Keynote Speakers
Keynote 1
Acquiring Information Systems in northernSCOPE way
Mr. Pekka Forselius
CEO of 4SUM Partners Ltd, a Senior Advisor of the Finnish Software Measurement Association FiSMA and the Immediate Past President of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group
Abstract:
Project Scope Management is one of the ten knowledge areas of the Project Management Body of KnowledgeR. Good scope management cannot save a project alone, if there are problems with one or more other areas, but poor scope management can make a project fail, even if all the other knowledge areas were well managed. If you don’t know what you should provide, and how much, you will fail for sure. This is true especially in the software intensive IT industry, where the scope definition practices vary too much from case to case, and over time, and where very few people in the world seem to be capable to vision the future system at any point of the system life-cycle. Even more uncommon is the combination of capabilities to vision and quantify the scope of an Information System to be acquired.
Keynote 2
PM4.0 - project management for the next era
Mr. Till H. Balser
Founder of Tiba Managementberatung GmbH
Abstract:
The "fourth industrial revolution" is a result of the interaction between intelligent, networked systems and consequently integrated hardware and software development. Work areas and organisational units which have been functionally separate in the past have to be closely and successfully linked in projects and project teams. Thus the different work cultures and structures come into contact. On the one hand, the increasing complexity in projects has to be managed and on the other hand, the demand for agility requires fast, decentralised decisions at the functionally responsible interfaces.
Keynote 3
Business and Digital Transformation by Cognitive Computing
Dr. Kazushi Kuse
VP, CTO of IBM Japan
Abstract:
Enterprises in the worldwide have embraced the concepts of AI (Augmented Intelligence) and Cognitive Computing. Many are already applying these and other intelligent technologies to dramatically improve capability and productivity of their businesses while redefining the ways they engage with customers, partners and others. However, they need a way to prioritize their digital intelligence investments, as cognitive computing presents virtually endless possibilities across business processes and functions. Several cognitive projects will be described with their business challenges. Advanced technologies such as Neuromorphic Computing and Quantum Computing are also explained.
Keynote 4
The role of project management in the world of tomorrow (Industry 4.0)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmut Klausing
President of GPM Deusche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V.
Abstract:
The rapid digitalization in economy and society changes in a fundamental way our production methods and our working environment.
Introducing new and intelligent ways of creating added-value chains by interlacing production with modern and up-to-date information and communication technology will bring about completely new business models and processes in combination with changed market structures.
Keynote 5
Project management across cultures on the example of a multinational EU-Research-Project for "An Open Platform for the Smart City"
Prof. Dr. Lukas Rohr
Director Engineering and Information Technology, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Abstract:
In august 2016 Bern University of applied science has won an important EU-funded project together with partners in Japan and Europe. The goal is to develop a platform on which open government data combined with the internet of things is provided to a variety of users.
Keynote 6
Management 4.0: How Digitalization Drives the Transformation of Industries
Prof. Dr. Hubertus C. Tuczek
University of Applied Sciences Landshut, 84036 Landshut
TCC-Management - Strategy Consulting, 81247 Munich
Abstract:
Digitization is a game changing force for the whole industry. A new management approach is needed to overcome the paradigm of an analogue business world. Management 4.0 describes a leadership concept based on values, an agile mindset and the governance of self-organisation.
Special Lecture
Project Manager to Project Leader - The Difference that makes the Difference
Mr. Paul Hodgkins
Executive Director of Paul Hodgkins Project Consultancy
Former Siemens PM@Siemens Programme Executive for North West Europe
Abstract:
Our projects today are more challenging, complex and ambiguous than ever before.
The only thing as project managers we can be certain of is uncertainty and if we are not comfortable with the uncomfortable, then perhaps project management is not for us.