Agenda
Agenda
The first part of the Conference will be dedicated to high value presentations and discussions with global project management professionals. The lounge area will be crowded with stands for networking, learning about new products and services to project managers and their companies.
The second part of the event will take place at the premises of international and local companies based in Vilnius with dedicated presentations and sites visits. More information about site visits and registration form can be found here. Site visits are complimentary for ONSITE ticket holders.
And after site visits we would like to see you back to TransferGo rooftop terrace for our networking party!
KEYNOTE - Project Management in the Public Sector: A Great Idea That Went Nowhere?
Applying project-based management in government institutions.
Exploring why implementation often fails — from unclear ownership to cultural resistance.
Attendees will gain practical insights on how to structure teams, define ownership, and drive outcomes in complex bureaucratic settings.
KEYNOTE - Telia Lithuania: to transform or not to transform?
Discover key lessons from a complex transformation of back-end IT systems in a Telia Lithuanian.
Learn how planning, prioritization, and communication helped tackle legacy modernization and manage resource-intensive challenges.
KEYNOTE - Human Robot Agent: Redesigning Work in the Age of AI
Embrace the transformative power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its sweeping impact on the workplace, leadership, and organizational design.
This session unpacks highlights from the new book Human Robot Agent, exploring practical strategies to embrace innovation, navigate complexity, and harness AI to thrive in a socio-technological and wicked world.
- Understand AI's Role in New Ways of Working: Identify how technology reshapes traditional business structures and ways of working.
- Embrace Disruptive Innovation: Learn actionable approaches to lead change and be the disruptor rather than embracing change and be the disrupted.
- Cultivate New Skills and Mindsets: Explore the shift towards multi-skilled (M-skilled) workers and leadership adaptability in AI-driven networks.
- Design for a Dynamic Future: Discover patterns and practices for building vital, dynamic, versatile, and ethically conscious organizations.
KEYNOTE - From growth to greatness: unlock your potential, lead with impact, and become a future-ready PM
The path from growth to greatness is built on daily improvements, emotional intelligence, and unlocking your potential to lead in complex environments.
Through real stories and practical insights, this speech explores how empathy, communication, and psychological safety drive high-performing teams.
With actionable strategies and a vision for the future, you will be empowered to embrace continuous learning, foster collaboration, and develop the essential leadership skills needed to thrive as the PM of tomorrow in an ever-evolving world.
Panel discussion - They Just Don’t Get It: Fixing the Executive Disconnect
Ever feel like your execs just don’t get the PMO? You’re not alone. All too often, project professionals speak the language of governance, process, and delivery while executives are focused on outcomes, risk, and strategic value. The result?
Misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and projects that fail to deliver.
This panel tackles the executive-PMO disconnect head-on. We’ll explore how to reframe your messaging so it resonates in the boardroom, how to position your PMO as a driver of business value (not just governance police), and how to make the CFO, COO, and CEO actually want you in the room.
If you're ready to stop being sidelined and start being heard, this one's for you.
Lessons from Health Innovation. The Diagnosis Was Clear. The Project Wasn’t: Why Health Innovation Fails (and What I Learned After 300 Startups)
Have you ever had a brilliant idea to solve a clear problem, only to see the project fail in execution? This presentation addresses the critical gap often observed in health innovation. Drawing on invaluable lessons from over 300 startups, this session will explore why promising initiatives in the healthcare sector often fall apart during their implementation phase.
Join us to gain practical strategies that bridge the gap between vision and sustainable impact. You will learn to:
• Identify and anticipate key failure points in innovation projects.
• Strengthen strategic execution by bridging the gap between vision and implementation.
• Recognize and apply practical tactics for managing inherent uncertainty.
• Improve cross-functional communication essential between different teams (clinical, technical, and executive teams).
Discover how to turn your strong ideas into lasting success in the complex world of health innovation.
Desirable Behaviours for Project Managers
Project Management is oven seen as a purely methodological approach, whereby it is only required to correctly apply this methodology to succeed with a project or program.
