Schedule
* – Sessions that occur twice
Jump to: Tuesday – November 22, 2011
Monday – November 21, 2011
| 7:00 | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 8:00 | Keynote: Industrial Megaprojects – Concepts, Strategies and Practices | Ed Merrow |
| 9:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 9:45 | ||
| Project Sponsorship and Managing Up | Dr. Dale Christenson | |
| The Power of Networking | Louise Chalupiak | |
| Does your PMO Produce Multiple Obstacles for Your Agile Project or Promote Many Opportunities for Success? | Mike Griffiths | |
| Agile Portfolio Management With a Twist: Achieve Value Through Results | Gurpreet Singh and Mark Rover | |
| Program Management Panel: Program Management Identity Crisis (Part I) |
IT Panelists | |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | ||
| Stoney Trail Ring Road Project | Garry Lamb | |
| What do you need to do to get ready for GO? Lessons from research and history | Dr. Jenny Krahn and Dr. Janice Thomas | |
| Leveraging the Cloud to Build Enterprise Business Continuity | Sheetal Jaitly and Mark Fossen | |
| Change Management | Dr. Dale Christenson | |
| Program Management Panel: Program Management Identity
Crisis (Part II) |
IT Panelists | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Keynote: Project Management Champions | Mark Tewksbury and Debbie Muir |
| 14:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:45 | ||
| Mega Project Management from the Trenches - The Workface Planning Platform | Geoff Ryan | |
| How to Train Your Project Sponsor | Yogi Schulz | |
| Agile:Easier Said than Done | Peter McCurdy | |
| Creating The Project Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) | Lee Lambert | |
| Creating Synergy: How to Create Winning Teams and Achieve Outstanding Results | Mark Tewksbury and Debbie Muir | |
| 15:45 | Break | |
| 16:00 | ||
| Creating Synergy: How to Create Winning Teams and Achieve Outstanding Results (Repeat) | Mark Tewksbury and Debbie Muir | |
| How the Grinch Stole PMmas | Wayne Rambow | |
| Project, Change and Benefits in Track and Field Context | Jeffrey Wallace | |
| To PMP, or not to PMP? That is the question… | Lee Lambert | |
| The Next Generation in Software Estimation | Aaron Stein | |
| 17:00 | PMI-SAC Networking Event Cocktail Reception | |
Tuesday – November 22, 2011
| 7:00 | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 8:00 | Keynote: Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change | Jeremy Gutsche |
| 9:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 9:45 | ||
| A Window Seat: Cultural Intelligence Meets Project Management | Monica Semeniuk | |
| 2010 PMI Project of the Year: National Ignition Facility | Patrick Coyle | |
| Lessons in Estimating: Agile vs. Waterfall (Part 1) | Ethier Associates | |
| Project Monitoring, Control and Forecasting The Future | Lee Lambert | |
| Mega Projects in Alberta (Part I) | EPC Panelists | |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | ||
| Design, Construction and Commissioning Regional Pipelines | Shawn Pillai | |
| Sustainable Teams - 12 Steps to Growing a Sustainable Team | Tyler Hayden | |
| Lessons in Estimating: Agile vs. Waterfall (Part 2) | Ethier Associates | |
| New Thinking in Project Management | Anne Macleod, Jim Duggan, Robert Gerst | |
| Mega Projects in Alberta (Part II) | EPC Panelists | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Keynote: Cold Leadership: Extraordinary Leadership: Ernest Shackleton | Brian Keating |
| 14:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:45 | ||
| Surviving a Catastrophic Project Failure | Michael Gaccioli | |
| Privacy by Design | Sharon Polsky | |
| Birds of A Feather | Nettie Sample | |
| Successful Stakeholder Engagement in the 21st Century: Art? Science? … or Both? | Stuart Culbertson, MA, CMC | |
| Using Pilot Project Techniques for Innovations and Advancement | Shane Zbrodoff | |
| 15:45 | Break | |
| 16:00 | Keynote: Leadership in Tough Times | General Rick Hillier |
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