Review the moments from the Conference 2025!
Join us for the 5th annual PMI CZ Conference
Explore Future Trends and Perspectives
Step into the future with us as we explore where project management is heading. Gain insight into PMI’s perspective on global trends, new ways of working, changing business expectations and the evolving role of project professionals. This part of the conference will help you understand what is changing in the profession — and how you can stay relevant, adaptable and ready to shape its future.
Strengthen Strategic Delivery and PMO
Explore the evolving role of the Project Management Office as a strategic partner connecting business goals with successful delivery. We will look at how modern PMOs can create greater value, support transformation and help organizations manage increasing complexity. Discover how PMOs can move beyond governance and reporting toward becoming a key driver of strategic change, innovation and organizational success.
Lead and Innovate in the AI Era
As artificial intelligence and digital technologies become part of everyday project work, human leadership becomes even more important. This part of the conference will explore how project professionals can combine technology, innovation and essential human skills to lead effectively in the future. From soft skills and stakeholder engagement to digital tools and emerging technologies, you will discover how to use innovation as an enabler of better collaboration, stronger decisions and successful project outcomes.
This year’s conference is supported by
Meet the Speakers
Lee Lambert
Lee R. Lambert is one of the most influential figures in global project management, with over 60 years of experience in leadership, consulting, education, and research. He was one of the founders of the PMP certification and has been a PMI member for more than 45 years. As CEO of Lambert Consulting and a PMI Fellow, he has trained professionals worldwide and continues to help project managers move from process-focused delivery to value-driven leadership.
Secrets Of The Project Success From The Moon Landing To A Machine Learning
In this keynote, Lee R. Lambert will explore how project success has evolved from the age of major engineering achievements to today’s world of artificial intelligence and rapid technological change. Drawing on more than 60 years of experience in project management, he will show why success can no longer be measured only by scope, time and cost. Instead, project professionals need to focus on value, impact, adaptability, stakeholder alignment and strong leadership.
The session connects to PMI’s M.O.R.E. perspective and invites participants to rethink what successful project delivery means in the modern world.
Stacey Dillon-Nicholls
Stacey Dillon-Nicholls, PMP, a member of the PMI Board of Directors, is an accomplished project management leader with over 28 years of energy sector experience spanning oil, gas, hydrogen, carbon capture, and renewables. Currently a Senior Project Manager at BP America, she directs large-scale Non-Operated Joint Venture (NOJV) projects and global learning initiatives. Having held key roles at Bechtel, KBR, and Atkins Global, Stacey possesses deep expertise in risk governance, portfolio management, and cross-cultural leadership. A Fulbright Scholar and sought-after speaker, she holds summa cum laude engineering degrees from the University of the West Indies and Georgia Institute of Technology, recognized for her sustained commitment to excellence and industry leadership. She has also been honored as Young Woman of the Year by a nonprofit organization, celebrating her resilience, determination, and ability to overcome challenges with grace and grit.
PMI Global Perspective
In this keynote, a PMI Board representative will share PMI Global’s latest perspectives on the future of project management. More details about the session will be announced soon.
Lenka Axlerová
Another speaker will be revealed soon! Stay tuned 🙂
Meet the Lecturers
MORNING WORKSHOP
Romana Konvičková
Sr. AI Biz Solution Specialist at Microsoft
Romana has been working at Microsoft for over 13 years. During that time, she has held various positions, from technical to business, and is now part of the Global Black Belts team. She focuses on large customers within the Central Europe and Africa region and helps them adopt new technologies, especially M365 Copilot. She gains experience in deploying AI technologies in companies and collects feedback for the product group to further improve the implemented technologies.
Practical Use of Microsoft AI Tools for Project Managers and Teams
This interactive workshop focuses on practical demonstrations of Microsoft AI tools that help project managers and teams streamline planning, reporting, communication, and daily operations.
Participants will learn how to effectively use Microsoft Copilot within Microsoft 365 apps to simplify output preparation, meeting notes, document drafts, and task tracking. We'll explore how Copilot in Microsoft Teams supports project teams by tracking discussions, summarizing meetings, and turning outcomes into actionable tasks. We will also introduce the use of Copilot for Project and show how AI can be used for planning and managing projects. In addition, the workshop will introduce the concept of Microsoft AI agents – customized AI assistants built on top of the Microsoft Copilot platform. Participants will see how these agents can automate workflows, assist with routine tasks, and provide intelligent recommendations based on real-time data.
MORNING WORKSHOP
Jakub Větrovec
He is the Founder and Country Lead of the Czech & Slovak Chapter of the Change Management Institute, where he actively supports the development of the local change management community and works to close the maturity gap between the Czech market and more advanced international regions by bringing practical knowledge, experience, and perspectives from across the world. Throughout his career, he has worked with organisations on complex transformations across people, processes, technology, and organisational design. His approach combines structured delivery with a strong focus on the human side of change, helping leaders and employees navigate transformation in a practical and sustainable way. He believes successful transformation is built on trust, psychological safety, and mutual respect between leadership and employees, while maintaining a strong focus on business impact and long-term organisational capability.
Beyond Go-Live: Managing the Human Side of Project Success
Projects rarely fail because the solution was not delivered. More often, they fail because people do not adopt the change in the way the project expected. The system goes live, but the organisation continues to work in old patterns.
This interactive workshop introduces project managers to practical change management perspectives that can strengthen project delivery without adding unnecessary complexity or heavy methodology.
Participants will work with a realistic transformation scenario that gradually evolves throughout the session with new information, stakeholder reactions, and emerging risks. Through a series of facilitated exercises and reflections, they will explore how to better understand stakeholder impact, identify human-factor risks, anticipate resistance, and translate project changes into meaningful communication and action.
