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4:00  Registration table opens
4:30  Educational presentation
5:30  Networking
5:35  New member welcome meeting
6:00  Dinner & announcements
7:00  Keynote presentation

Location

Doubletree Lloyd Center, 1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, Oregon

Pick up your parking voucher at the registration table–Parking is FREE!

September Menu

Business Transformation: how to deal with the unknown unknowns

Who could predict the banking crises, transformative customer expectations or even national revolts? Those who could see the future designed their solutions to serve the markets of the future. As we stare at the future trying to find direction, the challenge comes when we notice that we face structural changes in markets which we cannot predict using only the data of the past. What is our "true north" to guide our direction?

This presentation will bring into focus the challenge and the opportunity of transforming your business. You will hear 7 sins to avoid in transforming your business and learn to utilize principles that rely on personal transformation to fuel business transformation. Above all, you will find a new lens to view business transformation.

About the Speaker

Mohan Nair brings broad experience to Innovation, being a high-tech entrepreneur, educator, strategy consultant and healthcare innovator. He has been in C-level roles in successful emerging businesses. Known for his strong operating and software engineering acumen, he was President of ProTools Inc, which was acquired by McAfee, and President of ABC technologies, acquired by SAS corporation. Mohan served as Director of Marketing for Mentor Graphics Corporation and Intel. 

Currently, he is Chief Innovation Officer at Cambia Health Solutions, a holding company for four Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations and several emerging and established entities in healthcare. He was the Chief Marketing Executive and EVP for the front end of his organization prior and implemented transformational goals across the organization. 

Mr Nair was born and raised in Singapore. His most recent book, Strategic Business Transformation, took 20 years of research and introspection into focus. He is an adjunct professor of management at Kellogg School of Management for 10 years, he has written extensively in the Journal of Corporate Finance and Accounting, the Journal of International Servant Leadership and has written two other books, Essentials of Balanced Scorecard and Activity-Based Information Systems: An Executive's Guide to Implementation.

Mastering Requirements Gathering a Key to Successful Project Delivery

Delivering a successful project has enough obstacles already, but missing the core requirements or key stakeholder need is sure fire way to fire.

Today with IT or Software development projects, there are more demands; and fewer resources to meet those demands.  Delivering a project successfully, efficiently and the first time is more critical than ever not only for the organization, but for one’s career and sanity, but also the mark of a true Project Manager craftsman.

Many aspire to say they are good project managers, but most have no idea how to manage a project, let alone effectively map, manage and identify stakeholders and stakeholder’s expectations.

This education seminar is will help lay out the key fundamentals to successful requirements gathering and help you understand best practices and approaches to eliciting, defining, managing and delivering on those requirements, even in today’s highly dynamic, and constrained resource, budget work environments.

For the last 20 years, Tim Runcie, author, consultant and educator has been assisting organizations; PMOs and project teams in standardizing and building successful project organizations through best practices, standards, tools and training.  Come learn some of these key tips and strategies for managing and delivering projects through successful requirements gathering and managing techniques.

About the Speaker

Tim Runcie, MCP, MCTS, V-TSP, PMP, MVP is a 20+ year veteran of Project to Portfolio Management, Published Author, Speaker and Trainer.

Tim Runcie, the President of Advisicon, has over 20 years of experience in building project management organizations. His overall background has been in project portfolio management and leveraging technology to automate and streamline complex problems. He has helped stand up Project Management Offices and deploy technology solutions to establish business Intelligence and key Demand and Capacity Metrics to rapidly improve their project and portfolio management performance. Tim is particularly adept at teaching and establishing project methodologies that are adopted into the project management culture of organizations.

Tim’s true love is in teaching. When not leading or mentoring organizations, he is actively involved in teaching classes, or developing courses and training programs centered on the disciplines and technologies of project management. To every customer, he brings a personal passion for knowledge transfer and a commitment to providing customers with a full set of skills and tools to achieve optimum success.