Papers are being accepted on a rolling basis, we suggest
your proposal as early as possible. If this is something you're interested in
considering, please let us know as sessions fill up quickly. Submit your
proposal no later than Friday, December 20th to Romina Kunstadter, Conference
Producer at
rkunstadter@iirusa.com or 646.895.7453.
The Institute for International Research (IIR) is currently seeking corporate
practitioners, authors and experienced facilitators to present at the 2014
ProjectWorld & World Congress for Business Analysts conference.
The event will take place in September 22-24, 2014 in Seattle, Washington.
About this Unique Event
PW&WCBA is the industry's year round resource for gaining cutting-edge
insights through C-Level case studies & corporate best practice
presentations, exclusive Web Seminars, Learning Labs, and facilitated sharing
sessions.
Who & What We're Looking For
Leaders of high profile, complex projects to share their story in an open forum
with industry peers. We are also inviting highly experienced, unbiased project
managers, program managers, portfolio managers, PMO heads, system engineers and
business analysts. We are particularly interested in experienced corporate
practitioners, industry experts and qualified facilitators sharing innovative
case studies, techniques, templates that attendees can implements as soon as
they get back to the office.
Each presentation should demonstrate actionable tangible takeaways. We are
looking for presentations that will demonstrate how something went from concept
to reality (what were the decisions you had to make along the way, why did you
choose that route, what did you learn from it, what if anything would you do
differently, what can the audience learn, where do you go from here?).
Please note: Decisions will be based on the alignment of the content with the
2014 agenda content, feedback from the event advisors as well as on industry
recognition and/or personal references.
We Expect Our Speakers to Move Beyond the Fundamentals
2014 presentation topics include, but are not limited to:
Managing Stakeholder Expectations
Leveraging Portfolio Project Management Tools
Education & Training for New PM's- Passing down the
knowledge
Integration PM
Setting up a Project Office
Communication Across Roles (Organization)
Using Agile to Implement Larger Multi Web Projects
Tools Used with Agile
Moving from BA to PM
Discovering What Metrics you Need
Lean Projects: A Case Study
PM & BA Collaboration
Risk Management
Program & Portfolio Management
Effective Teams: How to build them
Cyber Security
Big Data & Analytics
PMBOK Changes
Dealing with Stakeholders and Sponsors
Integrating Contracted People into an Ongoing Project
Mobile
Creative Problem Solving
Collaborative Problem Solving
Honing Your PM Skills
Virtualization
Understanding The Business Ecosystem
The Move: Agile to Waterfall
Convan Vs Agile
Process Management
Developing BA Skills
Effective Data Modeling
State Modeling
BA's in A Global Environment
Capturing Non functional requirements
Shadow IT and how to make sure you remain a partner
Managing to scale
Tailor BA function in an onshore vs offshore environment
Systems Integration
What's New in Agile?
Agile, Tools and Metric Tracking
Cloud Risk: Managing the Risk and Rewards of Cloud
Computing
Defining and Developing the Next Generation of PMs
Improving the Value of Your PMO
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IT Portfolio Management
Soft Leadership Skills
Risk Management
Building Program Management Expertise
Motivating Teams and Increasing Team Performance
Creating a Center of Excellence (Both BA and/or PM)
Demonstrating the Current Value of Project Management and
Business Analysis to Your Organization
Career Paths for the BA and PM - Where Do You Go After 5 Years?
Using Six Sigma and LEAN to Improve Project Management
Requirements Management and Communication
Leading Global Teams
Change Management
Reading Verbal and Non-Verbal Cues
Virtual Engagement
Lightweight Project Management Tools vs. Heavyweight
Enterprise Analysis
Enterprise Architecture
Negotiation Skills for Dealing with Suppliers
Agile Project Management
A Systematic Approach to Increase Business Process
Performance
Improving Service Levels with Your Stakeholders
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Developing a PM Toolkit: The Essentials
Implementing a Portfolio Management
Estimating and Identification of Requirements
Business Rules: An Important Technique to Capture and
Discover What You Need
Green Practices for the PM and BA
Getting the Benefits of Consolidating, But Without Doing
So
The Current and Future State of the BA
Agile: Governance and Decision-Making
Sustainable Portfolio Management Practices
Development Techniques that are Flexible and Responsive
SOA Governance
Integrating the Business Architecture with Human
Performance
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BONUS: In addition to the exposure
and honor of being a speaker, speakers will also FREE admission to the
conference, access to post-conference web seminar series as well as any
pre-conference activities (a $3,000+ value).
How to Get Accepted
Priority will be given to presentations that highlight NEW case studies on
pushing beyond the PMBOK and BABOK, presenting new skills, techniques and best
practices for today's PM and BA worlds. ONLY corporate/client-side speaker will
be considered. If you are a consultant, solution provider, technology provider,
analyst or consultant, please see sponsorship/exhibit section below.
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
If you are a vendor or solution provider and are interested in showcasing your
organization's expertise - Please contact Jon Saxe, Senior Business Development
Manager at
jsaxe@iirusa.com or 646.895.7467 for more
information.
If you were not selected to present and are a vendor or solution provider, you
may qualify for additional speaking opportunities available through
sponsorship.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit the following to Romina Kunstadter, Conference Producer at
rkunstadter@iirusa.com no later than Friday,
December 20, 2013.
For proper consideration, please include the following information with your
proposal:
- Proposed speaker name(s), job title(s), and company name(s)
- Contact information including address, telephone and e-mail
- Title and objective of presentation
- Please indicate which topic you plan to address and please
indicate what is NEW about the presentation
- Summary of the talk
- What the audience will gain from your presentation (please
list 3-5 key "take-aways")
- NEW FOR THIS YEAR: Please submit a short video telling us
why you want to speak at PW&WCBA 2014
If your submission is selected, portions of your bio and
summary will be used to promote your participation. In an effort to ensure the
utmost quality, all final presentations will be subject to review by our
content review board one month prior to the event.
Additional Details
- Commercialism and self-promotion are NOT permitted or
tolerated. If this happens, you will NOT be invited to return as a speaker.
- Travel, lodging and other expenses are the responsibility of
the speaker.
Interested in Becoming a Media Partner or Featured Event
Blogger?
Contact Kacey Anderson, Marketing Manager at
kanderson@iirusa.com.
Due to the high volume of response, we are unable to respond to each
submission. All those selected to participate as speakers will be notified
shortly after the deadline.
Thank you for your interest in ProjectWorld & World Congress for Business
Analysts. We look forward to receiving your proposal!
Cheers,
The PW&WCBA Team
