After nearly two years of absence this time we really do mean to be back n the room!

Performance Management which is understood implemented and used.

EVM can encompass and integrate all the flavours of the month without choking once. As HRH says. It can make them DO

The current menu:

Data Analytics.

Benefits Management.

Systems Thinking

Estimating.

Agile.

Skills

And Is there life on Mars?

And will some of this involve music and poetry?

Probably.

As ever, #eVa26 will be different, entertaining and informative. Dinner will be served in the Hall by candlelight 48 hours of the best networking with high level attendees and speakers.

Attendees are middle to very senior professionals with interests in project management generally, project controls, earned value and wanting to learn more about wider issues of transformation, successful change and benefits-driven portfolios.

Government Defence Aerospace Construction Utilities PharmaTransport Academia Power Generation and IT sectors are represented.

Buying a ticket also entitles and maintains membership to the weekly Conversation Club broadcasts and any dinner events.

Cancellations are fully refundable until March 1 2022 .

The official running order.

Performance Day 1

0830 Doors open and Coffee Networking

0920 Welcome

0930 Lessons Learned to improve Delivery Practice and Performance

Emma Willson Major Project Delivery Hub Director at the National Audit Office

1000 Performance Enhancing Data Analytics

Martin Paver Providing leadership to transform the future of data driven

1030 Digital 'Line of Sight' - Enabling Project Execution (and Performance)

David Herington CEO Nixor Solutions

1100 Coffee Networking

1130 PPM - Industry fireside chat with Deltek

• Natalie Moyes – Regional director PPM International @Deltek

• Marco Frisenda – Head of Programme Controls @TFL

• Craig Stansfield – Project controls manager @Thales

• TBC – Jacobs

• Oliver Wade – MD @PSP, Programme Services Partners

1230 Routines to improve performance delivery

Dr Simon Addyman Associate Professor in Project Management,UCL

1300 Lunch Networking

1345 NASA’s Orion Spacecraft that will bring humans to the Moon and beyond.

Bas Theelen Head of the Project Management Centre of Competence at Airbus Defence

Formerly Programme Manager for the European Service Module (ESM)

1415 Life on Mars. Creating the colony

Andrew Edkins Professor of the Management of Complex Projects at The Bartlett, UCL

1445 Simplify, Standardise, Systemise, Professionalise Estimating processes and capabilities across the Public Sector.

Sirish Parekh Estimating Lead IPA and co-chair Public Sector Advisory Community for Estimating

Gary Hill Cost Analytics Head Submarine Delivery Agency and Public Sector Advisory Community for Estimating

1515 Five skills to rule them all! Cutting edge research to use skills and transform performance.

Carole Still International Educator, UN Executive Coach, PhD researcher

1545 Tea Networking

1615 Agility Making Projects Thrive

Adrian Pyne Author Expert

1645 Great Project – Shame about The Steering Committee

Stephen Carver Cranfield University returns to look at idiots not making hard decisions early and then expecting project teams to pull rabbits out of hats.

1730 Refreshments Networking Old Doctor Butler’s Head then

1900 Dinner Networking

Performance Day 2

0830 Doors open and Coffee Networking

0930 Systems Thinking for improved Performance

Nigel Williams Reader in Project Management at University of Portsmouth and RPM

Karen Thompson Responsible Project Management Agitator and Educator

1000 Hydrogen is the future not just hot air.

Emily Wiltshire Gardiner & Theobald Infrastructure | Hydrogen | Aviation and Transportation | Project Management

1030 Performance prep Storytelling.

Paul Lyalls EVA Poet in residence

Jack Pinter EVA Composer in residence

1100 Coffee and Networking

1130 Pandemic Projects: Delivering the Covid 19 Mega Laboratory

Niall Faris co-founder and director 3rdcurve

Th3rdcurve supported the UK Government on its COVID-19 testing programme. In response to the pandem-ic, we were engaged to lead the project management, PMO and controls for the rapid design and build of the UK’s first megalab.

This case study will discuss the vital ingredients of delivering complex projects at speed and the lessons learned that may be applied to future projects

1200 Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of Life Death and the NHS

Michael Rosen Poet Performer broadcaster scriptwriter. Patient.

1300 Lunch and Networking

1345 From Ego to Eco: Activating the mycelium .

Jo Lucas Director of Co.Cre8, Activating the mycelium

1415 Levelling up with Project Controls

Dawn Thompson Catherine Lambert ECITB

1445 The psychology of estimating and planning - working with your team.

James Lea Project Science Ltd

1515 Subconscious Biases In Project Management: What you need to know and how you can manage it.

Alex Leppard Consultant BMT

1545 Tea and Networking

1615 Performance Performance. Storytelling.

Paul Lyalls EVA Poet in residence

Jack Pinter EVA Composer in residence

1700 Close