Sanjiv is an accomplished project controls professional with over 27 years of experience as a consultant, advisor and manager in the team of owner, EPC/EPCM, consulting and contractor organisations for their projects, function and department at the regional, national and global level in a variety of public and private industry sectors such as Mining and Metals, Oil and Gas, LNG, Chemical and Petrochemical, Coal, Power and Defence.

Sanjiv's passion for project controls and proactive, pragmatic and adaptive leadership style combined with influencing without authority approach helped projects, programs, portfolios and function to deliver the desired outcome.

Founded In 2013, Zerofloat is a boutique project controls consultancy turning zero float in to a positive outcome by providing value added services enabling our clients to maximise the benefits of successful project delivery.

Stacey has 18 years of experience in the Government sector, following on from a 9 year career in the banking, electricity and insurance industries. During her tenure in the Government sector, she has lead teams in quality assurance, software estimation, cost estimation and analysis, and policy development. Stacey has a wide range of qualifications spanning physics, IT hardware, psychology, business relationship management and public sector management.

Stacey is leading a team implementing major reform in Project Controls, Cost Estimation and Forecasting, Schedule Management, Risk Management, Future Systems Safety, Workforce Estimation and the Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM)). She has lead major initiatives such as the implementation of the Cost Estimation, Analysis and Modelling Tool (CEAMOT) and the development of the Software Estimation Program in Defence. Additionally,

Stacey leads broader activities such as Mindfulness and United Leadership Programs, focussed on the development of high performing teams and development of individuals. She currently mentors 3 more junior staff members and is actively pursuing improvement in her own leadership skills and style.

Stacey embodies a leadership philosophy of leadership at all levels, and believes in being a positive advocate for her team, enabling their success in delivery and also encouraging their personal development.

Together with her husband, she successfully breeds and exhibits purebred Bullmastiffs, and has achieved 8 Grand Champions in 14 years of breeding – the only kennel in Australia to have achieved that level of success. In her spare time, she is passionate about photography and is developing her own photography business. Stacey also has a passion for gardening and is working towards a sustainable future through permaculture and habitat restoration.

Yvonne Butler is a thought leader in strategy, governance, program management and risk management. She is highly regarded for her unique combination of deep industry knowledge, consulting expertise and global management experience across most industry sectors including not for profit and Government.

Ms Butler is Managing Director of The Information Source, a Board advisory firm she founded in 1995. Yvonne recently stepped down as the CEO of the Australian Institute of Project Management, which is the peak body for project management in Australia. Prior to this, Yvonne held senior positions in leading professional services firms such Allens Arthur Robinsons, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Ernst & Young, the Kaplan & Norton Palladium Group, and major infrastructure organisations such as APP Corporation and Transfield Services.

Yvonne currently sits on a number of Boards including being an External Board Member to the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, and is writing on book on strategy execution, governance and risk management.

Dr. Alexia Nalewaik is President-Elect of AACE International, Immediate Past Chair and Research Chair of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC), and a former Governing Board Member of RICS Americas. She lives in Los Angeles, where she has her own consulting firm, focusing on project cost management, governance, audit, and organizational process QA/QC. Alexia has recently published her first book, “Project Performance Review: Capturing the Value of Audit, Oversight, and Compliance for Project Success”.

Pieter understands that technology is transforming the way we design, build and operate assets.

Pieter has presented at numerous conferences and lectures at Universities on the topics of Artificial intelligence, Building Information Modelling, 4D planning and risk quantification and management.

He is a chartered Quantity Surveyor and has worked for numerous organizations including BHP, Origin Energy, Turner and Townsend and Faithful Gould in different locations around the world.

Pieter is the vice chair of ACES QLD and successfully applies innovative technology and processes to real world projects.

As Principal and Managing Director at Bedford Road Pty Ltd, Les Guthrie has over 40 years’ experience in the project delivery space, including project management and senior corporate roles, across the UK, Australia, North America and Asia. It is a background steeped in the development and delivery of major capital programs spanning mining, infrastructure and oil & gas, as both client and contractor.

Les was a founding participant of the John Grill Centre for Project Leadership at The University of Sydney, where he presented a 1 week residential module on Design Thinking and Strategic Mindset as part of the Executive Leadership in Major Projects program. In 2016 he was invited to be the sole international guest speaker at a conference of Korea’s major engineering & construction companies, jointly hosted by Seoul National University and the Koream Ministry of Trade & Industry.

Previously he held roles as Group Head of Capital Projects and President LNG for BG Group, Vice President Projects at BHP Billiton, plus several senior roles at Aker Kvaerner, including Group Senior Vice President, Oil Gas & Process, President Aker Kvaerner Inc. and Managing Director Aker Kvaerner Australia.

Dr. Vittal Anantatmula is a professor in the College of Business, Western Carolina University and a recipient of the University Scholar and Graduate Teaching Awards. He is also Global guest professor at Keio University, Japan and a director of the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Center Board. He has extensive experience in academics and industry. Currently, he is in Melbourne as a recipient of Endeavor Executive Fellowship from the Department of Education and Training, Australia and working with the School of Property, Construction, and Project Management. Dr. Anantatmula has authored 40 scholarly journal articles, 8 books, 9 book chapters and numerous conference presentations. He received MS and PhD degrees from The George Washington University and Electrical Engineering from Andhra University, India.

Dr Nicholas Fahey is the Head of Project Controls at John Holland Pty Ltd. He is exposed to a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of projects spanning different industry sectors and different locations.

Nick developed his capabilities whilst working on some very large and complex projects across the globe. Importantly, some of these were high performing projects, while others have failed to meet their time and cost objectives. This mix of experience has given him good insight to the features that separate successful and unsuccessful major projects.

Nick began his career working on projects in the Australian mining industry in the late 1990s, most notably, the Olympic Dam Expansion project. After completing his PhD in 2002, he travelled to London where he spent the remainder of the decade, working on major projects such as Heathrow Terminal 5 and the London 2012 Olympics. Nick returned to Australia in 2010 and worked on the delivery of several major projects for Australian tier-one contractors before taking up a series of state and national roles in Project Controls and Risk Management.

Ph.D., FAACE, CCP, CEP, EVP, MRICS Guild Fellow of Project Controls

30 years of experience in planning, scheduling, estimating, cost engineering, contracts and Total Quality Management (TQM). Project controls field & home office systems and worked as Project Controls Supervisor, Project Controls Manager, Superintendent, Contract Administrator and Project Manager. He has a proven record of excellence in achieving goals for project team and client in execution of Project Management and Controls in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union. He is also experienced in implementing Project Management and Construction Control systems for facilities, telecommunications, power, infrastructure, and petrochemical projects. Experience with DTRA/DCMA/FAR, IMF, World Bank, EBRD, and Asian Bank policies and tendering.

