13.00 - 13.45 GMT+1 (Zone 2)
This session explores how strategic outcomes are realized only when portfolios, programmes, and projects operate as an integrated system, with a PMO providing the visibility, escalation pathways and decision flow that connect them.
If you work on projects, programmes, portfolios or in a PMO and want your work to contribute directly to strategic success, this session will help you see the wider system you operate within and where coordination creates real advantage.
What you will walk away with
- 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
11:00-11:30 & 15:00-15:30 GMT+1 | (Table 6)
This Birds of a Feather session explores why AI conversations in delivery environments so often generate heat but not clarity. Through facilitated discussion, we will examine where misunderstandings arise, how different uses of AI carry different implications for oversight and accountability, and why clearer thinking at the outset leads to better decisions later. You may discover that some of the confusion isn’t about AI at all - it’s about how we frame it.
What to expect
- A practical way to distinguish between different uses of AI in project, programme, and portfolio environments
- Clearer language for discussing AI in governance and delivery settings
- Insight into where confusion commonly arises — and how to avoid it
Drawing on her experiences across financial services, global technology leadership, and entrepreneurship, Susan brings a pragmatic perspective to organizational change and delivery.
Having trained thousands of professionals and created highly rated digital learning programmes, Susan is passionate about making project management guidance accessible, relevant, and immediately usable in the real world.