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…
Here comes the Science bit: how science underpins change management and what you can do about it
Time
15:00 - 15:45
Details
The plan is written the announcement made only for change to stall once reality sets in. People respond, systems push back and momentum drains away all while leaders double down on communication and governance. Sound familiar?
This session reframes change through science, drawing on physics, psychology and neuroscience to explain why…
Your Takeaways from the Session
Your Takeaways
- Understanding of why progress stalls even when plans are sound
- The ability to interpret system and stakeholder responses as meaningful signals
- How they can adjust pace, focus and approach to maintain momentum and value
- Understanding of core science principles that underpin change and practical actions they can put into practice
About Your Speaker
About Susie
Susie Palmer-Trew is Mum, Wife, academic researcher and change and transformation leader with over 15 years’ experience working across complex organisations in the UK, US and Europe.
She specialises in people-centred workforce and organisational change, supporting leaders and project professionals to deliver sustainable change and business benefits with less pain,…