The speakers at a glance

Richa Sethi

AMAZON

Learn & Adapt to Win

Change is the way forward and adapting to any change becomes crucial to succeed. Through this session, audience will be able to understand how to navigate change, learn and adapt the change to win. Digital evolution contributed to change in project management(PM) methodologies creating a generation of PM tools and methods. We will explore the journey of change, navigation, acceptance and adapting to deliver. This presentation is based on experience over the last 2 decades in the industry.

SAFE and CSM certified technical portfolio manager with over 20 years’ of experience in managing multimillion-dollar programs facilitating execution with strategic solutions and managing through Agile methodologies. I have broad industry experience from transportation and logistics to Aviation, Capital markets & communications delivering state of the art scalable technical solutions.

Sarah Travis

Level5ive Consulting Ltd

SIMONA CRETU

Embracing The Art Of Slow Business

Sarah and Simona present on the negative impacts of following a 'hustle culture' and the importance of living life in the slow lane; both from a personal and professional capacity.

Their goal in exploring this topic is to empower women to courageously search and find a meaningful balance between work and life in order to thrive and re-introduce an element of joy and creativity in their day-to-day experiences.

SARAH TRAVIS
Leveraging her 15+ years of experience, Sarah supports Organisations in successfully delivering digital transformation initiatives. In particular she strives to design and implement simple, streamlined yet effective systems which improve end-user experience and encourages the adoption of new toolsets.

SIMONA CRETU
Simona has 20 years’ experience in project and portfolio management digital transformation, solution architecture, business analysis and business process automation. Over the years she conducted the design, build and implementation of large scale digital solutions, powered by Oracle PPM technologies. Simona is a SAFe Agilist and specializes in IT solutions integration methodologies, artificial intelligence and cyber security

Cristina Mas-Peiro

AIRBUS

Strategic Sustainability in Projects: People, Planet, Prosperity

Sustainable project management is a discipline of increasing interest. In an ever-changing world, with new expectations from stakeholders, organisations are actively incorporating environmental and socially-responsible practices into their businesses. Adding sustainable goals into project strategy is key and organisations must direct their efforts towards developing a solid sustainability framework. How can we as PMs successfully integrate sustainability into the entire project life-cycle?

Cristina Mas-Peiro is as a Project Leader for new developments at Airbus, managing complex technical projects with transnational teams across sites. She brings extensive international experience, fluency in 5 languages and background in Business and Engineering, now completing her part-time PhD Eng. in Sustainability.

Louise Jevens

Department of Justice

Generating Public Value through Dynamic Project Management and Change Management Frameworks

In today's ever-evolving world, public service organizations continually strive to create value for the citizens they serve. A crucial part of this effort involves project management and change management to ensure that public services are efficient, effective, and people-centric. In Department of Justice a newly established Project Management Office and robust Change Management framework have been instrumental in delivering meaningful changes to public services.

Louise is the Department of Justice's Chief Information Officer and has responsibility for the Change, Technology and Innovation Function. The key role of this function is to support the Department in achieving its strategic objectives through the provision and implementation of the digital strategy. 

Nicole Williams

Televisa-Univision

The Agile Executive

An Agilist's job is to work as a behind-the-scenes servant leader. So, what happens when that change agent becomes a senior executive? Executives are expected to exert control and influence and to talk very loudly. That’s what they are being paid for, isn’t it? Join Nicole Williams, SVP of PMO at Televisa-Univision, for a candid, self-effacing look on how she reconciled her Agile background with her role as a senior executive and learn how to apply these lessons to your own leadership journey.

Nicole Williams is a passionate Agilist who works as the SVP of PMO for Televisa-Unision’s ViX Spanish-language streaming service. Nicole is a lifelong learner who has studied traditional and Agile methodologies and run successful transformations at Verizon and Paramount’s PlutoTV.

Maia Dunphy

MC

Maia Dunphy is a Writer and Broadcaster who stepped in front of the camera after over a decade writing and producing behind it. Maia has written for many comedy shows over the years, but her first solo venture on screen was 'From Boom to Maternity' which she wrote and hosted for RTÉ as part of the Reality Bites Series. Her second documentary Merlot & Me was the highest rating Reality Bites series that year. She then went on to make two successful series of Maia Dunphy's What Women Want, followed by Maia Dunphy’s Truth About.
 
Maia set up parenting blog The M Word following the birth of her son in 2015, which soon after won Parenting Blog of the Year, and subsequently published a book of the same name. She won the coveted Irish Tatler Woman of the Year Award for Entertainment in 2014. Maia also has a great interest in the environment and wildlife, and since 2019 has hosted What Planet Are You On? for RTE, a groundbreaking show which helps families and viewers alike to make changes to their carbon footprint. 

Vicky Poole

Event Founder and Host

Vicky launched the Women in Project Management (WiPM) event in 2019 to bring together the leading female voices in the industry to share their knowledge, while encouraging and growing the next generation of female project management leaders.

Vicky is a founding member of the PM Summit since its inception, and also serves as a director at Program Management Information Services (PMIS) in Blessington. With over a decade of experience behind her, she pulls the double duty of overseeing the management of day to day duties for both the PM Summit and PMIS. 

While managing the internal team organising our events, Vicky is the main point of contact for most of our speakers and attendees, and she takes the lead in coordinating with external service providers and vendors. She has been instrumental in maintaining and growing the high quality of keynotes and speakers, while also guiding first-time and novice speakers into making top quality presentations to their peers.