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The 7th Project Management Conference

Friday, November 17, 2023

8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) Cyprus Chapter has fulfilled one of its primary goals to establish one of a kind Annual Project Management Event. Following last years’ successful events, this November 17th, the conference will be held in Limassol at City of Dreams, Mediterranean.

It is now widely acknowledged that project management can provide value to organisations and to people with a variety of roles in a vast range of endeavours and drive change in today’s disruptive economy.

As the world’s leading organisation on project management, PMI empowers people to make ideas a reality. Through global advocacy, networking, collaboration, research, and education, PMI prepares organizations and individuals to work smarter in an ever-changing and dynamic world. PMI is a “for-purpose” organization working in nearly every country around the world to advance careers, strengthen organizational success, and enable changemakers with new skills and ways of working to maximize their impact.

The PMI Cyprus Chapter has successfully managed to establish the Project Management Conference as the main Project Management event in Cyprus, bringing together a diverse local and international audience.

Event Information

Friday, November 17, 2023
  • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • City of Dreams Mediterranean, 271 Fragklinou Rousvelt, Zakaki, Cyprus
  • Greek
  • Free

Table of Contents

Agenda
Speakers
Sponsors
Organiser
Coordinator

Agenda

The conference will start at 09:00 and will conclude at 16:00.  A detailed agenda will be available in due course.  Meanwhile, below are the topics the speakers will be presenting during the conference:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The positive and the negative disruptions – Geetha Gopal, Chief Operating Officer, Verdana
  • Engaging Leaders in Major Hazard Safety – Tim Ingram, Managing Director, Strategic Safety Consultants Ltd
  • Cognitive Diversity – the diversity your team isn’t thinking about! – Teresa Lawrence, President, International Deliverables, LLC
  • Transformational delivery for sustainable positive impact – Sina Zavertha, Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations, KPMG
  • Resilient Project Management through Effective Dispute Resolution – Nicos Elia, Partner, Nicos M. Elia LLC
  • Embracing Emotions: Navigating Adversity with Resilience and Growth – Lucila Dotto, Europe Head of Community, PMI

Thriving through Adversity – Panel Discussion

Paul Hodgkins (Coordinator)

  • Representatives by KPMG, Newcytech, Talent Team, Cyta and Goldman Solutions
  • KPMG: Antonis Bargilly – Board Member – Management Consulting
  • Newcytech: Artemios G. Andreou – Business Development Manager
  • Talent Team Consulting: Kypros Kyprianou – Managing Director
  • Cyta Business: Niki Ioannou Chandriotou – Head of Business Solutions
  • Goldman Solutions: Andreas Chrysafis – Primus Inter Pares

Please download Conference Agenda HERE!

Speakers

Teresa Lawrence Keynote Speaker

Teresa Lawrence Keynote Speaker

President, International Deliverables, LLC, USAeresa Lawrence,

PhD, PMP is recognized as the SME on the integration of Creative Problem Solving into Project Management. Since 2017, over 85K people have participated in one of her in-person or virtual trainings, workshops, keynotes or facilitated sessions. Teresa is a master facilitator of FourSight, the industry leading assessment that reveals individual and team preferences toward the problem solving and innovation process. Teresa provides professional services in creativity, creative problem solving, process evaluation, project management and a variety of development supports to help organizations innovate and implement solutions that build organizational capacity and ensure value realization. Dr. Lawrence is president and owner of International Deliverables, LLC, a New York State Women Business Enterprise (WBE) and a 2019 Small Business Administration Home-based Business Award recipient.

Lucila Dotto

Lucila Dotto

Europe Head of Community, PMI

Lucila leads the team that works to connect, enable, and empower PMI Community in Europe. She is an SME in culture transformation, leadership development and behavioural change. Before joining PMI, she worked for KMPG in the People Consulting team and as Global Culture Senior Manager leading KPMG’s purpose reinvigoration strategy. While leaving in Argentina, she co-founded her own boutique consulting. She is passionate about education. She worked for eight years at San Andres university, where she served in different director roles. An interesting fact? Lucila wrote a book in Spanish, which translates as ‘Have the courage to be yourself

Nicos Elia

Nicos Elia

Partner, Nicos M. Elia LLC, Cyprus

Nicos Elia is a UK trained lawyer and Chartered Quantity Surveyor with over 35 years of experience in the Construction industry and Construction Law. He excels in providing exemplary service to major stakeholders in the construction industry, offering expertise in contract drafting, claims preparation, and dispute resolution. Nicos is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CEDR accredited mediator, actively contributing to the field through lectures and seminars. Holding official positions and actively participating in committees, including Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Cyprus Branch, Nicos is a professional focused on excellence in construction and engineering dispute resolution.

