, utilising both standard and bespoke forms of contract and various funding mechanisms, such as PPP. This experience was gained on healthcare, residential and civil engineering projects.

Tim holds a MSc in Major Project Management from the University of Oxford and a MSc in Civil Engineering from Heriot Watt University. He has also been a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers since 2013.

Gareth is a geotechnical engineer and delay analyst with over nine years of professional experience in the construction and engineering industry. He has practiced forensic delay analysis and been involved in the preparation of expert reports on delay and disruption analysis for a wide range of projects. He has first-hand experience in both international arbitration and adjudication.

Gareth has extensive experience on large infrastructure projects throughout Africa and the Middle East. He has also advised clients on rail facilities, dams, high-rise buildings, and offshore energy projects. He has experience as an engineer in all stages of the lifecycle of projects, from tendering through design, construction, and construction supervision.

Gareth holds a Post Graduate Diploma in International Construction Contracts from Panthéon-Assas University Paris II.

I am a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with an eclectic knowledge gained from 32 years of working in the construction industry, out of which 28 years have been gained in the UAE.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – UK, Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Arbitrators – UK, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors – Australia, Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors - India.

I am a Director and Global Vice President of the Indian Institute of Quantity Surveyors – India and a Trustee of the International Ethics Standards Coalition – UK.

Building on the Civil Engineering and Quantity Surveying qualifications attained from India, I have obtained a Graduate Diploma in Surveying from College of Estate Management, UK and a Masters in Construction Law and Arbitration from Robert Gordon University, UK.

I have extensive experience in project development, pre and post contract quantity surveying functions, tendering and contractual matters on a wide variety of building and civil engineering projects. I have been a guest speaker at various seminars and workshops. I have written number of articles on the topics including professional ethics, quantity surveying and contract administration.

Vaibhav has over 10 years of Project Controls experience in planning and controlling major Capex projects. He has vast experience in establishing the Project Controls at the organization/project level, establishing a robust reporting framework, organizing projects for Project Controls, planning projects, developing and maintaining schedules, schedule health checks, risk management, performance tracking and reporting. He has worked in different industries including infrastructure, transportation and utility. He is a passionate Project Controls professional supporting Clients to develop and improve their project controls maturity and competency development.

Yoshi is a Project Data Analyst at Projecting Success and Organiser of the Project Data Analytics Community. His role spans a wide range of responsibilities including business analysis, process engineering, power bi and automation, and data security. He has been instrumental in the development of the project data academy, Project:Hack and community of practice for both organisations.

Yoshi’s background is in the cognitive sciences where he has completed a masters degree with publications in brain stimulation and eye-tracking. His path into data analytics commenced when he conducted a big data study from the UK BioBank, which he’s now advancing through the Data Analyst apprenticeship at Projecting Success

Recognized expert in construction cost estimating, planning and contract management. He is graduated in Civil Engineering (30 years of experience) and has a Law degree too, as well as a Masters degree in Geophysics. His international experience spans multiple industries, including energy, transportation, water resources and public housing in 12 countries. Aldo is founder and former president of AACE Brazil Section. Author of 5 books on cost estimating and construction planning, he is an active lecturer on a wide range of construction-related topics. He often presents papers at international events and writes articles for technical publications.

As a consultant, he has assisted public entities and private companies in quantity surveying, cost control, estimating, planning scheduling, feasibility studies and disputes resolutions with high satisfaction of his clients. His experience also includes the role of Owner’s Representative at an airport expansion project. Aldo is very skilled in training and motivating teams and is a consultant for the United Nations in infrastructure projects.

Construction project management professor, consultant, author, public speaker, and trainer.
BS, MSc, and PhD in civil engineering specialized in Construction Project Management.

Experience: 30 +years, diversified:
Industrial: private and public sectors, in the U.S. and international. Positions occupied include project engineer / manager, cost estimator, planner / scheduler, project controls manager, cost manager, training manager.

Academic: faculty member / professor, head of department.
Extensive experience in continuing education and professional training around the world. Topics are mainly technical (construction planning / scheduling, project controls, project management, cost estimating) but also include soft skills. Have been doing a lot of volunteer presentations and training as well.

Author of:
Construction Project Scheduling and Control, 4th edition, published by Wiley
How to Estimate with Means Data: Basic Skills for Building Construction 5th edition, published by Wiley
Many articles; technical and others

Many presentations in professional conferences such as PMI, AACE International. Public speaker in many local, regional, and international events.
An authority on project planning, scheduling, and project control.
An advocate of holistic healthy living

After twenty years working for a general contractor, Bill started his own company and now works for owners and engineers providing preconstruction services such as opinions of probable cost (OPC), planning and scheduling, constructability and value engineering recommendations, and risk assessment and management. His company, Canterbury CMS, Inc, brings extensive and proven experience in providing OPCs based on real pricing, planning and scheduling based on real project experience, meaningful constructability and value engineering recommendations, and comprehensive risk assessments and management from more than two decades of actual construction experience in heavy civil construction, primarily water/ wastewater and pipelines. Additionally, Canterbury CMS, Inc. will often stay on board through the construction phase for program/ project management services. Bill is a CEP and PSP through AACEi; a CCM through CMAA; and a National Standard General Building Contractor A through ICC.

Dr. Amin Terouhid has served as a project management expert since 2003, and is currently the principal consultant with Adroit Consultants, LLC. He has received a Ph.D. in construction management from the University of Florida, and holds the following professional certificates: Professional Engineer (P.E.) – Texas, Project Management Professional (PMP), Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP), and Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP).

Amin’s expertise in project management is focused on project planning and control, cost engineering, risk management, and project construction claims. He has worked on projects throughout the United States as well as in the Middle East and Southern Africa involving the design and development of project management offices, developing construction project management systems, managing project scheduling and control teams. He has published a variety of articles, with a focus on construction management, in scientific journals and presented his works in international conferences. He is a primary author of AACE Recommended Practices 89R-16, 92R-17, and 91R-16. Amin was a recipient of the 2018 AACE Technical Excellence Award.

Danilo Arba is a project controls & management enthusiast, with 20 years of experience. Certified Cost Engineer and Executive MBA from Politecnico di Milano. Thorough understanding of EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) industry, with verifiable track record of planning multimillion/billion-dollar worldwide construction projects. He lived & worked all his life around the world from South America, Africa, South East Asia to Europe. Adept at building and leading cross-functional teams from project conception to completion, optimizing performance, contractual, and financial deliverables. Currently Senior Partner of Piemme Group in Italy and PMO Lead for a governmental programme involving France and Peru’ for the construction and upgrade of various hospitals in Peru’.

Construction project management professor, consultant, author, public speaker, and trainer.
BS, MSc, and PhD in civil engineering specialized in Construction Project Management.

Experience: 30 +years, diversified:
Industrial: private and public sectors, in the U.S. and international. Positions occupied include project engineer / manager, cost estimator, planner / scheduler, project controls manager, cost manager, training manager.

Academic: faculty member / professor, head of department.
Extensive experience in continuing education and professional training around the world. Topics are mainly technical (construction planning / scheduling, project controls, project management, cost estimating) but also include soft skills. Have been doing a lot of volunteer presentations and training as well.

Author of:
Construction Project Scheduling and Control, 4th edition, published by Wiley
How to Estimate with Means Data: Basic Skills for Building Construction 5th edition, published by Wiley
Many articles; technical and others

Many presentations in professional conferences such as PMI, AACE International. Public speaker in many local, regional, and international events.
An authority on project planning, scheduling, and project control.
An advocate of holistic healthy living

Dr. Anamaria I. Popescu is a Managing Director of BRG’s Construction Practice based in Denver, CO. She is a construction arbitrator with the AAA and a licensed Professional Engineer with more than 26 years of experience in project management, construction claims, schedule delay analysis, project controls, and contract management. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas in Civil Engineering. Her doctoral thesis was on Forensic Schedule Analysis. She is also the Chairman of the Society of Construction Law North American Section.

Dr. Popescu's project experience includes power generation, natural gas drilling, pipelines, petrochemical and process plants, oil and gas production platforms, mining, water treatment plants, airports, telecommunications, and commercial construction in Australia, Canada, United States, Mexico, South America, South Africa, and China.

Dr. Popescu provided program/project management and project control services for projects ranging from $500,000 to $50 billion. As an Expert Witness, she has written numerous expert reports that led to successful settlements as well as testified in international and national arbitration hearings and dispute review board proceedings regarding delay and disruption claims. She has also taught seminars and courses on scheduling, effective project controls, and dispute avoidance in the United States and internationally. She speaks fluent Romanian and intermediate Spanish.

Mr. Florez is an expert witness and construction claim consultant with over 33 years of progressive management experience in construction and contracting with a focus on large complex Federal/Military projects and or projects subject to challenging conditions. Former warranted contracting officer for both the U.S, Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC). Intimately familiar with both Army and Navy construction contracting policies, procedures and practices. Certified by the Association for Advancement of Cost Engineers (AACE international) as a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC), one of only 70 individuals worldwide to currently hold that distinction. Mr. Florez also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Arizona and a Master of Science degree in Environmental Heath Engineering for the University of Texas in Austin.

James is an Industry Consultant for Hexagon, based in Singapore. He is a certified project management professional with international experience implementing project management systems. His project controls experience spans the entire project life cycle from initiation and planning to execution and closeout.

James has a proven track record of working with leading project delivery companies to eliminate disparate spreadsheets and point solutions in favour of an enterprise projects performance system that provides a consistent platform to standardize processes and boost project outcomes. In this role at Hexagon, James is the subject matter expert on all things project management and supports companies in their evaluation of EcoSys, Hexagon’s enterprise project performance software. EcoSys helps organisations maximize returns and margins by running projects more efficiently, predictably, and with greater control.

Specialist, Consultant and Instructor in Portfolio-Project Management, and PMO and Strategic Planning.

Magister, Master's Program in Business Administration at ESAN (Top 3 in Latin America and No. 01 in Peru according to the prestigious QS Global MBA Rankings 2020) - Business School Peking University (China).

Civil Engineer from the National University of Engineering (No. 01 in Peru according to América Economía Ranking 2020), with specialization studies in Strategy, Portfolio-Project Management, Digital Transformation and Agile Practices.

Certified as PMP® (Project Management Professional), PMO-CP® (PMO Value Ring Practitioner), and currently studying the 3rd Virtual Design Construction (VDC) Program at Stanford University (USA).

With more than 15 years of experience in Peru and Colombia with ascending positions and successful professional development as Contractor, EPC / M and Owner, leading Project Control Teams and Corporate PMOs of the Construction, Mining and Oil & Gas Sector in recognized companies such as the Group JJC, COSAPI and Obrainsa.

Professor at the National University of Engineering in Peru.

He has given international conferences for the PMO Global Awards Experience 2020 and for events of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Section Peru Chapter, Construction Community, in Project Management, Project Controls, Digital Transformation, Construction 4.0, VDC / BIM and Lean Construction.

Member and volunteer of the American Association of Cost Engineering International (AACEi) Peru Section, PMI, and the Project Control Association (ACP).

Also member of the Board of Directors of the VDC Latin America Network. He is currently Project Controls & PMO Lead at Compañía de Minas Buenaventura and Senior Project Controls Consultant in PMO Consulting SAC.

Laith Adel is a principle Consultant with EPM Partners in Australia. With a strong background in engineering, project management and information technology, Laith provides consulting (both business and technical) and management services to customers, helping them to successfully implement and deploy project portfolio management solutions within their organisations.

He has worked with Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) product set since its early versions and has been involved in many Microsoft EPM solution implementation projects around the world.

Laith’s hands-on experience comes from his association with a number of professional services organisations which include Microsoft Consulting Services (MSC) and Strategic Data Management (SDM). With EPM Partners, Laith has successfully implemented PPM solutions for dozens of organisations, each with its own specific requirements and maturity levels.

His approach focuses on the realisation of the business objectives of the implementation of the technology by integrating it with the organisation’s process and ensuring the end-users’ adoption. Laith provides a unique style of consulting that challenges the status quo, and shares valuable insights and lessons learned from other organisations.

Vishal Singh
Associate Director, ProjCon Group

Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering

Graduate Diploma in Construction Management & Infrastructure Development

Over 16 years of experience in Project and Programme management throughout the Project lifecycle

Area of expertise in Project Controls, Cost Engineering, Management Reporting, Change Management, Earn Value Management & Dashboard Preparation

Presently supporting clients in setting-up of their Cost Management Process and Reporting Framework

Ari Isaacs, co-founder and CEO of ShapeDo, consults for major national and international construction and infrastructure projects where he has developed a deep knowledge of dispute avoidance and resolution. Ari helped parties in conflict to resolve disputes leveraging technology and using processes and procedures he has designed and put in place to ensure effective project controls and delivery. ShapeDo specializes in drawing-driven distressed project recovery, delay analysis and dispute avoidance and resolution.

Having worked as a Project Controls and Asset Management specialist for the past 20 years, across a broad range of sectors and business models.  Richard became CEO of Safran in February 2018, where he has introduced a new breed of risk analytics software, designed to support more effective risk based decision making for both risk professionals and project stakeholders.

Mike has worked for a number of years providing Risk Management and Risk Analysis consultancy to a wide array of clients across the UK. His extensive experience, demanding customer base, and commitment to adding value drive him to seek out the best practices and technologies to generate the right solutions for his clients.  In particular Mike is focused on making the role of risk manager as effective as possible.  He uses best practices captured by the latest technologies to set new benchmarks for performing Risk Analysis and improving customer experience.

Elmer Sachteleben is an experienced Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) holding an MSC in applied physics. After providing consultancy services to major companies, Elmer now leads Cost Engineering Academy. He is also a teacher at the Dutch Association of Cost Engineers (DACE) and a frequent speaker at industry events.

Elmer applies his broad experience and enthusiasm to provide traineeships, develop courses and organize workshops in the field of project controls and turnarounds.

He has provided consulting services in process assessment, development, and implementation to major multinational companies such as Shell, Unilever, Bayer, Cargill, CB&I, Mott MacDonald, Heineken, Vopak, Enbridge, Yara, and Rijkswaterstaat.

Jeancarlo is a project controls, planning and PMO leader. With over 12 years of experience across rail, civils, mining, and building projects, he has impressive capabilities in different project environments, including leading large teams & project setup in South America and Europe.

He has been an active member of AACE International, founding the AACE Peru Section in 2013 and serving on the Board of Directors of AACE International 2017-2019 as Director-Region 10 (Latin America).

His background lies in Civil Engineering; however, this is complemented by an MBA from the Vlerick Business School (Belgium). His in-depth knowledge and experience in project controls best practices are widely validated with international certifications in the areas of project and cost management. His credentials as Certified Cost Professional (CCP), Earned Value Professional (EVP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Primavera P6 EPPM Certified Specialist are a testimony to Jeancarlo’s management, motivation, and interpersonal skills.

Jeancarlo is currently working as a Planning Manager for BAM Nuttall on a multi-million pound rail project in the UK (Transpennine Route Upagrade), connecting Manchester to Leeds.

