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Ahmed AbouAlfa is a Digital innovator and expert in transforming rigid data into a smooth feasible framework by reflecting Business Intelligence methodologies and Digital Strategy techniques and leveraging digital technologies in all fields to meet the business demands. Digital Business Strategy & Transformation Specialists in many industries employ Agile Project Management, Design Thinking, and Digitalization. Advisor in AECO Industry, Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) Manager, with Architecture background in addition to MBA with a Merit recently in Strategic Management from YSJ in the UK along with many credentials and certificates from different professional bodies and institutes worldwide.

Muhammad Azri is Custodian Engineer in Planning & Scheduling Section in PETRONAS Project Delivery & Technology Division based at PETRONAS Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur. With more than 24 year of experience and holding a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Cardiff University, he served most in Project Management full phases scope with core specialty in Project Control. In his tenure, he experienced as Project Control Manager in many locally and international MEGA project on average of more than $3 Billion individual value such as RAPID, Garraf Development in Iraq, LNG, GDC and University Technology of PETRONAS Development apart of others PETRONAS project as Subject Matter Expert. His experienced and exposure covers mostly Oil & Gas business in Upstream & Downstream as well others in Utilities, Infrastructure and Power Generation. Served as Technical Authority with the current organization, his capability includes areas for advocates governance, policy, guidelines

A Chartered Engineer and Programme Manager with a 30 year career in Defence Acquisition. Carolyn has worked with the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force on iconic defence projects including Challenger 2, Type 45 Destroyer, Military Flying Training and Dreadnought. Carolyn now leads the Project Delivery Corporate Team for the Submarine Delivery Agency and is responsible for policy, recruitment, capability development and project assurance.

Adam joined APM as chief executive officer (CEO) in September 2021. He has a non-executive director portfolio that includes being Chair of the Corporation at Coventry College and Trustee at two multi-academy trusts spanning 80 primary, secondary and specialist settings. These schools and colleges provide education for more than 45,000 children and young people. Adam is also a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton. Prior to joining APM, Adam held leadership roles in several membership organisations including as chief executive for nasen (National Association for Special Educational Needs), director for the LLSENDCiC (a higher education membership group), and as academic principal for IGGY (a global educational social network for gifted teenagers). Adam was also director of the Centre for Professional Education at the University of Warwick. He has published a range of books and articles and is a qualified clinical hypnotherapist.

Chris has worked for OMV in Vienna since 2019 as the Advisor for Planning & Risk Management. OMV owns and operates some of the largest refineries in Europe and has Upstream dev. fields from Norway to New Zealand. Before moving to Austria, Chris worked for Maersk Oil in Copenhagen for 6 years. Chris has almost 25 years of experience within the Oil & Gas industry and has had the opportunity to work on a few Mega Projects including Total’s Deepwater USAN dev. offshore Nigeria, BP’s Chirag (oil) & Shah Deniz 2 (gas) projects and ENI’s infamous Kashagan project in the Caspian Sea. Chris holds a Master’s degree (MSc) in Construction Management and Law, and was PMI-RMP certified in 2017.

Kevin Cahill has been a Project Manager and Senior Delivery Manager within the IT&D Department of Birmingham City Council (BCC) for four years. His focus is Workflow Throughput for about 800 Operational Delivery Projects per year.

Beth has over 20 years’ experience in all aspects of Integrated Project Controls, previously working mainly within the Defence Sector before joining the HPC Project in November 2017. Experienced in leading and implementing best practice project controls to support delivery.

Jordan Cannon serves as Pre-Sales Manager for lnEight located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is responsible for the EMEA region. His main focus is helping solve common, real-world industry challenges for customers. Jordan and his team do this by performing web-based and in-person demonstrations of InEight solutions and conducting deep dives into customer requirements. This requires complex solution mapping, building and enhancing of the demo environment data supporting EMEA market demands. Before joining InEight, Jordan spent his first years in the industry, boots on the ground, managing EPC construction projects for a subsidiary of Kiewit. He then used his studies and experience in organisational change management and technology innovation to introduce and implement operational excellence methodologies and culture in Graycor and Blinderman organisations. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in civil engineering from Clemson University.