Geetha Gopal

Geetha Gopal

Chief Operating Officer, Verdana, Singapore

Geetha Gopal is an accomplished senior management professional based in Singapore. She is a PMI Future 50 awardee, a Masters from Oxford and a sought-after public speaker with extensive international speaking engagements for some of the most prestigious tech and management conferences around the world. She is a hands-on leader with experience delivering high-value, strategic investments including AI, IT infrastructure, Data Centres, Digital transformation, Product ownership, Cross functional programmes and blank sheet assignments for two multinational organizations. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Verdana, where she leads their overall Operations, Projects, Sales, IT, Partnerships, and Customer Relations. Her last role was with Panasonic where she headed the Regional Infrastructure Projects Delivery and Digital Transformation team and their strategic projects and huge infrastructure project portfolio. Prior to that she worked in Daimler for almost a decade, on various areas of IT Infrastructure and AI products. She also holds a Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering, Executive MBA and PMP.

Tim Ingram

Tim Ingram

Managing Director, Strategic Safety Consultants Ltd, UK

An accomplished Safety and Enterprise Risk professional, strategist, speaker and Non-Executive Director with over 30 years’ safety experience, Tim spent 13 years at the UK’s Health & Safety Executive, primarily as the Principal Inspector responsible for the inspection and enforcement of gas and pipeline facilities, onshore and offshore, across Scotland. Having held a number of Head of Function and Director level H&S roles at major organisations including Wood Group, Maersk Oil UK, Port of Tyne, he was ultimately appointed Group HSSE Director at Dana Petroleum plc.  While at Dana he became the Corporate HSE Advisor to Dana’s parent company, the Korea National Oil Corporation in Seoul, South Korea, in the office of the President and Risk Management. Tim now owns and operates a small specialist safety consultancy focusing on strategic and corporate H&S, safety leadership and culture, corporate risk, and due diligence matters across a wide range of organisations and industries both in the UK and Europe. He is also a Non-Executive Director, currently sitting on David MacBrayne Ltd. and CalMac Ferries Ltd. Boards, serving as Chair of the David MacBrayne HSEQ Committee.

Sina Zavertha

Sina Zavertha

Senior Manager, KPMG, Cyprus

Sina is a Senior Manager in KPMG Cyprus and is leading the Transformational Program and Project Management services. Sina is a qualified project professional with several years of experience in London, in wide-range and multimillion euro projects, cost assessments and economic appraisals across an array of sectors, including Technology, Finance, Transportation, Water, Energy, and Infrastructure. Sina specialises in supporting companies to streamline their project delivery model and achieve operational excellence. She has been leading project delivery of large and complex projects for some of the biggest organisations in Cyprus, mainly focusing in the financial and banking sectors, and she is experienced in setting up and leading PMOs and complex technology programs, managing change, and multidisciplinary teams.

Sponsors

Main Sponsor

KPMG
KPMG

Sponsors & Strategic Telecom Partner

Talentteam
Talentteam
NEWCYTECH
NEWCYTECH
CYTA Business
CYTA Business

International Keynote Speaker Sponsor

ODYSSEY CYBERSECURITY
ODYSSEY CYBERSECURITY

Contributing Sponsors

XM
XM
KANIKLIDES
KANIKLIDES
HF MARKETS
HF MARKETS
AC Goldman Solutions & Services GSS Ltd
AC Goldman Solutions & Services GSS Ltd
K. Treppides & Co Ltd
K. Treppides & Co Ltd
AGC Contractors
AGC Contractors
Hellenic Technical Enterprises Ltd
Hellenic Technical Enterprises Ltd
cdbbank (Cyprus Development Bank)
cdbbank (Cyprus Development Bank)
Bank of Cyprus Group
Bank of Cyprus Group
NetU
NetU

Support Sponsors

Ace Training and Development Centre
Ace Training and Development Centre
Supernova Consulting
Supernova Consulting
Qobrix
Qobrix
JCC Payment Systems
JCC Payment Systems

Worshop Sponsor

FOURSIGHT
FOURSIGHT

Educational Sponsor

New Horizons
New Horizons
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Organiser

PMI Cyprus Chapter

The Project Management Institute (PMI), established in 1969, is a globally recognized not-for-profit organization advocating for the project, program, and portfolio management profession. Serving over 2.9 million professionals worldwide, PMI provides value through advocacy, collaboration, education, and research. The PMI Cyprus Chapter, founded in 2016, has over 230 members and is a respected professional body for project management in Cyprus. Recognized as an authority in the discipline, the Chapter won the prestigious “Chapter of the Year Award” (25-300 members) in 2020. Its primary objective is to foster the growth and development of project management professionals in Cyprus. By promoting awareness of the critical role of project management, the Chapter aims to enhance the knowledge, skills, and competencies of project managers, driving excellence in project delivery and organizational performance.

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Coordinator

TOP KINISIS

Top Kinisis specializes in Conference Management since 1990. Having handled some of the largest and most prestigious conferences that ever took place in Cyprus, it is today considered one of the leading Professional Conference Organizers in Cyprus.

With a vast international network of partners and an experienced conference team, Top Kinisis can also provide conference management services in any country in the world in the same efficient manner.

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