Ivor Barbrook is an expert in the UK in digital construction (BIM) and is also responsible for the delivery of engineering surveying and planning functions within BAM Nuttall. Ivor has worked with engineering design consultants to establish and implement strong design / contractor interface management procedures used as a management tool on design and construct projects. In partnership with LoadSpring, Bentley, Autodesk the supply chain and employers, he has put in place BIM workflows for civil engineering infrastructure within BAM Nuttall. This has enhanced the delivered product value and quality, providing benefit to all parties. The processes and technology that have been developed and implemented are recognised as market leading and collaborative in approach by leading engineering consultants and BAM Nuttall’s civil infrastructure joint venture partners. Ivor continues to influence the implementation of BIM as a corporate approach within BAM Nuttall to deliver LEAN business process.

Dev is the Co-Founder and CEO of nPlan, a machine learning company that learns how completed construction projects performed to predict the outcomes of future projects. nPlan delivers a new paradigm in the management of risk and uncertainty.

Dev’s experience is in delivering construction projects for the energy industry, spanning 3 continents over 9 years. Following this, Dev worked within the UK government to launch and deliver the national review on AI, which was published as part of the Industrial Strategy in 2017.

Dev has a strong passion to change the way projects are delivered through empowered decisions, enabled by data. nPlan has scaled to operate in 8 countries and has processed schedules representing over $450B of construction spend, the largest dataset of its kind in the world. nPlan is also pioneering an innovative approach that quantifies the risk of construction delays, coupled with an insurance product to mitigate these risks.

As a principle founder of 4castplus Project Cost Management Solutions, Chris Ronak has been a key contributor to the project controls and construction project management industry for over 25 years. He has held senior positions in energy and technology companies in Canada, USA, Germany and the UK. He has a passion for providing high quality solutions that truly deliver improved business efficiencies and productivity to organizations worldwide. With a background in technology and project management, he believes that the right kind of business software can have an enormous impact on an organization’s bottom line; and, used wisely, can bring about tangible improvements to worker satisfaction.

My current international experience is geared towards training, consulting, developing and communicating quantitative risk, financial applications and decision making models. As a consultant and trainer since 2003, I have helped organizations on a wide array of industries to set up their decision-making models and to quantify and correctly understand and deal with their risks.

Conceptualizing, creating, testing, communicating and teaching quantitative risk and decision-making Excel-based models bring an array of hard and soft skills:

• Ability to understand and customize the client’s needs by understanding the industry’s business.
• Creativity and a vast experience on Excel modelling techniques to develop robust and high quality models.
• Outstanding multi-lingual communication skills to effectively convey ideas, convince audiences and motivate people at different hierarchy levels and quantitative skills, constantly teaming up with professionals on the organizations served.

My current international experience is geared towards training, consulting, developing and communicating quantitative risk, financial applications and decision making models. As a consultant and trainer since 2003, I have helped organizations on a wide array of industries to set up their decision-making models and to quantify and correctly understand and deal with their risks.

Conceptualizing, creating, testing, communicating and teaching quantitative risk and decision-making Excel-based models bring an array of hard and soft skills:

• Ability to understand and customize the client’s needs by understanding the industry’s business.
• Creativity and a vast experience on Excel modelling techniques to develop robust and high quality models.
• Outstanding multi-lingual communication skills to effectively convey ideas, convince audiences and motivate people at different hierarchy levels and quantitative skills, constantly teaming up with professionals on the organizations served.
• Expert on hard quantitative skills: Monte Carlo simulation, advanced Excel, statistical analysis and forecasting, artificial intelligence, optimization algorithms, financial modelling, project evaluation, database architecture, risk registers, VBA coding, website design, financial risks quantification.
• Persistent, highly-energetic personality geared towards obtaining concrete results over timelines and budgets.

I live and work out of San Jose, Costa Rica. I have delivered over 430 trainings, workshops and conferences, on three languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese), delivering close to 10,000 hours of consulting and training, on 37 countries and 78 cities.

Before becoming consultant and trainer, I developed a ten-year career in corporate finance as chief financial officer on various industries: banking, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, health services and information services.

I have taught graduate-level courses at prestigious national universities and brokerage academies, including: “Intro to Corporate Finance”, “Financial Simulation”, “Budgeting”, “Capital Structuring”, “Value at Risk” and “Investment Decisions”. I am proud of consistently being named an outstanding trainer and consultant by professionals, colleagues and students, many times obtaining perfect scores on teaching evaluations.

Project Executive and Senior Project Controls Manager with over 40 years engineering experience encompassing roles such as Project Manager, Project Controls Engineer and Manager, Site Engineer and Estimator on major projects in Australia and internationally.

Experienced in all facets of Project Controls management, Estimating, Budget Preparation, Cost Engineering, Change Management, Planning, Scheduling, Documentation Control and Reporting, on all phases of Projects from Concept to Implementation and Handover.

Experience has included working with Owners teams and EPCM contractors.

A proven ability to successfully build teams through training and staff development, extensive experience developing and implementing new processes and systems for major projects and integrating project processes across project groups.

Training and mentoring of Project Controls personnel.

Peter Aynsley has more than 40 years’ experience in capital works projects valued in aggregate at more than $30 billion. He holds a degree in Architectural Science; has undertaken coursework including a Masters in Applied Project Management; and is a Member of both the Project Management Institute and Australian Institute of Project Management. He has served as Chairman and Member of Expert Review Groups for both Government and Private Sector initiatives with individual values ranging from $100 million to more than $3 billion.

Peter joined HKA in 2010 and became involved with the HKA Tech business stream, implementing the PMWeb software solution for the whole lifecycle of capital works projects, from 2012. Since that time, he has served as Project Director for, and worked on various aspects of, PMWeb implementations in Australia, the Pacific and the USA – with implementation sizes from as few as 5 users up to more than 3,000 users.

Peter is Secretary-General of the International Cost Engineering Council, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, a Distinguished International Fellow of the International Cost Engineering Council and a corporate member of the Australian Institute of Project Management and the Australian Institute of Building. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where he is Program Director of the Construction Project Management program in the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney and a bachelor degree and masters degree at UTS in quantity surveying/construction management. He has over 40 years industry experience in the fields of quantity surveying/project management and is regularly engaged as an industry expert to provide advisory and expert witness services in relation to construction litigation matters.

Julie Owen, PSP, CCP has twenty five years of experience in program and project management, program and project control, cost engineering, scheduling, contract administration and schedule delay claim analysis. She works as Deputy Executive Officer for Los Angeles Metro managing the $160 billion over 50 year initiative to improve Los Angeles County transportation infrastructure. She manages a program/project control team of eleven team members serving the highway, regional rail, transit, and small transit capital repair programs. She served as Project Manager for the design and implementation of the enterprise wide business management system for capital program management.

She worked her way up the management ladder holding positions such as deputy executive officer, director, project manager, assistant project manager, project engineer, construction manager, supervisor, scheduler, cost engineer and intern engineer. Julie has worked on all sides of the table including owner, contractor, and construction manager and across multiple firms and industries including Los Angeles Metro, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, McCarthy Building Companies, J.F. Shea Construction, Arcadis, and Parsons.

She currently serves as Administrative Vice Chair on the International Cost Engineering Council, is a Past President of AACE International and Guild of Project Controls Fellow in both Cost Management and Planning and Scheduling. She holds AACE International certifications for Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) and Certified Cost Professional (CCP).

Most of Sean’s 30+ years of professional experience has been in delivering Program and Project Controls for mega Design/Build public transportation infrastructure capital programs and projects in North America and the United Kingdom. He has engineered, implemented and maintained fully cost and resource-loaded CPM “master schedules" on several mega programs & projects, including: airports, highways/toll-roads, tele-communication networks and transit railway infrastructures, all using Earned Value Management (EVM) and Critical Path Methodology (CPM) as his primary controls tools for on-time, on-cost performance measurement.

Sean also facilitates and advises strategies and activities for implementing Capital Program/Project Management best practices, including transition into Asset Management and State-of-Good-Repair (eg. Digital Twin Engineering and BIM for Owners). He has recently been assisting LA Metro with developing Program Management procedures for project readiness reviews, project delivery method selection, and capturing lessons learned, as well as identifying PM departmental training needs, and recommending additional best practices and improvements for the Enterprise Program Management Information Systems (PMIS).

He has also trained Program and Project Management staff in scope, schedule, budget, cost and contract control best practices.

John Hollmann is author of the book “Project Risk Quantification” (hardcopy via www.decisions-books.com or on Kindle via Amazon). John, owner of Validation Estimating, LLC (VE), works with capital program managers and project leaders to improve their cost engineering practices, including cost/schedule risk quantification in support of investment decision making. John regularly reviews major international estimates in many industries and conducts risk analyses in support of investment decision making and contingency setting. Mr. Hollmann is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has written many papers and was lead author of the AACE® International text; the Total Cost Management (TCM) Framework. John is an Honorary Life Member of AACE® and recipient of their Award of Merit and Lifetime Achievement Awards. He also led development of the AACE® Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP) certification. Prior to founding VE, Mr. Hollmann led the Cost Engineering Committee metrics and research efforts at Independent Project Analysis, Inc. John is a registered Professional Engineer with an MBA, a Certified Cost Professional, a Certified Estimating Professional and Decision and Risk Management Professional.

Danilo Arba is a project controls & management enthusiast, with 20 years of experience. Certified Cost Engineer and Executive MBA from Politecnico di Milano. Thorough understanding of EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) industry, with verifiable track record of planning multimillion/billion-dollar worldwide construction projects. He lived & worked all his life around the world from South America, Africa, South East Asia to Europe. Adept at building and leading cross-functional teams from project conception to completion, optimizing performance, contractual, and financial deliverables. Currently Senior Partner of Piemme Group in Italy and PMO Lead for a governmental programme involving France and Peru’ for the construction and upgrade of various hospitals in Peru’.

A Project Controls expert with over 20 years private and government industry experience in the delivery of major infrastructure projects globally, leading large multidisciplinary teams in complex environments across diverse sectors including asset management, water, rail, roads, tunnels, oil & gas, building, retail, mining, heavy structural and civil, piping, mechanical and electrical infrastructure.

Currently, the Director of Project Controls on the North East Link Project, Victoria’s largest infrastructure project, Cameron has a Master’s Degree in Project Management and specialises in project management and controls including construction, planning / scheduling, estimating, cost control, integrated change management, information management, quality assurance and compliance, process improvement and technology innovations, standardisation and implementation. Cameron also has significant experience in data management analytics and reporting, organisational and project risk, stakeholder engagement, commercial and finance management and continuous improvement, agile and lean methodologies.

Vikki Kapoor (Vik) has over 23 years of experience in various sectors such as IT, Telecommunications, and Consulting & System Integration. During this time, Vik had taken roles of R&D/Systems Engineer, Solution Architect, Solution Manager, Project/Program Manager and Program Director in several projects spread across international locations and with multiple vendors and operators (Australia, Singapore and Japan). He is currently working as PMO Manager at Ericsson Australia.

Vik has also been involved with PMI since 2012 and is currently serving as the President of the Melbourne Chapter. He is also the founder of Project Management 4 Life initiative which provides project management based learning to youth.

Mojgan Yousefkhan is Program Controls Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), a Department of the City and County of San Francisco providing retail drinking water and wastewater services to San Francisco; wholesale water to three Bay Area counties; and green hydroelectric and solar power to San Francisco’s municipal departments and residents.  Mrs. Yousefkhan has over 28 years of experience in planning, engineering, construction, project controls, and management of infrastructure improvement projects, including the $4.8 billion Water System Improvement Program, the $6.9 billion Sewer System Improvement Program, and the $1.2 billion Hetch Hetchy System Improvement Program. Mrs. Yousefkhan has extensive expertise in capital planning, project financing, cash flow projection, bond sales, grants, and State loans. Mrs. Yousefkhan is a California licensed engineer with a master’s degree in Civil Engineering, and she is a certified Earned Value Professional (EVP).

More than 30 years of work experience with more than 20 years implementing Project Management Project Risk Management, and Project Portfolio Management in the following industries:

• Construction
• Property Development
• Oil & Gas
• Telecommunication
• Transportation
• Aviation
• Financial Services
• Information Technology
• Manufacturing
• Healthcare

Knowledge Areas (Consulting, Implementation and Training)

• Project Portfolio Management
• Project Document Management
• Project Management
• Project Management Office
• Project Resource Management (BQ)
• Project Management Audit
• Project Cost Management
• Project Risk Management
• Microsoft Project Server/Online
• Oracle Primavera

Peter Aynsley has more than 40 years’ experience in capital works projects valued in aggregate at more than $30 billion. He holds a degree in Architectural Science; has undertaken coursework including a Masters in Applied Project Management; and is a Member of both the Project Management Institute and Australian Institute of Project Management. He has served as Chairman and Member of Expert Review Groups for both Government and Private Sector initiatives with individual values ranging from $100 million to more than $3 billion.

Peter joined HKA in 2010 and became involved with the HKA Tech business stream, implementing the PMWeb software solution for the whole lifecycle of capital works projects, from 2012. Since that time, he has served as Project Director for, and worked on various aspects of, PMWeb implementations in Australia, the Pacific and the USA – with implementation sizes from as few as 5 users up to more than 3,000 users.

A consultant by day, creative by night; bringing creative intelligence to infrastructure intelligence. Jessie consults within the Strategy & Optimization steam of Advisory services at HKA. For two and a half years she has worked on Sydney Metro, Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project. During her career, Jessie has been established in the Project Management Office across two Metro projects, where she has specialized her skills in risk management and change control across multi-billion dollar packages of works. Jessie is a certified practicing risk associate (CPRA®) with a passion for innovation. At the core of her work are processes and people, where she seeks to implement agile strategies and solutions within complex project environments

Peter started his Information Technology career in 1984 when he joined IBM. Prior to co-founding Allinno Pty Ltd in 2018, Peter completed 20 years with Oracle.

His experience spans business development and sales across both direct and channels go to market models across mid and top tier government and commercial sectors. He has a particular passion for assisting clients with their Enterprise Project Portfolio Management business case and solution needs. During his career he has amassed skills with all aspects of Information Technology enabled transformations, through Recognition of Needs, Evaluation of Options, Business Case Justification, Solution Implementation and Adoption.

Nick is a Civil Engineer graduating from Auckland University.

He has worked in various Engineering Roles - Design Engineer, Forestry Engineer in Tokoroa for New Zealand Forest Products. In 1980 he moved to Geelong, Victoria, Australia where he commenced with John Holland as a Site Engineer on the Construction of the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory. He used Primavera in 1986 as a Planning Engineer on Australia's first Billion Dollar Project being New Parliament House in Canberra.

With John Holland he has done Planning and Programming on Expressions of Interest, Tenders and Projects, in numerous disciplines, Building - Offices, Hospitals, Prisons, Sports Stadiums, Tunnelling, Water, Civil Infrastructure, Roads and Rail, Mechanical and Electrical, Oil and Gas, Industrial and Manufacturing.

