Agenda

The first session of each day will begin at 9:00 AM (ET)

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For a list of speakers biographies, please visit our speakers page. 

Wednesday

Time (Eastern)                       Session, Speaker, Room 

9:00 AM Welcome - Room: Pearl Young

Kanama Bivins | Center Leadership

Dave Mitchell | Chief Program Management Officer 

   Tiffany Smith | Chief Knowledge Officer, APPEL KS Director 

  9:30 AM State of PM Panel - Room: Pearl Young

Moderator: Akosua Taylor

   Donya Douglas-Bradshaw

Gary Fleming 

   Dawn Schaible  |  Deputy Director, NASA's Glenn Research Center

              Eddie Zavala | Director for Programs and Projects, AFRC 

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM Lessons Learned from EGS and Artemis I - Room: Pearl Young

Jeremy Parsons | Deputy Manager, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS)

11:45 AM PMEA Award Announcements - Room: Pearl Young

Dave Mitchell | Chief Program Management Officer 

12:15 PM           Lunch

1:00 PM   Independent Assessment: A Conversation with Mary Beth Wusk - Room: Pearl Young

Kevin Gilligan |  CPMO 

Mary Beth Wusk | NESC Integration Office Manager

1:45 PM   Risk Management in the Real World: Dialogue - Room: Pearl Young

Mary Skow |  Agency Risk Management Officer

2:30 PM   Break

2:45 PM PMEA Award Winner Presentation - Room: Pearl Young

Andre Dress

Lisa Watson-Morgan

2:45 PM PMEA Award Winner Presentations - Room: 262/263

Lisa McCollum  | Deputy Manager of the MSFC Exploration and Transportation Development Office within the       MSFC Human Exploration Development and Operations Directorate.

Gateway PPE Project Office, Shahab Chaudhry 

3:30 PM   X-57 Lessons Learned - Room: Pearl Young

Vincent Schultz | X-57 Deputy Subproject Manager

3:30 PM   PMEA Award Winner Presentations - Room: 262/263

Ed Stanton | SOFIA Project Manager, ARC 

   Julie Levri | CapiSorb Visible System ISS Payload 

4:30 PM       PM Symposium Social  | Afterburners (On-site) 

Thursday

  Time (Eastern)                   Session, Speaker, Room 

9:00 AM   Welcome - Room: Pearl Young

   Dave Mitchell | Chief Program Management Officer 

              Tiffany Smith | Chief Knowledge Officer, APPEL KS Director 

9:15 AM   7120.5 and 7120.8: Then and Now - Room: Pearl Young

  Ellen Stigberg  | CPMO 

  Steve Hirshorn  | Chief Engineer, ARMD 

  Nicole Smith  | Deputy Director of Technology Demonstrations, STMD

  Ned Penley  | Deputy Associate Administrator of Management, ESDMD

10:15 AM     Break

10:30 AM     Keynote: The NASA AA - Room: Pearl Young

Jim Free | NASA's Associate Administrator 

11:00 AM   Additional Rigor in Early Formulation - Room: Pearl Young

Justin Hornback | CPMO

11:30 AM Mentoring Your Team - Room: Pearl Young

Gary Fleming | CLARREO-PF PM 

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM   Psychological Safety Dialogue - Room: Pearl Young

Dave Mitchell | Chief Program Management Officer 

   Tiffany Smith | Chief Knowledge Officer, APPEL KS Director 

Elaine Ho | Associate Administrator, ODEO

Bob Conway | Deputy Director, NASA Safety Center

2:00 PM   Commercial Crew Program Lessons Learned - Room: Pearl Young

Diana Oglesby  | Director, Strategic Integration and Management Division, Space                 Operations  Mission Directorate

Michelle Green  | Deputy Manager, Program and Integration 

       2:00 PM   GRC Space Flight Project Governance and Staffing Priortization - Room: 262/263

Jacob Jevec | Chief Program/Project Integration Office

2:30 PM   Beyond Conventional Boundaries-  AI and Predictive Analytics in Project Controls  - Room: 262/263

Erin Wood |  Deputy Systems Administrator for Earned Value Management Software Administration and     Development, OCFO 

3:00 PM       Break

3:15 PM PM Development Program Panel - Room: Pearl Young

      Project Ingenuity and Management Excellence (PRIME) 

                                                              Flight Projects Development Program (FPDP)

      Moderator: Steve Velotas

      Panel Members:

      Lauren Bonine, Konrad Bergandy, Stephanie Harrison, Yolanda Keiller, Neerav Shah, Stephanie Vidal

3:15 PM Informing Large Missions from SmallSat/Class D Lessons Learned Workshop - Room: 262/263

Florence Tan | Deputy Chief Technologist, NASA SMD

Charles Norton | Deputy Chief Technologist, NASA JPL/Caltech

4:00 PM PM Symposium Wrap-up - Room: Pearl Young

Dave Mitchell

Tiffany Smith