Ph.D., FAACE, CCP, CEP, EVP, MRICS Guild Fellow of Project Controls

30 years of experience in planning, scheduling, estimating, cost engineering, contracts and Total Quality Management (TQM). Project controls field & home office systems and worked as Project Controls Supervisor, Project Controls Manager, Superintendent, Contract Administrator and Project Manager. He has a proven record of excellence in achieving goals for project team and client in execution of Project Management and Controls in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union. He is also experienced in implementing Project Management and Construction Control systems for facilities, telecommunications, power, infrastructure, and petrochemical projects. Experience with DTRA/DCMA/FAR, IMF, World Bank, EBRD, and Asian Bank policies and tendering.

Pieter understands that technology is transforming the way we design, build and operate assets.

Pieter has presented at numerous conferences and lectures at Universities on the topics of Artificial intelligence, Building Information Modelling, 4D planning and risk quantification and management.

He is a chartered Quantity Surveyor and has worked for numerous organizations including BHP, Origin Energy, Turner and Townsend and Faithful Gould in different locations around the world.

Pieter is the vice chair of ACES QLD and successfully applies innovative technology and processes to real world projects.

Yvonne Butler is a thought leader in strategy, governance, program management and risk management. She is highly regarded for her unique combination of deep industry knowledge, consulting expertise and global management experience across most industry sectors including not for profit and Government.

Ms Butler is Managing Director of The Information Source, a Board advisory firm she founded in 1995. Yvonne recently stepped down as the CEO of the Australian Institute of Project Management, which is the peak body for project management in Australia. Prior to this, Yvonne held senior positions in leading professional services firms such Allens Arthur Robinsons, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Ernst & Young, the Kaplan & Norton Palladium Group, and major infrastructure organisations such as APP Corporation and Transfield Services.

Yvonne currently sits on a number of Boards including being an External Board Member to the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, and is writing on book on strategy execution, governance and risk management.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

Vikrant Mulgund leads EY’s Capital Infrastructure and Asset Management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Over a career approaching 2 decades, he has developed a speciality in megaprojects development and delivery and complex operations in asset-intensive industries; having worked in operational leadership and strategic advisory roles across Asia Pacific, Middle East and North America

His megaproject leadership experience includes - Head of Program Office for the Western Sydney Airport for the Federal Government over 3 years, project management roles on Gladstone LNG over 3 years, Final Investment Decision advice on Snowy Hydro 2.0, among others.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Loretta Bayliss is an internationally experienced IT executive recognised for working closely with clients to achieve high-value, project-focused business and technology solutions.

Known for her drive, energy and passion, as well as her frank and forthright approach, Loretta has an unrelenting commitment to the pursuit of excellence and a constant thirst for knowledge. Highly structured in her thinking, Loretta leaves nothing to chance and makes sound judgement calls that are in the best interests of Prescience Technology’s clients.

Loretta possesses a proven ability to inspire, motivate, and manage exceptionally energized, focused and highly performing teams in challenging project conditions and environments. She has a talent for making rapid assessments of diverse situational and technical challenges and developing and leading the resulting action plans.

Loretta is committed to her support of Act for Kids, a Brisbane headquartered organisation that improves the lives of abused children across Australia. She has hiked through central Australia and the Southern Alps of New Zealand to raise funds for this outstanding cause, and will hike a significant section of Western Australia's iconic Bibbulmun Track in 2018 to raise further awareness for the work that Act for Kids does for Aussie kids and families.

In her spare time, Loretta enjoys playing taxi driver to her three children, regularly runs half marathons and also squeezes in the occasional trail run, cycle, swim or hike.

Michael Maslen is the solution director for InEight Asia-Pacific, a leading developer of software solutions that drives project confidence for organisations focused on engineering, infrastructure and capital projects.

In this role, Maslen is responsible for leading engagements with organisations to help them find innovative ways technology can be used to achieve predictable outcomes, improve project performance and minimize risks. Maslen joined InEight in 2015, as the solution director of Australia and New Zealand.

With more than 20 years of technology and capital-projects industry experience, Michael has held senior industry thought leadership, project management and advisory roles at companies including SAP and Oracle. Maslen gained extensive knowledge and experience in these roles working with leading project- and asset-centric organisations in the areas of project controls, value engineering, supply chain management and finance.

Maslen earned a bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Technology Sydney and is APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM).

With over 18 years' experience in Planning and Scheduling, Santosh is an independent consultant to projects or organisations looking to improve their capabilities and deliver results though improved Project Planning, Scheduling and Risk Analyses. Co-founder and CEO of Linear Project Software and Director of Australasian Project Planning.

Dev is a chartered engineer with a range of experience in delivering international projects with Shell. He has seen megaprojects come to life, taking concepts through to engineering, funding, construction and handover. His experience in delivering projects spans 3 continents, working on the largest projects the energy industry has done. Following this, Dev was offered the opportunity to serve the UK government as a senior adviser. During this time, he created the political momentum to launch and deliver the national review on AI. This was the most influential review of the UK’s strategic policies to rapidly accelerate the growth and prosperity from the pervasive use of AI. Since the review, more than £1B has been allocated by the UK Government to accelerate AI.

To combine his real world experience in delivering projects and the opportunity created by AI, he was selected to join Entrepreneur First - Europe's top and most prestigious accelerator which specialises in deep technology startups, where he launched nPlan.

Dev has a strong passion to change the way projects are delivered through empowered decisions, enabled by data. This passion has manifested into building nPlan, with the vision to remove opacity in construction by enabling project teams to plan and execute their projects with certainty of the outcome.

Mark White has a career spanning nearly 30 years with a background in quantity surveying and project controls. With Hexagon PPM, Mark leads the vision and strategy for the EcoSys Projects Performance software platform. He enjoys helping organizations to mature their projects performance capabilities in order to achieve highly efficient predictability and control, and ultimately improve returns and margins from project investments. Mark and his team actively develop these capabilities, based on industry best practices, and help implement them within some of the world’s most prestigious companies.

Prior to Hexagon, Mark spent most of his career with Faithful+Gould, a leading project management and controls consultancy. There, Mark served as CIO having founded F+G’s IT Consulting business unit and their cost management software solution.

Verghese Kochummen is a project management consultant with over 15 years of experience setting up enterprise solutions for construction and infrastructure project control teams. Verghese is the principal architect of Executive-Eye, a stakeholder management platform designed for busy project Executives needing to be updated on their project progress within ‘Executive-Time’.
In his work with industry leading infrastructure and construction companies, Verghese has had the opportunity to closely interact with Executive teams whose needs often go above and beyond conventional project control practices. Today, he works closely with owners of mega infrastructure projects to ensure they get accurate view of their project progress and empower them with the tools to conduct Executive level briefings to other stakeholders.