This view is far from being correct: while a structured approach to manage complexity as represented in projects and programs is a crucial pre-requisite, soft skills – and here in particular a certain pattern of behaviors – is absolutely and indeed foremost required to reach the finish line.
This interactive session compares results of a brief exploratory survey among the conference participants’ behaviors related to managing projects or programs with behavior standards based on the personal experience of the author.
The results of this comparison will be directly presented to the audience in an attempt to help members of the audience better understand where their gaps are. Some guidelines for gap-closing measures will be presented, too.
How to manage megaprojects like Rail Baltica?
A presentation on managing international and complex mega-projects such as Rail Baltica.
As a very large and complex project, Rail Baltica faces several implementation challenges, such as decision-making, design subtleties, supply chains, etc. There are constant questions about how the project should be managed, whether it should be centralized or decentralized, and who makes the final decisions.
The presentation will answer questions about key challenges faced and how and what helped overcome them. What challenges lie ahead.
Why 70% of AI Projects Fail
Only 30% of AI projects succeed globally —a statistic that highlights how challenging it is to turn AI’s potential into real business value. In this talk, the speaker will share how that trend was challenged at the Bank of Georgia by developing a tailored AI project management approach that led to a 75% success rate. The session will explore the common reasons AI projects fail and what project managers and product owners can do differently — from stakeholder engagement to AI-specific project and communication strategies.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
• Lessons from a real case study that achieved a 75% success rate
• Techniques to shift focus from building “cool” AI solutions to delivering real business value
• Strategies to manage stakeholder expectations and keep them actively engaged throughout the AI project
• Ways to manage AI-specific risks, roles, and requirements
• Tools to align and engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• What PMs need to unlearn and relearn to lead AI projects confidently
STAND IN YOUR PLACE
Knowing who you are and choosing your place is a strength. Not because someone assigned it to you, but because you decided it yourself.
To stand in your place means doing what you do best and acting where you feel needed.
Trust yourself, make your own decisions, and stand firmly in your place.
International Vilnius Airport
Site visit to International Vilnius Airport. Lithuanian airports adopted a strategy to reach net zero emissions in airport operations in 2050. During this visit you will hear a presentation how Vilnius airport will control CO2 emissions in line with increasing connectivity and extension of passenger terminal. After the presentation, you will have a unique opportunity to see around the airside territory, learn what is the progress of the new terminal construction and other airside infrastructure.
Group size: 30 people
Energy Cells
Site visit to the largest project in the Baltics and one of the largest of its kind in Europe Energy cells worth 109 million Euros. Joining this site visit, you will have the opportunity to see the Battery site in Vilnius park.
Experts of Energy cells will deliver a presentation about the challenges and lessons learnt implementing this strategically important project for Lithuania’s energy security.
Group size: 20 people
Accenture Lithuania
Accenture Delivery Centers develop and scale innovations across the largest and most diversified group of strategy
& consulting, interactive, technology and operations professionals in the world.
Accenture has a broad global footprint, with offices and operations in 120 countries. Through this connected network, we unleash the power of One Accenture by applying intelligence, deep industry and functional experience and continuous innovation and agility at massive scale, to help our clients transform their businesses and lead in the New.
Accenture Advanced Technology Center in Latvia was established in 2002. As we are continuously looking for better ways to serve our clients needs, we have established new delivery location in Lithuania under joint Baltic Advanced Technology Center brand in 2021.
Group size: 20 people
SEB Lithuania
SEB is the largest bank in Lithuania, its building is included into the list of “Open house Vilnius” program.
The building’s design is energy efficient and environmentally friendly. As of now, it is the first and only administrative building in the Baltic States to merit the Oscar Award for new construction: a BREEAM Outstanding New Construction Certificate. Minimalism and bold transparency are on display throughout the SEB building. Its strong emphasis on public spaces, innovation, and sustainability is intrinsic to modern architecture at its best.
Group size: 30 people
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