MORNING WORKSHOP
Jan Doležal
Jan focuses primarily on hybrid approaches, organizational agility (SCRUM, SAFe, LeSS), Management 3.0, and the development of simulation games used as training tools for project management and agile methodologies. In the past, he worked as an independent specialist, briefly as a project manager at Logos, a.s., and earlier for several years at Mikroelektronika s.r.o., a company delivering public transportation fare collection systems worldwide. There, he introduced project management practices, led the project management office, and managed large international projects (Europe, South America). He has hands-on experience with IT, engineering, electrical, academic, and public-sector projects and products. He has been actively involved in project management since 2001, agile practices since 2014, and has been exploring hybrid approaches since 2020.
Pacific Railroad: A Project Management Simulation
Step into the role of a project team tasked with building the first transcontinental railroad across the United States. In this interactive simulation, participants will experience the full project lifecycle — from convincing stakeholders and setting up team roles to managing risks, changes, crises, time pressure and budget constraints.
The workshop offers a hands-on opportunity to explore what makes project delivery successful in practice: clear communication, effective teamwork, smart decision-making and the ability to adapt when circumstances change. Through an intensive project experience and final lessons learned session, participants will gain practical insights they can immediately apply to their own projects.
MORNING WORKSHOP
Rainfellows
Radek Gajdušek is an experienced transformation coach and co-founder of RainFellows. He brings many years of experience from corporate transformations in leading companies such as Rohlík.cz and Česká spořitelna into practical workshops built around the motto “minimum theory, maximum experience.” Radek provides direct and honest feedback, grounded in his technical background and his insight as a mentor to leaders. By using practical simulations and gamification, such as the Lean Lego Game, he helps participants learn applied problem-solving more effectively than any theoretical lecture could. Jan Krchňák is a business and process mentor and co-founder of RainFellows. He moves through the business world with the tireless energy of a “strict factory owner” and a strong passion for face-to-face workshops. He excels at facilitating complex simulation games focused on efficiency and scaling, where he can engage the entire group and deliver even demanding topics with ease, humour, and impact. Jan combines the strategic perspective of a leader with the straightforwardness of a process engineer who is not afraid to get his hands dirty in practice.
Lean Lego Game: From a Struggling Factory to a Successful Team
Can you work together to prevent an imminent collapse, or will you be overwhelmed by your own processes?
Most companies know they have great experts. The real challenge begins when people need to pull together across departments. Our Lean Lego simulation places you in the roles of a simulated factory that, after the first round, finds itself in a deep negative cash flow. Orders are piling up, quality is suffering, and time is working against you.
What can you expect?
A hands-on experience: You will take part in a game where individual heroics are not enough, and where every decision immediately changes the outcome, either for the better or significantly for the worse.
Revealing the bottlenecks: You will identify specific types of process and team waste, together with the barriers we often unknowingly create that stand in the way of collaboration.
Aha moments: You will discover that planning and quality are not separate departments, but the responsibility of every team member, and that common sense can sometimes fail us in a complex environment.
Transfer to practice: You will not take away Lego bricks, but a shared language and practical tools for fast and effective process change that you can use the very next day in your project and in your company.
This workshop is for everyone who wants to stop pushing and controlling people, and instead start supporting their autonomy, ownership, and motivation to keep improving.
MORNING WORKSHOP
Ievgen Vyshnevetskyi, PMP, PMO-CP
Associate Director Launch Execution at Novartis
PM/PMO Resourcing at the age of AI: Extending Human Capacity to manage Complexity
As project complexity grows and delivery expectations continue to rise, traditional PM/PMO staffing approaches are becoming insufficient. AI and AI agents are transforming how project work is performed - enabling PMs and PMOs to expand capacity, manage complexity, reduce administrative burden, and focus more on value delivery.
This interactive workshop explores how organizations can redesign PM/PMO resourcing models for the AI era through practical benchmarks, AI-enabled capacity models, and modern PMO metrics.
Participants will explore key questions such as:
- How many projects can PMs manage with AI support?
- How does AI change optimal team structures and staffing needs?
- How can PMOs can improve productivity, reduce burnout, and manage increasing complexity?
Through practical exercises and group discussions, participants will apply capacity formulas, compare traditional and AI-enabled operating models, and identify actionable approaches for building sustainable PM/PMO organizations in the age of AI.
The WS is recommended to C-Level, PMO Heads, Portfolio & Program Managers, PMO Professionals as well as everyone interested in Project Management at Scale, above and beyond Project Delivery.
MORNING WORKSHOP
Klara Curdova, PMP, CSM, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified ChM
Director, Consulting & Program Management at Novartis
PM/PMO Resourcing at the age of AI: Extending Human Capacity to manage Complexity
As project complexity grows and delivery expectations continue to rise, traditional PM/PMO staffing approaches are becoming insufficient. AI and AI agents are transforming how project work is performed - enabling PMs and PMOs to expand capacity, manage complexity, reduce administrative burden, and focus more on value delivery.
This interactive workshop explores how organizations can redesign PM/PMO resourcing models for the AI era through practical benchmarks, AI-enabled capacity models, and modern PMO metrics.
Participants will explore key questions such as:
- How many projects can PMs manage with AI support?
- How does AI change optimal team structures and staffing needs?
- How can PMOs can improve productivity, reduce burnout, and manage increasing complexity?
Through practical exercises and group discussions, participants will apply capacity formulas, compare traditional and AI-enabled operating models, and identify actionable approaches for building sustainable PM/PMO organizations in the age of AI.
The WS is recommended to C-Level, PMO Heads, Portfolio & Program Managers, PMO Professionals as well as everyone interested in Project Management at Scale, above and beyond Project Delivery.