With over 30 years of experience, Wayne Wilson has been involved in enterprise project management systems since their inception. He has been instrumental in the design and development of market-leading technology solutions at an enterprise level for some of Australia’s largest scale projects. As Prescience Technology’s Chief Operating Officer, Wayne is accountable for the company’s entire suite of delivery activities, including support and services for thousands of IT and project professionals worldwide. He has undertaken multiple implementations and upgrades of large-scale, complex, capital programs at an enterprise level, predominantly in the infrastructure, engineering and construction, transport and resources sectors.

Mark is managing director and founder of two organisations focused on project delivery; mbh training founded in 1999 and UniPhi (Aus) Pty Ltd founded in 2013. Both are focused on improving organisations capability in delivering investments. UniPhi achieves this through intuitive software applications to support all participants in the project environment. UniPhi’s vision is software users want to use. mbh achieves its goals by delivering practical hands on project management training based on the latest academic thinking as applied to a variety of industries. Mark has a keen interest in building products that facilitate the adoption of theory being developed to assist in managing complex projects. He has researched the topic of managing complex projects for the past 20 years and uses theories in this field both in the development of software and training products as well as in the implementation of large UniPhi rollouts.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Business, Accounting and Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney. Mark is a Fellow of CPA Australia member of the AICD and was an assessor for the AIPM RegPM program for 12 years.

Following his extensive practical experience in the application of Project Controls and in observing its direct benefit upon a project, TBH Principal Steven Bird is passionate about the advancement of Project Controls within the industry. Steven was recently Chair of the organising committee behind the inaugural Project Controls Conference 2017 in Sydney, where 300+ delegates and speakers were invited to a 3-day activation of workshops, case study explorations and network opportunities with esteemed industry peers.

Steven’s major work includes his position as Project Controls Lead on the Mega T5 Heathrow Airport project (UK), Head of Planning and Controls at Laing O’Rourke Australia and more recently his appointment as Principal of Integrated Project Controls at TBH - where he is currently Project Controls Lead on the WestConnex Stage 3 project (NSW).

Loretta Hudson leads Victoria’s Portfolio and Program Management (PPM) Team and has a highly accomplished 20 year career in delivery and assurance of large complex programs. Initially joining EY’s London Practice in 2008, Loretta has transformed and delivered complex and strategic programs, for some of the largest private and public sectors organisations across the globe including the London 2012 Games. In joining EY’s Oceania Practice in 2010, Loretta was critical in establishing, what is today’s PPM Team of over 150 professionals within Australia and New Zealand alone.

Prior to embarking on her consulting career with EY, Loretta delivered drilling, capital and operational programs for ExxonMobil across Bass Strait and the North West Shelf. Loretta later progressed into executive leadership roles for KBR and held major program delivery accountabilities including Risk & Controls Manager for the Shell $10b GTL program. In the capacity of Business Development Manager for both Azerbaijan and KBR’s subsidiary organisation (Granhere, UK), Loretta successfully negotiated major contracts which delivered KBR favourable financial performance.

Loretta holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and Bachelor of Business from RMIT, Melbourne. Loretta’s international qualifications includes a MBA in Program Management from the University of Reading (UK).

Loretta is also a respected advocate and role model for improving diversity and female representation within STEM professions, for both EY and client organisations.

Vikrant Mulgund leads EY’s Capital Infrastructure and Asset Management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Over a career approaching 2 decades, he has developed a speciality in megaprojects development and delivery and complex operations in asset-intensive industries; having worked in operational leadership and strategic advisory roles across Asia Pacific, Middle East and North America

His megaproject leadership experience includes - Head of Program Office for the Western Sydney Airport for the Federal Government over 3 years, project management roles on Gladstone LNG over 3 years, Final Investment Decision advice on Snowy Hydro 2.0, among others.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Gregg currently leads the Logikal consulting business on the East Coast of Australia having previously been the Sydney Office Director and National PMO Lead for Aquenta (Jacobs). As a key thought leader in project and program management, Gregg has many years of experience working in the capital planning, delivery, reporting and governance areas of major utility providers and government agencies both here in Australia and in the UK. From a technical perspective, Gregg is a highly experienced finance and economics professional with skills spanning program and portfolio management, business and strategy planning, financial modeling, regulatory economics, capital investment appraisal, business case writing, cost-benefit analysis and benefits management. Gregg’s proactive attitude combined with a thorough understanding of economic, commercial and regulatory factors has given him a unique skillset in establishing and managing programs and portfolios for major utilities and government agencies across sectors such as Energy, Health, Water, Transport and Telecoms. With an enduring passion for promoting the practice of benefits management, Gregg is a firm believer that all investment decisions should be ‘outcomes focused’ so that every dollar makes a significant and sustained contribution to securing benefits valued by our stakeholders.

Ashley Nugawela at Oracle Construction and Engineering manages the Sales Consulting and Channels teams in the ANZ & ASEAN regions. He is responsible for supporting all Oracle Construction and Engineering solutions proposed to its customers and ensures its acceptance with its customers. Ashley has held roles across sales, consulting and customer side and is an industry and product specialist in Project and Portfolio Management including Project Controls and Collaboration.

Paul Eastwood Harris holds an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering obtained in the UK and is a Certified Cost Engineer through AACE International, a certified PRINCE2™ practitioner.
He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project controls systems.
Primaskills Pty Ltd, his Melbourne, Australia based company offer project controls consulting and training services to the project management industry with a strong focus on Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 and Asta Powerproject.
He has written and published over 50 books/training manuals on SureTrak, Primavera P3, Oracle Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Asta Powerproject which are published by his publishing company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd. They are available through most online books sellers, are supported by instructor PowerPoint slide shows and used by over a hundred companies around the world.

Angela Tuffley is the Director of RedBay Consulting and a SCRAM Principal. She has over 35 years of industry experience, both in Australia and overseas, providing expert professional services in training, assessment and advice for the acquisition, engineering and support of software intensive systems. She is a co-developer of the Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM) and provides consultation on SCRAM to industry, the adoption of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and ISO/IEC 15504 Information Technology Process Assessment (SPICE).

Gideon Klipstein is the Vice President Business of Cost Engineering Consultancy, the company behind Cleopatra Enterprise, one of the world’s leading Project Cost Management software tools. Next to developing software, the company is one of the leading consultancies in the field of Project Controls, as well as an established knowledge provider through the Cost Engineering Academy. Gideon holds Bachelor, Post-bachelor and Post-master’s degrees in various Business Administration topics and has been in business with numerous large industrial companies for about 8 years. During that time, he has built up an international network in various industries such as oil & gas, infrastructure, power, offshore, chemicals, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding. He consults industry leading companies how to improve their project control activities with the combination of software tooling, consultancy services and the Academy. Furthermore, he is a regular speaker at industry events, spreading the word how the integrated project controls approach can improve project performance throughout the business. Next to serving clients in Europe, he’s leading the company’s strategic business development initiatives in the APAC region.