As the Group Manager, Planning he provides Planning and Programming, Risk, Earned Value, and general 'Planning' Software support to Tenders and Projects, through all phases of the 'Project Life', plus Mentoring, Training and Systems Administration.

Abhi is a civil engineer with specialized experience in mega project and program controls. He has led mega project and programs in Asia, Middle East, Europe and US. He is known in the industry as a practical theorist and ensured establishment of project controls best practices across infrastructure, Oil & Gas, industry and mining sectors.

Having started his career as a project engineer,while having worked for contracting, consulting and owner organisations, gives him an unique perspective on mega project and program organization setup. He has set up and run teams in programs and also been in management consulting and performance improvement for mega projects.

As a passionate individual he is known as a sector expert with knowledge of business transformation and technological aspects of mega projects globally. He has recently moved back from Europe to Australia

Daniel is the co-founder and CEO of Wrench Solutions. Passionate about the transformative power of information technology, he and friend Aju Peter began with an idea for collaborative data processing for manufacturing companies, which they successfully sold to Kennametal Widia & Mico Bosch (and for which they won funding from the Government of India).

Daniel went on to create SmartProject, the world’s first integrated information platform for construction projects, which is used by EPC firms worldwide on 9000+ projects across 27 countries. His focus today is developing global markets for SmartProject. He holds an M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.

Graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT), Vladimir created his first project management software for mainframe computers in 1978. This program included not only CPM calculations but also advanced resource leveling.
In 1990 he organized Spider Project Team for creating the best project management tool. Spider Project was launched to the market in 1993 and today it is most functional project and portfolio management software that is used in 36 countries and for management of most large-scale programs in Russia like preparation of 2014 Winter Olympic Games and construction of all stadiums used for 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Spider Project Team became the leading project management consulting and training company with the branches and partners in many Russian cities and abroad.
Vladimir is an author of 4 books on project management and more than 150 papers and has an experience of managing projects and consulting project management teams in aerospace, construction, energy, oil & gas, telecommunications, retail, shipbuilding and other application areas.

Dr James Smith is the Chief Technology Officer at Projecting Success. He is responsible for a wide scope, spanning full stack development through to data science and AI. James has a passion for optimising and transforming how projects are delivered using the latest advanced methods in data analytics, where he has been lead for around 30 projects. He is immersed in visualisation, graph databases, Python, machine learning algorithms and regularly grapples with the challenges that exists with real world data

Dr Madhu P. Pillai is a Project Management specialist with more than 35 years of broad-based Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Power industry experience in Operations and Project Management with a geographical spread of India, Nigeria, USA, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. He has been associated as Projects Director with leading MNCs.

Dr Pillai is an Engineer with post-graduation in Management and Ph D in Strategic Project Management. He is a Fellow of many leading international organizations like, AACE International and International Cost Engineering Council, Institution of Engineers etc.

  Dr Pillai has spoken at more than 30 International events; and Chaired few. He was awarded the O T Zimmerman Founder’s award by AACE International in 2008 for his contribution to the ‘Global Cost Management Professional Community”.

  Dr Pillai serves on the board of International Cost Engineering Council – ICEC as Executive Director. He is the Honorary Global Ambassador for World Project Management Forum (WPMF), Advisor to Center for Public Policy Research (CPPR) and Executive Director of WAFA – Denmark.

Dr. Pillai had earlier served on the International Director Board of AACEI as Regional Director (Asia, Europe & Africa) and as Vice President (International Regions). He had also served on the International Board of “Project Managers Without Borders”.

William Oldham is a Civil Engineer and Chartered Construction Manager with a Master’s in Civil Engineering, 13 years industry experience and a history in the delivery of construction projects in technical, commercial and project management roles.

He has worked for a range of clients including water companies, the military, private developers, and an international aid agency. Sectors he has worked in include pipelines, coastal, aviation, highways and residential developments. He also serves in the British Army as a Royal Engineer Reserve.

William is currently working as a Civil Engineer and Project Manager for the United States Air Force.

Varughese is an expert in Construction and Real Estate. His high ethical work culture benefited in setting successful professional standards.

Varughese specialized in Quantity Surveying and Construction management from College of Estate Management in UK and Master of Laws in Construction Law and Arbitration from Robert Gordon University in UK. He is a Fellow of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Fellow of Chartered Institute of Buildings, Fellow of Indian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Varughese has extensive experience in Construction and Property development in Middle East and India and been in senior positions with some of the best Multinational companies such as Besix, Kvaerner, Skanska, Carillion, and EC Harris and instrumental in setting Projects Controls for several major international projects such as Museums, Autodrome, Airport, Bridges, Hotels, Residential complexes, Power Plants, etc. He is a speaker in CPD events, Chairman of Professional Interview panel, Counsellor and mentor of many professionals around the world.

Varughese is the Managing Director of Elixir project Consultants. He is the Director & Global President of Indian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Trustee of International Construction Measurement Standards and Trustee of International Ethics Standards Coalition.

Peter Gable is the co-founder and chairman of RPCuk.

RPCuk have been providing effective Oracle Primavera product solutions since 1992 and our comprehensive portfolio of skills, services and solutions creates the ideal platform to support the complete project lifecycle.

The RPCuk vision is to be trusted advisors to our clients and their partners for successfully delivering the measurable benefits they expect from their programme, portfolio and project investments.

 We do this by…

· designing project management and planning solutions of the highest quality

· developing precision supporting processes

· applying Oracle Primavera product skills excellence

· offering essential education and training

 Peter is an authorised Oracle Certified Primavera P6 EPPM and Unifier Implementation specialist and project consultant, with extensive expertise in Primavera and Unifier design, configuration, implementation, integration, consultancy and training, including Project Management training encapsulating the full project lifecycle.

With over 21 years’ experience delivering both application and real world Project Management training, his clients include BP, Shell, Chevron, Modec and AGIP in the Oil & Gas sector in the UK, Europe, South and West Africa, Kazakhstan, KSA and UAE.

Peter has also delivered Project Lifecycle training in the Transport sector and successfully implemented a number of high-profile Primavera implementations in the Engineering & Construction, Oil & Gas, Transport, Utilities, Aerospace and Nuclear sectors. Many of these implementations required integration to 3rd party ERP and legacy applications including SAP, Maximo, Sun and bespoke applications. He also brings additional experience as a Project Manager in the Transport sector and, prior to this, more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry as Operations Manager for a leading UK blue chip chemical distribution company, giving him an invaluable hands-on background in managing complex projects in a range of environments.

Simon is the Director of Operations and Principal Consultant UK, European and the Middle East. In this role, he is responsible for supporting ARES PRISM, a fully-integrated project controls solution designed to manage local and multinational capital projects from conception to completion. Simon provides advisory services to major programs and supports the successful deployment of effective change management processes.

Gareth Parkes leads data, innovation and digital transformation projects at Sir Robert McAlpine. Gareth is passionate about making best use of organisational knowledge and finding innovative solutions to established problems.

He believes collaboration and empowering people are the best ways to make change last. One way he’s making that happen is through his role in setting up the Construction Data Trust: a mechanism for collaborative, transformative change through data analytics. Gareth owns data strategy for SRM; helping teams use data to find new ways of doing things better. He studied Chemical Engineering at Nottingham and Economics & Policy at UCL. In his free time, Gareth loves travelling and spending time with his young family.

Geoff Roberts is a chartered professional with more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of project management & project controls.

Geoff has been with Oracle Construction and Engineering Business Unit for 20 years. He is currently Director, Global Industry Strategy (Energy & Resources), providing strategic direction, domain expertise, and insight around asset intensive industries and how they operate with both internal and external stakeholders.

In addition, he provides input into the solutions we deliver. He ensures our best-in-class Oracle solutions help organisations safely deliver projects to time, cost, and quality, from inception through to decommissioning. Geoff participates in Construction Industry Institute's (CII) research teams and looks to deliver solutions that support CII best practices across the industry.

Senior project advisor, chartered civil engineer and certified cost engineer (CCE/CCP), with thirty years of experience in driving the project management life cycle, with an emphasis on project planning and controls, contract management and forensic delay analysis.

I deliver expert planning and programs controls on multibillions infrastructure programs, including highways and railways, complex industrial and civil buildings, air terminals and hospitals, by setting up and implementing project management systems to measure costs, milestones and quality, mitigate delays, minimise financial risk, support contractual terms, and protect the interests of the project and stakeholders.

I worked in advanced contexts of project management, as a senior project advisor, project manager Client side, project controls manager, planning consultant and claim expert, lead planner.

Since 1991 I work as independent consultant. From 2001 until 2012 I have leaded my business practice Casinelli Associates, which provided project management services to construction and engineering industry.

My experience is across a broad range of projects serving major European contractors (Astaldi, Impregilo, Bilfinger Berger), engineering and contracting companies, (Tecnimont, Technip), corporate clients and government entities as the US Navy, ANAS (Italian National Autonomous Roads Corporation), project management firms like Hill International, Egis Rail, JV Egis Rail-SNC Lavalin.

International experience in Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, UK. Set up, implementation and management of project controls system to enhance project and contract management of large-scale infrastructures construction programmes.

Project management systems and PMO based at enterprise level.
Alignment of project management processes consistently with the strategy for project execution.
Advanced planning and scheduling techniques and methods, including delay analysis and QSRA.
Civil engineering – cost engineering – international contracts (FIDIC, NAVFAC)
Technical due diligence, project monitoring, audits, change evaluations and EOT with relative claims.
Advanced EVMS (earned value management systems)
Lead and develop multi-cultural teams of planners/project controls engineers.
Mentoring and coaching of project controls team
Training on project management / controls methods and techniques.

Carolyn Browning has nearly 15 years of experience within Project Planning and Controls spanning Defense, Rail, Nuclear and Infrastructure sectors.

Throughout her career to date, she has been fortunate to work with world class organizations ranging from BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin to AWE, Bombardier, Knorr Bremse and Ascent Flight Training on some of their most complex and challenging projects and business challenges.

She was on the co-authoring team for the APM’s “Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring & Control” Guide, which is now used as the syllabus for the APMs Planning and Controls accreditations, and has substantial experience backed knowledge in all aspects of Project Controls and Planning.

As a passionate advocate for utilizing Project Controls as a business improvement and change lever, she is specifically interested in organizational change programs and improvement initiatives. These enable highly focused Project Controls derived interventions and solutions to be crafted which can deliver business intelligence through data exploitation, capitalizing on business benefits.

Michel George is Planisware’s Director of Sales for the UK and Ireland. His experience with the Planisware Enterprise solution spans 28 years, during which time he has guided numerous high-profile and international companies through their digital transformations.

Michel is passionate about the transformative value that effective project controls can bring to an organization’s bottom line. From the very beginning, when working with a new company, his approach is to fully integrate himself with the business: their challenges, objectives and current working processes – to define not only a tool that fits, but an entire set of best practices and change management measures, to effectively make the strategy fly.

Working with businesses such as RATP, EDF Engineering, Aramco, Airbus, over the years he has helped to transform Project Controls and PPM practices across an impressive variety of global industries, gaining valuable insights along the way. His expertise can help businesses achieve excellence in their Contract Management, Program and Resource Management, Budget Management and EVM, Reporting, and more.

Stefan Hollak is a senior business consultant specialized in the translation of stakeholder requirements and business processes to an integrated solution in Project Controls. He is particularly involved in guiding the business changes during implementation of the solution. As manager of the Primaned Academy he is also involved in the continuous improvement of the Project Controls education program.

Pradip Mehta, DBIA, PMP, CCP, PSP, EVP, RMP is an Internationally recognized expert in implementing Project Controls best practices for large Engineering and Construction organizations. Frequently invited guest speaker on the subject of Dispute Resolution and Claims Analysis and Litigation, EVM, Project Controls Best Practices, Case Studies, and Enterprise Wide implementation of Project Controls Systems, Mr. Mehta has extensive and diversified experience in successfully leading large project teams in implementing project management and control processes and systems at the corporate as well as large program levels in a Capital Planning and Design-Build environment for both Contractor and Owner organizations. He served as the past President of the PMI College of Scheduling and he has presented more than 30 publications at different professional venues. He was Inducted as a “Guild Fellow” in 2015 in the Planning Planet Global Society.

Working as Vice President Business for Cleopatra Enterprise, one of the world’s leading software systems specialized in project cost management, Stefan Bakker helps industry-leading companies improve their project control activities with the combination of software tooling and consultancy services.

Stefan holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Business Economics and has been in business with major industrial companies for more than 10 years. During that time, he has built up an international network in industries such as oil & gas, infrastructure, power, offshore, chemicals, pharmaceutical, and shipbuilding.

Furthermore, Stefan is a regular speaker at industry events, presenting on the need for an integrated project controls approach to improve project performance of the businesses.

Next to serving clients in Europe, Stefan leads the company’s business development initiatives in the North American region.

Jeremie Averous is an experienced senior executive, consultant and trainer, certified coach, published author. He is passionate about helping people grow and about bringing teams of diverse people together to overcome seemingly impossible feats.

Jeremie has an extensive knowledge of various industries including nuclear, oil & gas, aeronautics and train rolling stock. He has been serving as a senior executive with the French Nuclear Safety Authority. Jeremie is also an expert in Project Controls with a particular focus on risk management (from technical, organisational and enterprise risk management). Jeremie has experience setting up and running Project Control for billion-dollar projects in Oil & Gas megaprojects. He is hired on a regular basis by leading global Contractors and Owners for independent project reviews and audits, and to review processes and systems for adequacy.

Jeremie is the author of a series acclaimed books on all aspects of Project Controls.

Jeremie, a French national, has lived many years in South East Asia and is now based in Paris.

Ahmed has more than 15 years of experience in the construction industry and holds a Master of Construction Project Management from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Ahmed has a proven track record of providing contract administration and contract/project management for megaprojects in Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Libya, and the United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Amin Terouhid has served as a project management expert since 2003, and is currently the principal consultant with Adroit Consultants, LLC. He has received a Ph.D. in construction management from the University of Florida, and holds the following professional certificates: Professional Engineer (P.E.) – Texas, Project Management Professional (PMP), Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP), and Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP).

Amin’s expertise in project management is focused on project planning and control, cost engineering, risk management, and project construction claims. He has worked on projects throughout the United States as well as in the Middle East and Southern Africa involving the design and development of project management offices, developing construction project management systems, managing project scheduling and control teams. He has published a variety of articles, with a focus on construction management, in scientific journals and presented his works in international conferences. He is a primary author of AACE Recommended Practices 89R-16, 92R-17, and 91R-16. Amin was a recipient of the 2018 AACE Technical Excellence Award.

Master’s degree in industrial and organic chemistry, he also have grades in International business and Project Management. He Have 18 years of experience in the industrial sector in Project Control and Operations for Energy, Oil&gas, Renewables, Petrochemistry, power and utilities and offshore fields.

