Tony Appleby is the managing director of the Project Strategy Consulting Group, specializing in organizational maturity and the delivery of strategic transformation. He has led engagements on six continents, partnering with executive and country leadership teams to achieve business objectives through improved operational capabilities and strategic performance management. He is also focused on expanding organizational project management process excellence to government agencies and nongovernmental organizations in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

He is a member of numerous professional organizations and holds a variety of specialized credentials across multiple disciplines, including governance, audit controls and organizational development. He served ten years on the board of directors for a manufacturing concern and is an active member of the U.S.-based National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and a Chartered Director and Fellow of the U.K.-based Institute of Directors (IoD). He is an experienced public speaker and has delivered presentations around the world on organizational project management and strategy execution best practices.

Prior to consulting, he spent over 20 years advancing his practical knowledge of project and change management across a variety of industries and disciplines. He has directly managed complex, global high-value projects in the healthcare, engineering, technology and research sectors.

Mr. Appleby is also a long-time PMI volunteer, having served on the board and as president of the PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. He has supported several global PMI committees and task forces over the past decade, including serving as a member of the PMI Ethics Member Advisory Group and four years as the PMI Region Mentor for Southwest North America.

Mr. Appleby is a former military officer and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in international business. He is passionate about volunteerism and has been helping nonprofit and professional communities since his youth.

Sarah is the Global Head of Data and Artificial Intelligence Solutions at Credit Suisse, a leading global wealth manager with strong investment banking capabilities. Sarah has worked in Financial Services for over 15 years, driving and implementing change across business divisions and within technology. In her current role, Sarah leads the team that covers the global Big Data Platform at Credit Suisse; Centre of excellence for Artificial Intelligence, Semantics and Machine Learning; Swiss Data Warehouse; Informatica; Artificial Intelligence Governance; and the Analytic Community Forum; with a team of over 110 people across India, Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and Poland.

Stephanie is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Swiss Universal Bank division, based in Zurich. She is also the COO for the technology group and the Head of the Agile Transformation program called AURORA.

Prior to this, she was the IT Site Head for Poland and global head Portfolio Management for the infrastructure group during 2016 and 2017. She held key roles in a wide range of technology functions and divisions focusing on strategy development, organizational change, program delivery, offshoring and COO functions.

From 2011 to 2016 she was based in New York and the global IT Program Manager for the Legal Entity Program and led a global transformation and cost-efficiency program for production support and testing. Before that she was based out of Singapore and Hong Kong responsible for the COO function in the APAC region and the implementation and establishment of APAC Centers of Excellence in Pune and Singapore.

Stephanie joined Credit Suisse in 2007 after several years in business management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers / IBM Global Services in Hong Kong and Switzerland, as well as for Ernst & Young Consulting Services in the Netherlands.

She holds a Master of Science Business Administration from the Erasmus University, Netherlands.

Candice Wyatt is a PMP and PMI-ACP certified project management professional and Director of Project Management at an award-winning marketing agency, Red Door Interactive. She manages the agency's cross-channel producers, program managers, and technical project managers and started the agency's PMO four years ago and still leads the PMO today. She has worked on notable clients such as WD-40, Titleist, Bosch, and ASICS and was co-managing director of San Diego's Girls in Tech non-profit.

A seasoned transformation leader with over 20 years of diverse experience in championing digital innovation and program management. In his current capacity of Senior Platform Owner - Order Handling Platform at A.P. Moller Maersk, Sathish is entrusted with building ‘customer obsessed products’- through transforming the digital technology platform and modernizing the prevalent legacy system landscape.

Sathish leads this primarily by driving collaboration across multitude of moving parts of engineering teams, business products leaders, P&L owners and end users.

Sathish believes that organizations’ technological evolution is organic - with first few successes of delivering an array of digital process automation through process simplification, standardization, and finally process re-engineering. This all, he carefully curates through program management.

