A New World View: Our Global Impact

By 2030, smart machines, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and robotics will augment and amplify human intelligence to play distinct roles in projects, such as data collection, analysis and reporting. Much of the work of today’s project management office (PMO) will be eliminated.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: (1) Discuss how new technologies and systems (AI, ML, robotics) will affect what work is done and how it is done; (2) Explain how to use natural language processing and ML to enable processing of unstructured data, predictive and prescriptive analytics and automation of tasks that involve judgment.

Imagine you’re an enterprise architect for a financial technology company. You’ve been tasked with leading a new team to re-architect how data flow through your systems. This is a major project, one that’s a critical prerequisite for a 2.0 redesign of your company’s technology. You’ve been given six months to deliver. Oh, and you don’t have any project management experience. Where do you start?

Enter Kickoff, a free digital learning tool that helps inexperienced project managers launch successful projects—from start to finish—in just 45 minutes. In this session, you will:

• Learn why basic project management knowledge is the unspoken backbone for your career
• Tour the tool that will help you acquire the project skills you need to thrive

Learning Objective:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: Develop a critical and fundamental project management skillset in just 45 minutes.