Speaker Biography
Greg Saunders

Greg Saunders is a Certified Agile Practitioner and PMP serving at the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Exchange, which is a $7B international retailer for America’s Soldiers, Airmen, and Guardians.  He’s currently the manager of the Exchange’s Program and Project Portfolio Governance office, setting policy for and managing a $624M portfolio of ~90 programs, projects, and initiatives. Previously at the Exchange he 1) served as PMO head with a team of 22, 2) served as the lead PM for the Exchange’s largest program—replacing the accounting systems; 3) worked with PM, governance, and system analyst leads to architect the transformation of the Exchange’s program management approach; 4) served as the systems portfolio manager of 51 primary HR, payroll, & data warehouse systems; and 5) served as the PMO head for a 16-person team managing a $150M portfolio of 60 projects.  Prior to joining the Exchange, he ran a $2.5M/year business in a top-tier consultant firm. During his USAF career he re-established the Denver-based Air Reserve Personnel Center’s (ARPC) PMO; led the upgrade to ARPC’s portion of the Air Force Personnel Center’s call center that supports over 6 million reservists, retirees, and their surviving spouses; and as a colonel at the Pentagon served as both the USAF Reserves Comptroller and the Reservist to the AF CIO Director for Cyberspace Capabilities and Compliance, overseeing a team of 60 managing the USAF’s cyberspace capabilities, policy, and compliance.  Over his 30-plus-year career he has also become a Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master, been certified in ITIL Foundation, and been certified by the Air Force as a Lean, Six Sigma Black Belt. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg767/.

Keynote Synopsis
GenAI in Action: Lessons from a PMO's Experimental Journey

OpenAI made generative artificial intelligence available to all on November 30, 2022, when it launched ChatGPT (chat-based generative pretrained transformer).  Since then, individuals, businesses, and governments have striven to leverage GenAI’s features to increase productivity and efficiency while protecting their own information.
Project managers and project management offices (PMOs) seek the same productivity and efficiency gains, but how do they get them?  One PMO held over twenty discussion sessions on how to incorporate GenAI into its operations.  They tested GenAI features such as project-management GenAI prompts for business cases, charters, schedule analysis, critical path identification, requests for proposal; wrestled with GenAI contentious points including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) integrating computers with the human brain, GenAI-enabled destructive weapons—armed robot dogs, how to use GenAI to keep our jobs; and discovered how to leverage GenAI features for their company, profession, and career.
As artificial intelligence (AI) complements project managers, learning from a summary of these twenty-plus sessions will assist you in applying it for your career (and personal life) PMO, and your employer and clients.

Schedule

5:30-6:45 Registration 
5:30-6:30 
     - Open Area: Blue Dot/Green Dot (Job Seekers/Employers networking) 
     - Open Area:  Standup Networking, Library, Book Review program, Sponsors and other tables 
6:00-6:30 Poolside Room:  Free PM Think Tank facilitated discussion or New Member Orientation
6:30-7:00 Table Networking and Dinner
7:00-7:30 Welcome and Announcements
7:30-8:30 Presentation* 

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