The PMI Pearl City, Hyderabad Chapter (PMIPCC) organized the “Agile Conference 2023” on 21 January. Focused on the theme, “Sustaining Business Agility,” the hybrid conference had more than 25 delegates.

Komal Mathur, vice president of PMIPCC, set the context of the conference. Venkata Reddy Chirla, president of PMIPCC, welcomed the delegates and spoke about the importance of business agility and its application in the project management world.

Srini Srinivasan, regional managing director of PMI South Asia, and Prasanna Sampathkumar, region mentor of PMI South Asia, shared their perspectives on the topic. They congratulated the chapter for conducting a conference that emphasized the future of project management.

John Munro, global agile and business transformation lead at PMI, presented the opening keynote session on “Sustaining Business Agility With the Agile Manifesto as Your North Star.” This was followed by a session on “Sustaining the Transformation” by Dave McMunn, executive vice president, application development, at PennyMac Loan Services. Other eminent speakers included Krisnamurty Pammi, director of software delivery at Techmojo Solutions Pvt. Ltd., and Sairam B. S., executive director of DBS Tech India.

Additionally, an engaging gamification workshop, “Gamify the Agile Mindset,” was conducted by Debopom Sanyal, agile coach at Factset. The event culminated with a power-packed fireside chat on “Sustaining Business Agility,” moderated by Krishna Joshi, director of program management, Salesforce. The panelists included Deepti Jain, founder and transformation strategist of Agilevirgin; Nagini Chandramouli, senior enterprise agile coach; and Parul Sharma, director of product management of Novartis.