Tech Reboot for Wildlife Conservation Projects

With guests Shannon Dubay and Dave Thau

With wildlife populations plummeting, conservation teams are fighting back, using cutting-edge technology to track and protect the world’s flora and fauna. Guests discuss how they’re using artificial intelligence, drones, satellite imagery and other tools in their projects to conserve cats in the wild and mangrove populations.

Shannon Dubay and Dave Thau

How to Avoid AI Project Failure

With guests Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer

More and more project professionals are managing artificial intelligence (AI) projects, but teams are struggling to make sure they deliver real value. Two experts at PMI Cognilytica discuss what makes AI projects different and the common reasons they fail, plus the must-have skills you need to succeed—and how to build them.

Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer

Gender Equality in Action: The Role of Project Leaders

With guests Cecile Pilot and Marwa Hammad

International Women’s Day is a clarion call for gender equality—and project professionals around the globe are taking bold action to advance the cause. Our guests discuss the projects they’re leading to empower girls and women, how they ensure they’re delivering positive social impact, and how they keep themselves—and their teams—motivated in the face of adversity.

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What to Expect in 2025: A Guide for Project Professionals

With guests Sanjukta Ghosh and Alexandra Schutz

What can project professionals around the globe expect to face in 2025? We talk with project leaders to help you prepare. Guests discuss what’s next for artificial intelligence, the increasing role sustainability and project management offices will play in value delivery and the must-have skills for 2025. They’ll also dive into the biggest lessons learned from 2024 that they’re carrying into the new year.

Sanjukta Ghosh and Alexandra Schutz

How to Deliver Positive Social Impact

With guests Karlijn Sibbel and Grzegorz Wach

To ensure projects deliver real social impact, organizations and their teams need to set clear targets, track progress—and adjust when plans and variables shift. Guests discuss how they measure a project’s social impact, the top challenges teams face when gathering critical data, and how their efforts help ensure social impact projects remain a priority amid greater scrutiny.

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Powerful Partnerships: Collaborating to Achieve UN SDGs

With guests Jenny Buccos and Simon Dyer

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call to action to help people and the planet—and projects aligned to those goals require strong collaboration with stakeholders. We speak with two project leaders whose initiatives made the PMI 2024 Most Influential Projects list. They explain how their engagement with key stakeholders—from government agencies to teachers and farmers—helped deliver positive social impact and make headway on UN SDGs.

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How Tech is Powering the Clean Energy Transition

With guests Gary Archer, PMP and Thiago Wronski, PMP

Public and private organizations across the globe are taking action to reach net-zero emissions targets—investing heavily in new technology to build resilient and efficient energy systems. Guests discuss the push for cleaner energy, the tech their teams use to develop cleaner energy solutions and the skills project professionals need to lead these projects.

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The Project Management Skills That Keep Creatives On Track

With guests Matt Austin, PMP and Jill Lyons

Today’s creative agencies need to move rapidly, whether they’re executing campaigns, capitalizing on pop culture moments or averting a crisis. Project management helps channel that urgency into strong execution and buzz-worthy results.

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A New Orbit: How Project Teams Are Using AI in Space

With guests Dave Evans and Dave Salvagnini

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making one giant leap in the space industry. In celebration of World Space Week, we’re highlighting how project teams are tapping AI for space exploration and innovation. A project leader from the European Space Agency shares how his team created a “flying laboratory” so that other organizations from across the globe could experiment with new tech—including AI—in space. And NASA’s chief artificial intelligence officer shares how teams are using AI on projects and how the U.S. space agency is ensuring ethical, responsible AI use across teams.

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Why AI Ethics Matters in Project Management

With guests Naveen Goud Bobburi, PMP and Lea Li, PMP

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally shifting how we work, but it’s imperative to use the emerging tech responsibly. Guests explore the major AI ethics concerns for project professionals and recommend good practices teams can employ to use and create ethical AI. They also share examples of how project teams handle AI ethics concerns—and how those concerns can impact companies’ regulatory compliance, reputation, risk management and even innovation.

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