Using AI and Automation in business in 2024 Part 1

Phoenix, United States

Educating and coaching leaders, professionals and teams are Mart’s passion and is what he has been doing for nearly three decades. Mart works for INTERPROM, a coaching, consulting, training and education firm. Examples of areas he has specialized in are business relationship management, service management, information security management, and project and change management. He is looking forward to sharing his experience with you and to answering your questions.

Mart's proudest achievement: An achievement I’m looking back it is organizing, along with 20 passionate volunteers, a decade long, the annual Arizona ITSM Summit. A one-day event visited by 250+ local ITSM enthusiasts. And sponsored, year-after-year, by 20+ loyal vendors, including Forrester Research and Gartner.

Dierk Söllner helps his clients with the vision of "strengthening people and teams - empathically and competently" as a trainer and coach. As a certified business coach, he supports teams as well as specialists and managers with current challenges through professional business coaching and training. Combined with his long-standing and comprehensive professional expertise in IT methodological frameworks, makes him a competent and empathetic companion in personnel, team and organisational development. Dierk runs the German speaking business podcast "Business Akupunktur”, has a teaching assignment on "Value Stream based Design for IT Organisations" at NORDAKADEMIE Hamburg and also has published the reference book "IT Service Management with FitSM". Dierk's clients range from DAX corporations to medium-sized companies to smaller IT service providers. 

• DASA DevOps Ambassador for Germany
• Book author of: IT-Service Management mit FitSM (German) which will be available in English in 2024 by TSO 

Dierk's proudest achievement is working successfully for more than 13 years as a self-employed consultant and trainer for a wide range of companies.

Sachin has 20+ years of ERP transformation experience from the Client, Prime Integrator and Tier Supplier perspectives .  He is a member of the Association of Cost Engineers' (ACostE) Southwest Regional Board, Nuclear Institute's Digital SIG (DIGSIG), and Institute of Risk Management (IRM) Risk & Complexity SIG, Sizewell C Consortium member, and AI for Nuclear (AI4N) Working Group.

 He is also an expert in Project Management Methodologies, Tools, and Product Development Lifecycle(s): MAPM, MIRM, IVM and Six Sigma certified. Sachin is a skilled user of tools to support agile delivery management including being a (Jira, Confluence, Kanban boards, Waterfall, RPA, and Scrum) Deltek Partner, Oracle Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, AXELOS P3M3 Consulting Partner (ACP).

Awards and Nominations - 

Listed below are Sachins past conference presentations, and publications:

• Project Controls 2020 Expo Speaker “Moving Towards Agile Project Delivery for Large Infrastructure Projects”
• Project Controls 2021 Expo Speaker “Using Power Platform to create an autonomous Project Controls office on Transport for London’s (TFL) Piccadilly Upgrade programme”
• Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) 2022 Conference “Digitising your Commercial & Project office”
• PM World Journal “How I learned to stop worrying and love risk”

Sachins proudest achievement includes: 

Developing an ISO9001 certified and Cyber Essentials certified consultancy service which has delivered PMO, Programme Delivery and Transformational Change on major ERP projects, and Infrastructure projects across EMEA, and APAC regions, via framework contracts tendered, and won under our own name, through Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Sachin's Digital Bages :

• Project Controls Expo Speaker (2020, 2021, 2022)
• Deltek Acumen Fuse and Cobra Certified
• Member of the Association of Cost Engineers (MACostE) [Roll No: 7214]
• The Association of Controls Management
• 2019 PMO Global Trends Conference Speaker  [Blockchain ID: 598972]
• Certified Member of Institute of Risk Management (CMIRM)  [Credential ID 1964]
• Six Sigma Certified (Green Belt)
• Member of Association of Project Managers (MAPM)
• Application Associate, Project System with SAP ERP 6.0 EHP
• Past AXELOS P3M3 Assessor and ACP Consulting Partner

Melissa is the Founder and Chief Office Fairy at HappyFactory. With over 15 years of experience in the people game,  Melissa is now a people strategist and Agile Change Management Professional. She consults on all kinds of people problems and loves creating bespoke people programs.  She is an International Speaker & Facilitator and has recently taken on a seat as the Deputy General Secretary of SAACBA an employer’s organisation. Melissa believes that happy people are more productive people and is passionate about mind-body-energy at work, after all good “humaning” is all we ever want and all we ever need.

Melissa writes articles on Medium and co-wrote various publishings for SEIFSA

Melissa's proudest achievement is leaping into the world of entrepreneurship at the start of COVID, where she wanted to be at the forefront of the change, carving out a path rather than following.  

With over 18 years of experience, Ira specializes in building uniform Data Protection and Information Security, Compliance, and Risk programs from the ground up. This includes identifying the framework(s), compliance requirements, strategic plan for the company, incurred costs, ROI and implementation plan for the program. Ira started Gira Group that consolidates the experience along with the need in the market to connect the various compliance programs.

Ira's proudest achievement is transitioning from employment to start her own company dedicated to addressing a specific and important need to build the next generation workforce.