Future Focused: Transforming Portfolios with data-driven insights
Headline sponsor Deecon Consulting
The world is awash with predictions of how next-gen AI and automation will radically transform our world - some utopian, many apocaliptic. But despite the hype how we do portfolio management today is pretty much how we did it yesterday! Join some of the leading portfolio lights in the government, construction, academic and practitioner world as we look at what is currently possible, and what one day might be possible, in the world of data-driven portfolio management.
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We'd like to thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their support.
Join us
Date: 15 May 2025
Time: 08:00-17:00
Venue: Holiday Inn London - Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 1HT
Member: £128.00
Non-member: £190.00
Corporate Partner/Affiliate employee: £140.00
Student member: £33.00
All prices exclude VAT
Who should attend
- Portfolio Directors and Managers and Teams
- PMO Managers and Teams
- Transformation professionals and consultants
- PPM Students
Why attend
Explore how modern data, AI and automation tools are being used pragmatically to improve portfolio optimisation and assurance.
Hear from Steve Jenner, author of Management of Portfolios, about his new methodology and how it can be applied in your portfolio office.
Meet practitioners from all across industry delivering portfolios of change
Conference programme (subject to change)
🕐 08:00-09:25Registration |
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🕐 09:30-09:45Welcome remarks🞇 Adam Skinner, Chief Consulting Officer, Deecon Consulting |
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🕐 09:45-10:45Opening keynote: Data and digital - how AI is helping us now🞇 Steve Maclaren, Chief Operating Officer, The National Robotarium |
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🕐 10:45-11:15Refreshment break |
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🕐 11:15-12:00Data and the land - driving change in Defra🞇 Andrew Cleary, DEFRA |
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🕐 12:00-12:45 |
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Managing Portfolios - the new model for portfolio success🞇 Stephen Jenner, Director, Portfolio Solutions |
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🕐 12:45-13:45Lunch |
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🕐 13:45-14:30 |
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Break Out 1 - Building your agile portfolio tracking
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Break Out 2 - So you want to be a PPM podcaster...🞇 Dev Amratia, CEO & Co-founder, nPlan |
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🕐 14:30-15:00Refreshment break and networking |
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🕐 15:00-15:304 portfolio events and 4 white paper findings later
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🕐 15:30-16:15Portfolio Management and the mega-project - a look at how good controls supports portfolio management on a mega-scale🞇 Professor Robert Joslin, President, AIPMO |
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🕐 16:15-16:45Panel feedback from breakouts, and wrap-up of the day
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🕐 16:45-17:00Closing remarks🞇 Adam Skinner, Chief Consulting Officer, Deecon Consulting |
Headline sponsor
Deecon Consulting
Deecon Consulting was founded in 2008 and is a specialist procurement, commercial management and dispute resolution service provider to the UK infrastructure and construction sector. We have a track record of delivering substantial savings and sustainable process changes to clients including Openreach, Thames Water, CityFibre and Network Rail.
Our agile and collaborative approach is fundamental to achieving value for our clients. Our staff are highly trained and have the skills and experience to provide solutions at each stage of a contract lifecycle, and our management team take a proactive role to ensure every client benefits from their expertise.
The team is supported by our in-house software package, Deecon Core, which enables the rapid consolidation and analysis of data to produce a high volume of accurate and customisable analytics. This saves time for our consultants and money for our clients, whilst improving the quality, speed and accuracy of analysis.
We deploy resourcing models to suit each client’s needs, with a flexible team able to provide support the delivery team at all times. With our unparalleled sector experience we understand the demands over a project lifecycle can change, and we ensure our team is equipped to deliver.
A message from our CEO & Founder - “At Deecon Consulting, we believe in leveraging subject matter expertise to transform client challenges into opportunities. Our commitment to collaboration and quality drives us to deliver tailored solutions that empower our clients to achieve their goals. We’re dedicated to making a tangible difference in every project we undertake and are committed to driving excellence in every engagement for our clients.”
Exhibitor
Kiplot Ltd
Kiplot transforms strategic portfolio management for enterprise organizations, trusted by leaders in Financial Services and Technology worldwide. From OKRs to project delivery, Kiplot helps organizations cut through complexity and accelerate value delivery by seamlessly unifying financial planning, resource capacity, technology roadmaps, and governance in one intuitive platform. Native integrations with business-critical systems like Jira, Azure DevOps, SAP Ariba, and Oracle NetSuite ensure your entire organization operates from a single source of truth. Organizations choose Kiplot to accelerate strategic initiatives and maximize return on investment while maintaining the rigorous control and compliance demands of regulated industries.
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