He Headed the Operations and Management department for an EPC contractor/fabricator running projects in Europe and South America, and participated in designing the control systems at different international companies helping them to manage their portfolio towards the target.

Across his career he participated in planning, cost control, construction management and risk at some important developments like at the Biggest LNG production plant in the world in one train at Egypt, in the development of the biggest fertilizer complex in the world at KSA, in the first virtual LNGduct in Ecuador and in the biggest Solar park in Dubai among others.

AACE Brazil former director, Geophysics MSc., Physicist, and Cost Engineering Consultant with 13 years’ experience in Oil & Gas area, AACE International certified – CCP.
Director of AACE Brazil (2015 - 2017):

• Organization of AACE Brazil annual conventions – national and regional;
• Coordination of technical work – evaluation of technical papers on Cost Engineering for the AACE conventions;
• Elaboration of the Brazilian version of AACE recommended practices;
• Promotion of the Association in Brazil and inside PETROBRAS among high executive directors and senior managers;
• Review and selection of technical papers for the three-book series “Engineering Review”("Pareceres de Engenharia") on Contract Management, Budgeting, and Risk Management;
• Co-authorship of the book series “Engineering Review”.

Mr. Macedo has improved methodologies and standards regarding Cost Engineering at PETROBRAS:
• Methodology for analyzing the owner’s management cost of Oil & Gas projects;
• Cost reference for building and assembly budgets;
• Elaboration and monitoring of project financial schedules
• Parametric equations to define references for equipment cost;
• Methodology for analyzing project planning
• Methodology for comparative analysis of schedules of critical activities in FPSO projects.

PETROBRAS University – subjects taught:

• Budgeting of Oil & Gas projects – refineries and platforms;
• Construction Planning and Industrial Assembly – refineries and platforms;
• Contract management;
• SAP R / 3 PS software;
• Industrial instrumentation.

Authorship of technical papers:
• Cost Updates in Global Contracts;
• Alignment of Contingency Definition Concepts and Estimate Methodology (ICEC 2016 Int. Congress)
• Elaboration and Application of the Risk Matrix for Engineering Service Contracts (5th Annual AACE Brazil Conv.).
• Risk Allocation to asses public contract. Particular case – Brazil (2019 Annual Meeting - AACE International– Louisiana US).

Expertise: Budgeting Estimating, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Contract Management, Project Management, Negotiation, Claim Management and, Power BI. 

Jeslin Varghese is Director of Project Controls in the program controls division of Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Construction & Development (MTACD), overseeing multiple mega-projects in New York City with a combined value of $50bn. Mr. Varghese has been with the MTA since 2015 in various capacities, including as Senior Scheduling Engineer & KPI Manager, and as Technical Director in the Change Management Group at the East Side Access (ESA) program, a commuter rail project that, at $11bn, is one of the largest transportation projects in the world. 

Mr. Varghese has over 16 years of professional experience in sustainability and project controls. His experience spans planning, problem solving, strategy development, risk assessment, CPM scheduling, performance monitoring, building & managing teams, He has gained his experience by working on a wide variety of projects in the United States, India, Taiwan, and the Middle East. Mr. Varghese has handled many sophisticated and multifaceted projects using high performance planning programs such as Primavera 6, P3, SureTrak, Wrike, Sage Timberline, Cost Track and MS Project. He has worked for both governmental and private clients, including the MTA, the Air Force, the Navy, the Army Corps of Engineers, the General Services Administration, and Transwestern.  An avid believer in sustainability and volunteering, he is also extensively involved in preparing and delivering training courses on sustainability planning, construction & project management, and green building design & construction.

Mr. Varghese holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering -Trivandrum, India and a masters in Construction Management from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

More than 15 years of experience in the development and/or management of projects in Energy, Oil & Gas, and Mining Industry between Small (USD 300k - 10.00 MM) and Megaprojects (CAPEX USD 5.4 Billion) under WATERFALL and AGILE methodologies. David was part of the team that manages the PMO (Project Management Office) for the "Talara Refinery Modernization Project" (PMRT), MegaProject CAPEX of $ 5,400 MM USD, and develop as Subject Matter Expert Consulting for Mining MegaProjects (Cost, Schedule & Risk Management).

David is an Electrical (B.Eng.Sc.) Engineer with a postgraduate specialization in Electrical Power Systems (honorific mention in thesis project), as well as different courses/diplomas in finance, accounting, and especially: project management.

Certified Auditor by Bureau Veritas School (ISO 21,500 - Project Management Systems), “Project Management Professional” (PMP®), “Risk Manager Professional" (PMI-RMP®) and Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). With emphasis and interest about incorporate an added dimension to this approach using others project management standards (AACEi, CII & PMI), AGILE Methods and ongoing governance to ensure that the project portfolios is meeting its desired objectives: managing assets estimations (time, cost, resources, etc), minimize threats and uncertainty, etc. that ensures and maximizes the utility and profitability of the projects, for the benefit of internal stakeholders and customer satisfaction.

David has a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) degree and he is Past-President of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International AACEi - Perú Section.

Civil Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria , with a specialization in Project Management from Universidad Catolica de Chile, specialist in project control and PMO Leader, with 13 years of experience in construction project management. Participation in office, retail, mining and infrastructure projects. Actually is Project Controls and PMO Lead of Urbanova Real State, responsible of Portafolio & Project Controls , leader of the development and implementation of the Urbanova Inmobiliaria Project Management Standards and the implementation of Oracle Primavera Unifier

Nicolas Flores is an innovative Project Management software consultant, with over 15 years of experience in Schedule Management, Cost Management, and Project Controls. Nicolas is an expert for owner-operators and construction management firms, with skills in business process design and configuration, working in different Projects in Latin America (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico) and also in USA & KSA.

Nicolas has a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile, and a Bachelor of Economics and Business Science degree from University

With more than 15 years of experience, Rafael is Director at Deloitte where he has led a number of projects in Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Mozambique, advising and serving clients throughout the life cycle of an asset, whether investors, project developers or operators in both the public and private sectors, in order to ensure greater confidence and predictability in the execution of projects, by managing complex investments more effectively.

Rafael has extensive knowledge and experience with the best practices and project management methods, such as FEL methodology, PMBOK®, PRINCE2®, CII Best Practices, AACE Recommended Practices, IPMA-IBP, among others.

Rafael holds a degree in chemical engineering and a postgraduate in statistics, both from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Also attended Controllership and Finance course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Attended Transforming Your Leadership Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Business in the United States. Currently, Rafael is an engineering master’s degree student at University of Stuttgart, Germany, with emphasis in International Construction: Practice and Law.

Rafael holds PMP, PMI-RMP and PRINCE2 certifications.

Iscient is a specialized business unit of Lights in the Attic Project Group (LitA pg), focusing on the translation of the leading academic research to technologies for Prediction Science and Modeling in the Capital Projects and adjacent industries ( including socio-economics, recoverable and sustainable environments

Robert founded EPC Lens and Iscient while managing intensely complex capital programs (US$25B) across Canada, the USA, and Internationally. He has developed and led commercial and execution strategies, project controls, risk and supply chains for marquee and business-critical projects in mining, oil, refining and power generation, including renewables. His work has also been foundational for improving project execution efficiency, navigating markets and transforming business organizations for major international producers, and for individual engineering, procurement and construction companies.

In pursuit of better EPC performance, Robert invented numerous processes – enabled by science-driven information technology - to improve project and program delivery. Many of these step-change solutions are integrated into the EPC Lens suite, while select others are being introduced (2020) on scaling programs for mining, LNG and large scale-pipeline. Approximately half of the research applications address inefficiencies in behavioural patterns and how to influence complex organizations and processes, while the other half improves prediction sciences and modeling for projects, programs, risk and operational performance.

Robert also researches, writes and presents on matters of emerging sciences and information technology, AI in projects and BI, strategic planning, project management, supply chain, risk and market forecast and analysis. In 2021, Iscient completes phase 1 of the virtual co-laboratory program for project controls, supply chains, project management and construction management to keep specialists and professionals in the capital project practices aware of scientific advances that are expected to translate into leading technologies.

All attendees for this lecture qualify for updates on the Iscient virtual laboratory developments and update to the ebook ‘Interim A.I.: Growing Artificial Intelligence for Projects’

As our VP Solutions and Lead Risk and Implementation Specialist, Ian leads Emerald’s functional consulting group. With over 30 years of international experience in varied fields and roles from manufacturing, heavy civil construction, pharmaceutical plant construction, hospital projects and oil and gas capital and turnaround projects, Ian brings a wealth of project knowledge to all of our clients.

Ian started his career as a project manager in light industrial projects, and then became an engineering manager before moving to large CAPEX and STO projects. He is an expert in scheduling processes and has worked in claims, major and sustaining projects and project portfolio management.

Ian has lead dozens of schedule reviews and Risk management sessions using Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk as well as Crystal Ball and @Risk for CAPEX and shutdown/turnaround projects for clients all over North America. He worked as Risk Director on a large Public Private Partner proposal. He emphasizes that successful Monte Carlo application is about the process, not just the tools and has spoken at a number of events how to successfully apply risk analysis to projects.

Dr. Dan Patterson is Chief Design Officer with InEight. In this role, he focuses on expanding upon his vision of creating next-generation planning and scheduling software solutions for the construction industry. As a globally recognized project analytics thought leader and software entrepreneur, Dan has more than 20 years of experience building project management software companies, including Pertmaster, Acumen and BASIS. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute (PMI), and holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a PhD in construction management from the University of Nottingham.

Nick has over 40 years of global project engineering, management, consulting and training experience in the industry. At Chevron he supported more than 100 major capital projects worth well over $ 100 billion in more than 20 countries. Since retiring from Chevron, he continues to provide consultation and training to executives and project professionals worldwide. His experience includes projects in oil & gas development, oil sands, liquefied natural gas, refining, petrochemicals and mining.

Nick has a B.S. and M.S. in chemical & petroleum-refining engineering and a Ph.D. in mineral economics from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a registered professional chemical engineer in the State of California. Nick has published and presented many papers at technical organizations. He is a recipient of industry award from Pathfinder for outstanding contribution to the advancement of project management technology and Chevron chairman’s award for implementing value engineering throughout the corporation.

Project Executive and Senior Project Controls Manager with over 40 years engineering experience encompassing roles such as Project Manager, Project Controls Engineer and Manager, Site Engineer and Estimator on major projects in Australia and internationally.

Experienced in all facets of Project Controls management, Estimating, Budget Preparation, Cost Engineering, Change Management, Planning, Scheduling, Documentation Control and Reporting, on all phases of Projects from Concept to Implementation and Handover.

Experience has included working with Owners teams and EPCM contractors.

A proven ability to successfully build teams through training and staff development, extensive experience developing and implementing new processes and systems for major projects and integrating project processes across project groups.

Training and mentoring of Project Controls personnel.

Julie Owen, PSP, CCP has twenty five years of experience in program and project management, program and project control, cost engineering, scheduling, contract administration and schedule delay claim analysis. She works as Deputy Executive Officer for Los Angeles Metro managing the $160 billion over 50 year initiative to improve Los Angeles County transportation infrastructure. She manages a program/project control team of eleven team members serving the highway, regional rail, transit, and small transit capital repair programs. She served as Project Manager for the design and implementation of the enterprise wide business management system for capital program management.

She worked her way up the management ladder holding positions such as deputy executive officer, director, project manager, assistant project manager, project engineer, construction manager, supervisor, scheduler, cost engineer and intern engineer. Julie has worked on all sides of the table including owner, contractor, and construction manager and across multiple firms and industries including Los Angeles Metro, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, McCarthy Building Companies, J.F. Shea Construction, Arcadis, and Parsons.

She currently serves as Administrative Vice Chair on the International Cost Engineering Council, is a Past President of AACE International and Guild of Project Controls Fellow in both Cost Management and Planning and Scheduling. She holds AACE International certifications for Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) and Certified Cost Professional (CCP).

Most of Sean’s 30+ years of professional experience has been in delivering Program and Project Controls for mega Design/Build public transportation infrastructure capital programs and projects in North America and the United Kingdom. He has engineered, implemented and maintained fully cost and resource-loaded CPM “master schedules" on several mega programs & projects, including: airports, highways/toll-roads, tele-communication networks and transit railway infrastructures, all using Earned Value Management (EVM) and Critical Path Methodology (CPM) as his primary controls tools for on-time, on-cost performance measurement.

Sean also facilitates and advises strategies and activities for implementing Capital Program/Project Management best practices, including transition into Asset Management and State-of-Good-Repair (eg. Digital Twin Engineering and BIM for Owners). He has recently been assisting LA Metro with developing Program Management procedures for project readiness reviews, project delivery method selection, and capturing lessons learned, as well as identifying PM departmental training needs, and recommending additional best practices and improvements for the Enterprise Program Management Information Systems (PMIS).

He has also trained Program and Project Management staff in scope, schedule, budget, cost and contract control best practices.

Vikki Kapoor (Vik) has over 23 years of experience in various sectors such as IT, Telecommunications, and Consulting & System Integration. During this time, Vik had taken roles of R&D/Systems Engineer, Solution Architect, Solution Manager, Project/Program Manager and Program Director in several projects spread across international locations and with multiple vendors and operators (Australia, Singapore and Japan). He is currently working as PMO Manager at Ericsson Australia.

Vik has also been involved with PMI since 2012 and is currently serving as the President of the Melbourne Chapter. He is also the founder of Project Management 4 Life initiative which provides project management based learning to youth.

Peter Aynsley has more than 40 years’ experience in capital works projects valued in aggregate at more than $30 billion. He holds a degree in Architectural Science; has undertaken coursework including a Masters in Applied Project Management; and is a Member of both the Project Management Institute and Australian Institute of Project Management. He has served as Chairman and Member of Expert Review Groups for both Government and Private Sector initiatives with individual values ranging from $100 million to more than $3 billion.

Peter joined HKA in 2010 and became involved with the HKA Tech business stream, implementing the PMWeb software solution for the whole lifecycle of capital works projects, from 2012. Since that time, he has served as Project Director for, and worked on various aspects of, PMWeb implementations in Australia, the Pacific and the USA – with implementation sizes from as few as 5 users up to more than 3,000 users.

Peter started his Information Technology career in 1984 when he joined IBM. Prior to co-founding Allinno Pty Ltd in 2018, Peter completed 20 years with Oracle.

His experience spans business development and sales across both direct and channels go to market models across mid and top tier government and commercial sectors. He has a particular passion for assisting clients with their Enterprise Project Portfolio Management business case and solution needs. During his career he has amassed skills with all aspects of Information Technology enabled transformations, through Recognition of Needs, Evaluation of Options, Business Case Justification, Solution Implementation and Adoption.

Nick is a Civil Engineer graduating from Auckland University.

He has worked in various Engineering Roles - Design Engineer, Forestry Engineer in Tokoroa for New Zealand Forest Products. In 1980 he moved to Geelong, Victoria, Australia where he commenced with John Holland as a Site Engineer on the Construction of the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory. He used Primavera in 1986 as a Planning Engineer on Australia's first Billion Dollar Project being New Parliament House in Canberra.

