Below is the full two-day schedule for the 2025 Symposium

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

Thursday, May 1, 2025

8:00 AM

Registration: Lobby of Adele H. Stamp Student Union

8:50 AM

Welcome and Featured Speaker Mark Lines, Disciplined Agile, "Have we reached "Peak Agile"? Why, and what is next?"

9:45 AM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Project Management
Project Management Skills
Strategic Project Management
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

10:00 AM

10:00 am - 10:45 am
The Power of Persuasion in Project Management: Communicate to Influence! – Coleman
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Federal Project Managers – A Medley Of Topics To Discuss – Hine
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Project failure is not an option: Making Projects Successful – Murphy
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Reactive to Proactive: Injecting Collaborative Project Planning to Improve Delivery Success – Johnson and Rumeau
 

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM

11:00 am - 11:45 am
Communicating Bad News: Practical Ways to Say What No One Wants to Hear – Onuoha
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Strengthening Delivery Success in Federal Projects: Why FAC-P/PM Certification Matters – Gay
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Ditch the Proxies, Embrace the Real Deal – Uppala
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Agile Amplified: Driving Success in Complex Healthcare IT Projects – Welcome
 

11:45 AM

Lunch and Networking

12:30 PM

Featured Speaker Ben Royce, Google Cloud, "Wild New Ways AI is Changing Project Management"

1:15 PM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Project Management
Project Management Skills
Strategic Project Management
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

1:30 PM

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Project Manager to Project Motivator: Unlocking the Secrets of Strength-Based Project Management (SBPM) – Miller
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Building a Capable Program/Project Management Workforce through Self-Organized Leadership! – Jones and Richmond
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Reimagining Project Management – D’Mello
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
From Vision to Reality: Building a Project Management Core to Support Scholarly Research – Brouwer and Wylie
 

2:15 PM

Break

2:30 PM

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Beyond the Project: Mentoring the Next Generation of PMs – Trach
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Team Based Planning – A Framework for Modernizing Public Sector Program Funding – Bunce
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
The Art and Science of Effective Communication in the Age of AI – Demko
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Jumping in the Deep End: Creating a PMO from Scratch – Hepp
 

3:15 PM

Break

3:30 PM

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
What is End-of-Career / Retirement Coaching and How can it Help My Agency? – Menzies
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
No one Wants Your Awesome Product. They Want an Awesome Experience! Martin and White
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
From Blueprint to Completion: How Smart Contracts Are Redefining Managing Project Phases in Infrastructure Projects – Halimi
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Look inside a world where Project Management is Saving Lives – Reeson
 

4:15 PM

Break

4:30 PM

Featured Speaker

5:45 PM

Networking Reception

Friday, May 2, 2022

8:00 AM

Registration: Lobby of Adele H. Stamp Student Union

9:00 AM

Featured Speaker

9:45 AM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Project Management
Project Management Skills
Strategic Project Management
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

10:00 AM

10:00 am - 10:45 am
Empowering Success: Integrating DEIA into Project and Program Management for Inclusive Outcomes – Wilson
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Modeling Optimization across Multidimensional Portfolios – Driessnack
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Intentional Hybrid Project Management – Zucker
10:00 am - 10:45 am
Next Gen Project Risk Management – The Value of Project Production Analytics – Damnjanovic
 

10:45 AM

Break

11:00 AM

11:00 am - 11:45 am
The Thin Line: Innovative Strategies to Balance High Performance and Burnout in Project Management – Gregory
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Replacing ANSI 748 with a TESTED and PROVEN EVM System that has been in Use for 120+ Years – Giammalvo
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Effective Project Controls – Busby
11:00 am - 11:45 am
From Risk to Resilience: Strengthening IT Project Outcomes with Risk Assessments – London
 

11:45 AM

Break

Tracks

People in Projects
Federal Project Management
Project Management Skills
Strategic Project Management
On-Demand (Previously Recorded)

12:00 PM

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
The Well-being Experiment: How Curiosity Can Drive Success in High-Intensity Projects – Ozokwelu
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
User savvy PMIS technology implementation to drive change management – Mehta
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Show Me Your RAID Log – Essendrup
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Communication and Engagement in UMD’s Network Refresh – Morales-Herrmann and Prem
 

12:45 PM

Lunch and Networking

1:30 PM

Featured Speaker and Workshop

3:00 PM

Closing