Marion Terrill is the Transport Program Director at the Grattan Institute. She joined the Grattan Institute in April 2015 to establish the Transport Program. She has published on a wide variety of topics, including public investment in transport infrastructure, politicization of transport investment, value capture, road congestion in Australia’s major cities, and project evaluations, including what discount rates should be used.

In 2016 she published a major report on cost overruns on transport infrastructure projects, looking for the first time in Australia at all projects valued at $20 million or more and planned or built since 2001. Despite a widespread view that Australia does not have a cost overrun problem, she found that cost overruns account for nearly a quarter of project budgets. She also found that most problems are caused by a relatively small number of projects, with 90 per cent of Australia’s cost overrun problem explained by 17 per cent of projects that exceed their promised cost by more than half.

Marion came to the Grattan Institute as a leading public policy thinker with experience that ranged from authoring parts of the 2010 Henry Tax Review to leading the design and development of Australia’s online government account for citizens, known as MyGov account. She has provided expert analysis and advice on labour market policy for the Commonwealth Government, the Business Council of Australia and at the Australian National University.

Ben du Bois is the Acting Director, Commercial Markets and Analysis, within the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities. He oversees cost estimate reviews of projects seeking Commonwealth funding, as well as the development of the Department’s cost estimation policy and associated technical guidance material. A key role is the provision of advice regarding the cost and risk of multi-billion dollar transport infrastructure projects for which Commonwealth Government funding is being sought.
Ben has degrees in civil engineering, pavement engineering, and teaching with experience across a number of different government sectors. His current interests lie in quantitative risk modelling and analysis and in the development of the best tools and model structure to quantify uncertainty at each stage of the project life cycle.

A pragmatic leader, Phil energizes his team to deliver the best outcomes possible. Starting his working life in the British Army, he has been put to the test in the most challenging of circumstances in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Since leaving the army, he has worked as a Management Consultant across multiple sectors in the Public & Private Sector in the UK. Phil arrived in Australia in March 2018 and is currently seconded on to Sydney Metro.

A Mechanical Engineer and accredited Project Management Professional with over 20 years’ experience working across Australia, Asia Pacific and South America.

Romildo is an Associate Director for Turner & Townsend. He manages the Infrastructure, Energy and Resources in South Australia delivering a range of advisory services.

He works with large local and international organisations, employing his global experience to maximise performance. Romildo worked with ElectraNet to refine its project delivery process, creating an integrated system to drive efficiency and build capability. Other blue-chip clients in his portfolio include BHP, BP, Santos, Anglo American and Inpex to name a few.

Romildo has been on the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute in Adelaide for years, holding positions in finance and marketing. Romildo also lectures Risk Management for the University of Adelaide and was responsible for developing the entire subject as part of their Bachelor of Project Management degree.

Abhijnan is working as the Project Controls Manager within Finance, investment and controls for the Westconnex Program of works which is the largest road infrastructure project in Australia. As an engineering professional with a strategic insight, he has worked at an operational and tactical strategy level, helping in "mega" project set up which is very different and unique from regular project setup or management.

Being a practical theorist Abhijnan have ensured establishment of project management best practices across the Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Industry and Mining sectors. He has completed successful engagements in US, Middle East, India, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines and Australia. Abhijnan have overseen quick and sustainable business turnarounds. Establishing Risk management frameworks across project portfolios has been his special interest and he has facilitated Risk Analysis workshops and implemented quantitative risk management models across a number of businesses, thus ensuring effective project and program implementation. Having worked as a lump-sum (EPC/D&C) contractor, engineering and project management consultant, as a management consultant in performance improvement and then in owner’s team provides him with a unique perspective on projects from each of the stakeholder lenses.

Shankar Sankaran is the Professor of Organisational Project Management at the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology S. He is a Core Member of the Built Environment Informatics and Innovation Research Centre. He is one of the key members of the UTS Megaproject Research Team.

Shankar’s research covers organizational project management, megaprojects, systems thinking and action research.

He teaches advanced level subjects in the Master of Project Management Course including organizational project management and systems thinking.

Shankar is an editor of and author of chapters in the Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management and A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy Processes and Practice published by Springer.

His current research projects sponsored by the Project Management Institute are: ‘Balancing person-centric and team-centric leadership in projects’; ‘Governance of innovation in portfolios, programs and projects (3P)’.

Shankar is Director of the Global Accreditation Centre of the Project Management Institute and a President Elect of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.

Lou has experienced all facets of project controls management, estimating, budget preparation, cost control and reporting, planning and scheduling, contractor claims assessment, documentation control and project reporting, on all phases of major resource and projects from concept phase to execution and handover. His experience has included working with both owners teams and epcm contractors, often working in the management of project communication.with a proven ability to successfully build teams through training and staff development and extensive experience implementing new processes and systems for major projects, and integrating project process across project groups, lou has become an expert within the project controls field.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

Angela Tuffley is the Director of RedBay Consulting and a SCRAM Principal. She has over 35 years of industry experience, both in Australia and overseas, providing expert professional services in training, assessment and advice for the acquisition, engineering and support of software intensive systems. She is a co-developer of the Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM) and provides consultation on SCRAM to industry, the adoption of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and ISO/IEC 15504 Information Technology Process Assessment (SPICE).

Lance Stephenson is a Senior Management Consultant with over 34 years’ experience, providing his clients with expertise in the areas of operational, portfolio and project excellence. Lance is dynamic, articulate, analytical, and results-oriented individual; and enjoys a good challenge. Lance is a self-motivated and resourceful senior manager with a proven ability to develop and strengthen leadership teams in order to maximize effectiveness and efficiency, while providing proven results in the areas of corporate strategy and governance, portfolio and project technology, methodology and delivery.
Lance is a Certified Cost Professional, a Project Management Professional and certified Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Lance has a Mechanical Engineering Technology Diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Lance is a published author, international speaker, seminar leader and corporate trainer as well as a cost engineering practitioner. Lance’s thought provoking papers and highly interactive presentations and workshops have informed and educated audiences from the U.S., Canada, Malaysia, Australia, and The Netherlands.

Sanjiv is an accomplished project controls professional with over 27 years of experience as a consultant, advisor and manager in the team of owner, EPC/EPCM, consulting and contractor organisations for their projects, function and department at the regional, national and global level in a variety of public and private industry sectors such as Mining and Metals, Oil and Gas, LNG, Chemical and Petrochemical, Coal, Power and Defence.

Sanjiv's passion for project controls and proactive, pragmatic and adaptive leadership style combined with influencing without authority approach helped projects, programs, portfolios and function to deliver the desired outcome.

Founded In 2013, Zerofloat is a boutique project controls consultancy turning zero float in to a positive outcome by providing value added services enabling our clients to maximise the benefits of successful project delivery.

