Sethu Krish

Director, Ample Consulting Ltd

Sethu Krish is Director of Ample Consulting. Over twelve years his work has followed the infrastructure that reshapes places the Doha Metro, Critical Defence Projects, Capex programmes at Heathrow with Turner & Townsend, then grid connection projects with National Grid. What he learned along the way is that the schedule is rarely where the value sits.

His most useful moments came from telling its story: explaining to stakeholders what the insights emerging from P6 and supplier data meant. Clearing the way for that is now the work. At Ample he leads Digitising the PMO for small and medium-sized contractors, most recently on Liverpool Bay, one of the UK's first carbon capture schemes, where his team pulled commercial data, daily progress reports and the P6 schedule into a single integrated reporting system.

Sethu also mentors recent graduates, teaching them the basics of planning and what the industry really expects, to help them land their first role.

Session | The Storytelling Planner: What's Left When Automation Takes the Grunt Work

Planners, project controllers and risk engineers are often treated as separate roles, but their core strength is the same: they are analytical minds. Given the right tool training and context, a planner can step into controls or risk. That makes them a flexible, interchangeable resource rather than a fixed job title.

The catch is that too much of their time is lost to routine, manual work. At a time when the industry is short of skilled professionals, that is a waste we can no longer afford.

This session makes the practical case for taking automation and technology seriously. Not to replace people, but to free these professionals for the work that actually needs a human mind: analysis, judgement, and telling the story behind the schedule. Automate the manual, and you pay people for their thinking rather than their keystrokes. Do it well, and a scarce planner becomes a controller, a risk engineer, a storyteller.