Lean methodologies and impact of AI on Project delivery @ Roche

Keynote: Watch this Space - By Stephen Carver

• Over the last two decades in a highly regulated and safety critical environment, one global industry in particular has undergone spectacular change – Space.
• From humble beginnings the Space Business has developed into a multi-billion industry and created the World’s first trillionaire. This session will look at how this lean, value and AI driven industry has used critical thinking and high-performance teams to transform a slow moving and bureaucratic business model into the fastest growing sector on (and off!) Earth.

Target Value Delivery - By Nezabravka Bogdanova

• Bringing Value, Cost, and Collaboration Together from the Very Start
• Experience how integrated collaboration can align customer value, cost, quality, and time from the very beginning of a project. Through a hands-on simulation, participants discover how early involvement, cost transparency, and joint decision-making lead to better solutions.

Takeaways: Costs are not just something to control – they can actively guide planning and create value.

Air Plane Game - By Cyrill Bucher

• Bringing Lean Principles to Life on the Construction Site
• Experience Lean Construction in action and discover how collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement can transform project delivery. Through an interactive workshop, participants experience firsthand how well-coordinated processes, reliable workflows, and strong interfaces between stakeholders drive better results.
• The workshop turns Lean principles into practical insights that can be directly applied to real-world construction projects.

Keynote: Greg Lawton - AI For Project Delivery

• Drawing on extensive experience deploying AI in project controls workflows, Greg will explore where AI is transforming capital project delivery and where its limitations remain. He will cover the growing role of AI in project controls, the importance of auditability, and why general-purpose AI cannot be relied upon for engineering and critical path analysis. The session will also feature real-world customer outcomes, ROI, and a live demonstration of AI in production.
• 0:00–1:00: Introduction, who Greg is and what Nodes & Links does
• 1:00–2:30: Company overview and deployment footprint (markets, map, scale)
• 2:30–4:00: Case studies and ROI snapshot
• 4:00–6:30: Where AI is headed in project controls, and the roadmap toward greater automation
• 6:30–8:30: Why auditability is essential, and where general-purpose AI tools fall short in project-controls engineering and mathematics
• 8:30–11:30: Client results and a live or recorded product demonstration
• 11:30–13:00: Recap of key takeaways
• 13:00–15:00: Close and transition to Q&A
• 15:00–45:00: Open Q&A (30 minutes)

Kenote: Value-Driven Delivery in the Transformation Age -The Project Mindset Behind High-Impact Execution - By Antonio Nieto Rodriguez

• As Lean and Agile become baseline requirements, the real differentiator for project success is no longer the methodology—it's the mindset. This keynote explores how the role of the project leader must evolve in a world that is increasingly project-driven, defined by ambiguity, and reshaped by AI taking over traditional analysis, planning, and reporting. Antonio reveals the behavioural shifts that move teams beyond task management toward high-impact, value-driven execution.
• This keynote explores the critical evolution of project leadership in a landscape where work is increasingly project-driven, ambiguity is the new constant, and Artificial Intelligence is rapidly taking over traditional analysis, planning, and reporting. Rather than replacing methodology, the "Project Mindset" complements Value-Driven Delivery—equipping leaders to exercise judgment, influence stakeholders, and prioritise ruthlessly when complexity is the norm.
• . Opening (5 min): Why methodology is no longer the differentiator — disruption up 200%, ~50% of strategic value lost before delivery begins
• From Execution to Value (10 min): Strategic leadership and the shift to a project-driven organisation
• Judgment over Process (10 min): Where AI now owns analysis, planning and reporting—and where human judgment becomes decisive
• Influence over Coordination (8 min): Stakeholder alignment and influence under ambiguity
• Radical Prioritization (8 min): Hierarchy of Purpose, focusing on what moves the needle, and stopping "zombie" projects
• The Project Mindset — synthesis (5 min): Tying the four shifts together as a complement to Value-Driven Delivery

Keynote: Project Leadership in the Age of AI - From Data and Automation to Better Decisions: Denis Lassance

• Opening: AI Is Transforming Projects. Complexity Is Transforming Leadership. Set the context for how AI adoption and increasing project complexity are changing the role of the project leader. Introduce the gap between individual AI readiness and organizational readiness.
• From AI Adoption to AI Fluency Explore what AI fluency means for project professionals: knowing where AI adds value, understanding its limitations, applying judgement, and using it to improve decisions.
• Where AI Is Creating Value Today Examine practical applications across project environments, including automation, communication, knowledge retrieval, decision support, risk management, and project execution.
• Life Sciences: A Window Into the Future of Project Leadership Use insights and examples from pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations to explore AI-enabled project leadership in highly complex, regulated, and cross-functional environments.
• The Biggest Challenges Aren’t Technical Discuss trust, governance, leadership alignment, change management, and demonstrating value. Explore why organizational adaptation often lags behind technological adoption.
• AI Produces Answers. Project Leaders Produce Decisions. Introduce a practical decision framework that asks participants to consider assumptions, missing context, affected stakeholders, second-order consequences, and the risks of action or inaction.
• The Human Capabilities That Become More Valuable Explore systems thinking, adaptive leadership, business acumen, stakeholder alignment, ethical judgement, and PMI’s M.O.R.E. mindset as critical capabilities for AI-enabled project leadership.