MIIP: Effective Project Controls - Driving Success in High-Impact Major Projects ~ with Case Studies | VIRTUAL
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MIIP Webinar #10: Effective Project Controls - Driving Success in High-Impact Major Infrastructure and Industrial Projects with Case Studies
Join us for yet another insightful MIIP-SIG professional development series. This event features five global experts and industry practitioners who will share cutting-edge strategies, including AI, and best practices for mastering project controls in complex and high-stakes projects. Make sure to take this chance to enhance your skills, gain valuable knowledge, and connect with leaders in the field. Register to be at the forefront of effective project management and drive your career to new heights.
After attending this webinar, you'll enhance knowledge in:
- Accurate Forecasting and Resource Optimisation: Learn to use schedule data for precise forecasts, improved resource allocation, and proactive risk management.
- Boosting Predictability and Consistency: Discover how to analyse project data to enhance predictability and execution in major projects.
- AI-Enhanced Project Delivery: Explore AI's role in improving forecasting accuracy for timelines, costs, and resources.
- AI-Driven Decision Making: Understand how AI uses historical data to improve decision-making and anticipate issues.
- Project Controls and Transformation: Get insights into implementing project controls frameworks, overcoming challenges, and managing large-scale transformations.
Highlights:
- Master Strategic Project Control: Learn how to elevate your role beyond data recovery to act as a strategic director for large projects.
- Implement Advanced Processes: Discover the essential processes and systems required to achieve advanced project control, a capability that sets you apart.
- Enhance Preparation and Setup: Understand how anticipating project execution by 6-9 months can significantly improve your project control setup and outcomes.
- Improve Risk Management: Gain skills in scheduled data analysis to identify risks early, reduce delays, and enhance overall project control.
- Optimise Forecasting and Resource Allocation: Learn how to use quality schedule data for accurate forecasting, better decision-making, and improved resource allocation for consistent project success.
- Ask questions
Presentation 1 by Jeremie Averous, Project Value Delivery (Singapore / France)
Project control as the strategy directorate of the project
Project control is the only part of a large project organisation that is not deep into daily project operations. It must rise above simply reporting status and forecast to become the strategic advisor of the project director. It must take the longer view to anticipate project phase transitions and identify longer term stumbling blocks.
In this presentation, based on his 15years+ working and consulting around project controls in megaprojects both from owner and contractor sides, Jeremie Averous will share what should be expected from project control, the 3 levels of project strategy maturity, and share a case study of successful strategic project control on a mega-project from the contractor perspective.
Presentation 2 by Michael Pink, SmartPM Technologies (USA)
The Value of Schedule Data for controlling project outcomes
CPM schedules contain vast amounts of valuable data, essential for managing and controlling project outcomes. Recent advancements in technology enable companies to analyse schedule data at scale, revealing effective project controls and actionable insights into risks, delays, and performance optimization. This presentation will demonstrate how leveraging schedule data can enhance risk management, improve predictability, and optimize resources, empowering organizations to achieve consistent, data-driven success.
Presentation 3 by Dev Amratia from nPlan (United Kingdom)
Using AI trained on 750k projects to forecast and de-risk project delivery
This section will explore how algorithms, powered by machine learning, are capable of learning from previous projects to accurately forecast the outcome of current projects.
In a “behind the scenes” tour, our experts will unpack how these algorithms work and share case studies of how&where value is created for clients and contractors around the world.
Presentation 4 by Amir Vaziri from Turner & Townsend (Singapore)
Corporate controls framework - a road map to implementation
This presentation aims to showcase the comprehensive transformation journey of a global corporation, highlighting the integration of robust project controls and the pivotal role of delivery performance diagnostics, systems design, and cultural change in achieving project controls excellence.
The objective is to illustrate how a strategic roadmap and the adoption of project controls can drive efficiency and success across regions, projects, programs, and portfolios, while emphasizing the importance of fostering a culture that embraces change.
