2025 Symposium Schedule

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In this session, Ross Hughes will equip participants with practical strategies for navigating a VUCA environment. We’ll explore how to balance stability with adaptability, prioritize customer value, accelerate learning through experimentation and AI, harness collective intelligence, and combine management discipline with leadership agility. Real-world examples and a group exercise will bring these concepts to life and provide actionable takeaways.

In “Harnessing AI for Smarter Project Management,” Michael Joseph will guide attendees through the evolving landscape of AI tools, showcase real-world use cases across the project lifecycle, and teach how to craft high-impact prompts that unlock AI’s true potential.  Expect a practical, insightful, and energizing experience with one of the leading voices at the intersection of project leadership and AI innovation.

Busara Hall, PMICV's VP of Education, will be leading a 90-minute, high-energy project management hackathon unlike anything you’ve experienced before. You and your team will step into a real-world project challenge, racing against the clock to produce a viable Project Charter and Business Case for bragging rights and exclusive PMI Swag. Along the way, you’ll:

• Collaborate under pressure in a fun and competitive format.
• Learn and apply core project management principles in a practical, engaging way.
• Present your work to a panel for feedback, recognition and exclusive PMI swag.

This is your chance to test your skills, build new connections, and experience project management in a whole new way.  Don't miss it!