RIGHT PEOPLE
RIGHT SKILLS
RIGHT CONTROLS
The focus is on how we address major project delivery when the stability we have enjoyed for 20 years has vanished overnight. And is currently under even greater pressures since the changes at the White House. How is the industry coping? How can the Government make reliable cost and delivery assumptions? If there is an upsurge in project requirements, are we ready to answer? And most importantly, how do we ensure that we have the right skills the right people and the right education to do this well?
Are we Fit for Purpose?
As ever, the focus is on Controls and Skills. EVA32 conference is very much part of a co-ordinated floor-to-ceiling cradle-to-grave strategy aimed at improving the lives and prospects of individuals and organisations aiming to thrive in our society. Fit for Purpose.
The event is an opportunity to rethink and remodel or revisit anew as well as to share and make connections with the other interlocking controls and skills that are driving this strategy.
Sponsorship Packages
Sponsors will each be allocated a clear space, power supply and either a table or stand space on the networking area where delegates gather between sessions in the pre-conference, mid morning, lunch and afternoon breaks and during the break out sessions.
Main and Gold sponsors may erect suitable stands. Sponsors will be able to distribute brochures to all delegates. Erection of stands will be early morning on the day of the event or previous day by arrangement.
Every sponsor’s logo will appear on all marketing and event documentation produced by the organisers.
Supporters
We always welcome support from organisations which cannot sponsor but can offer help in kind. We are happy to enter into contra agreements for mutual benefit.
Main Sponsor
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Presentation opportunity each day
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Short address opportunity at dinner
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Stand space within the networking area
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Delegate list provided
- 8 tickets for both days and dinner
- PM Channel interview
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Advertising literature available to delegates
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Logo and advertising content in conference materials
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Special less than advertised ticket rate for employees and authorised customers
£8,000 + VAT
Pre-Conference Senior networking event drinks and dinner (Conversation Club)
Host a networking dinner for 50–70 in an exclusive venue that gathers together senior decision makers from the controls community. A year’s prospecting in an evening with guaranteed follow-ups.
The Conversation Club currently numbers 198 senior Project and Programme directors along with Government (IPA and major departments) National Audit Office and Academics.
As host your organisation has exclusive access to this audience for this event.
Itinerary:
16:00 Tea and Networking
17:00 Discussion, Tuned to your requirement.
18:00 Drinks and networking
19:00 Dinner and networking.
£5,000 + VAT
Speakers
Steve Wake
Controls and Skills Authority
ACOSTE
Steve Wake founded the EVM and the PMC Sigs in the Association of Project Management (APM) and was the Chairman of APM who led it to chartered status. He is now a member of the Guild of Educators, has set up a working party to develop a GCSE in Project Skills and is Chair of the British Standards Institution M/S 2 committee with responsibility for national standards in project programme and portfolio management. He is leading the development of BS202001 Project Controls in which MOD is a participant and working closely with PsACE community harmonising estimating practice in government and its supply chain. Also he represents BSi on ISO WG12 developing an Implementation guide to EVM and is Strategy Director of the Association of Cost Engineers, helping to shape its future.
Andy Brown
Group Chief Sustainability Officer
Anglian Water Services Limited
As Group Chief Sustainability Officer Andy Brown works with Anglian Water’s board to oversee the delivery of their purpose, “to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop”. He has worked for over 10 years embedding sustainability & purpose throughout the business, overseeing the development of their six capitals framework and the Purpose Scorecard. He is the sponsor of their Sustainability Centre of Excellence and is working with the AVH Group companies to develop their sustainability frameworks. Having worked in sustainability for the past 25 years he has led in the areas of natural environment, climate change adaptation and now sustainability & purpose. He has worked with BSI to develop PAS 808 Purpose Driven Organisations and now chairs BSI National Group on this subject. He is an external advisor and Chair of Tarmac’s Sustainability Panel. In 2021 & 22 he was also appointed as a Visiting Fellow of Practice for the Government Outcomes Lab based at the Blavatnik School of Government in the University of Oxford focusing on place-based regeneration and responsible business.
Greg Lawton
Co-Founder & CEO
Nodes & Links
Greg is an Astrophysicist who spent the last 7 years of his career in BAE Systems (UK). He managed large defence programmes (£100M+), advised the Board of Directors on International Strategy, and owned key relationships with the UK Government and MoD.