Huw Cole is graduate of Cardiff (97) and Bristol (2000) Universities and is a principal consultant in the Oracle Construction and Engineering Business Unit (previously known as Primavera).
Huw has over twenty years’ experience working with customers in a wide range of sectors notably Aerospace and Defence, Oil & Gas, Engineering and Construction, and Utilities. A keen musician, Huw’s music has been performed by ensembles such as the RPO, Music Theatre Wales and the Cory band.

Leanne Coleman MSc MACostE Leanne is an experienced project controls lead with a cost engineering background and over 14 years in the nuclear, utilities and oil and gas industries. She is currently responsible for the 250 strong community of PMO and project controls professionals at Costain. Leanne is a firm believer in the development of digital tools to delivery significant advantages and efficiencies to a PMO environment. As the digital PMO world evolves, there is a need to ensure that the skills and expertise in the interpretation of the data does not diminish. As a coach and mentor, she is keen to develop individuals in the project controls profession and facilitates the sharing of best practice across a number of technical forums.

Dan Culli is a GIS Consultant with Locana, currently managing the GIS activities on the Thames Estuary Asset Management 2100 (TEAM2100) programme, where he leads on innovative and award-winning enterprise GIS solutions. With extensive experience in enterprise GIS, spatial data analysis and management, business analysis, remote sensing, and related policy, he has worked in multiple levels of government and the private sector in the UK and the US across a variety of areas including AEC, urban issues and agriculture.

Mark joined Costain in 2017 with primary responsibility for providing Cost Engineering support to two Engineering Procurement Contracts within the Energy Sector. Since then, he’s worked across the business in water and defence as well as taken on managerial responsibility for Cost Engineering Discipline. Mark’s particular strength lie in data management and analytics giving insight into ‘big data’, which he applies to clients projects in highly regulated industries.

Carol Deveney is the founder and Managing Director of See Change International Consulting Ltd. Carol is a transport and project sponsorship consultant and sponsor coach. She has held head of profession and vice president roles of Sponsor divisions in the UK and internationally in the transport sector. She has led on a variety of projects and programmes and at varying levels of seniority, including director and vice president level. Carol combines a background in sponsoring infrastructure projects and change programmes with coaching and leadership development gained in complex, high value environments. She is an ambassador for sponsorship as a successful approach to dealing with ongoing ambiguity in projects and leading the delivery of benefits. Carol has been accountable for audit and assurance of a capital investment portfolio in excess of £34bn. She has peer reviewed several major programmes and projects with a focus on achieving benefits, open dialogue and behavioural observation

Sheryl is an experienced project controls professional with over 20 years experience in, project management and controls, business administration and finance. This time has included 15 years working on large capital projects in the Energy and Nuclear industries, including first of a kind low carbon and green hydrogen, carbon capture, conventional and advanced modular nuclear, and waste to energy projects which are contributing to the achievement of the UK's climate targets. Sheryl currently leads the Energy Transition sub-sector for Faithful+Gould and is passionate about supporting clients with their net zero ambitions.

David Currently managing director of WiiPlan Project Solutions which service a number of Engineering Construction Commissioning Qualification & Start Up Clients in EMEA regions. Experience in detailed & benchmark planning of EPCMV, CQV, CM, HVAC, Mechanical, Electrical, BMS, Automation and I&C Contracts in Bio Pharmaceutical Projects, Medical Device Projects, Data Hall Projects, & Commercial Projects @ 100M + scale. Professional Experience from all sides as continuously work with & represent the client side, the main contractor and multi discipline sub-contractors.