Stacey has 18 years of experience in the Government sector, following on from a 9 year career in the banking, electricity and insurance industries. During her tenure in the Government sector, she has lead teams in quality assurance, software estimation, cost estimation and analysis, and policy development. Stacey has a wide range of qualifications spanning physics, IT hardware, psychology, business relationship management and public sector management.

Stacey is leading a team implementing major reform in Project Controls, Cost Estimation and Forecasting, Schedule Management, Risk Management, Future Systems Safety, Workforce Estimation and the Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM)). She has lead major initiatives such as the implementation of the Cost Estimation, Analysis and Modelling Tool (CEAMOT) and the development of the Software Estimation Program in Defence. Additionally,

Stacey leads broader activities such as Mindfulness and United Leadership Programs, focussed on the development of high performing teams and development of individuals. She currently mentors 3 more junior staff members and is actively pursuing improvement in her own leadership skills and style.

Stacey embodies a leadership philosophy of leadership at all levels, and believes in being a positive advocate for her team, enabling their success in delivery and also encouraging their personal development.

Together with her husband, she successfully breeds and exhibits purebred Bullmastiffs, and has achieved 8 Grand Champions in 14 years of breeding – the only kennel in Australia to have achieved that level of success. In her spare time, she is passionate about photography and is developing her own photography business. Stacey also has a passion for gardening and is working towards a sustainable future through permaculture and habitat restoration.

Yvonne Butler is a thought leader in strategy, governance, program management and risk management. She is highly regarded for her unique combination of deep industry knowledge, consulting expertise and global management experience across most industry sectors including not for profit and Government.

Ms Butler is Managing Director of The Information Source, a Board advisory firm she founded in 1995. Yvonne recently stepped down as the CEO of the Australian Institute of Project Management, which is the peak body for project management in Australia. Prior to this, Yvonne held senior positions in leading professional services firms such Allens Arthur Robinsons, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Ernst & Young, the Kaplan & Norton Palladium Group, and major infrastructure organisations such as APP Corporation and Transfield Services.

Yvonne currently sits on a number of Boards including being an External Board Member to the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, and is writing on book on strategy execution, governance and risk management.

Dr. Alexia Nalewaik is President-Elect of AACE International, Immediate Past Chair and Research Chair of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC), and a former Governing Board Member of RICS Americas. She lives in Los Angeles, where she has her own consulting firm, focusing on project cost management, governance, audit, and organizational process QA/QC. Alexia has recently published her first book, “Project Performance Review: Capturing the Value of Audit, Oversight, and Compliance for Project Success”.

Pieter understands that technology is transforming the way we design, build and operate assets.

Pieter has presented at numerous conferences and lectures at Universities on the topics of Artificial intelligence, Building Information Modelling, 4D planning and risk quantification and management.

He is a chartered Quantity Surveyor and has worked for numerous organizations including BHP, Origin Energy, Turner and Townsend and Faithful Gould in different locations around the world.

Pieter is the vice chair of ACES QLD and successfully applies innovative technology and processes to real world projects.

As Principal and Managing Director at Bedford Road Pty Ltd, Les Guthrie has over 40 years’ experience in the project delivery space, including project management and senior corporate roles, across the UK, Australia, North America and Asia. It is a background steeped in the development and delivery of major capital programs spanning mining, infrastructure and oil & gas, as both client and contractor.

Les was a founding participant of the John Grill Centre for Project Leadership at The University of Sydney, where he presented a 1 week residential module on Design Thinking and Strategic Mindset as part of the Executive Leadership in Major Projects program. In 2016 he was invited to be the sole international guest speaker at a conference of Korea’s major engineering & construction companies, jointly hosted by Seoul National University and the Koream Ministry of Trade & Industry.

Previously he held roles as Group Head of Capital Projects and President LNG for BG Group, Vice President Projects at BHP Billiton, plus several senior roles at Aker Kvaerner, including Group Senior Vice President, Oil Gas & Process, President Aker Kvaerner Inc. and Managing Director Aker Kvaerner Australia.

Dr. Vittal Anantatmula is a professor in the College of Business, Western Carolina University and a recipient of the University Scholar and Graduate Teaching Awards. He is also Global guest professor at Keio University, Japan and a director of the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Center Board. He has extensive experience in academics and industry. Currently, he is in Melbourne as a recipient of Endeavor Executive Fellowship from the Department of Education and Training, Australia and working with the School of Property, Construction, and Project Management. Dr. Anantatmula has authored 40 scholarly journal articles, 8 books, 9 book chapters and numerous conference presentations. He received MS and PhD degrees from The George Washington University and Electrical Engineering from Andhra University, India.

Dr Nicholas Fahey is the Head of Project Controls at John Holland Pty Ltd. He is exposed to a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of projects spanning different industry sectors and different locations.

Nick developed his capabilities whilst working on some very large and complex projects across the globe. Importantly, some of these were high performing projects, while others have failed to meet their time and cost objectives. This mix of experience has given him good insight to the features that separate successful and unsuccessful major projects.

Nick began his career working on projects in the Australian mining industry in the late 1990s, most notably, the Olympic Dam Expansion project. After completing his PhD in 2002, he travelled to London where he spent the remainder of the decade, working on major projects such as Heathrow Terminal 5 and the London 2012 Olympics. Nick returned to Australia in 2010 and worked on the delivery of several major projects for Australian tier-one contractors before taking up a series of state and national roles in Project Controls and Risk Management.

Ph.D., FAACE, CCP, CEP, EVP, MRICS Guild Fellow of Project Controls

30 years of experience in planning, scheduling, estimating, cost engineering, contracts and Total Quality Management (TQM). Project controls field & home office systems and worked as Project Controls Supervisor, Project Controls Manager, Superintendent, Contract Administrator and Project Manager. He has a proven record of excellence in achieving goals for project team and client in execution of Project Management and Controls in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union. He is also experienced in implementing Project Management and Construction Control systems for facilities, telecommunications, power, infrastructure, and petrochemical projects. Experience with DTRA/DCMA/FAR, IMF, World Bank, EBRD, and Asian Bank policies and tendering.

Ph.D., FAACE, CCP, CEP, EVP, MRICS Guild Fellow of Project Controls

30 years of experience in planning, scheduling, estimating, cost engineering, contracts and Total Quality Management (TQM). Project controls field & home office systems and worked as Project Controls Supervisor, Project Controls Manager, Superintendent, Contract Administrator and Project Manager. He has a proven record of excellence in achieving goals for project team and client in execution of Project Management and Controls in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union. He is also experienced in implementing Project Management and Construction Control systems for facilities, telecommunications, power, infrastructure, and petrochemical projects. Experience with DTRA/DCMA/FAR, IMF, World Bank, EBRD, and Asian Bank policies and tendering.

