This session explores how artificial intelligence can support project risk identification and improve the selection of project management approaches. Drawing on findings from a design science-based case study, the session demonstrates how AI-driven decision support can enhance transparency, reduce subjective bias, and improve strategic alignment during project planning. Participants will gain practical insights into integrating risk assessment with the selection of predictive, adaptive, and hybrid project management approaches to improve project outcomes.
Successful transformation requires more than delivering projects on time. It requires a people-centered approach that drives adoption and lasting change. This session explores how Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Project Management work together to improve employee engagement, align change and project plans, optimize resources, and ensure initiatives are not only delivered successfully but embraced across the organization.
Many project managers are expected to lead teams without formal authority. This session explores how PMs can build trust, influence stakeholders, and deliver results through intentional leadership behaviors. Drawing on real-world experience and psychological safety principles, participants will gain an understanding of how to foster open communication, establish credibility, and lead confidently, regardless of title or tenure.
Influence is how project managers move teams toward outcomes, and it is not built by nailing your big moment. People trust patterns they experience over time: how you communicate under pressure, clarify ambiguity, and respond when priorities collide. People do not trust isolated performances. They trust patterns. In project environments where authority is limited, uncertainty is constant, and pressure is normal, those patterns quietly become your reputation long before you realize they are being observed.
Enterprise transformation is not primarily a technology challenge. It is a leadership challenge involving trust, continuity, and difficult trade-offs. Drawing on two multi-year modernization journeys, this session explores how project leaders can preserve essential operations while introducing automation, integrated workflows, and modern delivery practices. Attendees will learn how successful transformation depends on sequencing change, building stakeholder confidence, governing complexity, and connecting technical decisions to meaningful organizational impact.
Rolling out a new timekeeping system across a city government is more than a technology implementation. It is an organizational change effort that affects employees, supervisors, payroll processes, compliance, and daily operations across many departments with unique requirements (Police, Fire, Library, Planning & Development, IT, Finance, and more). This session is a real-world project story that demonstrates how change management practices were applied from day one to support the implementation of a new timekeeping system for the City of Glendale.