With John Holland he has done Planning and Programming on Expressions of Interest, Tenders and Projects, in numerous disciplines, Building - Offices, Hospitals, Prisons, Sports Stadiums, Tunnelling, Water, Civil Infrastructure, Roads and Rail, Mechanical and Electrical, Oil and Gas, Industrial and Manufacturing.

As the Group Manager, Planning he provides Planning and Programming, Risk, Earned Value, and general 'Planning' Software support to Tenders and Projects, through all phases of the 'Project Life', plus Mentoring, Training and Systems Administration.

Daniel is the co-founder and CEO of Wrench Solutions. Passionate about the transformative power of information technology, he and friend Aju Peter began with an idea for collaborative data processing for manufacturing companies, which they successfully sold to Kennametal Widia & Mico Bosch (and for which they won funding from the Government of India).

Daniel went on to create SmartProject, the world’s first integrated information platform for construction projects, which is used by EPC firms worldwide on 9000+ projects across 27 countries. His focus today is developing global markets for SmartProject. He holds an M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.

William Oldham is a Civil Engineer and Chartered Construction Manager with a Master’s in Civil Engineering, 13 years industry experience and a history in the delivery of construction projects in technical, commercial and project management roles.

He has worked for a range of clients including water companies, the military, private developers, and an international aid agency. Sectors he has worked in include pipelines, coastal, aviation, highways and residential developments. He also serves in the British Army as a Royal Engineer Reserve.

William is currently working as a Civil Engineer and Project Manager for the United States Air Force.

Peter Gable is the co-founder and chairman of RPCuk.

RPCuk have been providing effective Oracle Primavera product solutions since 1992 and our comprehensive portfolio of skills, services and solutions creates the ideal platform to support the complete project lifecycle.

The RPCuk vision is to be trusted advisors to our clients and their partners for successfully delivering the measurable benefits they expect from their programme, portfolio and project investments.

 We do this by…

· designing project management and planning solutions of the highest quality

· developing precision supporting processes

· applying Oracle Primavera product skills excellence

· offering essential education and training

 Peter is an authorised Oracle Certified Primavera P6 EPPM and Unifier Implementation specialist and project consultant, with extensive expertise in Primavera and Unifier design, configuration, implementation, integration, consultancy and training, including Project Management training encapsulating the full project lifecycle.

With over 21 years’ experience delivering both application and real world Project Management training, his clients include BP, Shell, Chevron, Modec and AGIP in the Oil & Gas sector in the UK, Europe, South and West Africa, Kazakhstan, KSA and UAE.

Peter has also delivered Project Lifecycle training in the Transport sector and successfully implemented a number of high-profile Primavera implementations in the Engineering & Construction, Oil & Gas, Transport, Utilities, Aerospace and Nuclear sectors. Many of these implementations required integration to 3rd party ERP and legacy applications including SAP, Maximo, Sun and bespoke applications. He also brings additional experience as a Project Manager in the Transport sector and, prior to this, more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry as Operations Manager for a leading UK blue chip chemical distribution company, giving him an invaluable hands-on background in managing complex projects in a range of environments.

Gareth Parkes leads data, innovation and digital transformation projects at Sir Robert McAlpine. Gareth is passionate about making best use of organisational knowledge and finding innovative solutions to established problems.

He believes collaboration and empowering people are the best ways to make change last. One way he’s making that happen is through his role in setting up the Construction Data Trust: a mechanism for collaborative, transformative change through data analytics. Gareth owns data strategy for SRM; helping teams use data to find new ways of doing things better. He studied Chemical Engineering at Nottingham and Economics & Policy at UCL. In his free time, Gareth loves travelling and spending time with his young family.

Carolyn Browning has nearly 15 years of experience within Project Planning and Controls spanning Defense, Rail, Nuclear and Infrastructure sectors.

Throughout her career to date, she has been fortunate to work with world class organizations ranging from BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin to AWE, Bombardier, Knorr Bremse and Ascent Flight Training on some of their most complex and challenging projects and business challenges.

She was on the co-authoring team for the APM’s “Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring & Control” Guide, which is now used as the syllabus for the APMs Planning and Controls accreditations, and has substantial experience backed knowledge in all aspects of Project Controls and Planning.

As a passionate advocate for utilizing Project Controls as a business improvement and change lever, she is specifically interested in organizational change programs and improvement initiatives. These enable highly focused Project Controls derived interventions and solutions to be crafted which can deliver business intelligence through data exploitation, capitalizing on business benefits.

Stefan Hollak is a senior business consultant specialized in the translation of stakeholder requirements and business processes to an integrated solution in Project Controls. He is particularly involved in guiding the business changes during implementation of the solution. As manager of the Primaned Academy he is also involved in the continuous improvement of the Project Controls education program.

Pradip Mehta, DBIA, PMP, CCP, PSP, EVP, RMP is an Internationally recognized expert in implementing Project Controls best practices for large Engineering and Construction organizations. Frequently invited guest speaker on the subject of Dispute Resolution and Claims Analysis and Litigation, EVM, Project Controls Best Practices, Case Studies, and Enterprise Wide implementation of Project Controls Systems, Mr. Mehta has extensive and diversified experience in successfully leading large project teams in implementing project management and control processes and systems at the corporate as well as large program levels in a Capital Planning and Design-Build environment for both Contractor and Owner organizations. He served as the past President of the PMI College of Scheduling and he has presented more than 30 publications at different professional venues. He was Inducted as a “Guild Fellow” in 2015 in the Planning Planet Global Society.

Master’s degree in industrial and organic chemistry, he also have grades in International business and Project Management. He Have 18 years of experience in the industrial sector in Project Control and Operations for Energy, Oil&gas, Renewables, Petrochemistry, power and utilities and offshore fields.

He Headed the Operations and Management department for an EPC contractor/fabricator running projects in Europe and South America, and participated in designing the control systems at different international companies helping them to manage their portfolio towards the target.

Across his career he participated in planning, cost control, construction management and risk at some important developments like at the Biggest LNG production plant in the world in one train at Egypt, in the development of the biggest fertilizer complex in the world at KSA, in the first virtual LNGduct in Ecuador and in the biggest Solar park in Dubai among others.

AACE Brazil former director, Geophysics MSc., Physicist, and Cost Engineering Consultant with 13 years’ experience in Oil & Gas area, AACE International certified – CCP.
Director of AACE Brazil (2015 - 2017):

• Organization of AACE Brazil annual conventions – national and regional;
• Coordination of technical work – evaluation of technical papers on Cost Engineering for the AACE conventions;
• Elaboration of the Brazilian version of AACE recommended practices;
• Promotion of the Association in Brazil and inside PETROBRAS among high executive directors and senior managers;
• Review and selection of technical papers for the three-book series “Engineering Review”("Pareceres de Engenharia") on Contract Management, Budgeting, and Risk Management;
• Co-authorship of the book series “Engineering Review”.

Mr. Macedo has improved methodologies and standards regarding Cost Engineering at PETROBRAS:
• Methodology for analyzing the owner’s management cost of Oil & Gas projects;
• Cost reference for building and assembly budgets;
• Elaboration and monitoring of project financial schedules
• Parametric equations to define references for equipment cost;
• Methodology for analyzing project planning
• Methodology for comparative analysis of schedules of critical activities in FPSO projects.

PETROBRAS University – subjects taught:

• Budgeting of Oil & Gas projects – refineries and platforms;
• Construction Planning and Industrial Assembly – refineries and platforms;
• Contract management;
• SAP R / 3 PS software;
• Industrial instrumentation.

Authorship of technical papers:
• Cost Updates in Global Contracts;
• Alignment of Contingency Definition Concepts and Estimate Methodology (ICEC 2016 Int. Congress)
• Elaboration and Application of the Risk Matrix for Engineering Service Contracts (5th Annual AACE Brazil Conv.).
• Risk Allocation to asses public contract. Particular case – Brazil (2019 Annual Meeting - AACE International– Louisiana US).

Expertise: Budgeting Estimating, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Contract Management, Project Management, Negotiation, Claim Management and, Power BI. 

Civil Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria , with a specialization in Project Management from Universidad Catolica de Chile, specialist in project control and PMO Leader, with 13 years of experience in construction project management. Participation in office, retail, mining and infrastructure projects. Actually is Project Controls and PMO Lead of Urbanova Real State, responsible of Portafolio & Project Controls , leader of the development and implementation of the Urbanova Inmobiliaria Project Management Standards and the implementation of Oracle Primavera Unifier

Nicolas Flores is an innovative Project Management software consultant, with over 15 years of experience in Schedule Management, Cost Management, and Project Controls. Nicolas is an expert for owner-operators and construction management firms, with skills in business process design and configuration, working in different Projects in Latin America (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico) and also in USA & KSA.

Nicolas has a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile, and a Bachelor of Economics and Business Science degree from University

As our VP Solutions and Lead Risk and Implementation Specialist, Ian leads Emerald’s functional consulting group. With over 30 years of international experience in varied fields and roles from manufacturing, heavy civil construction, pharmaceutical plant construction, hospital projects and oil and gas capital and turnaround projects, Ian brings a wealth of project knowledge to all of our clients.

Ian started his career as a project manager in light industrial projects, and then became an engineering manager before moving to large CAPEX and STO projects. He is an expert in scheduling processes and has worked in claims, major and sustaining projects and project portfolio management.

Ian has lead dozens of schedule reviews and Risk management sessions using Primavera Risk Analysis, Safran Risk as well as Crystal Ball and @Risk for CAPEX and shutdown/turnaround projects for clients all over North America. He worked as Risk Director on a large Public Private Partner proposal. He emphasizes that successful Monte Carlo application is about the process, not just the tools and has spoken at a number of events how to successfully apply risk analysis to projects.

Peter Aynsley has more than 40 years’ experience in capital works projects valued in aggregate at more than $30 billion. He holds a degree in Architectural Science; has undertaken coursework including a Masters in Applied Project Management; and is a Member of both the Project Management Institute and Australian Institute of Project Management. He has served as Chairman and Member of Expert Review Groups for both Government and Private Sector initiatives with individual values ranging from $100 million to more than $3 billion.

Peter joined HKA in 2010 and became involved with the HKA Tech business stream, implementing the PMWeb software solution for the whole lifecycle of capital works projects, from 2012. Since that time, he has served as Project Director for, and worked on various aspects of, PMWeb implementations in Australia, the Pacific and the USA – with implementation sizes from as few as 5 users up to more than 3,000 users.

Danilo Arba is a project controls & management enthusiast, with 20 years of experience. Certified Cost Engineer and Executive MBA from Politecnico di Milano. Thorough understanding of EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) industry, with verifiable track record of planning multimillion/billion-dollar worldwide construction projects. He lived & worked all his life around the world from South America, Africa, South East Asia to Europe. Adept at building and leading cross-functional teams from project conception to completion, optimizing performance, contractual, and financial deliverables. Currently Senior Partner of Piemme Group in Italy and PMO Lead for a governmental programme involving France and Peru’ for the construction and upgrade of various hospitals in Peru’.

More than 30 years of work experience with more than 20 years implementing Project Management Project Risk Management, and Project Portfolio Management in the following industries:

• Construction
• Property Development
• Oil & Gas
• Telecommunication
• Transportation
• Aviation
• Financial Services
• Information Technology
• Manufacturing
• Healthcare

Knowledge Areas (Consulting, Implementation and Training)

• Project Portfolio Management
• Project Document Management
• Project Management
• Project Management Office
• Project Resource Management (BQ)
• Project Management Audit
• Project Cost Management
• Project Risk Management
• Microsoft Project Server/Online
• Oracle Primavera

Graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (MIPT), Vladimir created his first project management software for mainframe computers in 1978. This program included not only CPM calculations but also advanced resource leveling.
In 1990 he organized Spider Project Team for creating the best project management tool. Spider Project was launched to the market in 1993 and today it is most functional project and portfolio management software that is used in 36 countries and for management of most large-scale programs in Russia like preparation of 2014 Winter Olympic Games and construction of all stadiums used for 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Spider Project Team became the leading project management consulting and training company with the branches and partners in many Russian cities and abroad.
Vladimir is an author of 4 books on project management and more than 150 papers and has an experience of managing projects and consulting project management teams in aerospace, construction, energy, oil & gas, telecommunications, retail, shipbuilding and other application areas.

Dr James Smith is the Chief Technology Officer at Projecting Success. He is responsible for a wide scope, spanning full stack development through to data science and AI. James has a passion for optimising and transforming how projects are delivered using the latest advanced methods in data analytics, where he has been lead for around 30 projects. He is immersed in visualisation, graph databases, Python, machine learning algorithms and regularly grapples with the challenges that exists with real world data

Simon is the Director of Operations and Principal Consultant UK, European and the Middle East. In this role, he is responsible for supporting ARES PRISM, a fully-integrated project controls solution designed to manage local and multinational capital projects from conception to completion. Simon provides advisory services to major programs and supports the successful deployment of effective change management processes.

Geoff Roberts is a chartered professional with more than 40 years of experience in all aspects of project management & project controls.

Geoff has been with Oracle Construction and Engineering Business Unit for 20 years. He is currently Director, Global Industry Strategy (Energy & Resources), providing strategic direction, domain expertise, and insight around asset intensive industries and how they operate with both internal and external stakeholders.

In addition, he provides input into the solutions we deliver. He ensures our best-in-class Oracle solutions help organisations safely deliver projects to time, cost, and quality, from inception through to decommissioning. Geoff participates in Construction Industry Institute's (CII) research teams and looks to deliver solutions that support CII best practices across the industry.

Michel George is Planisware’s Director of Sales for the UK and Ireland. His experience with the Planisware Enterprise solution spans 28 years, during which time he has guided numerous high-profile and international companies through their digital transformations.

Michel is passionate about the transformative value that effective project controls can bring to an organization’s bottom line. From the very beginning, when working with a new company, his approach is to fully integrate himself with the business: their challenges, objectives and current working processes – to define not only a tool that fits, but an entire set of best practices and change management measures, to effectively make the strategy fly.

Working with businesses such as RATP, EDF Engineering, Aramco, Airbus, over the years he has helped to transform Project Controls and PPM practices across an impressive variety of global industries, gaining valuable insights along the way. His expertise can help businesses achieve excellence in their Contract Management, Program and Resource Management, Budget Management and EVM, Reporting, and more.

Working as Vice President Business for Cleopatra Enterprise, one of the world’s leading software systems specialized in project cost management, Stefan Bakker helps industry-leading companies improve their project control activities with the combination of software tooling and consultancy services.

Stefan holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Business Economics and has been in business with major industrial companies for more than 10 years. During that time, he has built up an international network in industries such as oil & gas, infrastructure, power, offshore, chemicals, pharmaceutical, and shipbuilding.

Furthermore, Stefan is a regular speaker at industry events, presenting on the need for an integrated project controls approach to improve project performance of the businesses.