Haitham Fayed joined the Hilti GB organization in October 2019 and is currently responsible for the Engineering Business across the Northern Europe region, leading the digital engineering and BIM solutions offering. He joined Hilti in Qatar in 2008, and since then, he has been assigned to various roles as Project Manager and then Engineering Manager in 2012, after which he moved to Dubai in 2016 as Head of Engineering Marketing for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa, then as region Head of Engineering business for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa in 2018

Evan is a Principal Solutions engineer specializing in PPM products. Prior to joining Deltek, Evan has worked in different positions within Project Controls and Project Management departments, across multiple industries including Oil & Gas and Infrastructure, both on the client and contractor side.

John is an experienced construction and civil engineering planning professional with a background in data science, quantitative construction industry research, and data analysis. He is a co-founder at FlowLedger, a workflow management platform. John has previously published research with the University of Cambridge on the use of machine learning and data analytics for predicting project schedule outcomes.

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 - 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 fr

Sam has over 18 years of experience in the Portfolio, Programme, Project and Management (PPM) arena, supporting customers with their PPM delivery and associated technology solutions. Sam has extensive experience driving organisation-wide change and digital transformation across all verticals.

At CPS, Sam now focuses on leading a team of Professional Services specialists delivering business applications, modern workplace, cloud, infrastructure and security solutions and services. All whilst ensuring the associated processes and governance are in place to ensure maximum benefits are realised.

Katherine Grant serves as a Principal Project Controls Manager for AWE located in Aldermaston, England and is responsible for delivering best practice project controls in major infrastructure projects. She spent her first years at AWE as a research scientist specialising in analytical chemistry and engineering before moving into project controls where she has devoted the last 10 years helping AWE evolve into a world class organisation.

Omar Habib is a Digital Delivery Manager passionate about BIM and Project Controls with deep expertise in reports and dashboard development, creating reports and visual, interactive dashboards using Tableau and Power BI. Work collaboratively with business stakeholders to understand their analytical needs and provide insightful reporting solutions. He has worked with large multinational construction and development companies to deliver a range of building and infrastructure projects across the Middle East, UAE, KSA, Qatar, and Egypt. He has worked on +25 BIM projects in the infrastructure, commercial building, residential, oil, and gas sectors. Ahmed AbouAlfa is a Digital innovator and expert in transforming rigid data into a smooth feasible framework by reflecting Business Intelligence methodologies and Digital Strategy techniques and leveraging digital technologies in all fields to meet the business demands. Digital Business Strategy & Transformation Specialists in many indus

Stephen is a Charted Mechanical Engineer and leads Laminar's data & digital consultancy. Stephen has worked across a number of industries including oil and gas, infrastructure and real estate with roles in design, construction, PMO and as a product manager for a software company. The continuous theme throughout his career is in maximising the value of data that is collected on projects and optimising processes that surround this data in order to improve project performance.

Jonathan is Quantity Surveyor by trade, Computer Scientist by study with circa 20 years of experience in the Construction industry. Projects ranging from £25million ICE infrastructure maintenance contracts, to major Civil Engineering contracts in the UK to £500million NEC mixed use Commercial/Residential building in the Middle East. Experience with the top UK Tier 1 contractors as well as central Government agencies and industry bodies. Jonathan's unique industry and academic skills and experiences allows him to specialise in data centric, Project Controls solutions that deliver verified, governed and assured data to the people that need it, when they need it with the goal of reducing the man hours required to gather and produce reports and giving the time back in the form of time to analysing the data.

Hugh Hofmeister joined Bentley in 2021 following the company's acquisition of E7, where he was CEO and Co-founder. As Executive Advancement Director for Bentley Construction he leads SYNCHRO's Enterprise business development globally. Prior to starting his career in Enterprise SAAS, he held roles in Construction Project Management, Software Development in Defense and Aerospace Industries and Structural Engineering in Aerospace. Hugh holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Space Engineering from the University of Queensland and master's in business administration from Queensland University of Technology.