Pieter understands that technology is transforming the way we design, build and operate assets.

Pieter has presented at numerous conferences and lectures at Universities on the topics of Artificial intelligence, Building Information Modelling, 4D planning and risk quantification and management.

He is a chartered Quantity Surveyor and has worked for numerous organizations including BHP, Origin Energy, Turner and Townsend and Faithful Gould in different locations around the world.

Pieter is the vice chair of ACES QLD and successfully applies innovative technology and processes to real world projects.

Yvonne Butler is a thought leader in strategy, governance, program management and risk management. She is highly regarded for her unique combination of deep industry knowledge, consulting expertise and global management experience across most industry sectors including not for profit and Government.

Ms Butler is Managing Director of The Information Source, a Board advisory firm she founded in 1995. Yvonne recently stepped down as the CEO of the Australian Institute of Project Management, which is the peak body for project management in Australia. Prior to this, Yvonne held senior positions in leading professional services firms such Allens Arthur Robinsons, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Ernst & Young, the Kaplan & Norton Palladium Group, and major infrastructure organisations such as APP Corporation and Transfield Services.

Yvonne currently sits on a number of Boards including being an External Board Member to the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, and is writing on book on strategy execution, governance and risk management.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

Vikrant Mulgund leads EY’s Capital Infrastructure and Asset Management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Over a career approaching 2 decades, he has developed a speciality in megaprojects development and delivery and complex operations in asset-intensive industries; having worked in operational leadership and strategic advisory roles across Asia Pacific, Middle East and North America

His megaproject leadership experience includes - Head of Program Office for the Western Sydney Airport for the Federal Government over 3 years, project management roles on Gladstone LNG over 3 years, Final Investment Decision advice on Snowy Hydro 2.0, among others.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Loretta Bayliss is an internationally experienced IT executive recognised for working closely with clients to achieve high-value, project-focused business and technology solutions.

Known for her drive, energy and passion, as well as her frank and forthright approach, Loretta has an unrelenting commitment to the pursuit of excellence and a constant thirst for knowledge. Highly structured in her thinking, Loretta leaves nothing to chance and makes sound judgement calls that are in the best interests of Prescience Technology’s clients.

Loretta possesses a proven ability to inspire, motivate, and manage exceptionally energized, focused and highly performing teams in challenging project conditions and environments. She has a talent for making rapid assessments of diverse situational and technical challenges and developing and leading the resulting action plans.

Loretta is committed to her support of Act for Kids, a Brisbane headquartered organisation that improves the lives of abused children across Australia. She has hiked through central Australia and the Southern Alps of New Zealand to raise funds for this outstanding cause, and will hike a significant section of Western Australia's iconic Bibbulmun Track in 2018 to raise further awareness for the work that Act for Kids does for Aussie kids and families.

In her spare time, Loretta enjoys playing taxi driver to her three children, regularly runs half marathons and also squeezes in the occasional trail run, cycle, swim or hike.

Michael Maslen is the solution director for InEight Asia-Pacific, a leading developer of software solutions that drives project confidence for organisations focused on engineering, infrastructure and capital projects.

In this role, Maslen is responsible for leading engagements with organisations to help them find innovative ways technology can be used to achieve predictable outcomes, improve project performance and minimize risks. Maslen joined InEight in 2015, as the solution director of Australia and New Zealand.

With more than 20 years of technology and capital-projects industry experience, Michael has held senior industry thought leadership, project management and advisory roles at companies including SAP and Oracle. Maslen gained extensive knowledge and experience in these roles working with leading project- and asset-centric organisations in the areas of project controls, value engineering, supply chain management and finance.

Maslen earned a bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Technology Sydney and is APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM).

With over 18 years' experience in Planning and Scheduling, Santosh is an independent consultant to projects or organisations looking to improve their capabilities and deliver results though improved Project Planning, Scheduling and Risk Analyses. Co-founder and CEO of Linear Project Software and Director of Australasian Project Planning.

Dev is a chartered engineer with a range of experience in delivering international projects with Shell. He has seen megaprojects come to life, taking concepts through to engineering, funding, construction and handover. His experience in delivering projects spans 3 continents, working on the largest projects the energy industry has done. Following this, Dev was offered the opportunity to serve the UK government as a senior adviser. During this time, he created the political momentum to launch and deliver the national review on AI. This was the most influential review of the UK’s strategic policies to rapidly accelerate the growth and prosperity from the pervasive use of AI. Since the review, more than £1B has been allocated by the UK Government to accelerate AI.

To combine his real world experience in delivering projects and the opportunity created by AI, he was selected to join Entrepreneur First - Europe's top and most prestigious accelerator which specialises in deep technology startups, where he launched nPlan.

Dev has a strong passion to change the way projects are delivered through empowered decisions, enabled by data. This passion has manifested into building nPlan, with the vision to remove opacity in construction by enabling project teams to plan and execute their projects with certainty of the outcome.

Mark White has a career spanning nearly 30 years with a background in quantity surveying and project controls. With Hexagon PPM, Mark leads the vision and strategy for the EcoSys Projects Performance software platform. He enjoys helping organizations to mature their projects performance capabilities in order to achieve highly efficient predictability and control, and ultimately improve returns and margins from project investments. Mark and his team actively develop these capabilities, based on industry best practices, and help implement them within some of the world’s most prestigious companies.

Prior to Hexagon, Mark spent most of his career with Faithful+Gould, a leading project management and controls consultancy. There, Mark served as CIO having founded F+G’s IT Consulting business unit and their cost management software solution.

Verghese Kochummen is a project management consultant with over 15 years of experience setting up enterprise solutions for construction and infrastructure project control teams. Verghese is the principal architect of Executive-Eye, a stakeholder management platform designed for busy project Executives needing to be updated on their project progress within ‘Executive-Time’.
In his work with industry leading infrastructure and construction companies, Verghese has had the opportunity to closely interact with Executive teams whose needs often go above and beyond conventional project control practices. Today, he works closely with owners of mega infrastructure projects to ensure they get accurate view of their project progress and empower them with the tools to conduct Executive level briefings to other stakeholders.

With over 30 years of experience, Wayne Wilson has been involved in enterprise project management systems since their inception. He has been instrumental in the design and development of market-leading technology solutions at an enterprise level for some of Australia’s largest scale projects. As Prescience Technology’s Chief Operating Officer, Wayne is accountable for the company’s entire suite of delivery activities, including support and services for thousands of IT and project professionals worldwide. He has undertaken multiple implementations and upgrades of large-scale, complex, capital programs at an enterprise level, predominantly in the infrastructure, engineering and construction, transport and resources sectors.