Richard Palczynski
Senior Programme Director
Arcadis
Richard joined Arcadis in February 2019. Since then, he has been focussed on supporting Network Rail’s Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) Programme as Programme Controls Director but has now transitioned to the role of Chief of Staff working alongside the Executive Leadership Team.
Prof Andy Langridge
Director
Sterling
Andrew is an expert in Business Development Strategy, Project and Product Cost and Carbon Estimation and estimation governance. He supports clients across multiple industry and government sectors to help drive Carbon Net Zero ambitions by improving and maturing their Estimating and Project Controls capability. He's a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath where he leverages his experience of working across academia and industry to deliver new learning and added value around Whole Life Cost and Carbon Estimation and Reporting and is also a visiting Fellow at Cranfield University supporting the delivery of industry-led education
Paul Lyalls
EVA Poet in Residence
Paul has over 20 years’ experience as a jobbing poet, and has worked and performed with Will Self, Kate Tempest, John Hegley, Miranda Hart, Roger McGough, John Cooper Clarke, Andrea Leavy, RastaMouse, George Best and yes, Michael Rosen. He was 2013/2014 Poet in residence at the Roald Dahl Museum, 2008 Poet for the London Borough of Brent and an official 2012 Olympic ‘Shake the Dust Poet’. Paul’s work is funny, fast-moving, hip, accessible, rhythmic, clever and real. Paul has gigged many unusual places including Arsenal FC’s dressing room, opening act for ‘The Libertines’ and appearing on the national news, as a result of a scheme to bring poetry to the masses in which Paul performed on a regular working No73 bus as it wound its way through central London to Oxford St.
Helder Fernandes
Senior Associates
Gardiner & Theobald
Helder is a Cost Intelligence Lead in the Energy sector, specialising in Infrastructure projects, developing frameworks for cost estimating and benchmarking to optimise the management of UK’s major Capital projects and portfolios. He blends traditional cost management with data analytics for better budgeting and decision-making, adapting dynamically to market changes with practical cost intelligence modelling. In this talk, he will discuss enhancing Cost Benchmarking for Energy clients to showcase best practice in demonstrating value in a regulatory environment under the context of an inflationary market.
Sam Wenham
Senior Associates
Gardiner & Theobald
Sam is a Cost Intelligence Lead in the Water sector, leading the development of costing strategies associated with multi billion pound programmes of work. He has 14 years’ experience of managing and growing teams within the infrastructure and asset management sectors. His key skills include being able to communicate complicated information and results to people at different levels within a business, spreadsheet and analytic software expertise, business development activities and creating innovative solutions. Key clients that he’s worked with include Severn Trent, Southern Water, Welsh Water, HS2, DfT, TfL and National Highways.
Tim Banfield
Director
Banfield Advisory Limited
Tim spent 30 years operating at the heart of the Civil Service, with Parliament and internationally in project delivery, advisory and assurance-based roles. His roles in Cabinet Office as Head of the Government Project Delivery Profession, with the National Audit Office and across defence and security meant Tim regularly operated at the highest levels, including Permanent Under-Secretaries and Ministers and with senior commercial executives. Tim is a globally recognised thought leader in project delivery and defence acquisition. He has over 20 years' broadcast, print media and public speaking experience. He has published more than 30 articles and being a contributing author to several books on project delivery and defence. Tim is an Honorary Fellow of the APM, a Fellow and Board Member of the International Centre for Complex Project Management, a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at RAND, a Chartered Public Finance Accountant and an alumnus of the Government Major Projects Leadership Academy.