Jeff is responsible for Heneywell's end-to-end project solutions processes. These include efforts to develop consistent project execution that is reliable, agile and self-adjusted through its procedures to provide a successful project aligned to our customers and Honeywell business expected outcomes. Jeff oversees Program Management and Controls across $12B of project solutions revenue across all of Honeywell’s Strategic Business Groups. Jeff also serves as the Program Management Office leader for Honeywell Intelligrated, a $3 billion business focused on automated material handling.Jeff joined Honeywell in 2020 as Vice President of Research Development and Engineering. He implemented foundational process changes to modernize engineering tools, data analytics and organizational capability to accelerate growth from new product introductions across a portfolio of $23B of Product and Software businesses. Prior to joining Honeywell, Jeff held R&D roles at The Procter & Gamble company

Simon Johnson is the Director of Operations for the UK at ARES PRISM. In this role, he is responsible for supporting a fully integrated project controls solution designed to manage local and multinational capital projects from conception to completion. From being a game maker to a logistics expert for off and onshore operations, Simon has been in the software industry for many years and has a track record of facilitating the successful completion of business development initiatives across public and private sectors. Simon provides advisory services to major programs and supports the successful deployment of effective change management processes. Simon enjoys helping organizations see the business impact of ARES PRISM with improved efficiency and accuracy on mega projects.

Alex works for digital construction consulting company Rapid-DCS, the firm behind the exciting next generation Cost & Carbon Estimating Solution - Sterling. He is a chartered civil engineer and project manager with over 15 years digital construction and transformation experience in both the public and private sector. Alex has matured digital strategy and capability within UK Tier1 contractors as their Head of Digital Construction and enjoys helping leaders to understand, plan for and feel the benefits afforded by digitalization. Today he is focused on helping carbon conscious organizations to build faster, smarter and more sustainably as we embrace industry 4.0 and the step up to the challenges of a Net Zero agenda.

Adam is a highly technically skilled Director at LogiKal and also the Digital Integration Lead for LogiKal’s Digital Taskforce. He has experience in successfully implementing Capital Project Systems and Processes in various industries, including civil construction, oil & gas and power generation, within the UK and Australia. This range of experience gives Adam a unique perspective on the processes, behaviours and technology solutions that help to drive successful outcomes.

Nathan joined RPCuk in 2021 with 15 years’ experience in the design, development, implementation and support of software solutions for a variety of public and private sector organisations both in the UK and the Middle East. The solutions Nathan has been involved with have been used to assist companies with Project Management, Drawing/Document Management and Planning with a primary focus in recent years on Contract Management specifically NEC4 and FIDIC. Nathan is now able to bring his knowledge and expertise to RPCuk working with customers to understand their requirements and turn them into user friendly solutions within Primavera Unifier and ensuring maximum benefit is received for all stakeholders.

Andrew Langridge is the Director of Business Development for Europe. In this role, he is responsible for delivering Estimation and Project Controls solutions across a wide range of industries. Andrew started his career as an apprentice mechanical engineer working in a bespoke machine tool company in London. After a 5-year technical apprenticeship, he moved into advanced manufacturing supervision and management roles. For 25 years Andrew has been working in the field of Estimation and Project Controls supporting the implementation of best-inclass processes and solutions for organizations across many industries. Andrew is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Bath, a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University and a Fellow of the Association of Cost Engineers. In 2022 Andrew was awarded the status of Honorary Certified Professional Cost Engineer due to his extensive contribution and guidance to the profession.

Greg co-founded and leads Nodes & Links, a data-analytics and software company focused on automation and AI.

Jeancarlo Durán Maica, MBA, CCP™, PMP®, EVP™ is a subject expert on Power BI and Primavera P6. 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. With experience across rail, civils, tunneling, mining and housing projects, Jeancarlo holds different professional certifications such as: CCP (Certified Cost Professional), PMP (Project Management Professional), EVP (Earned Value Professional), Microsoft Certified Data Analyst (MCP), and Primavera P6 EPPM Specialist. 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. Jeancarlo is currently working as a Digital Planning and Reporting Manager for BAM Nuttall on a multi-million pound rail project in the UK (TRU).