Next to serving clients in Europe, Stefan leads the company’s business development initiatives in the North American region.

Iscient is a specialized business unit of Lights in the Attic Project Group (LitA pg), focusing on the translation of the leading academic research to technologies for Prediction Science and Modeling in the Capital Projects and adjacent industries ( including socio-economics, recoverable and sustainable environments

Robert founded EPC Lens and Iscient while managing intensely complex capital programs (US$25B) across Canada, the USA, and Internationally. He has developed and led commercial and execution strategies, project controls, risk and supply chains for marquee and business-critical projects in mining, oil, refining and power generation, including renewables. His work has also been foundational for improving project execution efficiency, navigating markets and transforming business organizations for major international producers, and for individual engineering, procurement and construction companies.

In pursuit of better EPC performance, Robert invented numerous processes – enabled by science-driven information technology - to improve project and program delivery. Many of these step-change solutions are integrated into the EPC Lens suite, while select others are being introduced (2020) on scaling programs for mining, LNG and large scale-pipeline. Approximately half of the research applications address inefficiencies in behavioural patterns and how to influence complex organizations and processes, while the other half improves prediction sciences and modeling for projects, programs, risk and operational performance.

Robert also researches, writes and presents on matters of emerging sciences and information technology, AI in projects and BI, strategic planning, project management, supply chain, risk and market forecast and analysis. In 2021, Iscient completes phase 1 of the virtual co-laboratory program for project controls, supply chains, project management and construction management to keep specialists and professionals in the capital project practices aware of scientific advances that are expected to translate into leading technologies.

All attendees for this lecture qualify for updates on the Iscient virtual laboratory developments and update to the ebook ‘Interim A.I.: Growing Artificial Intelligence for Projects’

Dr. Dan Patterson is Chief Design Officer with InEight. In this role, he focuses on expanding upon his vision of creating next-generation planning and scheduling software solutions for the construction industry. As a globally recognized project analytics thought leader and software entrepreneur, Dan has more than 20 years of experience building project management software companies, including Pertmaster, Acumen and BASIS. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute (PMI), and holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a PhD in construction management from the University of Nottingham.

Peter is Secretary-General of the International Cost Engineering Council, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, a Distinguished International Fellow of the International Cost Engineering Council and a corporate member of the Australian Institute of Project Management and the Australian Institute of Building. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where he is Program Director of the Construction Project Management program in the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney and a bachelor degree and masters degree at UTS in quantity surveying/construction management. He has over 40 years industry experience in the fields of quantity surveying/project management and is regularly engaged as an industry expert to provide advisory and expert witness services in relation to construction litigation matters.

John Hollmann is author of the book “Project Risk Quantification” (hardcopy via www.decisions-books.com or on Kindle via Amazon). John, owner of Validation Estimating, LLC (VE), works with capital program managers and project leaders to improve their cost engineering practices, including cost/schedule risk quantification in support of investment decision making. John regularly reviews major international estimates in many industries and conducts risk analyses in support of investment decision making and contingency setting. Mr. Hollmann is a frequent speaker at international conferences, has written many papers and was lead author of the AACE® International text; the Total Cost Management (TCM) Framework. John is an Honorary Life Member of AACE® and recipient of their Award of Merit and Lifetime Achievement Awards. He also led development of the AACE® Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP) certification. Prior to founding VE, Mr. Hollmann led the Cost Engineering Committee metrics and research efforts at Independent Project Analysis, Inc. John is a registered Professional Engineer with an MBA, a Certified Cost Professional, a Certified Estimating Professional and Decision and Risk Management Professional.

A Project Controls expert with over 20 years private and government industry experience in the delivery of major infrastructure projects globally, leading large multidisciplinary teams in complex environments across diverse sectors including asset management, water, rail, roads, tunnels, oil & gas, building, retail, mining, heavy structural and civil, piping, mechanical and electrical infrastructure.

Currently, the Director of Project Controls on the North East Link Project, Victoria’s largest infrastructure project, Cameron has a Master’s Degree in Project Management and specialises in project management and controls including construction, planning / scheduling, estimating, cost control, integrated change management, information management, quality assurance and compliance, process improvement and technology innovations, standardisation and implementation. Cameron also has significant experience in data management analytics and reporting, organisational and project risk, stakeholder engagement, commercial and finance management and continuous improvement, agile and lean methodologies.

Mojgan Yousefkhan is Program Controls Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), a Department of the City and County of San Francisco providing retail drinking water and wastewater services to San Francisco; wholesale water to three Bay Area counties; and green hydroelectric and solar power to San Francisco’s municipal departments and residents.  Mrs. Yousefkhan has over 28 years of experience in planning, engineering, construction, project controls, and management of infrastructure improvement projects, including the $4.8 billion Water System Improvement Program, the $6.9 billion Sewer System Improvement Program, and the $1.2 billion Hetch Hetchy System Improvement Program. Mrs. Yousefkhan has extensive expertise in capital planning, project financing, cash flow projection, bond sales, grants, and State loans. Mrs. Yousefkhan is a California licensed engineer with a master’s degree in Civil Engineering, and she is a certified Earned Value Professional (EVP).

A consultant by day, creative by night; bringing creative intelligence to infrastructure intelligence. Jessie consults within the Strategy & Optimization steam of Advisory services at HKA. For two and a half years she has worked on Sydney Metro, Australia’s largest public transport infrastructure project. During her career, Jessie has been established in the Project Management Office across two Metro projects, where she has specialized her skills in risk management and change control across multi-billion dollar packages of works. Jessie is a certified practicing risk associate (CPRA®) with a passion for innovation. At the core of her work are processes and people, where she seeks to implement agile strategies and solutions within complex project environments

Abhi is a civil engineer with specialized experience in mega project and program controls. He has led mega project and programs in Asia, Middle East, Europe and US. He is known in the industry as a practical theorist and ensured establishment of project controls best practices across infrastructure, Oil & Gas, industry and mining sectors.

Having started his career as a project engineer,while having worked for contracting, consulting and owner organisations, gives him an unique perspective on mega project and program organization setup. He has set up and run teams in programs and also been in management consulting and performance improvement for mega projects.

As a passionate individual he is known as a sector expert with knowledge of business transformation and technological aspects of mega projects globally. He has recently moved back from Europe to Australia

Dr Madhu P. Pillai is a Project Management specialist with more than 35 years of broad-based Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Power industry experience in Operations and Project Management with a geographical spread of India, Nigeria, USA, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. He has been associated as Projects Director with leading MNCs.

Dr Pillai is an Engineer with post-graduation in Management and Ph D in Strategic Project Management. He is a Fellow of many leading international organizations like, AACE International and International Cost Engineering Council, Institution of Engineers etc.

  Dr Pillai has spoken at more than 30 International events; and Chaired few. He was awarded the O T Zimmerman Founder’s award by AACE International in 2008 for his contribution to the ‘Global Cost Management Professional Community”.

  Dr Pillai serves on the board of International Cost Engineering Council – ICEC as Executive Director. He is the Honorary Global Ambassador for World Project Management Forum (WPMF), Advisor to Center for Public Policy Research (CPPR) and Executive Director of WAFA – Denmark.

Dr. Pillai had earlier served on the International Director Board of AACEI as Regional Director (Asia, Europe & Africa) and as Vice President (International Regions). He had also served on the International Board of “Project Managers Without Borders”.

Varughese is an expert in Construction and Real Estate. His high ethical work culture benefited in setting successful professional standards.

Varughese specialized in Quantity Surveying and Construction management from College of Estate Management in UK and Master of Laws in Construction Law and Arbitration from Robert Gordon University in UK. He is a Fellow of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Fellow of Chartered Institute of Buildings, Fellow of Indian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Varughese has extensive experience in Construction and Property development in Middle East and India and been in senior positions with some of the best Multinational companies such as Besix, Kvaerner, Skanska, Carillion, and EC Harris and instrumental in setting Projects Controls for several major international projects such as Museums, Autodrome, Airport, Bridges, Hotels, Residential complexes, Power Plants, etc. He is a speaker in CPD events, Chairman of Professional Interview panel, Counsellor and mentor of many professionals around the world.

Varughese is the Managing Director of Elixir project Consultants. He is the Director & Global President of Indian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, Trustee of International Construction Measurement Standards and Trustee of International Ethics Standards Coalition.

Senior project advisor, chartered civil engineer and certified cost engineer (CCE/CCP), with thirty years of experience in driving the project management life cycle, with an emphasis on project planning and controls, contract management and forensic delay analysis.

I deliver expert planning and programs controls on multibillions infrastructure programs, including highways and railways, complex industrial and civil buildings, air terminals and hospitals, by setting up and implementing project management systems to measure costs, milestones and quality, mitigate delays, minimise financial risk, support contractual terms, and protect the interests of the project and stakeholders.

I worked in advanced contexts of project management, as a senior project advisor, project manager Client side, project controls manager, planning consultant and claim expert, lead planner.

Since 1991 I work as independent consultant. From 2001 until 2012 I have leaded my business practice Casinelli Associates, which provided project management services to construction and engineering industry.

My experience is across a broad range of projects serving major European contractors (Astaldi, Impregilo, Bilfinger Berger), engineering and contracting companies, (Tecnimont, Technip), corporate clients and government entities as the US Navy, ANAS (Italian National Autonomous Roads Corporation), project management firms like Hill International, Egis Rail, JV Egis Rail-SNC Lavalin.

International experience in Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, UK. Set up, implementation and management of project controls system to enhance project and contract management of large-scale infrastructures construction programmes.

Project management systems and PMO based at enterprise level.
Alignment of project management processes consistently with the strategy for project execution.
Advanced planning and scheduling techniques and methods, including delay analysis and QSRA.
Civil engineering – cost engineering – international contracts (FIDIC, NAVFAC)
Technical due diligence, project monitoring, audits, change evaluations and EOT with relative claims.
Advanced EVMS (earned value management systems)
Lead and develop multi-cultural teams of planners/project controls engineers.
Mentoring and coaching of project controls team
Training on project management / controls methods and techniques.

Jeremie Averous is an experienced senior executive, consultant and trainer, certified coach, published author. He is passionate about helping people grow and about bringing teams of diverse people together to overcome seemingly impossible feats.

Jeremie has an extensive knowledge of various industries including nuclear, oil & gas, aeronautics and train rolling stock. He has been serving as a senior executive with the French Nuclear Safety Authority. Jeremie is also an expert in Project Controls with a particular focus on risk management (from technical, organisational and enterprise risk management). Jeremie has experience setting up and running Project Control for billion-dollar projects in Oil & Gas megaprojects. He is hired on a regular basis by leading global Contractors and Owners for independent project reviews and audits, and to review processes and systems for adequacy.

Jeremie is the author of a series acclaimed books on all aspects of Project Controls.

Jeremie, a French national, has lived many years in South East Asia and is now based in Paris.

Ahmed has more than 15 years of experience in the construction industry and holds a Master of Construction Project Management from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Ahmed has a proven track record of providing contract administration and contract/project management for megaprojects in Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Libya, and the United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Amin Terouhid has served as a project management expert since 2003, and is currently the principal consultant with Adroit Consultants, LLC. He has received a Ph.D. in construction management from the University of Florida, and holds the following professional certificates: Professional Engineer (P.E.) – Texas, Project Management Professional (PMP), Decision and Risk Management Professional (DRMP), and Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP).

Amin’s expertise in project management is focused on project planning and control, cost engineering, risk management, and project construction claims. He has worked on projects throughout the United States as well as in the Middle East and Southern Africa involving the design and development of project management offices, developing construction project management systems, managing project scheduling and control teams. He has published a variety of articles, with a focus on construction management, in scientific journals and presented his works in international conferences. He is a primary author of AACE Recommended Practices 89R-16, 92R-17, and 91R-16. Amin was a recipient of the 2018 AACE Technical Excellence Award.

Jeslin Varghese is Director of Project Controls in the program controls division of Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Construction & Development (MTACD), overseeing multiple mega-projects in New York City with a combined value of $50bn. Mr. Varghese has been with the MTA since 2015 in various capacities, including as Senior Scheduling Engineer & KPI Manager, and as Technical Director in the Change Management Group at the East Side Access (ESA) program, a commuter rail project that, at $11bn, is one of the largest transportation projects in the world. 

Mr. Varghese has over 16 years of professional experience in sustainability and project controls. His experience spans planning, problem solving, strategy development, risk assessment, CPM scheduling, performance monitoring, building & managing teams, He has gained his experience by working on a wide variety of projects in the United States, India, Taiwan, and the Middle East. Mr. Varghese has handled many sophisticated and multifaceted projects using high performance planning programs such as Primavera 6, P3, SureTrak, Wrike, Sage Timberline, Cost Track and MS Project. He has worked for both governmental and private clients, including the MTA, the Air Force, the Navy, the Army Corps of Engineers, the General Services Administration, and Transwestern.  An avid believer in sustainability and volunteering, he is also extensively involved in preparing and delivering training courses on sustainability planning, construction & project management, and green building design & construction.

Mr. Varghese holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from College of Engineering -Trivandrum, India and a masters in Construction Management from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

More than 15 years of experience in the development and/or management of projects in Energy, Oil & Gas, and Mining Industry between Small (USD 300k - 10.00 MM) and Megaprojects (CAPEX USD 5.4 Billion) under WATERFALL and AGILE methodologies. David was part of the team that manages the PMO (Project Management Office) for the "Talara Refinery Modernization Project" (PMRT), MegaProject CAPEX of $ 5,400 MM USD, and develop as Subject Matter Expert Consulting for Mining MegaProjects (Cost, Schedule & Risk Management).

David is an Electrical (B.Eng.Sc.) Engineer with a postgraduate specialization in Electrical Power Systems (honorific mention in thesis project), as well as different courses/diplomas in finance, accounting, and especially: project management.

Certified Auditor by Bureau Veritas School (ISO 21,500 - Project Management Systems), “Project Management Professional” (PMP®), “Risk Manager Professional" (PMI-RMP®) and Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). With emphasis and interest about incorporate an added dimension to this approach using others project management standards (AACEi, CII & PMI), AGILE Methods and ongoing governance to ensure that the project portfolios is meeting its desired objectives: managing assets estimations (time, cost, resources, etc), minimize threats and uncertainty, etc. that ensures and maximizes the utility and profitability of the projects, for the benefit of internal stakeholders and customer satisfaction.

David has a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) degree and he is Past-President of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International AACEi - Perú Section.

With more than 15 years of experience, Rafael is Director at Deloitte where he has led a number of projects in Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Mozambique, advising and serving clients throughout the life cycle of an asset, whether investors, project developers or operators in both the public and private sectors, in order to ensure greater confidence and predictability in the execution of projects, by managing complex investments more effectively.

Rafael has extensive knowledge and experience with the best practices and project management methods, such as FEL methodology, PMBOK®, PRINCE2®, CII Best Practices, AACE Recommended Practices, IPMA-IBP, among others.

