1. Professional Development Day 2013
Keynote Speaker:
Governor Pat Quinn
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Do not miss the Premier Event of 2013!
Hurry, before registration closes on October 28, 2013!
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FEES
Chapter Members $399
Non-Chapter Members $449
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PMP: 8 PDUs
DATE: Friday November 1, 2013
LOCATION: Meridian Banquets 1701 W Algonquin Rd Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Participate in a conference with a dynamic line-up of speakers in
four knowledge tracks. The knowledge tracks for PDD 2013 include:
Program Management
Portfolio Management
Stakeholder Management
Risk Management
Procurement
Agile
Collaboration
Emerging Trends
Leadership Lessons
from the C Suite
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2. PMI Chicagoland Chapter:
Professional Development Day - November 1, 2013
Chicagoland Chapter Professional Development Day 2013
tinyurl.com/pddchi2013
TRACK 1 TRACK 2 TRACK 3 TRACK 4
Start
Time
Program Management
Portfolio Management
Agile
Collaboration
Emerging Trends
Stakeholder Management
Procurement
Risk Management
Leadership Lessons
from the C Suite
8:00 Alignment Agility: Getting
Beyond the Triple Constraints
Craig Crook
Rethink Company
Agile: Nuts and Bolts
Len Lagestee
SPR/Redpoint Technologies
Multisourcing: Moving
Beyond Outsourcing
George Wang
Vijay Murugappan, VP IM
HCSC (BCBSIL)
9:15 The Secret Sauce for
Project, Program and Portfolio
Managers
Amy Martin & Team
Aon Hewitt
Conversational Intelligence
in an Agile World
Si Alhir
Redpoint Technologies
TBD Ron Roberts, EVP CIO
Motorola Solutions
10.30 Pulling the Trigger
on Portfolio Management
Brian Kaminski
Allstate Insurance
Our Transformation Journey
to Enterprise Stable Teams
and Servant Leadership
Susan Courtney, SVP CIO
BCBSNE
Skills for Success:
The Dale Carnegie Approach
to Stakeholder Management
Mark Wilson
Greg Haecker,
EVP and GM Benefits
Administration
Aon Hewitt
11.30 Luncheon and Keynote:
Leveraging Project Management for the State
Governor Pat Quinn
1.15 Case Study: How a PMO Was
Built in a Company Where PMO
Was a Dirty Word
Amy Martin
Aon Hewitt
Forming, Storming and
Norming The Agile Way
Scotty Bevill
Bevill Edge
TBD Lydia Murray
CIO Cook County
2:30 How to Optimize the Project
Portfolio for Change
Michael Vinje
Trissential, LLC
Agile Customer Collaboration
Richard Dolman
Agile Transformation Inc.
Lean vs. Six Sigma: Two
Sides of the Same Coin?
Brent Tadsen
Adaptive Solutions
Brent Tadsen
Former CIO, COO, CTO
TransUnion
3:45 Financial Oversight for
Your Project / Program /
Portfolio
Jennifer Hill
Trillium Solutions Group
Risk Management in
an Agile Lifecycle
Elena Yatzeck, VP Chief Agilist
JP Morgan Chase
Risk Management:
A Must in Today's Global
Economy OR Terry
Schmidt and the Logical
Framework Approach
(LFA)
TBD
5:00 Aligning Project Portfolio
Selection to Corporate
Strategies Using Business
Capability Based Planning
David Heidt
Alan D. Newman
Amy Nguyen
DePaul University
Project Management
in the "Cloud"
Richard Pless
Takeda Choon
Aun Quek
Google
TBD TBD
Note: Each session is 60 minutes followed by a 15 minute break/networking session