Next obvious but tedious step, says Sathish, is to endeavour building an industry first - cloud native organization. An organization driven by - customer obsession, capable human resources, ‘fail forward’ culture and a sturdy agile technology platform that produces far more scalable, customer centric offerings than otherwise.

While he appreciates technology, Sathish is a passionate people leader who believes in utilizing influence rather than authority. He is considered a change champion of enterprise level initiatives.

Besides the intrapreneurial efforts, Sathish has also exercised entrepreneur skills by co-founding LIXR, an app that aims to enhance consumers’ experience by digitizing an oft-ignored industry. Lately, he has been trying his hands on a green pasture venture called Kabini Country Farms with an aim of leveraging modern dairy farming concepts with a focus on sustainability, quality offerings and love for animals.

Antonio Nieto Rodriguez is a leading expert in project management and strategy implementation, recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award “Ideas into Practice.” He is the author of the "HBR Project Management Handbook", "Lead Successful Projects", "The Project Revolution" and "The Focused Organization", and has been teaching project management for almost two decades to senior executives through Duke CE, Skolkovo, Solvay Business School, and Vlerick. Antonio has held executive positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BNP Paribas, and GlaxoSmithKline. Former Chairman of the Project Management Institute, he is the founder of Projects & Co, and co-founder of the Strategy Implementation Institute and the global movement Brightline.

Dr. Radhakrishnan Pillai is a Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai, and has done extensive research on "Kautilya's Arthashastra" from Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF), Kerala under the guidance of Dr Gangadharan Nair (Dean of Adi Shankara Sanskrit University). He is also an MA in Sanskrit. On the popular side, Dr.Pillai is known for his internationally best-selling book Corporate Chanakya and other books in the Chanakya series.

With nearly 25 years of experience, Dr Pillai is a leadership speaker, trainer, and personal mentor, who trains leaders and aspirants from various fields including corporates, politics, academics and public services. He is a certified management consultant from the International Institute of Management Consultants. Dr Pillai is the Director at SPM Foundation and Founder Director of Atma Darshan Pvt Ltd (a Spiritual Tourism Company) & Chanakya Aanvikshiki Pvt Ltd (a Leadership Training & Mentoring Institute). He has been recently appointed as the Deputy Director of Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies (CIILS), as autonomous Institute based in the University of Mumbai, Kalina Campus.

He has written nearly 200 articles and papers for various magazines, newspapers and journals. He has given a Tedx talk on How to Become Richie Rich. He has also hosted a radio show "Ask Chanakya" on Moksha Channel of Worldspace satellite radio.

He is a visiting faculty in prestigious institutes in India and abroad including the IIT, IIM, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) among others. He has been a trainer and strategy consultant to over 500 organisations like Indian Army, Navy, Air force, Indian police, various NGOs, private, public sector and government organisations.

He has been awarded the prestigious Sardar Patel International award 2009 and Aavishkar Chanakya Innovation Research Award 2013 for his research and contribution in field of management & Industrial development. Recently, he was honoured with the LOKMAT National Education Leadership Award as the Best Professor in Philosophy. He is rated among the top 30 Indian management Thinkers globally by Thinkers50.com.

Dr Pillai is the best-selling author of 10 books. His first book 'Corporate Chanakya' has been on the "best-seller" list since its launch in 2010 and used as a text book in various Business schools in India and abroad. The book has the unique distinction of being made into an audio book, world's first management film on Chanakya's teachings - 'Chanakya speaks' and translated into 10 regional languages. His second book 'Chanakya's 7 Secrets of Leadership' along with Mr. D. Sivanandhan (ex-DGP Maharashtra Police) has created waves in corporate world since its release. His third best seller book 'Chanakya in You' got him various awards, including the India's most popular "Crossword Raymond book of the year award", 2016. His fourth book 'Katha Chanakya' was the first book to be launched internationally in New York, USA in November 2016. The fifth and sixth books 'Chanakya in Daily Life' & 'Aanvikshiki - Inside Chanakya's Mind' has been appreciated all around in media and has been on the focus list of almost all the publishing retailers. His seventh book Chatur Chanakya is his first children's book and is making waves across India already. His eighth book Thus Spoke Chanakya is freshly out on the market but has made its way on the bestseller list already. His ninth book, ‘Chanakya and the Art of getting Rich’ has gained popularity amongst the business community. His tenth book, ‘How to Write a Book and Make it a Bestseller’ is his only non-Chanakya book and talks about how he consistently made all his books bestsellers.

