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APM Conference 2025 - Projects for a Better Future

11-12 June 2025 | Coventry Building Society Arena, Coventry
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Conference Programme Day 2 - Strategy: External factors

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Practice Stream

How can project teams and organisations meet the need for more impactful action on climate change?

Sponsored by 

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Creating and embedding sustainability strategies into the project life cycle is vital to ensure projects – and the project profession – is ready for future challenges. Here we discuss both project practice and broader organisational strategy with practical ideas about how to implement change in this area.

Innovation Stream

What’s new and what’s needed for sustainable project delivery?

Sponsored by Firewood

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Innovation is crucial to ensure project outcomes and practices are sustainable. This theme will explore impactful ideas and tried-and-tested methods for improving sustainability in project management and delivering projects with sustainable outcomes.  

People Stream

What knowledge, skills and competencies will be needed to ensure a sustainable workforce?​​ 

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Project management sustainability practices won’t adapt without people driving change. But to manage this the workforce itself should be sustainable. Here we'll tackle two aspects: how practitioners can make positive change in this area now, and what skills are needed to fortify the profession for the future. 

 

Discovery

This interactive area provides drop in sessions to aid learning and networking, including topic tables and advice on APM membership, qualifications, ChPP and LMS.

Conference programme (subject to change)

DAY 2

Thu 12 June 🕐 07:45-09:30

REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING

Thu 12 June 🕐 09:30-09:45 | Plenary Session

OPENING REMARKS

🞇 Amy Morley - Chair, Association for Project Management

Thu 12 June 🕐 09:45-10:30 | Plenary Session

OPENING KEYNOTE

Thu 12 June 🕐 11:00-11:45 | Practice Stream

BREAKOUT SESSION 1E

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Thu 12 June 🕐 11:00-11:45 | Innovation Stream

APM SUSTAINABILITY INTEREST NETWORK PRESENTS:

Measuring our projects’ contribution to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

🞇 Suzanne Maxted - Methods  🞇 Ellie Cady - Methods

Thu 12 June 🕐 11:00-11:45 | People Stream

THE VALUE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING: WHY INVESTING IN RESKILLING, UPSKILLING AND THE NEXT GENERATION BENEFITS THE ENTIRE PROFESSION

🞇 Patrick Tucker, Non-Executive Director, London Metropolitan College

Thu 12 June 🕐 11:55-12:40 | Practice Stream

INCORPORATING  ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES (ESG)  FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS SUCCESS

🞇 Helen Clayton - Director for Sustainable Communities and Industries Turner & Townsend  🞇 Natasha Clark - Programme and Change Manager, the Environment Agency

Thu 12 June 🕐 11:55-12:40 | Innovation Stream

BREAKOUT SESSION 2F

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Thu 12 June 🕐 11:55-12:40 | People Stream

APM PEOPLE INTEREST NETWORK PRESENTS:

A PEOPLE-CENTRIC APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY: EMBEDDING THE TOP SIX (PEOPLE) UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS) INTO PROJECTS

🞇 Dr Teri Okoro - Director, TOCA

Thu 12 June 🕐 14:00-15:00 | Plenary Session

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

🞇 Ruud Valtenaar

Thu 12 June 🕐 15:10-15:55 | Practice Stream

BUILDING A PROJECT BUSINESS CASE USING THE UNITED NATIONS' SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS)

🞇 Arun Khuttan - Sustainability Manager, Nuclear Decommissioning Authority 

Thu 12 June 🕐 15:10-15:55 | Innovation Stream

BREAKOUT SESSION 2G

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Thu 12 June 🕐 15:10-15:55 | People Stream

APM PEOPLE INTEREST NETWORK PRESENTS: ROLE OF THE PROJECT SPONSOR IN DEVELOPING THE SUSTAINABLE PROJECT WORKFORCE

🞇  Helen Digger - Training Consultant, Wellingtone

Thu 12 June 🕐 16:05-16:50 | Plenary Session

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Thu 12 June 🕐 16:50-17:00 | Plenary Session

CLOSING REMARKS