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Forget AI for the minute or at least put it in the toolkit until you've decided what you want it to do for you. Now think about High Performance Resourcing. And the people doing the work. Where are they? How well are they doing? What can you do to help them? Do you know what they are working on. Do you know what they did today? How do connect the people not just on one project but all the people on all the projects. How's the whole organisation doing? How could AI help? Really help or just automate chaos? Is it about Controls or Skills? Or both?
EVA presents a review and discussion of subjects related to the improvement of the processes and people involved in the delivery of project programmes and portfolios, ultimately delivering better value for taxpayer stakeholder and shareholder alike as well as improving the quality and wellbeing of working life for individuals and organisations. Audience and speakers are drawn from middle to very senior practitioners in government industry audit and academia.
The unprecedented and unexpected adjustments of operating through a global crisis; the challenges of the current economic climate; these are, and have been, truly turbulent times in recent years. And now we have an American President whoh trumps everything. But there is much to celebrate, nonetheless, in the world of project controls, with innovations and successes born out of this very turbulence.
🎙️ Meet the Speakers

Steve Wake
Steve Wake founded the EVM and the PMC Sigs in the Association of Project Management (APM) and was the Chairman of APM who led it to chartered status. He is now a liveryman of the Guild of Educators and Freemna of theCity of London, has set up a working party to develop a GCSE in Project Skills and a member of the British Standards Institution M/S 2 committee with responsibility for national standards in project programme and portfolio management. He led the development of BS202001 Project Controls Specification standard and works closely with PsACE community harmonising estimating practice in government and its supply chain. Also he represents BSi on ISO EVM and Cost Management standards.
Agenda
- 8:30 am
Doors open for registration Coffee and Conversation
Doors open and Coffee Conversation
- 9:15 am
0925 Welcome
Steve Wake & Paul Lyalls EVA Poet in Residence
- 9:20 am
Iain Minns, Global Service Expert for Project Controls, Arcadis
GenerAItional Change? Now or Never, Good, Bad or Indifferent? How do we make our industry attractive to the brightest and best so that we can reinvent before we are reinvented out?
- 9:50 am
Major Project Delivery, NAO
The Sizewell C Report Speaker tbc
- 10:20 am
Jussi Toivonen, EG A/S
High Performance Resourcing
- 10:50 am
Coffee, Networking
- 11:10 am
Tommy Clarke, Head of Programme Controls. Jack Penter, Head of PMO OPerations. Sizewell C
The Hidden Control: Why Behaviour, Clarity and Inclusion Matter as Much as Process
- 11:40 am
Andy Brown, Strategic Purpose Consultant and Chair of the BSI Committee on Purpose Driven Organisations
How is the new international standard for purpose driven organisations, ISO 37011, relevant for projects?
- 12:10 pm
Ed Davey, Head, World Resources Institute Europe UK Office; Senior Advisor, Food and Land Use Coalition; Advisor, New Economy for the Amazon and Congo Basin
Reasons for Hope How to drive positive global action on climate and environment
- 12:40 am
Lunch, Networking
- 1:20 pm
Tammy Watchorn,The Original Change Ninja
Don't be a hungry tiger
- 2:00 pm
Ben Fitzgerald
Good for Project, Good for Business.Common Ground.
- 2:30 am
Sirish Parekh Head of Estimating & Benchmarking NISTA, Co-Chair PsACE, Co-Chair BSi Estimating workgroup
Estimating for High Performance Resourcing
- 3:00 pm
Matt White Clearstar Group
Portfolios do High Performance Resourcing too.
- 3:30 pm
Tea,Networking
- 3:50 pm
Speaker tbc
- 4:20 pm
Graeme McNaught, Campaign Manager – Directed Energy Leonardo UK Ltd.
Dragon Fire Update – The UKs sovereign Laser Directed Energy Weapon
- 4:50 pm
Kate Fox neurodivergent advocate, stand-up poet, spoken word artist and broadcaster
HAPPY?
- 5:30 pm
Drinks Networking
- 6:30 pm
Dinner Networking
- 8:00 pm
Chat drinks social
- 9:15 pm - 9:15 pm
Carriages
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