Speakers

Rami Kaibni is a Career Coach, Agile Trainer and a certified Senior Portfolio and Project Management Professional holding a bachelor’s degree in Structural Engineering and over 17 years of professional experience in Professional Development / Career Coaching, Portfolio / Program / Project Management, Construction Management, and Business Development. Besides holding multiple certifications in the management and business fields, Rami is also a member of many global organizations of which some are: Project Management Institute (PMI) and Green Project Management (GPM) in the United States, International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) in Canada, PMO Global Alliance, Agile Business Consortium in the UK, and International Association of Project Managers (IAPM) in Liechtenstein as their Senior Official in Vancouver, Canada and Jordan. Over the course of his career, he worked with highly reputable organizations and clients both nationally and internationally and have been deployed on high profile projects and PMO’s across Asia including the Gulf Region, Middle East, Shanghai/China and currently in Vancouver, Canada. As a Professional Development and Career Coach, he helps guide and mentor individuals who are looking for professional development to boost their career, individuals who are considering a career change, new graduates looking for a new job or have an upcoming interview properly prepare and achieve their goals. He also works with organizations to put customized programs for their employees professional and leadership development. As an Agile Trainer, he helps coach individuals and organization executives and employees in Agile Project Management. On the other hand, as a Senior Portfolio and Project Manager, he specializes in various aspects of portfolio and project management from initiation, planning, estimation, cost control, execution, quality control, monitoring and closing. He helps clients achieve the desired outcome for their projects. On a personal note, Rami is also a volunteer member of the Global Goodwill Ambassadors Foundation and a named Global Goodwill Ambassador (GGA) for Canada.

Clotilde is a Project Manager, Business owner, and Trainer. Her professional journey started in 2002 after a degree in IT, it was also her first contact with project management on the ground and guess what? She fell in love with this job and decided to make a career in project management. 11 years later she became PMP certified. 2 years after my certification, she joined the big team of PMI volunteers, in order to give back to the profession and to my community. Because she accumulated experiences and learned many lessons in various areas both in a national and international environment, in January 2018 she created The V-PMO (The V-PMO stands for The Virtual Project Management Office) to accompany and address individual and organisations in their project needs: Pre-project work, Project management, and Training.

Born and raised in California, Allison Primack has spent the last 8 years in Washington DC supporting some of the largest federal IT projects. For Allison, there is a thrill in tackling newly forming programs and strategically building organizational structures and processes that are scalable, easily consumable, and effectively meet their objectives. She enjoys being placed into situations that require her to solve complex problems, and creatively break them down to incremental solutions. Allison recently started a new project management role at Conquest Cyber following two and a half years at a Fortune 500 health IT company, where she has managed a variety of initiatives that have helped them develop and scale the Federal practice to best serve client needs. Allison is PMP certified and has earned her Masters of Public Policy from The George Washington University and her undergraduate degree in Communications from UC San Diego.

David Barrett is a professional speaker, regular blogger, podcast host, author of 8 books and project management education advisor to numerous universities in Canada. David’s career includes the creation and directing of a project management conference business called ProjectWorld ProjectSummit, a training company, a software development firm, a speaker bureau, a project management portal called ProjectTimes.com and a project management event series called ProjectTalks. Most recently, David has launched a project management video web site called ProjectBites.com

André Kriger leads the IT organization from Telefonica Vivo, responsible for formulating their vision and execution of their respective strategies. Under his purview, IT is responsible for serving almost 100 million customers in Brazil. Within Vivo there are over 6500 personnel working at IT, both insourced and outsourced. As the Chief Information Officer, André concentrates on enabling key business transformations projects in B2C and B2B markets, focusing to improve the Customer Experience through adopting the newest technologies and creating platforms that meet rapidly the scale efficiency and provide agile service delivery, leveraging the company leadership for their innovative achievements spanning digital transformation. André also leads the IT2X Program which goal is to multiply the throughput to the business and better delivery time for the projects executed in IT. In his one-decade career inside Telefonica Vivo, André has held a variety of other senior leadership positions, including Vice President of Customer Care, responsible for managing 25K people and partners as well recognized for the FTTXcellence Award in 2013, being the pioneer in expanding fiber technology in Brazil. André has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from FAE, Curitiba Brazil and MBA from the FW Ollin Business School at Babson College in Massachusetts. André has been appointed as finalist for the TM Forum Excellence Awards 2019.

Joe Perzel has been leading projects of all sizes and managing staffs since 1982 in both a corporate and vendor capacity. He has a background in multiple industries such as healthcare, insurance, finance, government, manufacturing, non-profit and education. Presently Joe is Partner JPerzel Inc. as well as Program Manager at Surescripts LLC. He has previously held leadership positions at Cargill, Thomson Reuters, MN Workers Compensation Bureau and International Multifoods. Joe has been speaking since 2002 on topics ranging from project management, leadership, strategy, negotiations/sales. He has presented keynotes, chapter meetings and workshops to over 20 PMI chapters, PMI R2 and Global, as well as multiple corporate, Society for Quality (ASQ), International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA), Government and University events.

Neen James is the author of Folding TimeTM and Attention PaysTM. She has been named one of the Top 30 Leadership Speakers by Global Guru several years in a row because of her work with companies like Viacom, Comcast, and Abbot Pharmaceuticals among others. Neen has boundless energy, is quick-witted and always offers powerful strategies for paying attention to what matters so you can get more done and create more significant moments at work, and home. Neen is the kind of speaker that engages, educates, entertains, and delivers the real-world solutions that apply in your organization, your home, and your community. She also provides one-on-one consulting in a variety of leadership topics and loves serving her audiences.

Carl Pritchard is a recognized authority in project and risk management. He is the author of seven texts, two exam practice interfaces, and the voice of “The Audio PMP Exam Prep” (CRC Press) (many of which Laura Barnard devoured when studying for her PMP in 2004). He is the US Correspondent for “Project Manager Today (UK)”, and sits on the board of directors of ProjectConnections.com.

Federico is passionate about leadership & personal development, PMO, Portfolio, Program and Project Management, Business Continuity, Process Improvement, Coaching, IT, Sports and Music, but MOSTLY about PEOPLE!! Speaker, Teacher, Facilitator and MUSICIAN! Vast experience in Managing and developing Organizations and Teams in different Industries, Regions and Sectors all over the World

Valerie Zeller is Sciforma’s CMO. As such, she is responsible for planning, developing, implementing and monitoring the overall business marketing strategy of Sciforma PPM solution. Valerie Zeller is a growth strategist with more than 20 years of experience launching innovative software and middleware solutions in the U.S. and Europe. As a marketer, software enthusiast and process optimizer, her goal is to develop solutions that increase organizations’ productivity.