PMI Zimbabwe Annual Project Management Conference
The current global environment is described as VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous). This environment, characterized by rapid changes, dynamism, changing market trends, digital transformations as well as intense competition, is causing a lot of disruption across all sectors of the economy and society. As such organisations, public and private, profit and non-profit, must adapt to continue to successfully deliver value as they face everchanging regulatory, social, competitive, technological and stakeholder requirements.
Recent research and experiences enhance the understanding that resilience and adaptability/flexibility are must-have skills for both organizations and project professionals to succeed in this current environment. An Agile mindset can be a potential approach to become flexible and resilient as well as to cultivate high performing teams that deliver value.
The Zimbabwe Chapter of the Project Management Institute is organizing a 2021 Annual Conference with the theme, ‘Embracing an Agile Mindset! Delivering Value in Uncertain Times. The 2-day conference aims to discuss how organizations and professionals can adopt the attitudes that form the Agile mindset for strategic, business, project and leadership performance.
Event Properties
| Event Date | 11-04-2021 1:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 11-06-2021 5:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 10-30-2021 |
| Individual Price | Conference charges are inclusive of accommodation and meals |
| No. of Businiess Acument PDUs | 6 |
| No. of Ways of Working PDUs | 3 |
| No. of Power Skills PDUs | 3 |
| PMI Event Number | 2021 |
| Location | Troutbeck Resort |
Agendas
| Thursday 1300 - 1500 |
Arrival, Registration and Check-inReceive your conference kit at the registration desk and proceed to check-in at the hotel reception. |
| Thursday 1500 - 1700 |
Team Building SessionDo not miss this exciting team-building event! |
| Thursday 1800 - 1900 |
CocktailDo not miss this opportunity to network with other professionals |
| Thursday 1930 - 2100 |
Sponsored DinnerYes, another fun and food-filled networking opportunity. |
| Friday 0600 - 0700 |
Health and Wellness SessionStart the day with some exercises and receive health tips. |
| Friday 0700 - 0730 |
Freshen Up |
| Friday 0730 - 0830 |
BreakfastStart your day the right way with a good breakfast whilst networking. |
| Friday 0830 - 0900 |
Marketing Break |
| Friday 0900 – 0910 |
Opening of Conference – Venue Marshallby Carl Paradzai |
| Friday 0910 – 0915 |
Ice Breaker |
| Friday 0915 – 0945 |
Welcome and Opening Remarksby Flavious Coffee, the PMI Zimbabwe Chapter President |
| Friday 0945 – 1030 |
Organizational Strategy and Project Management Interface! An Imperative for Successby Dr Shelly Gondo, Construction Project Manager |
| Friday 1045 – 1145 |
Keynote Address: Powering the Project Economy!by Ashwini Bakshi, PMI Managing Director for Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Friday 1145 – 1200 |
Marketing Break |
| Friday 1200 – 1245 |
Agile Transformation in Banking and Insurance: A Mindset Shiftby Chester Nziradzemhuka, CEO BizSource Consultancy |
| Friday 1245 - 1345 |
Lunch |
| Friday 1345 - 1430 |
Driving Project Management through Transformational Leadershipby Eugene Chaduka, Group Chief Technology Officer at Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe |
| Friday 1430 - 1445 |
Marketing Break |
| Friday 1445 – 1530 |
What is Kanban for Work and How can one use it for Project Management?by Mathias Tolken, Business Agility Coach |
| Friday 1530 - 1545 |
Tea Break/Marketing |
| Friday 1545 - 1645 |
Group Assignment: Your Angle on Success based on the PMI Talent Triangleby the Moderator |
| Friday 1900 - 2100 |
Sponsored Dinner |
| Saturday 0600 - 0700 |
Health and Wellness Session |
| Saturday 0700 - 0730 |
Freshen Up |
| Saturday 0730 - 0830 |
Breakfast |
| Saturday 0830 - 0845 |
Marketing Break |
| Saturday 0845 - 0915 |
The Value of Project Management in a Changing World!by Flavious Coffee, the PMI Zimbabwe Chapter President |
| Saturday 0915 - 1000 |
Guest of Honour Addressby Dr Gloria Magombo, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of energy and Power Development |
| Saturday 1015 - 1100 |
PMI Zimbabwe Chapter, Powering the Project Economyby Anesu Vere |
| Saturday 1100 - 1115 |
Marketing Break |
| Saturday 1115 - 1200 |
Managing Projects in Turbulent Times! Agility from a Client’s Perspective.by Batsirai Simango, Head of Corporate Strategy for Nyaradzo Group |
| Saturday 1200 – 1230 |
Key Learnings and Takeaways (Summary of Events and Sessions)by Carl Paradzai |
| Saturday 1230 – 1245 |
Closing Remarks (conference ends)by Musafare Alfai |
| Saturday 1245 - 1345 |
LunchEnjoy another fun-filled networking opportunity. |
Speakers
Ashwini Bakshi
PMI Managing Director for Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
Ashwini Bakshi is the Managing Director of PMI's Europe and Sub-Sarahan Africa regions. He leads PMI's growth and organizational development in the combined region. Ashwini is responsible for PMI operations which include 66 chapters across two continents, bringing PMI closer to customer needs. He plays a crucial role in developing an enhanced local experience for our stakeholders across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Ashwini is a versatile professional with over 25 years in solutions, business development, managed mergers, acquisitions, and alliances across diverse geographies of Europe and the Asia Pacific. He has worked in larger organizations like Nokia and Ericsson. He excels in creating value through resolving customers' needs through agile team-work, and aims to build trusted win-win relationships. More recently, Ashwini served as the Managing Director for Kathrein Mobile Communications for the Asia Pacific region. He set up and led the company's R&D, supply chain, operations, sales, and systems integration partnerships in the region. Ashwini has a Bachelor of Science from Delhi University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in India. Ashwini is a squash enthusiast and a qualified yoga instructor. He loves to read, trade ideas, and enjoys music.