With over 25 years Project Controls experience, Lee leads the PMO Services practice across the Mace property sector. With a background in Planning, he is a delivery focused Project Controls professional using his experience to creatively solve problems in partnership with clients. Lee supports diversity in the PC profession, he is a member of the Mace Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion steering group and is supporting the 10,000 black interns programme to create diverse entry to the industry.

Pauline McMahon has over 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, delivering complex global programs. Pauline is currently the Innovation, Insights and Systems Manager for the North East Link Program, Victoria’s largest infrastructure project. Pauline provides an innovative skillset to the civil engineering and construction environment, recognized as unprecedented within the industry and has direct responsibility and accountability for the oversight of the project controls systems development and implementation.

A Project Controls expert with over 25 years private and government industry experience in the delivery of major infrastructure projects globally, leading large multidisciplinary teams in complex environments across diverse sectors. 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 digital transformation, data management analytics and reporting, organisational and project risk, stakeholder engagement, commercial and finance management and continuous improvement, agile and lean methodologies.

Hamza Afdhal Mehdi Mirza is working as a Technical Services Lead in Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), he has contributed extensively to project controls activities across PDO, led various continuous improvement initiatives within Planning & Scheduling, Cost Engineering, Risk Management, Contract Management, Change Management, Project Reporting and Project Health Checks. Hamza holds a BENG (Hons) in Mechanical Electronic System Engineering and has been in the company for more than 10 years. He has worked in multi-billion-dollar projects and developed Project Controls expertise in all the key phases of a project i.e. from Initiation phase to final handover. In addition to the above, he has been involved in conducting various knowledge sharing sessions and always keen in enhancing the capability of Project Controls professionals.

Steve has spend over a decade, specializing in scheduling and project controls on large industrial projects. More recently, he has been building large health care projects. In his current role, as innovation manager for a large general contractor, he finds and creates new solutions for the industry.

Andy is the Executive Director of the Major Projects Association, prior to which he spent 30 years as a practitioner, consultant and assurer of complex projects and programmes for public, private and third sector organisations both domestically and internationally. He has a focus on project governance, the treatment of inherent project complexity and organisational development of project capability. Andy is a respected author, having worked with HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, the Association for Project Management (APM) and Axelos to develop best practice guidance on their behalf. Publications include PRINCE2, P3M3, Routemap and the Governance of Co-Owned Projects. He was cited in the Sunday Telegraph’s business supplement as one of the most influential people in project management. He is the Chair of the APM’s Governance Special Interest Group, the Chair of the IPA’s independent project advisory group for the Project Initiation Routemap and is the engagement workstream

Will is a Chartered Construction Manager and a Lead Construction Data Strategist at Laminar Projects. Will has worked building data-driven workflows and products on some of the largest infrastructure projects in the UK and abroad.

Lloyd Norman is the Vice President of Strategic Solutions at ProSymmetry. Prior to joining ProSymmetry, Lloyd directed the Resource Management Office at a top 50 financial institution, where he spearheaded an enterprise resource planning ecosystem that continuously aligned strategic projects, agile initiatives, and operational work with vital delivery and governance resources. Lloyd has over 30 years of experience delivering value in RMO & PMO leadership roles, as a managing partner in a technology professional services firm, and as a consultant with IBM.

Mark is a Programme Controls professional with a background in Quantity Surveying; he has worked in both Pre and Post contract capacities on large, complex, multi-contract construction projects in the aviation, pharmaceutical, food processing, mission critical, private and public sectors. He currently leads the Programme Controls Function for Dublin Airport, covering Cost, Risk and Programme management to deliver a multibillion capital investment programme to support the airport’s future growth plans.

Doug has been working in the field of quantitative risk analysis for more than 14 years. He has a huge amount of experience of tools & techniques for modelling risk, across a wide range of industries and applications. He previously worked for Palisade (@RISK), riskHive, and is currently a Director & Founding Partner of The Ferryfield Group, who provide specialised services in the fields of risk analysis and risk management. Ferryfield are a Safran Platinum Partner & distributor, and Doug also delivers regular training courses on Safran’s behalf. He is a passionate and energetic advocate of the importance of probabilistic risk analysis, and estimates he’s delivered more than 1,600 presentations on the topic to audiences worldwide.