Freelance consultant for O&M excellence. Ongoing assignments with Phillips Townsend Associates Inc- Houston- USA, Larsen and Toubro Hydrocarbon division, Aramco (KSA). Advisor to the board of Luxemburg based start-up Aset Lux. Former Sr Vice President in Reliance Industries Limited.

Total 40+ years’ experience in Operation, Factory Management, Large green & brown field projects, customization & digitization of world’s best operating management systems, algal biofuels, and R&D strategy & planning.

Recruited and mentored over 1000 fresh and experienced engineering graduates from the top colleges in the country. Received Golden Peacock award for 2 consecutive years for Innovation Management Systems. Received Jewel of LIT (distinguished Alumina) Award in 2018.

Vishwas is the founder of ‘Whizible’ a Project Services Automation SaaS Platform. He is an Ex-Trustee TIE Global and is on the Board and EC Member and Chairman - Startups and Incubation Committee at MCCIA, Pune.

He is an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor.

Sandeep brings in 20 years of professional experience in Software industry. His expertise lies in Process Automation, Bid & Proposal Management, Project & Portfolio Management and Product Lifecycle Management solutions. He has developed deep insights into the business of Professional services, Engineering design, Automotive, EPC and Pharmaceutical verticals.

He founded ProductDossier in April 2006 with the single focus on building enterprise solutions for the global corporations. ProductDossier flagship Product ‘TouchBase’ is an integrated Project management Software and is being used several organizations around the world including large pure play engineering design companies in India like QuEST Global, Tata Technologies, Faurecia Design Centre, BARC, BHEL, Videocon, ThyssenKrupp Industries to name a few.

Before founding ProductDossier, Sandeep was working with Geometric Software for about 6 years. He was instrumental in starting and developing the PDM business for Geometric, which is now full fledge PLM division. Sandeep started his career with Tata Research Center (TRC) and was implementing Process Automation software for chemical and mineral processing industry in India.

He is currently focusing on growing his company ProductDossier within India and overseas.

During Luis’s career spanning over 20 years, he has been responsible for projects across industries with a particular focus on the business benefits provided by the projects’ outputs.

Since 1996 he has been working for a large Portuguese multi-industry holding, Grupo José de Mello. Ranging from Healthcare, Financial, Chemical, Infrastructure (highways), Senior Homes and Wine industries, this holding’s diverse activity has allowed him to understand the different ways by which projects implement the business strategy.

Luis has spoken at several conferences such as the PMI Angola Chapter Conference (Luanda, Angola), the PMI Lebanon Chapter Conference (Beirut, Lebanon), the Toastmasters Leadership Meeting (Lisbon, Portugal), the PMI Poland Chapter Conference (Warsaw, Poland), the PMI EMEA Congress (Rome, Italy), the Passion For Projects (Malmö, Sweden) and the PMI Portugal Chapter Conference (Lisbon, Portugal).

He has a Graduate degree in Mathematics and a Post-graduation course “Advanced Management Program for Executives”. He is also a graduate from the 2016 PMI Leadership Institute Master Class, has a Data Science Specialization Certificate by Johns Hopkins, a certificated Project Management Professional, a Certified Scrum Master, a certified trainer, and possesses the Toastmasters’ certification of Competent Communicator and Competent Leader.