Mark is managing director and founder of two organisations focused on project delivery; mbh training founded in 1999 and UniPhi (Aus) Pty Ltd founded in 2013. Both are focused on improving organisations capability in delivering investments. UniPhi achieves this through intuitive software applications to support all participants in the project environment. UniPhi’s vision is software users want to use. mbh achieves its goals by delivering practical hands on project management training based on the latest academic thinking as applied to a variety of industries. Mark has a keen interest in building products that facilitate the adoption of theory being developed to assist in managing complex projects. He has researched the topic of managing complex projects for the past 20 years and uses theories in this field both in the development of software and training products as well as in the implementation of large UniPhi rollouts.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Business, Accounting and Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney. Mark is a Fellow of CPA Australia member of the AICD and was an assessor for the AIPM RegPM program for 12 years.

Following his extensive practical experience in the application of Project Controls and in observing its direct benefit upon a project, TBH Principal Steven Bird is passionate about the advancement of Project Controls within the industry. Steven was recently Chair of the organising committee behind the inaugural Project Controls Conference 2017 in Sydney, where 300+ delegates and speakers were invited to a 3-day activation of workshops, case study explorations and network opportunities with esteemed industry peers.

Steven’s major work includes his position as Project Controls Lead on the Mega T5 Heathrow Airport project (UK), Head of Planning and Controls at Laing O’Rourke Australia and more recently his appointment as Principal of Integrated Project Controls at TBH - where he is currently Project Controls Lead on the WestConnex Stage 3 project (NSW).

Loretta Hudson leads Victoria’s Portfolio and Program Management (PPM) Team and has a highly accomplished 20 year career in delivery and assurance of large complex programs. Initially joining EY’s London Practice in 2008, Loretta has transformed and delivered complex and strategic programs, for some of the largest private and public sectors organisations across the globe including the London 2012 Games. In joining EY’s Oceania Practice in 2010, Loretta was critical in establishing, what is today’s PPM Team of over 150 professionals within Australia and New Zealand alone.

Prior to embarking on her consulting career with EY, Loretta delivered drilling, capital and operational programs for ExxonMobil across Bass Strait and the North West Shelf. Loretta later progressed into executive leadership roles for KBR and held major program delivery accountabilities including Risk & Controls Manager for the Shell $10b GTL program. In the capacity of Business Development Manager for both Azerbaijan and KBR’s subsidiary organisation (Granhere, UK), Loretta successfully negotiated major contracts which delivered KBR favourable financial performance.

Loretta holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and Bachelor of Business from RMIT, Melbourne. Loretta’s international qualifications includes a MBA in Program Management from the University of Reading (UK).

Loretta is also a respected advocate and role model for improving diversity and female representation within STEM professions, for both EY and client organisations.

Vikrant Mulgund leads EY’s Capital Infrastructure and Asset Management solutions across the Asia Pacific region. Over a career approaching 2 decades, he has developed a speciality in megaprojects development and delivery and complex operations in asset-intensive industries; having worked in operational leadership and strategic advisory roles across Asia Pacific, Middle East and North America

His megaproject leadership experience includes - Head of Program Office for the Western Sydney Airport for the Federal Government over 3 years, project management roles on Gladstone LNG over 3 years, Final Investment Decision advice on Snowy Hydro 2.0, among others.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Gregg currently leads the Logikal consulting business on the East Coast of Australia having previously been the Sydney Office Director and National PMO Lead for Aquenta (Jacobs). As a key thought leader in project and program management, Gregg has many years of experience working in the capital planning, delivery, reporting and governance areas of major utility providers and government agencies both here in Australia and in the UK. From a technical perspective, Gregg is a highly experienced finance and economics professional with skills spanning program and portfolio management, business and strategy planning, financial modeling, regulatory economics, capital investment appraisal, business case writing, cost-benefit analysis and benefits management. Gregg’s proactive attitude combined with a thorough understanding of economic, commercial and regulatory factors has given him a unique skillset in establishing and managing programs and portfolios for major utilities and government agencies across sectors such as Energy, Health, Water, Transport and Telecoms. With an enduring passion for promoting the practice of benefits management, Gregg is a firm believer that all investment decisions should be ‘outcomes focused’ so that every dollar makes a significant and sustained contribution to securing benefits valued by our stakeholders.

Ashley Nugawela at Oracle Construction and Engineering manages the Sales Consulting and Channels teams in the ANZ & ASEAN regions. He is responsible for supporting all Oracle Construction and Engineering solutions proposed to its customers and ensures its acceptance with its customers. Ashley has held roles across sales, consulting and customer side and is an industry and product specialist in Project and Portfolio Management including Project Controls and Collaboration.

Paul Eastwood Harris holds an Honours Degree in Civil Engineering obtained in the UK and is a Certified Cost Engineer through AACE International, a certified PRINCE2™ practitioner.
He has worked in the project controls industry for a number of years and has assisted many companies in a range of industries to set up and run project controls systems.
Primaskills Pty Ltd, his Melbourne, Australia based company offer project controls consulting and training services to the project management industry with a strong focus on Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 and Asta Powerproject.
He has written and published over 50 books/training manuals on SureTrak, Primavera P3, Oracle Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Asta Powerproject which are published by his publishing company, Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd. They are available through most online books sellers, are supported by instructor PowerPoint slide shows and used by over a hundred companies around the world.

Angela Tuffley is the Director of RedBay Consulting and a SCRAM Principal. She has over 35 years of industry experience, both in Australia and overseas, providing expert professional services in training, assessment and advice for the acquisition, engineering and support of software intensive systems. She is a co-developer of the Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM) and provides consultation on SCRAM to industry, the adoption of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and ISO/IEC 15504 Information Technology Process Assessment (SPICE).

Gideon Klipstein is the Vice President Business of Cost Engineering Consultancy, the company behind Cleopatra Enterprise, one of the world’s leading Project Cost Management software tools. Next to developing software, the company is one of the leading consultancies in the field of Project Controls, as well as an established knowledge provider through the Cost Engineering Academy. Gideon holds Bachelor, Post-bachelor and Post-master’s degrees in various Business Administration topics and has been in business with numerous large industrial companies for about 8 years. During that time, he has built up an international network in various industries such as oil & gas, infrastructure, power, offshore, chemicals, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding. He consults industry leading companies how to improve their project control activities with the combination of software tooling, consultancy services and the Academy. Furthermore, he is a regular speaker at industry events, spreading the word how the integrated project controls approach can improve project performance throughout the business. Next to serving clients in Europe, he’s leading the company’s strategic business development initiatives in the APAC region.

Marion Terrill is the Transport Program Director at the Grattan Institute. She joined the Grattan Institute in April 2015 to establish the Transport Program. She has published on a wide variety of topics, including public investment in transport infrastructure, politicization of transport investment, value capture, road congestion in Australia’s major cities, and project evaluations, including what discount rates should be used.