Jean-Luc Ozoux is currently in charge of EcoSys Business Development at Hexagon, a company that supports its customers in their digital transformation by offering innovative solutions to adopt new technologies applied to the management of large industrial projects.

MBA graduate of Paris University in Information Systems and Management, he has been helping organizations implement their Capital Project Management solutions for 30 years. His experience with major project management software, as well as the advice he provides to major companies in France and Europe, allows him to take a critical look at the very rapid evolution of tools and technologies that are transforming the working methods, culture and tools that need to be mastered today.

Savan is currently the Project Controls Lead for Mace on a prestigious Waterfront Development in London and is responsible for establishing the Project Controls requirements for the London Legacy Development Corporation. Savan's emphasis on detail is underpinned by in-depth analysis and auditing of construction progress against schedule and cost. His extensive knowledge of Programme Controls has allowed Savan to interrogate performance through the life cycle of large-scale projects and programmes, where his knowledge of project control disciplines have enabled him to play an important role in the successful delivery of several Programmes of works totalling over £15 billion.

Martin Paver is the CEO of Projecting Success, a company focused entirely on transforming project delivery through project data analytics. Martin is co-chair of the Project Data Analytics Task Force, founder of the 9,000 member project data analytics community and member of the APM’s Data Advisory Group. He is an internationally renowned expert on the use of data in project delivery and is taking a leading role in reshaping how projects are delivered. He is a Fellow of the APM and Chartered Project Professional. He has led projects up to $1bn and portfolios up to $10bn.

Monica has more than 10 years of experience in Planning and Project Controls and she is trained and skilled in Planning, Scheduling, Performance Reporting (including EVM), Contract Management (both JCT and NEC), Cost Control, Process Management, and Digital Transformation. Monica possesses strong interpersonal skills allowing her to easily communicate with all levels of a project or organisation. She is comfortable in her technical abilities and can build confidence and motivate others achieving high-quality outputs through collaboration and innovation. Monica joined Mace in 2017 as a Senior Planning Manager and prior to this she has worked as a Planning and Project Controls Consultant both in the UK and in Italy on various sectors including infrastructure projects, EXPO 2015, healthcare, and retail. Monica’s experience with different teams and in different countries has enabled her to work well in realities with a challenging culture where diversity and constructive feedback

Ryan Posnikoff is a technology management and operations leader with a broad background in construction planning and project management practices on some of the largest projects in the world. He holds a MSc in Project Management, a BA, and is a Red and Blue Seal Certified Steamfitter/Pipefitter. Ryan joined Bentley as an SME and consultant in construction planning and execution methodologies and in his time with Bentley has touched many parts of the business through regular and progressive assignments and promotions. Currently, Ryan is responsible for the strategic product management of part of the SYNCHRO Construction platform. In addition to numerous conference speaking engagements and university guest lectures, he has taught best practices and software courses in 7 countries to nearly 1000 industry participants.

As Head of Account Management for EMEA with InEight, Jeff Quantrill focuses his expertise on helping shape and deliver systems that create real value for clients. Previous to InEight, Jeff created and ran a consultancy aimed at helping his clients use the value of interconnected data and systems to deliver actionable insights. He has also held leadership roles with Arcadis in their client facing IT group where his enterprise project management and process knowledge allowed him to develop an expertise in project management information systems. During this time, he worked with many large organisations, including three giga-projects in Saudi Arabia, to deliver a mix of proprietary and off the shelf systems. Jeff also spent 15 years at IBM delivering complex IT services, projects and processes to some of the UK’s largest companies.

Jason is a senior consultant and dashboard and reporting SME at LogiKal. He has a wealth of experience utilising Power BI & Power Automate to deliver key business insights and provide automated reporting solutions for a wide range of different departments and organisations. He provides clients with rich insights into their data and builds reporting solutions that can adapt to business change, enabling them to consistently make data-driven decisions.

