Brisbane Project Managers Business Analysts, Design Thinkers

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📆 Wednesday 25th September

⏰ 5.30pm KO

📍 Humanised Group, Level 19, 160 Ann Street Brisbane CBD 4000

September is #DigitalTransformationMonth presented by Martin Geddes and Judith O'Callaghan.

Uncover the power of successful digital transformation, engage with influential thought leaders and network with like-minded professionals.

💥 Meet Our Speakers 💥

Martin Geddes
Martin brings over 20 years of industry expertise to the world of technology and business. With a diverse background spanning Business Development, Service Delivery and Project management, Martin has honed his skills across various domains in the IT landscape.

Martin’s journey has taken him through several re-owned IT consultancies. His time in these organisations has provided him with deep understanding of industry trends, challenges, and best practices.

Martin’s true passion lies in guiding organisations toward success. As an expert in methodology application, he tailors strategies to align with specific business outcomes. Whether it is process optimisation, digital transformation or seamless transitions , Martins insights have proven valuable. His engaging speaking style and practical advice resonate with audiences seeking strategies for success.

Judith O'Callaghan
Judith brings over 20 years of industry expertise and a passion for applying ancient wisdom in Business Transformation. With a diverse and cultural background in ERP implementations, Judith has developed her skills across various aspects of ERP Landscape.

Judith’s journey has taken her across several large and small organisations across 3 continents living in the largest cities and remotest villages. Her investment of time has enabled her to understand diverse cultures, perspectives and most importantly learn the applications of ancient wisdom in modern day business transformation.

Judith is passionate in developing and leading high performing high performing, resilient team who value diversity of thought. As an expert in ERP and Digital Transformations, Judith brings in her special essence of ancient wisdom, authentic and lived experience. Judith’s insights and perspective have proven valuable. Judith has an engaging speaking style resonating with audiences seeking strategies for success.

💥 What to Expect 💥

* Explore the transformative power of Digital Transformation for unparalleled success
* Engage with influential though leaders shaping the future of business transformation
* Expand your network with like-minded professionals hungry for innovation.

Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionise your approach to digital transformation and ignite your path to success.

If you are a transformation executive or professional and would benefit from a passionate and diverse community - RSVP today!

From Chaos to Control - Implementing Effective Project, Programme, and Portfolio Governance - Presented by Adrian Morey

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📆 Tuesday 29th October
⏰ 5.30pm KO
📍 Humanised Group, Level 19, 160 Ann Street Brisbane CBD 4000

October is #ProjectProgrammePortfolioGovernanceMonth presented by Adrian Morey.

💥 Meet Our Speaker 💥

Adrian is a market-leading advisor, globally renowned author, and GAICD accredited board member, boasting an impactful three-decade career marked by consistently delivering breakthrough OUTCOMES.

Spanning the domains of infrastructure, technology, transformation and for-purpose, Adrian drives organisational success through:

• Design and implementation of tailored project, program, and portfolio governance and management arrangements.
• Optimised project, program, and portfolio capabilities (e.g. frameworks and functions) that deliver transformative value.
• Enhancing confidence in outcomes through expert assurance.

Based in Australia and operating both domestically and internationally, Adrian is particularly recognised as a global expert in project, program and portfolio governance.

His indelible impact spans diverse industries, including water and energy, transport (road, rail, aviation, and ports), health, aged care, all levels of government, environment, science, education and training, social and community services, housing and property, sports and recreation, commercial and industrial sectors, primary industries, international development, and telecommunications.

💥 What to Expect 💥

In late 2021, the Harvard Business Review identified that the future of work is project-based. In this "Project Economy", projects are progressively displacing operations as the economic engine of our times. By 2027, some 88 million people around the world are likely to be working in project management, and the value of project-oriented economic activity will have reached $20 trillion. But research shows that only 35% of the projects undertaken worldwide are successful — projects continue to come in late, overspend and under deliver to an alarming degree.

Whenever there is a major project or programme failure, the subsequent review inevitably highlights failings in governance. So whilst governance is crucial to project and programme success, it is often found wanting in practice – and until now, anyone looking for comprehensive guidance online or on the bookshelf was going to be disappointed, as there was comparatively little practical advice available.

Adrian Morey, co-author of Project, Programme and Portfolio Governance (P3G – the go-to guide for governance), will:

· examine the risks, issues and deficiencies that are commonly encountered in project, program and portfolio governance; and
· what effective governance looks like at project, programme and portfolio levels.

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📆 Wednesday 27th November

⏰ 5.30pm KO

📍 Humanised Group, Level 19 / 160 Ann Street, Brisbane

💥 Meet Our Speaker 💥

Jen Scorey-Vogt has been in the tech industry for 20 years. She spent 10 years in the U.S. Army, which includes a deployment to Iraq. Watching how the military handled projects, she found herself looking for basic organisation.

After leaving the Army, Jen spent time working across Manhattan, helping clients with numerous technical issues and revamping their technical posture. It was through this work Jen gained a deep interest in how to use cybersecurity to secure a company’s data, protects its users, and ensure encryption of client’s communications. She then migrated to Australia in 2014.

From there, she worked in many small businesses. One experience was working as a telco project manager. She saw in this position how Agile could organise all areas of tech and stop the ‘shiny object’ effect. She then returned to her previous client in NY and worked remotely as their Director of IT and Security.

Late last year, Jen accepted an offer to start up a SOC in Australia for Paramount Global. This year she has stood up the Australian SOC and assisted her fellow colleagues in implementing a 24/7, follow the sun model SOC.

Jen has a B.A. and M.A. in English literature and a Masters in Library and Informational Science. She also holds industry standard certificates.

💥 What to Expect 💥

Project Management in cybersecurity? It seems counterintuitive that an industry with a massive choice in applications needs something to help manage tasks. Yet, these apps are solely for analysing data and recommending ways to handle alerts. How do we handle everything that a SOC, or InfoSec team, does on a daily basis? We are speaking about implementing and tuning applications, writing knowledge bases to assist with alerts, creating playbooks with runbooks, and reporting on metrics (just to name a few). It is these scenarios in which Agile comes to the rescue within internal and external InfoSec teams.

What to expect:

💥 Understanding common Agile frameworks in cybersecurity
💥 How Agile benefits the entire Infosec team
💥 Streamlining business tasks
💥 Show how it can prevent different business units from becoming SILOs

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📆 Wednesday 18th December

⏰ 5.30pm KO

📍 Humanised Group, Level 19 / 160 Ann Street, Brisbane

💥 Meet Our Speaker 💥

Coming Soon.

💥 What to Expect 💥

Coming Soon.