Annabelle Ransome-Williams
Programme Director
Submarine Delivery Agency - MOD
Annabelle started her career as a graduate Naval Architect, but quickly found herself delivering strategically important transformation projects and this has become a bit of a career theme. Annabelles initial exposure to this type of work led to the re-design the defence logistics operations to meet wartime needs. Over the following ten years the new business model delivered a step change in performance for users while reducing operating costs through footprint consolidation and other efficiencies. In subsequent years, she worked with Ministers leading the Science and Technology agenda; with suppliers to achieve surge capacity for wartime operations; and developed team and organisation performance in the nation-wide operations of the Rural Payments Agency. Having moved into the private and third sector to satisfy a thirst for delivery knowledge and experience she sharpened her skills in a range of diverse positions including consultancy, professional programme delivery in UK’s highest-ranking Charity, and helping a Small to Medium sized company turn-around. Then back into Defence, her work continued developing teams and ways of working to uplift productivity and performance standards, delivering: Equipment Management services for the Royal Navy; Class Output of T23 and T45 warship availability, and building new capability at the Waterfront.This history has been invaluable experience inbuilding teams who are motivated by outcomes and value generation. And it continues in the nuclear enterprise, undertaking SDA strategy, MUFC programme management, and SSN-R Programme Director leadership. Annabelle lives in Exeter with her family where they spend much time on or beside the water, moors and coastal paths. For some years now, she has also engaged in doctoral study at University of Bath developing a thesis on Innovation and Change, and Major Projects Leadership at Oxford University.
Christelle Vetter
Head of Programme & Project Management CoC & Services
Airbus
Christelle
Andy Wain
Head of PMO/Project Controls
Mott MacDonald
Andrew is an experienced project, programme, PMO and Controls leader with over 25 years international experience across Infrastructure, Digital and Major Projects. With a track record in leading, growing and developing large project and programme controls teams, Andrew has a passion for the project management profession, the practice and practitioners. His extensive experience in programme office and controls management and leadership enable him to oversee purposeful and valued programme intelligence organisations; with a focus of always ensuring programmes are delivering the right outcomes, with value for money.
Vivienne Yip
Lead Consultant
th3rdcurve
Vivienne is an experienced project professional, specialising in Project Controls with a demonstrated history of working on a range of transformation initiatives in various public sector settings, including Transportation. Vivienne aims to support businesses by creating stronger links between projects and organizational objectives. Skilled at being able to quickly establish rapport and develop relationships with internal/external stakeholders on all levels and leveraging these to enable and embed change; mature organizational project capability and facilitate effective decision-making.
Paul Fisher
Principle P3M Consultant,
Costain
Paul is a Principal P3M Consultant at Costain who is currently supporting Network Rail. Prior to that Paul spent 32 years at BAE Systems working on a variety of significant, complex Programmes across the Air Sector and in Submarines. Paul has worked predominantly in Project Controls roles throughout his career and is a real advocate for people in controls roles being able to make sense and articulate what their data means for the performance and outturn of their projects. Paul is also passionate about the behavioural and leadership aspects of Project Control and that leaders need to be able to accept when control people ‘speak truth to power’ and to use this to drive the correct decisions and increase the chances of project success. Paul also delivers Project Controls training for which he receives consistently excellent feedback owing to his engaging approach. Paul is married with 2 ‘children’ at university (i.e. skint) and loves poetry and music, especially Paul Lyalls and Massive Attack….
David Jones
Global Head of Costing
Sodexo
David has over 20 years of experience working in numerous sectors as an engineer, risk and commercial leader. He has a passion for sharing and collaborating to enhance the costing and commercial professions, demonstrated by the helping to establish UK government and ACostE Estimating groups. He is currently leading Global Implementation of a Global Costing Framework and costing capabilities to enable standardized costing.
Kinga Karpinska
Junior P3M Consultant
Costain
As a dedicated P3M Consultant, I bring a strong background in transportation project, with focus on rail and highways. I have worked on strategic, digital and infrastructure initiatives for major clients, including Network Rail and National Highways, helping to drive efficiency and innovation. Passionate about delivering excellence, I am committed to ensuring successful project outcomes and outstanding client satisfaction.
Markus Birdman
Comedian
One of stand-up’s most well travelled comedians, much in demand all over the world. Markus has written and performed 13 Edinburgh Festival Solo shows, and toured Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Scandinavia and throughout Europe, The Middle East and Far East. He died on his backside in Germany. BGT Semi-Finalist 2023 Chortle Best Club Comic nominee 2024 NZ Comedy Guild Award Nominee - Best International Artist 2014 Emmy Long-listed comedy writer on ‘Serious Black Jumper’ 2020 Half-Blind Stroke survivor 2021. Markus has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows in the UK and abroad, and is one of the very first British Comics to have his own Netflix Special.
