Speakers

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey and we are now represented by nearly 10,000 employees across over 50 offices worldwide.

Set up in late 2019, Durham University’s central PMO was established to help support delivery of an ambitious new strategy. This session will share insights and lessons learned from Durham’s PMO journey including how and why the PMO was introduced as part of a wider Strategy Delivery Unit. The session will also focus on the approach and tactics the team have employed in working to build strong foundations to underpin successful delivery of change, and to increase P3M maturity across the organisation.

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management, and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills. Collectively, these professionals and “changemakers” consistently create better outcomes for businesses, community and society worldwide.

Andy has over almost twenty year’s experience helping customers implement complex enterprise software solutions. For the last seven of these years, Andy has been solely focused helping customers understand the benefits and value of Microsoft’s PPM & Work Management Tools.

His role at Microsoft focuses on leading Microsoft Project & modern work management sales engagements in enterprise organisations across industries, supporting the wider sales community with good practice.

An international, independent medical humanitarian organisation.
MSF provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Their teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, and logistic and administrative staff – most of them hired locally. MSF actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence, and neutrality.

Launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK.

Vince Hines is Managing Director at Wellingtone and has worked as a consultant, trainer & speaker in the UK and USA for many years with organisations as diverse as GlaxoSmithKline and Honda to the central UK Government. Vince has worked extensively with clients in the legal profession, bringing best practice project management to this industry.

He leads the Wellingtone Legal Project Management practice where methodology, training and Microsoft-based technology are combined for a complete Legal Project Management turnkey solution.