Rafael holds a degree in chemical engineering and a postgraduate in statistics, both from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Also attended Controllership and Finance course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Attended Transforming Your Leadership Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Business in the United States. Currently, Rafael is an engineering master’s degree student at University of Stuttgart, Germany, with emphasis in International Construction: Practice and Law.

Rafael holds PMP, PMI-RMP and PRINCE2 certifications.

Nick has over 40 years of global project engineering, management, consulting and training experience in the industry. At Chevron he supported more than 100 major capital projects worth well over $ 100 billion in more than 20 countries. Since retiring from Chevron, he continues to provide consultation and training to executives and project professionals worldwide. His experience includes projects in oil & gas development, oil sands, liquefied natural gas, refining, petrochemicals and mining.

Nick has a B.S. and M.S. in chemical & petroleum-refining engineering and a Ph.D. in mineral economics from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a registered professional chemical engineer in the State of California. Nick has published and presented many papers at technical organizations. He is a recipient of industry award from Pathfinder for outstanding contribution to the advancement of project management technology and Chevron chairman’s award for implementing value engineering throughout the corporation.

Marion is a leading policy analyst with experience that ranges from authoring parts of the 2010 Henry Tax Review to leading the design and development of the MyGov account. She has provided expert analysis and advice on labour market policy for the Commonwealth Government, the Business Council of Australia and at the Australian National University. She joined the Grattan Institute in April 2015 to establish the Transport Program, and has published on investment in transport infrastructure, value capture, congestion charging, discount rates and Australian cities in the face of population growth. Her next report, about cost overruns on transport infrastructure, is due out in November.

Rob has a strong skill set across various disciplines and sectors with more than 25 years of industry experience that includes, construction management, buildings, transport and civil infrastructure, development projects. As a qualified project professional, Rob has worked within government organizations and in major consulting forms leading multi-discipline teams. He provides project planning and advanced risk management. Major projects, including, social infrastructure, urban-redevelopment, tertiary and hospital sectors Rob has a proven track record in leading teams within complex projects for government from front end project management to delivery and the establishment and management PMO’s, independent reviewer and superintendent representative.

Rob has a Masters in Project Management, studied Decision and Risk at Stanford and MSP Registered Practitioner.

Val has worked in Project Controls for over 16 years across all major sectors, from Defence and Mining to Renewables and Transport. Val’s focus is on two elements; Data Science and Organisational Psychology, with the inference that people and technology must integrate better to accelerate positive enhancements and adaptations. Val now consults on complex programs and advises government and organisations on innovative approaches and in advancing awareness of digital solutions in the public project community.

Mark Simister is Head of Program Delivery at Sydney Water. Sydney Water is Australia’s largest water and wastewater service provider, supplying water, wastewater, recycled water and some stormwater services to more than five million people in Greater Sydney – both supplying and reviving water.

Mark is the architect of, and leader in establishing Sydney Water’s ground-breaking new infrastructure delivery framework: Partnering for Success (P4S). As a Directive Enterprise PMO, P4S is fully aligned to the ICE Project 13 Principals, making Sydney Water the first international early adopter of Project 13. As a major business shift in “doing business”, P4S makes the transition from transactional business model to collaborative operating model.

Further innovation sees Sydney Water as the first Australian major infrastructure company to adopt the full NEC4 suite of contracts to support the rollout of P4S. This firmly aligns the business with the New South Wales Government’s ten-point plan for improving infrastructure delivery.

Mark’s global management roles have encompassed a range of regulated and non-regulated industries, including public infrastructure assets, information technology and telecommunications.

Satch is an Associate Director at Turner & Townsend and leading the Centralised Project Controls function in Sydney Water within the Asset Lifecycle group. Satch has 18 years of experience contributing to project management within the oil and gas, mining and metals, power and utilities, infrastructure and government sectors on projects throughout Australia and overseas.

Satch’s career has been primarily focused on developing people strategies, culture and values, project controls processes and systems, enabling the project organisation to drive value creation and operate efficiently across the project management space in portfolio of projects to achieve successful project execution.

Satch has been demonstrating strong leadership skills, exceptional analytical approach, and team building skills and a proven ability to work in unison with various stakeholders, senior management, project teams and contractors. Satch has a knack for summarising complex problems into simple terms and adeptly communicating concisely at all levels.

Jonathan has over 20 years’ experience as a planner, PMO and project controls specialist and has worked extensively in both the United Kingdom and Australia.

Prior to joining TBH, he provided planning and cost management services on the £10b West Coast Route Modification Project in the United Kingdom and then later with SMEC on the $1.5b M7 Westlink Project in Sydney, NSW.

Jonathan joined the TBH Sydney office in December 2003 where he was largely engaged on site based planning and project controls roles. In 2007 he transferred to the Perth office and was instrumental in establishing the branch as a sustainable operation. He became a director of TBH in 2011 and was the profit centre manager for Western Australia for 4 years prior to relocating back to NSW in 2015.

Jonathan has a broad range of skills gained on a variety of projects valued between $1m and $50b across a diverse range of industries including major resources, oil and gas, transport infrastructure, power, water, health, commercial and residential construction.

Since moving back to NSW Jonathan has predominantly been engaged to provide advice on large infrastructure projects with the focus on project controls, scheduling, constructability, commercial and risk, change management, program and portfolio management.

Jonathan leads TBH’s project controls service group.

Shan has 15 years’ experience of program, project and construction management experience in Australia and Southeast Asia; delivering major multi-disciplinary infrastructure programs and projects primarily in the water/wastewater industry.

Prior to joining WaterNSW, Shan has played an active part in leading project teams and managing diverse groups of stakeholders in program delivery with major water utilities. This includes integrating asset management, government agencies, external stakeholders, communities and the supply chain to effectively manage an end to end process that delivers benefits to the end user.

Since joining WaterNSW, Shan is the program delivery manager for the circa $100M per annum asset renewals program. His key areas of focus include Program pipeline planning, assimilation, performance and analytics.

Mostafa AbdelRazik, founder of PMIS Inc., is a talented, keen and passionate project controls professional. Mostafa is a project management professional (PMP) under the project management institute. He is also an Earned Value Professional (EVP) and Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) under AACE International. He is a civil engineer with a bachelor’s degree from Carleton University. Mostafa also has a Masters (MEng) degree from Concordia University in Montreal in Construction Management.

Over the past 10 years, Mostafa has had vast experience working in project management and excelling as a project controls specialist. His work in the infrastructure and industrial domains have been highlighted with work on mega projects with budget over 1 billion dollars. His specialization is project controls focusing on planning, scheduling and cost control. Mostafa has helped general contractors, specialized contractors and clients successfully deliver mega projects on time and within budget.

In addition to his exceptional work and academic performance, Mostafa is an active speaker with AACE International and PMI.

Moreover, Mostafa also teaches various project management courses at NAIT including: Scheduling, Cost Control, Construction Productivity and Project Management. He has received great feedback from his students regarding his flexible lecturing style and ability to facilitate a positive learning experience.

Mostafa is passionate about data integration and integrity. His biggest passion is efficiency and he has always been fond of adopting different technologies to help with various project controls tasks. Mostafa has been known of his speed and efficiency with creating schedules, tracking reports and analysis sheets. He is always looking forward to sharing his knowledge with other project controls professionals as he believes that “the more knowledge you share, the more knowledge you gain.”

Mark Simister is Head of Program Delivery at Sydney Water. Sydney Water is Australia’s largest water and wastewater service provider, supplying water, wastewater, recycled water and some stormwater services to more than five million people in Greater Sydney – both supplying and reviving water.

Mark is the architect of, and leader in establishing Sydney Water’s ground-breaking new infrastructure delivery framework: Partnering for Success (P4S). As a Directive Enterprise PMO, P4S is fully aligned to the ICE Project 13 Principals, making Sydney Water the first international early adopter of Project 13. As a major business shift in “doing business”, P4S makes the transition from transactional business model to collaborative operating model.

Further innovation sees Sydney Water as the first Australian major infrastructure company to adopt the full NEC4 suite of contracts to support the rollout of P4S. This firmly aligns the business with the New South Wales Government’s ten-point plan for improving infrastructure delivery.

Mark’s global management roles have encompassed a range of regulated and non-regulated industries, including public infrastructure assets, information technology and telecommunications.

Rob joined InEight in March 2018 as Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific. Rob is responsible for sales and general operations of InEight throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining InEight, Rob was director of operations for ECI Solutions, leading sales and operations for its Australian business. Previous to that, he was chief operating officer with TeamBinder, as it secured the use of its system on over $100b worth of projects, including numerous Government infrastructure projects and contractors from across the globe. Prior to that, Rob was general manager for IBISWorld Business Information.

Rob started his career in London, working in marketing and public relations, following an education that saw him switch from database and systems management to marketing and communications.

Rob has led sales and operations for a range of cloud-based product and service organizations, with significant experience in leading high growth software business servicing the construction and engineering sector.

Away from the office Rob enjoys trail running over short course and ultra-distance events, as well as being a father of three young and quickly growing children.

Pieter understands that technology is transforming the way we design, build and operate assets.

Pieter has presented at numerous conferences and lectures at Universities on the topics of Artificial intelligence, Building Information Modelling, 4D planning and risk quantification and management.

He is a chartered Quantity Surveyor and has worked for numerous organizations including BHP, Origin Energy, Turner and Townsend and Faithful Gould in different locations around the world.

Pieter is the vice chair of ACES QLD and successfully applies innovative technology and processes to real world projects.

Abhi is a civil engineer with specialized experience in mega project and program controls. He has led mega project and programs in Asia, Middle East, Europe and US. He is known in the industry as a practical theorist and ensured establishment of project controls best practices across infrastructure, Oil & Gas, industry and mining sectors.

Having started his career as a project engineer,while having worked for contracting, consulting and owner organisations, gives him an unique perspective on mega project and program organization setup. He has set up and run teams in programs and also been in management consulting and performance improvement for mega projects.

As a passionate individual he is known as a sector expert with knowledge of business transformation and technological aspects of mega projects globally. He has recently moved back from Europe to Australia

Vip Vyas is acclaimed for advising and partnering with Boards and senior management teams to catalyse rapid shifts in the performance of their businesses and major projects

He has over 20 years of international experience working with major and mega-project teams in sectors as diverse as oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, power, complex infrastructure, FMCG and technology

He has studied Strategy and Execution at the Harvard Business School and is an adjunct at HKU for the MSc Integrated Project Delivery; and Duke CE.

He regularly contributes to INSEAD’s Thought Leadership and been published by Forbes.

His article “Project Leadership at a Distance” was published in the summer copy (2020) of the APM Project Journal.

Alberto has more than 25 years of experience in planning and project controls in the infrastructure, oil and gas, chemical and utility sectors. He has been involved in major capital projects in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Europe and Central Asia and Latin America in the private and public sector. Alberto is a civil engineer and earned master’s degrees in logistics and operations and energy studies from the University of Wollongong and Murdoch University, Australia. Alberto has spoken and written extensively on the topics of decision and risk management, front-end planning, project assurance and modular construction in international conferences and universities.

He is currently the Group Head of Planning of a multinational construction company and the NSW/ACT Subcommittee Chair of AACE International.

Jacob is a C-Suite Professional with global experience in different continents, Fellow of AIQS , Director Board Member and Global Executive Director of IIQS, also a Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of MagSway who is Dynamic, insightful, and with a tireless work ethic.

Jacob is a strategist with keen interest in Digital Transformation of Operations who can identify the real drivers of revenue growth in billion-dollar organizations.

An entrepreneur takes the vision of an idea and turns it into reality. Jacob have been doing that all his life as a destination developer, real estate thinker, investor, and founder.

Have 25 years of working experience in the field of Business Development, Theme Parks, Museums, Real Estate Development, Contracts, and Procurement including Construction and Project Management and Digital Transformation with Government-owned and private property developers and contractors.

Creating and growing new businesses is what he does best! Architecting of innovation-led technology solutions that impact lives. This involves evangelizing, positioning solutions, and creating markets from scratch, sustainable, and consistently.

With the iconic ‘Yas Island "and The Palm Jumeirah’, my work encompasses handling overall master-planned projects, digital innovation with a view for sustainable developments for real estate industry, has managed IP developments in theme parks, master-planned communities, techno park, community center, multi-level car parks, beach development, hotel, and mixed use luxury residential buildings.

As one of the founders of MagSway, we believe that Digital Marketing is one area that might entail the least amount of technology and platform development for Analytics, but offer one of the richest opportunities in connecting business -- at least for the "people who get it," declaring that's true for both the user experience and marketing purposes.

Abhi is a civil engineer with specialized experience in mega project and program controls. He has led mega project and programs in Asia, Middle East, Europe and US. He is known in the industry as a practical theorist and ensured establishment of project controls best practices across infrastructure, Oil & Gas, industry and mining sectors.

Having started his career as a project engineer,while having worked for contracting, consulting and owner organisations, gives him an unique perspective on mega project and program organization setup. He has set up and run teams in programs and also been in management consulting and performance improvement for mega projects.

As a passionate individual he is known as a sector expert with knowledge of business transformation and technological aspects of mega projects globally. He has recently moved back from Europe to Australia

Tamer began his career on 2010, gaining unparalleled experience in the Construction project management, while also establishing himself as a respected Virtual design and construction specialist. Currently working as a VDC and Innovation Manager for Analytica management solution – UAE.

Tamer is widely known for his VDC, BIM, and project management expertise. While his speaking engagements have taken him around the world, Tamer was responsible for the VDC implementation in many various locations/projects (UAE, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, USA, UK, Netherlands and Morocco), he is specialized in the VDC, smart reporting and construction project management solutions. Also, he is member of the 4D construction group and the 4D section editor of BIM Arabia magazine.

Dr DJ Gibbs is a digital engineering and compliance manager at Gammon Construction. He is part of the digital leadership team responsible for implementing digital ways of working and ensuring that value is realised across the 8,000+ person organisation.

DJ gained his doctorate in BIM and dispute resolution and prior to joining Gammon Construction he worked as the Global BIM Lead for an international consultancy. Here he provided strategic digital support and training to governments, public bodies, organisations and not-for-profits around the world.

DJ has followed the development of key international BIM documents since their creation and has worked on building, industrial, infrastructure, oil and gas, and power and utility disputes ranging from several thousand to multi-billion dollars. He draws on his deep knowledge of the lessons learnt to demonstrate how digital ways of working can address common points of failure and regularly presents, peer reviews and publishes work on the subject.

James Bowles is a specialist in 4D modelling and planning. He is the founder and projects lead at Freeform, building 4D models and working with project teams to improve performance. He has worked on over 600 projects in various sectors of the built environment, with a total value of over £150 Billion.

James has a constant drive for quality and has a very positive outlook on where the construction industry is going. James currently chairs a cross-industry 4D modelling group which he co-founded in 2012 – the "4D Construction Group". The 4DCG runs technical workstreams related to 4D, publishes articles, podcasts and runs an annual conference.