About the Speakers:
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Moderator
Erika Espinosa Senior Project Manager |
Erika Espinosa, with over 11 years of professional experience in engineering consulting and construction management, has been involved in a wide range of projects, from pursuits and tenders to feasibility studies, detailed design, and construction. She has primarily worked on major transport and infrastructure projects, as well as residential, commercial, and industrial projects. Her responsibilities include project, contract, and commercial management, as well as engineering management and coordination of multi-disciplinary teams. Erika has also contributed to the development of business strategy plans, business development strategies, and client management. Her work experience spans diverse locations, including Nicaragua, Spain, the UK, Singapore, Canada, and Australia. Erika is a Chartered Engineer with both the Spanish Institution of Civil Engineers and the UK Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). |
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Jeremie Averous Senior Founder Partner
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Jeremie Averous has more than 30 years experience in various heavy industries’ projects (mining, aerospace, nuclear, oil & gas, renewables) including actual experience delivering project control for mega projects. Since 2011 he founded Project Value Delivery in Singapore, an internationally recognised consultancy for large, complex industrial projects. He works with international owners and contractors on how to successfully deliver their projects. Jeremie is also a recognised author of reference books in the area of project controls. |
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Founder & CEO |
Michael Pink is a seasoned professional in the construction industry, bringing over 20 years of experience in project controls, risk management, and dispute resolution to projects of all sizes and scopes. After understanding the immense value of converting complex data sets into meaningful insights, Pink founded SmartPM in 2016. By leveraging many trade secrets, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Pink’s approach to SmartPM is rooted in a commitment to practical problem-solving and helping project teams make informed, data-driven decisions using proactive controls. Michael holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from The Stern School of Business at New York University. |
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CEO
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Dev Amratia is a chartered engineer and the Co-Founder and CEO of nPlan, an AI company that forecasts the outcomes and risks of construction projects, using data from over 750,000 previous projects. nPlan delivers a new paradigm in the management of risk and uncertainty and was a finalist in the prestigious 2023 MacRobert Award for Engineering Innovation. Dev’s experience is in delivering construction projects for the energy industry, spanning 3 continents over 9 years. Following this, Dev worked for the UK government to launch and deliver the national review on AI, which was published as part of the Industrial Strategy in 2017. Dev has a strong passion to change the way projects are delivered through data-enabled decision-making. nPlan now forecasts on over $300b of projects each month and has processed schedules from over 750,000 projects, representing over $1.7T of construction spend, the largest dataset of its kind in the world. |
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Director, Project Controls, Asia
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Amir Vaziri has been at the forefront of delivering major projects and programs in both the private and public sectors for over 20 years. With extensive expertise in project management and controls, commercial management, and the execution of large-scale projects across diverse industries such as transport, infrastructure, utilities, power, mining, and oil and gas. His experience spans Asia, the Middle East, Australia Pacific, and Africa.
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Welcome Note & Panelist
Harihara Subramanian |
Harihara has 25 years of experience delivering complex, multi-disciplinary Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) industrial projects, covering both greenfield and brownfield large capital projects and programs across various sectors, primarily in Singapore, France, and India. His expertise spans high-tech industries such as semiconductor, solar/photovoltaic (PV), facility infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, water, environmental pollution abatement, refinery, CCUS, petrochemical, chemical, and manufacturing. Currently, he serves as Senior Project Manager at Worley, a global leader in professional services across the energy, chemicals, and resources sectors. His career also includes experience with several leading multinational corporations (MNCs), such as Jacobs, CH2M, Foster Wheeler) Harihara is also the current President of the PMI Singapore Chapter and has delivered numerous keynote speeches at international conferences and institutions on Project Management excellence. A long-time PMI volunteer for nearly a decade, he is dedicated to supporting the project management community. Harihara is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, an MBA from Rutgers Business School, USA, and a Master of Science (CIM) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
Presentation and Discussion Method
Presentations with Q&A held via Zoom.
Event Particulars
Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Time: 7pm - 9:30pm SGT (Time zone Converter: click here)
Virtual Venue: Online via Zoom
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PDUs: 2.5 Ways of Working (where applicable, PMI ID to be included with registration)
Cost: 5 SGD (registration required) ~ Subsidised by PMI SG Chapter
Registration deadline: Registration closes a little after start of event or when capacity is reached.
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Event Properties
| Event Date | 25-09-2024 7:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 25-09-2024 9:30 pm |
| Cut off date | 25-09-2024 8:30 pm |
| Registered | 127 |
| Individual Price | 5 SGD |
| No. of Business Acumen PDUs | N/A |
| No. of Ways of Working PDUs | 2.5 |
| No. of Power Skills PDUs | N/A |
| Location | Webinar |