Anesu Vere
VP Marketing ,PMI Zimbabwe Chapter
Anesu is the VP Marketing for Project Management Institute Zimbabwe. Professionally, he is strategy and organisational transformation consultant. He possesses excellent leadership skills acquired through various high performing corporates for 20+ years. A board member for the following organisations, Suzzan Group of Schools, Groupworld Consulting Group and Otawak Business Solutions Holds an MBA and Bsc Honours in Economics and is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®️) & is a Scrum Master Certified (SMC®️), Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC), Scrum Agile Master Certified (SAMC)
Arthur Marara
award-winning attorney, author, entrepreneur, business and transformational speaker.
Arthur is a phenomenal keynote speaker, corporate and personal development speaker commanding the stage with his delightful humor, raw energy, and wealth of life experience. He is passionate about peak performance, strategy, financial wellness, team building, culture shift and personal development. He has been invited to speak to several listed companies, NGOs, schools, churches and individuals in Zimbabwe and beyond the borders.
Dr Shelly Gondo
Construction Project Manager
Shelly Gondo is a construction and project management professional with close to three decades of managing projects in the private, public and quasi government sectors. She has speciality in diverse engineering projects and experience in both client, consultant and contractor organisational settings; with proven references of successfully completed projects. She has completed multi-million dollar projects at Turner and Townsend, Ministry of Public Construction and currently ZESA Holdings. Shelly holds a Masters degree in Building (Construction Management) (WITS) and a PhD in Project Management (AIU). She chairs the ZIE National engineering Student Awards Competition and serves on various Boards in Zimbabwe. Shelly has a passion in mentoring Higher and Tertiary level students and graduates in practical project management.
Eugene Chaduka
Group Chief Technology Officer at Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe
Eugene is an avid technology leader and business transformation expert who has overseen the launch and growth of various technology driven services promoting financial inclusion across Africa (FinTech, InsurTech, AgriTech, HealthTech, EduTech and On Demand Services). He is currently the Group Chief Technology Officer at Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe overseeing operations in Zimbabwe (including EcoCash, Steward Bank, EcoSure, Moovah and Vaya Technologies Limited), Burundi, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and the United Kingdom.
Chester Nziradzemhuka
CEO BizSource Consultancy
Chester is co-founder and CEO of BizSource Consultancy, bringing more than 30 years of executive banking, digital payments, remittance and strategy experience gained from leading banks in the SADC and East African region. He holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from Bangor, Wales. A member of Chartered Institute of Bankers Scotland, Retal Banking Academy, Project Management Institute, Rotarian at Msasa Club. His focus areas are Consulting in various industries, Training that is certification centred in Project management & Digital transformation tools and delivering App and Web centred solutions. He has lead in various high level digital payments partnership engagements with governments, regulators, public sector, private sector such as banks, insurance, microfinance institutions.
Flavious Coffee
President, PMI Zimbabwe Chapter
Flavious Coffee, is the President of Project Management Institute, Zimbabwe Chapter. He is a certified project manager and an electrical engineering professional. He has over 10 years of experience in managing Energy and Power Infrastructure Projects. He is currently the Managing Director of Star Track Projects, a company start-up that he co-founded in 2018.
Mathias Tolken
Business Agility Coach
Over the years Mathias has consulted, trained and acted as speaker at events for many companies, organisations and some universities around the world. Since October 2019 Xuviate has trained and coached more than 200 Business Leaders (including several from Fortune 500 companies) from 6 continents and 20+ countries distributed across 17 time zones in their acclaimed 7-week Kanban Bootcamps
Batsirai Simango
Head of Corporate Strategy for Nyaradzo Group
With over sixteen years’ experience in insurance and funeral services industry, twelve of them being at senior management level, Batsirai Simango has a keen career interest in strategic business management and leadership, business turnaround and risk management, operations design and management as well as investments and treasury management. Within the Nyaradzo Group, he is credited for being a key player in the business expansion drive which has been ongoing since the business formation in 2001. Batsi has extensive experience in product designing, risk pricing, designing service delivery models as well as capital budgeting and applying project appraisal techniques for resource allocation. Consequently, the establishment and management of a good number of Nyaradzo projects and initiatives both internally and externally have been spearheaded by Batsi and his team. These include the establishment of motor mechanic workshops and security departments in the services division, the installation of fuel tanks at service centres all across the country, the designing and commissioning of modern funeral parlours, expanding branch operations from six outlets in 2011 to 42 in 2021, the formation and ongoing development of the group’s strategic business units such as Sahwira Events and Lifestyle. The success of these and other initiatives within the organisation has largely been as a result of his ability to set up and work with cross functional teams for both special short term projects as well as long term turnkey projects. As part of the group’s expansion drive into various parts of the world, Batsi’s participation has been vital and strategic in ensuring that the group’s intended goals are achieved. He has participated on projects such as the opening of the South Africa Office, the opening of Nyaradzo Offices in the UK, over and above participation in various international business expos and consultancy to foreign organisations such as NAMBOB Funeral Solutions, an investment acquisition by Eos Capital (Private Equity Firm), wherein he assisted in designing and helping implement the turnaround strategy for the funeral services concern. Batsi is a well-rounded results-oriented team player who leads from the front and acts as a strategic advisor to senior management within the Nyaradzo Group.