Najah Musthafa is an Australian trained and Registered Art Psychotherapist. She has experience working in individual, dyadic and group therapy in clinical, educational and community settings. She has worked with children, adolescents and adults in various areas such as schools, psychiatric units, refugee services and community centers in Australia. Her interests include working with trauma, attachment difficulties, parent-child dyads and other early intervention practices. Najah is also dedicated to understanding and supporting subjective cultural experiences and values

Najah is currently working as a private mental health clinician at ATIC Psychological and Counselling Services in Dubai, UAE where she works with a variety of clients from children, adolescents and adults to corporate and educational structures. 

Alex is a Project Planning and Delivery Specialist with over 20 years’ experience in project management across different industries and countries. Alex has worked within multiple portfolio and program offices to support organisations to implement best scheduling practices including reliable scheduling processes, use of the most appropriate scheduling tools, methods and techniques. He has a proven record in implementing best scheduling standards, methodologies and frameworks.

Enterprise Master Schedule (EMS), DSPM Interdependency Framework, Waterfall & Agile integration Roadmaps, Schedule Maturity Planning & Assessment, Portfolio Planning, Program Schedule Optimization, and other methods and techniques support customers integrate projects across different part of business.

My background in construction is varied over 20 years ranging from roles as a Trainee QS, Site Engineer, but mainly in Project Planning through to Company Director. I've worked across many sectors and on different sides of the fence from Main Contractors, Subcontractors and Client side. I have good experience working on projects managed under JCT and NEC forms of contract and apply my project planning principles mostly in line with that of the NEC. Generally interested in trying to improve project planning practice to highlight the programme as a tool that everyone on the project can use effectively.

Dr DJ Gibbs is a digital engineering and compliance manager at Gammon Construction. He is part of the digital leadership team responsible for implementing digital ways of working and ensuring that value is realised across the 8,000+ person organisation.

DJ gained his doctorate in BIM and dispute resolution and prior to joining Gammon Construction he worked as the Global BIM Lead for an international consultancy. Here he provided strategic digital support and training to governments, public bodies, organisations and not-for-profits around the world.

DJ has followed the development of key international BIM documents since their creation and has worked on building, industrial, infrastructure, oil and gas, and power and utility disputes ranging from several thousand to multi-billion dollars. He draws on his deep knowledge of the lessons learnt to demonstrate how digital ways of working can address common points of failure and regularly presents, peer reviews and publishes work on the subject.

James Bowles is a specialist in 4D modelling and planning. He is the founder and projects lead at Freeform, building 4D models and working with project teams to improve performance. He has worked on over 600 projects in various sectors of the built environment, with a total value of over £150 Billion.

James has a constant drive for quality and has a very positive outlook on where the construction industry is going. James currently chairs a cross-industry 4D modelling group which he co-founded in 2012 – the "4D Construction Group". The 4DCG runs technical workstreams related to 4D, publishes articles, podcasts and runs an annual conference.

Marco is the Head of Planning,within the PMO Leadership team, of Transport for London. He has a strong background in Project Management, Planning, Project Controls, Change management and commercial management. He has cross-industry experience in Oil & Gas, Power, Rail and Infrastructure in general.

Marco is particular keen on proper project set up and project control and never shy in challenge no matter who for the proper management of the projects in all the areas. He is never shy of a good debate and ready to embrace positive changes.

Dale is a PMO Leader working for Transport for London in the Major Projects Directorate. He has a strong background in Planning, Project Controls, Risk Management, Change Control and Cost management. He has cross-industry experience in Defense, Rail and Infrastructure.

Dale particularly enjoys the challenge of balancing leadership and technical. He is never shy of a good debate and co-hosts The Project Chatter Podcast.

Iain Cameron MICE MBA – Director at Logikal Projects

Iain is a Chartered Civil Engineer with a background in Civil Contracting, Rail Industry, Software Implementation and Project Management Consultancy. His passion is in integrating digital information to enable project controls professionals to provide quicker, more regular, and more informative information for decision making.

He has recently been working closely with one of the HS2 contractors, EKFB, to implement a 5D commercial and project controls solution.

Adrian is a currently leading the Controls & Performance service pillar, part of the Programme Advisory business unit, that has as primary goal the set-up and transformation of major programmes and portfolios for success, providing an end-to-end integrated controls and performance advisory service, enabling the successful delivery of the client’s portfolio.

Expert in set-up of capital delivery businesses, PMOs and integrated programme controls, Adrian has orchestrated strategic business transformation programmes and has successfully embedded change into large capital programme delivery organisations, steering them towards achieving better outcomes aligned to their strategic, operational and business goals.

Ahmed has more than 15 years of experience in the construction industry and holds a Master of Construction Project Management from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Ahmed has a proven track record of providing contract administration and contract/project management for megaprojects in Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Libya, and the United Arab Emirates.

Adam has been in the Construction Industry for 15 years and for 13 of those he’s been driving the adoption of digital tools to support better outcomes for all stakeholders. Adam is able to draw from experience across design, construction, manufacturing and asset management, with global and blue-chip reference points. Adam began his professional career in Architectural practice before progressing to senior leadership roles around BIM and Digital Engineering at Laing O’Rourke at a national level, before leading Digital Transformation of Cost and Programme Management Globally with Arcadis. With key client-side experience also gained with PCSG Consulting, working with Asset Owners in local government, retail and the nuclear sectors. Adam’s perspective on technology and digital is centered on driving digitization of the current business model and leading digital transformation by enabling new business models from digital value propositions.

Now with thinkproject, Europe’s leading Construction Technology provider, Adam works passionately with clients of all types to provide solutions that meet their needs and to help thinkproject achieve the aim of becoming the world leader in Construction Intelligence solutions.

Gianluca di Castri (1947), Chartered Mechanical Engineer (1972), Post-graduate in Economics and Master in Business Administration (Bocconi, 1979), Certified Cost Engineer (EIE / ICEC A, 1992) has a wide professional experience in Total Cost Management as well as in Project Management and Controls for Engineering & Construction Projects, achieved as project manager, member of the general management team and then director of international Engineering & Construction Companies.

In recent years, his consulting activity has been mainly relevant to Cost Management, Project Management and Controls, Asset Management, Contract and Claim Management; he is lecturing in the said disciplines at Bocconi University in Milano as well as at LUISS University in Roma and at the FAST in Milano. He is author of more than eighty papers as well as of two books: “Project Management per l’Edilizia (2009)”, “Lineamenti di Ingegneria Economica (1999)”.

From 2005 to 2011 has been elected President of the AICE (Italian Association for Total Cost Management), after having been for more than 10 years member of the Directive Board as well as Delegate to the ICEC. In 2012 and in 2014 he has been appointed by the council of the delegates of the ICEC as Director for Region 2 (Europe of Middle East), then in 2016 as Admin. Vice Chair and in 2018 as Senior Vice Chair, his term is due to expire in 2020.

He has also been acting as Congress Director and Coordinator of the Scientific Committee for the ICEC World Congress 2014 in Milano, Italy.

In June, 2012, has been awarded the Distinguished International Fellowship of the ICEC (International Cost Engineering Council).

He is connected to a wide international network of professionals with experience in Total Cost Management, Project Management & Controls, Contract and Claim Management, Project Finance, Life Cycle Management and related fields.

David is a Managing Consultant at Adept Management with responsibility for their London-based team.

He draws on almost 20 years of experience in engineering and project management within the construction industry, gained from both working for a large multi-discipline design and management organization, followed by 14 years with Adept Management.  David has experience in managing and controlling the full lifecycle and has worked across all sectors of the built environment, ranging from small scale refurbishments to £multi-billion construction and infrastructure programmes.

Whilst he leads on developing and implementing innovative tools and approaches for the construction industry, he has also deployed these approaches across other sectors where the management of complex inter-dependent processes is critical to success.

David is passionate about improving the understanding of the integrated process of design, and developing methods for more effectively managing it.  He is also involved in developing the next generation of design, construction and project management professionals, having developed courses for both academia and industrial graduate schemes, as well as being a visiting lecturer on a number of MSc programmes.

Niall is the CEO and Co-Founder of th3rdcurve. Having worked in multiple industries, Niall has had a number of leadership roles in complex programmes including Tideway, TfL PMO, New York MTA and Crossrail. Niall is passionate about the role and value that Programme Controls can deliver to an organisation and is always seeking to adopt cutting-edge technology and to push his profession to carry pace with other fast-moving industries. He is an advocate of equality and providing opportunities for all to flourish.

ENGR. JOHNSON AWOYOMI – the Group General Manager (GGM) Engineering and Technology Division (ETD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC) has a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ife, Nigeria. ETD is the Program/Project Management Centre for NNPC

He is an AACE International Certified Cost Professional and Certified Estimating Professional. He is the current Director, Region 9 of the AACE International (www.aacei.org) and AACE CCP Memo Grade since 2017. Until September 18, 2020 he was the President, AACE Int Nigerian Section – where he made giant strides in uplifting Cost Engineering practices in Nigeria.

Between 2016 and May2019, he was the Senior Technical Assistant (STA) to Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum, Nigeria and preceding that role he was the GGM/STA to the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the NNPC.

He belongs to many professional associations – PMP, Fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers, Fellow Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers and member of AACE Int, etc

He is a recipient of many awards; some of which are: NNPC GMD Merit Award; NETCO MD Merit Award; GMD Most Valuable Soldier (MVS) in the War Room; etc. He is a prolific writer and presenter having presented many Technical papers (both local and abroad) including: “Maximizing the Government Take from the Oil Sector- Cost Engineering perspectives” (2019, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA & Nigeria); “Optimizing the cost of crude oil production – NOC perspectives” (2018, San Diego, USA); “Benchmarking the costs of JV projects” (2017, USA, etc.

He authored 3 books that are in printing – ‘The cost of fuel scarcity in Nigeria’; ‘Maximizing Government Net Revenue from the Oil and Gas – Cost Engineering Perspectives’; and ‘Cost Engineering & Cost Control of Medium to Major Capital Projects’.

He is happily married to Nike and is blessed with three great children – Abiola, Adeola and Tolulope.

Dr DJ Gibbs is a digital engineering and compliance manager at Gammon Construction. He is part of the digital leadership team responsible for implementing digital ways of working and ensuring that value is realised across the 8,000+ person organisation.

DJ gained his doctorate in BIM and dispute resolution and prior to joining Gammon Construction he worked as the Global BIM Lead for an international consultancy. Here he provided strategic digital support and training to governments, public bodies, organisations and not-for-profits around the world.

DJ has followed the development of key international BIM documents since their creation and has worked on building, industrial, infrastructure, oil and gas, and power and utility disputes ranging from several thousand to multi-billion dollars. He draws on his deep knowledge of the lessons learnt to demonstrate how digital ways of working can address common points of failure and regularly presents, peer reviews and publishes work on the subject.

May is a senior construction and construction insurance lawyer of over 16 years’ experience. She has worked for and within various international organizations within the design and construction industry, as well as advising and representing insurers in this area. She was one of the first UK lawyers to start investigating the legal and contractual implications of BIM in depth as far back as 2011, and her 2014 UK Society of Construction Law paper on this issue is still cited worldwide. She has co-written a number of leading papers, reports and guidance on different areas of BIM. Most recently, she led small teams to draft legal and contractual guidance regarding the new BIM international standard, ISO 19650, and a standard ISO19650-compliant information protocol. May has written numerous papers and articles on not just BIM, but also other aspects of construction technology, including 3D printing, drones and modular construction. She is recognized as one of the leading legal specialists in the UK in the area of BIM and related technologies, and speaks at conferences worldwide on the topic; most recently giving the opening keynote on the UK’s BIM legal journey at a building SMART BIM legal conference in Berlin and the opening keynote at the BIMTI conference in Porto. She is presently researching and writing a report on the international legal impact of the new international BIM standard, ISO19650, with the author of the ISO 19650-2 and a further international BIM dispute resolution specialist.

James Bowles is a specialist in 4D modelling and planning. He is the founder and projects lead at Freeform, building 4D models and working with project teams to improve performance. He has worked on over 600 projects in various sectors of the built environment, with a total value of over £150 Billion.

James has a constant drive for quality and has a very positive outlook on where the construction industry is going. James currently chairs a cross-industry 4D modelling group which he co-founded in 2012 – the "4D Construction Group". The 4DCG runs technical workstreams related to 4D, publishes articles, podcasts and runs an annual conference.

My background in construction is varied over 20 years ranging from roles as a Trainee QS, Site Engineer, but mainly in Project Planning through to Company Director. I've worked across many sectors and on different sides of the fence from Main Contractors, Subcontractors and Client side. I have good experience working on projects managed under JCT and NEC forms of contract and apply my project planning principles mostly in line with that of the NEC. Generally interested in trying to improve project planning practice to highlight the programme as a tool that everyone on the project can use effectively.

Sarah Keyte is senior consultant and digital solutions lead at HKA. Sarah uses BIM and 4D to facilitate dispute resolution in construction claims.

Danilo Arba is a project controls & management enthusiast, with 20 years of experience. Certified Cost Engineer and Executive MBA from Politecnico di Milano. Thorough understanding of EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) industry, with verifiable track record of planning multimillion/billion-dollar worldwide construction projects. He lived & worked all his life around the world from South America, Africa, South East Asia to Europe. Adept at building and leading cross-functional teams from project conception to completion, optimizing performance, contractual, and financial deliverables. Currently Senior Partner of Piemme Group in Italy and PMO Lead for a governmental programme involving France and Peru’ for the construction and upgrade of various hospitals in Peru’.

Doctoral student in business administration. MBA at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He has experience in innovation processes through the use of VDC, implementing this methodology aligned to practices recommended by Lean construction, PMI, AACE. He is a founding partner of Aacei Peru, obtained a specialization in Project Management in Information Technology (ESAN), Planning and control of construction projects (UPC), graduated as a Civil Engineer at the National University of San Agustín de Arequipa, and As a Systems Engineer at the Catholic University of Santa Maria, he currently works as Head of the Project Management Office at Produktiva, a construction company of the Edifica Group.

ETSAM Architect, MBA IESE, RIB Spain Consultant

Fernando Valderrama is the author of books on cost estimation, planning and control of construction works and other books and articles on computer science and construction management. Regular speaker at conferences on BIM and non-BIM topics, 2015 EUBIM award and professor of these topics in public and private educational centers and professional institutions. Currently a consultant for RIB Spain, previously Soft SA, the company that develops and markets Presto, the cost and time management program.

Danilo Arba is a project controls & management enthusiast, with 20 years of experience. Certified Cost Engineer and Executive MBA from Politecnico di Milano. Thorough understanding of EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) industry, with verifiable track record of planning multimillion/billion-dollar worldwide construction projects. He lived & worked all his life around the world from South America, Africa, South East Asia to Europe. Adept at building and leading cross-functional teams from project conception to completion, optimizing performance, contractual, and financial deliverables. Currently Senior Partner of Piemme Group in Italy and PMO Lead for a governmental programme involving France and Peru’ for the construction and upgrade of various hospitals in Peru’.