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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.

Germany and The Netherlands

on behalf of APMG Stephan is working with Channel Partners and Trainers in the education space. He achieved business growth in the region and has used many of his capabilities in the IT Service Management and Project Management environment to engage with the community and to improve the relationships with his customers. Prior to his career with APMG Stephan has been the Managing Director of a training and consulting company. From his studies in law and communication sciences he started his career with IBM and a Germany based systems integrator.

Stephan is a member of the BPUG and a board member of itSMF. His engagement in the community helps him to contribute to a variety of topics in the industry. He is certified in IT Service Management, Project Management and is a Business Relationship Management Professional.     

As an Assistant Director, Dianne is responsible for the implementation of the agricultural Development Programme, which includes the preparation of Draft Estimates of Expenditure, Achievement Reports, Implementation Schedules, Briefs, Comments, Cabinet Notes and Requests for Funds. Dianne is the Ministry’s Technical Assistance and the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Focal Point. Some of Dianne's previous portfolios included, Statistician I, Economist I, Tariff Analyst and Senior Planning Officer. Dianne served on the National Council for Sustainable Development, Project Advisory Committee for Multilateral Environmental Agreements and participated in a training programme in India: International Programme in Financing Inclusive Agriculture and Rural Development.

Dianne has gained many awards and scholarships, which are listed below: 

• An award from the Rotary Club in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, for the best Advanced Level examination results (Secondary level education)
• Dianne was awarded a Scholarship whilst studying for her Masters Degree in Economics, to conduct research in the field of Regulatory Economics, for her Thesis.
• Dianne was awarded a Scholarship by the Government of the Republic of India, to study for a PhD in Economics.
• Dianne was awarded Scholarship by the Government of the Republic of Chile, to participate in the Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation based on International Cooperation.
• Under the Singapore Cooperation Programme’s Training Award, Dianne participated in a training programme titled: Public Private Partnerships: Infrastructure Projects Development

Dianne's proudest achievement giver her passion sustainable rural development is preparing a Rural Electrification Policy and Project Proposal recommending the extension of the electricity Grid and the utilisation of Solar Powered Panels, to provide electrification, for rural communities. Further to this achievement, Dianne is proud to have language skills in Spanish, French and German.

As CEO of CITI Limited, Kay specialises in change enablement consultancy, building capability within organisations to support the delivery of strategic change through effective portfolio, programme and project management. They believe that people not only need the technical expertise, but also the behavioural consciousness to sponsor, manage stakeholders and realise benefits within P3M to deliver successful change.

Kay's role is primarily to ensure CITI continues to be at the forefront of thought leadership and business growth within the project, programme and portfolio management arena to enable sustainable, socially conscious and effective change for their client base, within industry and for learning institutions.

CITI have been named in the Top 30 Highest Performing Learning Providers with the Learning & Performance Institute for the last 4 consecutive years (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022).  They hold gold accreditation status as a learning provider and have obtained accreditation for the past 6 years.

CITI are proud to be a valued partner of the Cayman Island Government (CIG).  In 2021 CIG won the Social Project of Year in 2021 through the Association of Project Management (APM).

CITI is a proud and committed member of the global quest for a more ethical and sustainable future. Their vision is to be involved in meaningful work, with sustainable project delivery and so they are signed up to the “Project Managers Declare” movement. This commits CITI to supporting clients, partners and their own organisation to plan, design and deliver projects and related change that have a positive impact on the world around us by providing sustainable project outcomes.

Sheila Roberts is the Chief Progress Officer for Resilience Professionals Ltd. She has more than three decades of PPM experience, leading project professionals to deliver successful initiatives. She is accredited in many PPM and supports Best Practices. Sheila is passionate about the need for resilience and facilitating progress. Sheila is a co-author of ‘Business Resilience; A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace.’ She led the development of the Resilience Profile and other unique tools in the Business Resilience Framework.

Sheila is a Consultant, Assessor and Trainer in PPM and Business Resilience. She is a recognised specialist holding positions as Chair of Examiners and Chartered Assessor, in addition to being a Chartered Project Professional herself. She has been elected by competitor organisations as Chair of the PPM Training industry body, the Association for Training Excellence.In her spare time Sheila loves to read, walk, cycle and participates in car related activities with her family.