Discover a second lineup of six project management expert speakers at Project Forum London on 21 April. Free to attend, packed with fresh ideas and insights.
AI in the Room: What Every Project Manager Needs to Know Right Now
James Garner and Yoshi Soornack
Time
09.30 - 10.15
Details
AI is already reshaping how projects are planned, tracked and delivered - but most PMs are still figuring out where to start. In this session, James Garner and Yoshi Soornack cut through the noise to give a practical, honest view of what AI means for project management today. From tools…
Your Takeaways from the Session
Your Takeaways from the Session
- It’s influencing how projects are planned, monitored, and managed right now – not some future scenario PMs can ignore.
- There are AI tools PMs can begin using immediately to support planning, reporting, and analysis rather than trying to overhaul everything at once.
- In an AI-supported…
About Your Speaker
About James and Yoshi
James Garner is the founder of Project Flux and a recognised voice on the impact of AI and data in project delivery. With a background in quantity surveying and data analytics, he now focuses on digital transformation and the use of AI to improve how complex projects…
It’s not rocket science, but it is complicated…
Julie Black
Time
10:30 - 11:15
Details
We have all watched space mission launches, and seen wonderful pictures sent back from instruments such as the James Webb Telescope.
But how do these missions get delivered, and what can we learn from the global collaboration needed to get from an idea to a new understanding about our universe.
With stories…
Your Takeaways from the Session
Your Takeaways from the Session
- An understanding of the UK’s contribution to a range of space science and exploration missions.
- Practical ideas which challenge attendees to think about how they apply standard or generic PPM methodology
About Your Speaker
About Julie
Julie Black is the Director for Space Science and Exploration at the UK Space Agency, leading delivery of UK contributions to missions in collaboration with ESA, NASA and other agencies.
A delivery and change specialist, with a particular interest in systems thinking for portfolio management, Julie began her career…
Executing Strategy While Future-Proofing Your Workforce
Meet the Expert - Greg Bailey
Time
11.30 - 12.15
Details
Aligning talent and AI with strategic roadmap priorities drives business outcomes.
Explore how transparently planning skills capacity, AI, budget, and value across your digital initiatives improves IT value flow, coordinates delivery, and enables a data-driven approach to future-proofing your workforce.
Attendees will learn how organizations have improved value delivery, business…
Your Takeaways from the Session
Your Key Takeaways
- Skills, not funding or tools, are the biggest barrier to strategy execution and workforce readiness
- Planning work by skill — across agile, waterfall, or hybrid roadmaps— unlocks faster, more effective delivery.
- A unified, skills-based planning model, including planning AI as a skill, drives better portfolio outcomes and…
About Your Speaker
About Greg
Greg Bailey brings over 25 years of Enterprise Software Experience in a variety of industries in the Resource Management and Project and Portfolio Management market and currently serves as Vice President at ProSymmetry. At ProSymmetry, Greg oversees Tempus Resource global sales and works to ensure a successful transition and…
When Success Fails: Turning Activity into Strategic Impact
Susan Tuttle
Time
13.00 - 13.45
Details
Projects succeed. Budgets are met. Timelines are achieved. Governance reports are green.
And yet strategy still fails.
Why?
Delivery excellence on its own is not enough. A project can be well managed and still produce something the organisation does not need. A transformation programme can reshape structures, systems and technology yet steer the…
Your Takeaways from the Session
Your Takeaways
- Why projects can succeed while strategy still fails
- How misalignment and hidden risk build across project, programme and portfolio levels
- Questions and practical shifts that strengthen coordination and escalation
- A clearer view of how integrated governance protects strategic value
About Your Speaker
About Susan
Susan Tuttle is Senior PRINCE2 Product Architect at PeopleCert and author of PRINCE2® Project Management In Action. She is responsible for shaping the future of PRINCE2, advancing it as a practical framework for modern, adaptive delivery.
Drawing on her experiences across financial services, global technology leadership, and entrepreneurship, Susan brings…
Human Centric Delivery in a Data Driven World: AI, Capacity, and Burnout
Neil Derbyshire
Time
14.00 - 14.45
Details
AI, predictive analytics and automation are reshaping how work is planned and executed in 2026 – but many project professionals are still drowning in admin, competing priorities, and stakeholder noise. This session explores how to use data and AI responsibly to protect people, improve decisions, and support sustainable delivery, rather…
Your Takeaways from the Session
Key Takeaways
- Clear, jargon free examples of AI use cases that genuinely reduce project admin, rather than replace professionals.
- A practical checklist for sustainable capacity management: spotting over commitment, protecting critical skills, and avoiding “hero culture”.
- Techniques for using leading indicators to intervene early before projects and people fail.
- Conversation…
About Your Speaker
About Neil
Neil Derbyshire is an Enterprise Executive at Planview, he's an experienced PPM executive with over 25 years experience of helping organizations improve portfolio visibility, prioritization, and execution across complex enterprise environments. Brings deep knowledge of project and portfolio management solutions, with expertise in aligning strategy to delivery, strengthening governance,…
Too Much, Too Fast, Too Vague: Practical ways to cut overload and improve decision-making in delivery teams
Tracey Holland
Time
15:00 - 15:45
Details
Projects rarely drift because people don’t care. More often, teams are carrying too much, moving too fast and working with far too much vagueness.
This practical session explores what happens when delivery teams become overloaded, urgency starts driving decisions and the real priorities are less clear than people think. Drawing on…
Your Takeaways from the Session
Your Takeaways
- How to spot the difference between genuine priority and noise
- A practical way to identify the ‘sand’ filling up team capacity
- Better ways to improve clarity, ownership and momentum in delivery teams
- Simple tools for saying no, slowing panic and making better decisions under pressure
About Your Speaker
About Tracey
Tracey Holland is the founder of Reforge Change and has spent more than 30 years helping teams and organisations navigate messy, complicated change. She specialises in making change more doable by improving clarity, decision-making and the way people work together under pressure.
With a practical, no-jargon approach, Tracey brings together…