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 lifecycle with a focus on both the internal stakeholders and the Supply Chain. In addition he provides input into the solutions we deliver to our customers ensuring what we offer is best in class and able to support how these organizations deliver projects to time, cost, quality, safely from inception thru to decommissioning. Participates in Construction Industry Institute (CII) research teams and looks to deliver solutions that support CII best practices across the industry. Recently he is leading the Oracle UK Innovation lab and the experiences that the Oracle Construction and Engineering will provide to industry on

A Chartered Project, Programme & Portfolio (P3) professional with 25+ years in successful P3 Delivery, Governance & Assurance of multi-billion investments. Significant experience in advisory and leadership roles of major infrastructure projects & programmes such as the Olympic Park Transformation Programme, Tatu City, Birmingham Schools for the Future and the Smart Motorways Programme. A specific interest in understanding and developing the relationship of other data sets; asset, geospatial, carbon, with P3 performance data to drive overall improved delivery.

I am an engineer by training and have spent most of my career specialising in product data management and how creating threads of data through the product lifecycle can improve delivery performance. In the past two years I have taken the leap into Data Analytics across all business functions, with a particular focus of exploiting business data for project performance management. I am joined by Roger Hunter - Head of Project Managment and Project Controls at BAE Systems Naval Ships.

Dr Sheldon has managed projects across the MoD throughout his career, including in close combat training equipment, communications and IT, logistics management and submarine delivery. He has undertaken targeted reviews into challenged equipment projects and provided assistance and assurance on delivery and technology management. As Head of Cost Assurance Analysis Service, he modernised and grew the team to directly support Chief of Defence Materiel in establishing an affordable Defence Equipment Programme, and in key commercial negotiations on warship construction. Dr Sheldon established DE&S project controls function, enabling DE&S Transformation. He has headed the Submarine Production Team that delivers the Astute Class and, since 2020, is responsible for all UK submarine acquisition programmes as Director Submarines Acquisition.

Susan is an accomplished Programme Manager with over 20 years of experience working across the whole life cycle of major complex combat air system programmes. This consists of leading high complex/uncertain engineering programmes through multi-disciplined teams, whilst working /with key partners in challenging environments, thus requiring a strong collaborative leadership style within different cultural experiences.

Manraj is a planner by background with over five years experience within the Highways sector. Working in several roles across various projects and programmes, he has been involved in stages from design, through construction to handover. He now leads the Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis activity across a National Highways Major Projects programme of works, ensuring risk and schedule alignment with an aim to achieve a more consistent and predictable schedule.

Ruchi Singh is Director of Kaleidoscope Transformation; a boutique consultancy specialising in supporting and leading projects designed transform public services and influence policy to improve outcomes for communities. She has been advised and delivered radical transformation strategies for close to 25 years for clients as diverse as MoJ, MoD, HMT, HS2, FCA and MHCLG Post Grenfell Building Safety Programme to name but a few. She recently completed a project on the mobilisation of the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction unit.

"Nick Smallwood is the Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and Head of Government’s Project Delivery Function. Nick is the former Vice President for Projects Engineering and Chief Projects Engineer at Shell. Nick has 40 years experience of managing complex project portfolios and having developed Shell’s Global Project Academy. At Shell, Nick was accountable for managing how projects were delivered and a variety of significant improvement programmes. Nick was also a trustee of the board of the Association for Project Management (APM) until November 2019, where he contributed to the overall development of the UK’s project management profession."

Nicholas Smith has been a Senior Application Support Manager, for Information and Digital Technology, with Birmingham City Council (BCC) for the past five years. His remit includes ‘ownership’ and management for over 300 on-premises and in-Cloud Applications and support for a wide variety of BCC Business and Citizen objectives.

John Steele is Managing Director of Adept Management Limited. He brings a wealth of experience in the management and control of portfolios, programmes and major projects, gained over more than two decades working in industry. John has held research posts at Cambridge and Loughborough Universities and was awarded a coveted Gatsby Innovation Fellowship at Loughborough University's Department of Civil and Building Engineering. He remains a chartered engineer, a Fellow of the Association of Project Management (APM), and was one of the first cohort of professional Project Managers to be made a Chartered Project Professional.