In 2016 she published a major report on cost overruns on transport infrastructure projects, looking for the first time in Australia at all projects valued at $20 million or more and planned or built since 2001. Despite a widespread view that Australia does not have a cost overrun problem, she found that cost overruns account for nearly a quarter of project budgets. She also found that most problems are caused by a relatively small number of projects, with 90 per cent of Australia’s cost overrun problem explained by 17 per cent of projects that exceed their promised cost by more than half.

Marion came to the Grattan Institute as a leading public policy thinker with experience that ranged from authoring parts of the 2010 Henry Tax Review to leading the design and development of Australia’s online government account for citizens, known as MyGov account. She has provided expert analysis and advice on labour market policy for the Commonwealth Government, the Business Council of Australia and at the Australian National University.

Ben du Bois is the Acting Director, Commercial Markets and Analysis, within the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities. He oversees cost estimate reviews of projects seeking Commonwealth funding, as well as the development of the Department’s cost estimation policy and associated technical guidance material. A key role is the provision of advice regarding the cost and risk of multi-billion dollar transport infrastructure projects for which Commonwealth Government funding is being sought.
Ben has degrees in civil engineering, pavement engineering, and teaching with experience across a number of different government sectors. His current interests lie in quantitative risk modelling and analysis and in the development of the best tools and model structure to quantify uncertainty at each stage of the project life cycle.

A pragmatic leader, Phil energizes his team to deliver the best outcomes possible. Starting his working life in the British Army, he has been put to the test in the most challenging of circumstances in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Since leaving the army, he has worked as a Management Consultant across multiple sectors in the Public & Private Sector in the UK. Phil arrived in Australia in March 2018 and is currently seconded on to Sydney Metro.

A Mechanical Engineer and accredited Project Management Professional with over 20 years’ experience working across Australia, Asia Pacific and South America.

Romildo is an Associate Director for Turner & Townsend. He manages the Infrastructure, Energy and Resources in South Australia delivering a range of advisory services.

He works with large local and international organisations, employing his global experience to maximise performance. Romildo worked with ElectraNet to refine its project delivery process, creating an integrated system to drive efficiency and build capability. Other blue-chip clients in his portfolio include BHP, BP, Santos, Anglo American and Inpex to name a few.

Romildo has been on the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute in Adelaide for years, holding positions in finance and marketing. Romildo also lectures Risk Management for the University of Adelaide and was responsible for developing the entire subject as part of their Bachelor of Project Management degree.

Abhijnan is working as the Project Controls Manager within Finance, investment and controls for the Westconnex Program of works which is the largest road infrastructure project in Australia. As an engineering professional with a strategic insight, he has worked at an operational and tactical strategy level, helping in "mega" project set up which is very different and unique from regular project setup or management.

Being a practical theorist Abhijnan have ensured establishment of project management best practices across the Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Industry and Mining sectors. He has completed successful engagements in US, Middle East, India, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines and Australia. Abhijnan have overseen quick and sustainable business turnarounds. Establishing Risk management frameworks across project portfolios has been his special interest and he has facilitated Risk Analysis workshops and implemented quantitative risk management models across a number of businesses, thus ensuring effective project and program implementation. Having worked as a lump-sum (EPC/D&C) contractor, engineering and project management consultant, as a management consultant in performance improvement and then in owner’s team provides him with a unique perspective on projects from each of the stakeholder lenses.

Shankar Sankaran is the Professor of Organisational Project Management at the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology S. He is a Core Member of the Built Environment Informatics and Innovation Research Centre. He is one of the key members of the UTS Megaproject Research Team.

Shankar’s research covers organizational project management, megaprojects, systems thinking and action research.

He teaches advanced level subjects in the Master of Project Management Course including organizational project management and systems thinking.

Shankar is an editor of and author of chapters in the Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Project Management and A Guide to Systems Research: Philosophy Processes and Practice published by Springer.

His current research projects sponsored by the Project Management Institute are: ‘Balancing person-centric and team-centric leadership in projects’; ‘Governance of innovation in portfolios, programs and projects (3P)’.

Shankar is Director of the Global Accreditation Centre of the Project Management Institute and a President Elect of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.

Lou has experienced all facets of project controls management, estimating, budget preparation, cost control and reporting, planning and scheduling, contractor claims assessment, documentation control and project reporting, on all phases of major resource and projects from concept phase to execution and handover. His experience has included working with both owners teams and epcm contractors, often working in the management of project communication.with a proven ability to successfully build teams through training and staff development and extensive experience implementing new processes and systems for major projects, and integrating project process across project groups, lou has become an expert within the project controls field.

Colin Cropley has over forty years’ experience of project management, project controls and risk management. He has experience in project and risk management consulting, software development, training and lecturing, in sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, minerals processing, IT, power and defence. He has conducted risk management processes, schedule and cost risk analyses and training for companies including BHP Billiton, BP Australia, Downer EDI, Leighton Contractors, Oman LNG, Origin Energy, Santos, Tenix Defence, Thiess and Woodside Petroleum. Colin is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Melbourne and was chairman of the Victorian Primavera Users Group from 1997 to 2009. He has guest-lectured in project management at universities between 1991 and 2018 and has delivered presentations at many project management and controls-related conferences, including AACE International’s Annual Meetings, the International Cost Engineering Council’s World Congress, PMI’s PMOz & PMICoS. He is a member of AACE International, the Australian Cost Engineering Society (currently on the National Committee) and the Australian Risk Engineering Society (both Technical Societies of Engineers Australia). In 2016, Colin contributed a chapter titled “The Case for Truly Integrated Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis” to a book “Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management”.

Angela Tuffley is the Director of RedBay Consulting and a SCRAM Principal. She has over 35 years of industry experience, both in Australia and overseas, providing expert professional services in training, assessment and advice for the acquisition, engineering and support of software intensive systems. She is a co-developer of the Schedule Compliance Risk Assessment Methodology (SCRAM) and provides consultation on SCRAM to industry, the adoption of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and ISO/IEC 15504 Information Technology Process Assessment (SPICE).

Lance Stephenson is a Senior Management Consultant with over 34 years’ experience, providing his clients with expertise in the areas of operational, portfolio and project excellence. Lance is dynamic, articulate, analytical, and results-oriented individual; and enjoys a good challenge. Lance is a self-motivated and resourceful senior manager with a proven ability to develop and strengthen leadership teams in order to maximize effectiveness and efficiency, while providing proven results in the areas of corporate strategy and governance, portfolio and project technology, methodology and delivery.
Lance is a Certified Cost Professional, a Project Management Professional and certified Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Lance has a Mechanical Engineering Technology Diploma from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Lance is a published author, international speaker, seminar leader and corporate trainer as well as a cost engineering practitioner. Lance’s thought provoking papers and highly interactive presentations and workshops have informed and educated audiences from the U.S., Canada, Malaysia, Australia, and The Netherlands.