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Project management day

Project management day  - Available at University of Iceland
When 
Thu, 16/05/2024 - 08:30 to 13:00
Where 

Classroom HT-105 Háskólatorg

Further information 
Free admission

MSc in Project Management and MA in International Business and Project Management presents a conference and workshop for project managers, middle managers and academics.

Entry: free of charge, registered attendees only, limited space available. Register here for event admission and workshop selection:
https://shrturl.app/8U2VcL

Language of the event: English

Conference Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and networking

9:00 - 9:05 Opening of the conference, Prof. Inga Minelgaite, PhD., School of Business, University of Iceland

9:05 – 9:10 Welcome address by Mladen Vukomanović, President of IPMA

9:10 - 9:15 Project management in Iceland, Aðalbjörn Þórólfsson, Chairman of Project Management Association of Iceland

9:15 - 9:45 Keynote: Is project management still needed in the age of artificial intelligence? Dr. Reinhard Wagner, Managing Director of TIBA

9:45 – 10:00 Welcome new project team member – AI, Gediminas Buivydas, Head of Digital Innovation LAB, ISM

10:00 – 10:15 With great power comes … great PMO? Halla Margrét Hinriksdóttir, Project manager at Orka náttúrunnar

10:15 – 10:30 Fire and brimstone: The Reykjanes peninsula. A project managers perspective, David Lynch, Head Project Manager at Almannavarnir (Civil Protection) RLS

10:30 – 10:45 Making MSc in Project management work: personal journeyViktor Steinarsson, Department manager at AdvaniaHugrún Ösp Reynisdóttir, PMO leader at VeitaBryndís Pjetursdóttir, Project manager at PMO, Verkís

10:45 – 11:00 Relocation break

11:00 – 12:30 Workshops1. Applying AI in Everyday Project Management: Practical Use Cases, led by Gediminas Buivydas
2. The Future is Now: Sustainable Practices in Project Management, led by Raminta Šuminskienė
3. Surviving or thriving? Future of PMOs and PMOs of the future, led by Dr. Reinhard Wagner and Prof. Inga Minelgaite, PhD.
4. House of Quality: A project manager’s guide to integrating customer vision to internal action, led by Adeel Akmal

12:30 – 13:00 Results from the workshops presented

13:00 Closing of the event

MSc in Project Management and MA in International Business and Project Management presents a conference and workshop for project managers, middle managers and academics.

Project management day