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Project Management Exhibition

What Is Project Forum?

Project Forum is a free-to-attend, industry-leading event comprising a comprehensive exhibition, a structured seminar programme, and a focused roundtable discussion series.

Designed to facilitate the exchange of expertise and best practices, the event brings together a diverse mix of industry leaders, experienced professionals, and emerging talent to share knowledge, exchange fresh ideas, and explore innovative approaches to managing projects successfully.

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Who Should Attend

Leaders

Portfolio leaders

Managers

Project & programme managers

PMOs

PMO professionals

Professionals

Change & transformation professionals

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What’s On

Seminars

Insightful talks from industry experts, thought leaders, and innovators

Roundtables

Informal, peer-to-peer sessions that create space for shared exploration

Exhibition area

Discover innovative products, services, and solutions from leading organisations

Networking café

A place to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas in a relaxed environment

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PPM That Really Works – In the Microsoft Platform You Already Own

Power Framework

Time

10.00 - 10.30

Details

Most organisations already own a powerful Microsoft stack - Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Teams, Planner, Project, Azure DevOps, Fabric, Copilot. And yet… content is still disconnected, reporting is manual, PMOs feel stuck as reporting factories rather than strategic partners, AI…

Key Features

Your Key Takeaways from this session:

  • Clearer thinking on what “PPM that works” actually means in your organisation
  • Perspectives on using your Microsoft platform more effectively
  • Practical ideas for improving adoption and usability
  • Peer insight into automation, AI, and governance…
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Multi-Project Delivery in Practice

What actually helps keep all the balls in the air

Time

1.00 - 1.30

Details

Managing multiple projects at the same time is now the norm, yet much of project management guidance still assumes stable priorities, clear ownership, and uninterrupted focus. In reality, practitioners are constantly navigating competing demands, shifting expectations, incomplete information, and limited…

Key Features

In this guided discussion, we’ll discuss what “realistic workload” actually looks like in today’s organisations, and share peer advice for how to create boundaries, keep work moving forward when everything is a priority, and how to reset expectations with…

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When Speaking Up Isn’t Enough: Turning Honesty into Better Decisions

Time

10.00 - 10.30

Details

Psychological safety is often framed as a cultural goal, but its real value is only realised when it changes the quality of decisions being made. Many teams say it’s “safe to speak up”, yet still struggle to act when uncomfortable…

Key Features

This Birds of a Feather session will leave you with:

  • Practical ideas for responding when difficult information is raised
  • New ways to frame meetings, reporting, and escalation conversations
  • Clear, immediately usable actions they can try in their own teams to…
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Making ePMO Services Work in Practice

Time

1.00 - 1.30

Details

This informal discussion builds on the seminar (11.30 Zone 2) by giving participants space to explore how EPMO services work (or don’t) in their own organisations.

Attendees will share experiences, challenges and approaches to establishing enterprise-level PMO services in different…

Key Features

Attendees will share experiences, challenges and approaches to establishing enterprise-level PMO services in different contexts.

Participants leave with practical ideas, shared perspectives and next steps they can take back to their own PMO context.

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Providing the tools for Project Managers to be proactive

Time

10.00 - 10.30

Details

This session focuses on helping project managers move from reactive to proactive delivery, using tools that highlight risk early rather than after things have gone wrong.

Mark Dobryniewski, Sales Director at Ninth Wave will help explore how to spot early warning…

Key Features

Attendees will leave with practical ways to spot early warning signs, use tools to stay on top of the critical path and bottlenecks, and apply lessons learned to make more proactive project decisions.

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From LLMs to AI Agents to Agentic Layers

Time

13.00 - 13.30

Details

The session will open with a short, practical introduction that takes attendees through:

  • What an LLM is (and where it helps today)
  • What an AI Agent is (and how it differs from a chatbot or copilot)
  • What an agentic layer…

Key Features

This Birds of a Feather session will leave you with:

  • A clear mental model of LLMs vs AI Agents vs agentic working
  • Practical examples mapped directly to PMO and PM responsibilities
  • Better questions to ask their own organisations, suppliers, and…
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Harnessing the power of what people think, feel and believe in project delivery

Techniques for measuring and sharing Human-Centric Data (HCD)

Time

10.00 - 10.30

Details

Projects are increasingly data-driven, with information about everything from the number of lines of code written to the tons of concrete poured, or from percentage of progress achieved to the volume of change requests generated.

Unfortunately, all of this activity…

Key Features

This Birds of a Feather gets into questions like; why projects are all about emotions, beliefs and perceptions, what kinds of ratings you can use to capture all this, what happens when you share HCD back with people; using the…

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Practical activities for building collaboration between users and the project team

Time

14.00 - 14.30

Details

In this session Melanie will walk you through techniques for engaging users from the start to the end of the project lifecycle, using neuroscience to ensure each activity is a brain-smart way of triggering a positive environment that supports collaboration.

Melanie…

Key Features

In this session, Melanie explores practical techniques for engaging users across the full project lifecycle, using neuroscience to create brain-smart activities that encourage collaboration and build a positive, supportive environment.

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Finding Courage

Time

13.00 - 13.30

Details

What does it mean to be courageous? Saving someone from drowning or perhaps standing up for moral principles. They are definitely courageous acts, but have you ever thought about that quiet inner courage? One which others don’t notice but helps…

Key Features

An understanding of the different types of courage and be inspired to act more courageously, and update the view of themselves to one which is more positive.

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What Projects Teach Teams About Change (Whether PMs Mean To or Not)

Time

11.00 - 11.30

Details

As the World Health Organisation highlights systems thinking as a critical future skill, this session helps project professionals understand how their delivery choices shape organisational behaviour over time, not just project outcomes. It shapes how teams interpret risk. It reinforces…

Key Features

This Birds of a Feather session will leave you with these outcomes:

  • Understand how repeated project experiences shape trust, confidence, and fatigue over time, and why this affects how smoothly future work runs.
  • Leave with a simple way to review their…
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PPM That Really Works – In the Microsoft Platform You Already Own Copy

Power Framework

Time

1.00 - 1.30

Details

Most organisations already own a powerful Microsoft stack - Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Teams, Planner, Project, Azure DevOps, Fabric, Copilot. And yet… content is still disconnected, reporting is manual, PMOs feel stuck as reporting factories rather than strategic partners, AI…

Key Features

Your Key Takeaways from this session:

  • Clearer thinking on what “PPM that works” actually means in your organisation
  • Perspectives on using your Microsoft platform more effectively
  • Practical ideas for improving adoption and usability
  • Peer insight into automation, AI, and governance…
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CVs That Actually Get Interviews

Time

11.00 - 11.30

Details

Job hunting in project management can feel opaque, repetitive, and frankly frustrating. This Birds of a Feather session is a practical, peer-led discussion focused on what really works when it comes to CVs for project, programme, portfolio, and PMO roles.

The…

Key Features

This Birds of a Feather session is a practical, peer-led discussion focused on what really works when it comes to CVs for project, programme, portfolio, and PMO roles.

This session is ideal for anyone considering a move, returning to the market,…

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The Location

The Business Design Centre is a Grade II listed building located between Upper Street and Liverpool Road in the district of Islington in London, England.

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