Below is the full two-day schedule for the 2024 Symposium

For more information about a session, simply click on it. All times listed below are Eastern Time (ET, USA).

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

8:00 AM

Registration: Lobby of Adele H. Stamp Student Union

8:50 AM

Welcome and Featured Speaker Damien Peters, University of Maryland, "Data Driven Product Management: How Companies Like Meta Drive Product Decisions with Numbers"

9:45 AM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Programs
Strategic Project Management
Lean, Agile, Product
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

10:00 AM

10:00 am - 10:45 am
Advancing People Management: Navigating Future Trends in Project Management – Hazarika
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Growing Good in Government Initiative – Cultivating the Feedback Loops of the Future – Traquair and Quimby
10:00 am - 10:45 am
What Am I Not Thinking Of? – Hine
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Program Management – Going beyond Project Management to enable Value Driven Change – Zeitoun
7:00 am - 7:00 am
Power Kanban: Mastering project uncertainty through improved information awareness – Cuypers

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM

11:00 am - 11:45 am
Resilient Leadership In Project Management! – Coleman
11:00 am - 11:45 am
PMP Education for the US Military to Reduce Wasted Time, Money, and Energy – Demko
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Leveraging ChatGPT for Project Management Practitioners – McDaniel
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Hybrid Project Management: Navigating the New World of Project Management – with Agility – Tolbert
5:00 am - 5:00 am
Improving Code Quality, Velocity, and Team Cohesion with Pair Programming – Ramseur

11:45 AM

Lunch and Networking

12:30 PM

Featured Speaker Sabra Horne, Entrepreneur in Residence at BMNT, "Using Innovation to Drive Mission Impact"

1:15 PM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Programs
Strategic Project Management
Lean, Agile, Product
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

1:30 PM

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
What’s Your Integrity Quotient? – Davis
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Team Resilience in Action: Risk Management in Clinical Research Projects During Ebola Outbreak in West Africa – Giri
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Project Management in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Jaques
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Demystifying LLMs: A Guide for Project Managers to Unlock the Potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) – Polaski and Beall
5:00 am - 5:00 am
Agile is Everywhere – Zucker

2:15 PM

Break

2:30 PM

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Mastering Adaptability: Leveraging Your Strengths to Thrive in an Evolving Job Market – Onuoha
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
USDA journey standing up and sustaining the USDA Program/Project Management (P/PM) Community of Practice (CoP) – Cenzano, Nahar and Traquair
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
AI-Enhanced Project Estimating, Monitoring, and Forecasting – D’Mello
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Enhancing Project Management with AI Assistive Technologies: A Guide for Modern Professionals – Daley
8:00 am - 8:45 am
Using Strategic Portfolio Management to Transform IT Governance – Murtha

3:15 PM

Break

3:30 PM

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Developing Young Professionals in The Field of Project Management – Eskandar
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Prioritisation, Preparation & Perseverance – Are 3 P’s enough? Project planning for IT infrastructure support of the JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST) – Carter
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Managing Change in BioPharma – A Tough Pill to Swallow – Federman, Habicht, and Subramony
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Applying AI to DevSecOps Processes to Optimize Project Execution and Delivery – Boyle and Baker
9:00 am - 9:00 am
Executives are people too: What execs want from PMOs – Easton

4:15 PM

Break

4:30 PM

Featured Speaker John Cable, Founder, University of Maryland Project Management Center for Excellence, "25 Years of Project Management at Maryland"

5:00 PM

Featured Speakers Caitlin Kenney, International Systems Management Corp and Robin Pulverenti, Integrated Program Performance Management (IPPM), "A Clash of Ideologies... Product vs. Project Teams"

5:45 PM

Networking Reception

Friday, April 19, 2024

8:00 AM

Registration: Lobby of Adele H. Stamp Student Union

9:00 AM

Featured Speaker Bill Brantley, Brantley Advanced Social Science Applications (BAS2A), "When Projects Manage Themselves: Artificial Intelligence-Powered Project Management"

9:45 AM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Programs
Strategic Project Management
Lean, Agile, Product
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

10:00 AM

10:00 am - 10:45 am
Confidence Leads to Successful Project Management – Menzies
10:00 am - 10:45 am
The NOAA Approach to Federal Enterprise P/PM Success – Lashford, Frazier and Giraldi
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Systems Thinking Boosts Project Outcomes – Daly and Rosenbaum
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Integrating FinOps Into Your Project Management Processes – Boyle and Bayan
11:00 am - 11:45 am
The Paradox of Rewilding Projects: Exploring rewilding as projects, programs or portfolios – Jones

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM

11:00 am - 11:45 am
PMs of the Future: A Blueprint for Internships, Mentorship, and Sponsorship – Richards
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Look Out! Avoiding Minefields to Ensure Program Success – Baggett
11:00 am - 11:45 am
The Paradox of Rewilding Projects: Exploring rewilding as projects, programs or portfolios – Jones
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Solving Problems in Frameworks: Feature Focused – Axthelm
6:00 am - 6:00 am
Breaking the Cycle: Shifting from Tactical Firefighting to Achieving Strategic Results – Judge

11:45 AM

Lunch and Networking

12:30 PM

Featured Speaker Te Wu, PMO Advisory, "State of Project Portfolio Management in Practice"

1:15 PM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Programs
Strategic Project Management
Lean, Agile, Product
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

1:30 PM

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Are You ‘Ready’ to Become an AI-Powered Project Manager? – Lewis
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Relationship Management: Internal vs External Stakeholders – Busby
6:00 am - 6:00 am
Maximizing Project Success through Integrated Asset Management and Strategic Planning: Case Study DC Water – Hailu and Melsew
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
New Product Development Projects Portfolio: effective decision making to maximize value – Prasek
8:00 am - 8:00 am
Building High Performing Volunteer Teams: The Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards – Katli and Özdemir

2:15 PM

Break

2:30 PM

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Guiding the Future of Project Management: The Power of Mentorship – Meah-Ali
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Integrated Value Network (IVN) – Baca, Martin, Murrieta and White
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Turbocharging Your Estimation Process Using Data You (Probably) Already Have – Kwame
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Sustainable PMO and Agile Transformations – Case Study Federal Public Health Agency – Leydon
6:00 am - 6:00 am
Preventive Risk Management | Building resilience in programs beyond being proactive using mechanisms – Uppala

3:15 PM

Break

3:30 PM

Closing and Trivia Challenge Winners