During his career Rhys has has been responsible for developing and assuring schedules on many of the UK's biggest infrastructure projects including HS2, Sizewell C and Manchester Metrolink. He has used his expertise and industry knowledge to develop FlowLedger, a workflow management application specifically tailored to delivering large and complex projects as efficiently as possible.

Paul is an Executive Technical Director at Stantec, one of the largest engineering consulting companies with 25,000 employees in 400 offices in 36 countries. His UK role is to ensure consistency, predictability and the delivery of benefits and outcomes in Stantec’s infrastructure programmes, as well as providing advice and support to Stantec’s clientele. Over a 45-year career covering the UK, Europe, USA, Middle East and India, he has worked in the: Nuclear, Construction, Petrochemical, Telecommunications, and Water sectors. He is a Chartered Manager, and an Incorporated Engineer. He currently guest lectures at the University of Warwick and has written 2 chapters in the new book “Strategic Portfolio Management in the Multi-Project and Program Organisation” to be published this December.

Patrick is a highly motivated professional, with extensive experience in training, management and business development. He is an experienced Trainer, Coach, Mentor, Quality assurer, Assessor and compliance auditor. He has been instrumental in developing and managing entrepreneurial solutions for a wide range of businesses. He has worked in the education sector for more than 20 years in various guises, he has led teams of delivery, business development and consultancy. He specialises in strategizing, M&A’s, supporting education providers in growth strategies including subcontract strategy & audit, and supporting Directors through change programmes. A specialist in advising businesses and providers on a range of issues including new apprenticeship standards, subcontracting rules, compliance, liaison with EPAO’s / HEI’s (forming strategic partnerships) and internationally.

Leader of Partners in Performance’s global capital projects practice and our European region. Previously, developed and led the global construction division of Intelligent Engineering using a steel plastic technology to build the main structures of stadia, bridges and high buildings My key interest and focus is on building high performing capital projects businesses as well as significantly enhancing the development, execution and recovery of projects and project portfolios. I have supported and delivered diverse mega-projects across six continents in infrastructure and resources including mines, refining and industrial plants, power stations, roads, rail, telco, utility networks, shipbuilding, bridges, buildings, stadia and defense.

Steve is at the forefront of the development of national and international standards in Project Controls and Management. A genuine thought-leader. A super-connector. A maven. He is a member of the Management Standards committee of the BSi. Currently progressing Project Controls and Benefits Management .He is an internationally acknowledged expert on Earned Value Project Management.. Most recently on the newly published ISO standards for EVM and WBS. Currently working on an ISO EVM Implementation Guide. He works with government, national and international bodies and academia as a subject matter expert as well as on matters of governance.Also was one of the authors of Agile Portfolios with ABC. With his Guild of Educators hat on he is working with OECD and the City of London to introduce Fusion Skills internationally to children aged 7-70+ He is currently helping Responsible Project Management come into being.- a more ethical coscientious approach to the benefits and impacts

Simon White is an independent risk analyst, risk management consultant and trainer, with over 20 years’ experience in a wide variety of industries and major projects. Simon spent two years as UK Risk Analyst for ConocoPhillips, before which he was Senior Risk Management Consultant and trainer for Pertmaster, Primavera and Oracle. Simon uses methods that allow probabilistic models to be interrogated and understood by project teams and senior management, helping to ensure that risk assessments are reasonable representations of reality, and that they add value by setting and justifying reasonable expectation and positive management action.

Rob has 15+ years of Project & Change Management leadership experience through delivering challenging customer and transformation programmes in highly complex environments. This has ranged from the deployment of the first fully autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicle to developing and embedding a systematic continuous improvement methodology across a large engineering organisation. More recently, Rob has been utilising his experience to help shape how the programmes of tomorrow are architected for success by looking at how they can exploit uncertainty and ambiguity instead of being constrained and inhibited by it.