APM Project Management Conference 2017
APM, the chartered body for the project profession, held it's award-winning Project Management Conference, sponsored by 20|20 Business Insight on 27 April 2017 at the Barbican, London. The APM conference has a long-held reputation for bringing together the world’s most influential and thought-provoking speakers from your profession and it certainly lived up to that reputation on the day.
Theme: Making the mould – Transform, diversify, revolutionise
The world is in a constant state of accelerating change. The ways we embrace and manage that change must constantly evolve to meet new demands. Building a world-class profession in a constantly changing world means challenging norms and thinking, breaking and then re-making the mould, reinventing project management for a new generation.
To view speaker presentations and video interviews from the day, please go to the speakers' page.
Find out about the day
Speaker presentations & interviews
Presidential Address
- David Waboso - APM president and managing director for Group Digital Railway (video)
Conference Chair
- Sue Kershaw - managing director, UK head of infrastructure programme and project management at KPMG LLP (video)
Keynote speaker
- Sir William Atkinson - Britain’s most successful headteacher (presentation, video)
Speakers
- James Hampson - executive director – Jacobs (presentation, video)
- Christian Bason - CEO of the Danish Design Centre (presentation, video)
- Sam El-Jouzi - director Rail, CH2M (presentation, video)
- Colin Gaynor - global project manager – IMED oncology, AstraZeneca (presentation, video)
- Deborah Feakins - director of Marlowe Consulting (presentation, video)
- Jennifer Hearne - project manager - Hyperdrive Innovation Limited (presentation, video)
- Ledia Andrawes - senior associate, ThinkPlace. Research associate, LSE (presentation, video)
- Maarten Kleinhout – managing director Commercial Systems International (presentation, video)
- Neil Fowler - Principal manager, Adam Smith International (presentation, video)
- Professor Jennifer Whyte – professor of systems integration at Imperial College London (presentation, video)
- Rt Hon Michael Portillo - former MP and cabinet minister (video)
- Rob Leslie-Carter - director, Arup (video)
Stream Chairs
- Jo Lucas - New Generation stream
- Susie Boyce - New Projects stream
- Tim Banfield - New Practice stream
- Simon Taylor - co-founder of th3rdcurve (Panel moderator)
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Sponsors of the APM Conference 2017
Headline Sponsor: 20|20 Business Insight 
20|20 Business Insight are a full service project management
consultancy and training provider.
We deliver accredited training courses for every level of project personnel.
Sponsor of the New Generation stream: Jacobs
At Jacobs, our focus on building long-term client relationships has helped us become one of the largest and most diverse companies in our industry.
Sponsor of the New Practice stream: Planview
Planview enables organisations to get the most out of their resources and achieve their goals.
Sponsor of the New Projects Stream: Ramboll
Ramboll is a leading project-based engineering, design and consultancy company, with 13,000 multidisciplinary professionals working across eight markets in more than 300 offices and 35 countries.
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