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More ways to learn, talk and connect.

The Congress is built around more than stage sessions. Across two days, you can join practical workshop, focused expert conversations, career consultations, networking and an evening event - choosing the formats that are most useful to you.

Agenda & Theme Speakers & Workshops More Than the Agenda

Choose how you take part

One Congress. Different ways to get value from it.

Some formats give you ideas to take away. Others let you test them, compare them with other practitioners or focus on a challenge of your own.

Talks

Three tracks, real cases and different perspectives.

Workshops

Hands-on sessions built around practical challenges.

Expert Roundtables

Small groups, one topic and direct exchange.

Executive Panel

Senior leaders discussing challenges from the top.

Career Checkpoint

A focused one-to-one conversation about your next step.

Networking

Conversations between sessions, over coffee and beyond.

Evening Event

Keep the conversations going after Day 1.

Partner Competitions

Challenges, games and prizes throughout the event.

Program Council

The people behind the program.

Our Program Council selects the talks, shapes the three tracks and makes sure every session brings practical value to project professionals.

Program Council Kinga Zacharjasz

Kinga Zacharjasz

Program Council Marcin Żmigrodzki

Marcin Żmigrodzki

Program Council Witold Hendrysiak

Witold Hendrysiak

Core Program: Start with the ideas. Then go deeper.

Talks and workshops are the backbone of the program - designed around the three themes shaping this year’s Congress.

Expert talks

Real Experience. Lessons You Can Apply.

Our talks bring together experienced project managers, leaders and experts who share perspectives, lessons learned and practical approaches to some of the biggest challenges facing projects and organisations today.

Hear from professionals who have led complex projects, driven organizational change and applied emerging technologies in practice]. Across three tracks, speakers share lessons from major infrastructure programmes, engineering, public administration and business.

Think Big – explore the challenges of megaprojects, complex programmes and large-scale engineering initiatives.
AI & Innovation – discover how AI is changing project delivery, why some initiatives struggle to move beyond pilots and how emerging technologies are being applied in practice.
Strong Leaders – explore leadership under pressure, difficult conversations and ways to overcome organizational resistance to change.

Go beyond theory to understand how experienced professionals navigate complexity, make critical decisions and turn ambitious plans into results.

Workshops

Go Beyond Listening. Put Ideas into Practice.

If you want to go deeper, join one of our hands-on workshops. These sessions give you space to work with a topic rather than simply listen to it.

Work on real challenges project professionals face every day] through interactive exercises, practical tools and guided discussions led by experienced practitioners.
Manage conflict – recognize your triggers and turn difficult situations into productive conversations with Spencer Horn.
Navigate leadership challenges – explore the pressures and isolation leaders can experience while balancing expectations from senior management and their teams with Kinga Stawicka-Wibowo.
Set boundaries with confidence – practice responding to unrealistic requests, managing scope changes and maintaining stakeholder relationships with Paulina Kuc.

Leave with practical techniques you can apply in your next project meeting, team discussion or difficult conversation.

Less presenting. More exchanging experience.

Expert Roundtables

Real Challenges. Practical Insights.

Join a small-group discussion led by an experienced expert. Each table focuses on a specific challenge related to project management, leadership, AI or innovation.

Join expert-led discussions on the challenges reshaping project management], from navigating complex programmes to understanding how AI is changing the project manager’s role.

Lead complex programmes – explore how to manage dependencies, competing priorities and decisions when plans meet reality.
Rethink project management with AI– discuss which tasks AI can take over, where it falls short and what still requires human judgement.

Bring your experience, challenge assumptions and leave with practical ideas you can apply in your own work.

Executive Panel Discussion

Leadership Perspectives Beyond the Project Team

Some of the most important decisions affecting projects are made far beyond the project team. Our Executive Panel brings senior leaders from business and industry together for an open discussion.

Project managers are often responsible for delivering decisions made at the executive level, but rarely get to hear the thinking behind them. Hear [how senior leaders approach strategic priorities, organizational challenges and business decisions] that shape projects and their outcomes.

Understand the bigger picture – discover what influences executive decisions and how business priorities are set.
Bridge strategy and delivery– explore how leadership decisions affect project teams and the delivery of business goals.

Gain insights into the executive perspective and a better understanding of the decisions that shape your projects.

Around the sessions

The program continues between the agenda slots.

Use the time around the sessions to get a fresh career perspective, meet people from across industries and take part in the less formal side of the Congress.

Networking

Come for the program. Stay for the people.

Meet project managers, leaders and experts from different industries. Compare experiences after a session, join a conversation over coffee or continue it later in the evening.

You never know which conversation will change how you look at your work.

Career Checkpoint by Inprogress

30 minutes focused on your next move.

A one-to-one consultation where you can discuss your career goals, identify the competencies you need for your next step and pinpoint the areas worth developing.

A clearer view of where you are, what to focus on and what to do next.

Partner Competitions

A little competition never hurts.

Congress Partners will bring their own challenges, games and competitions to the event — with prizes to win along the way.

Take part. Have some fun. Maybe leave with a prize.

Evening Networking Event

Day 1 doesn’t end with the last session.

Meet other participants, exchange experiences, grab a drink and keep the conversations going beyond the conference rooms.

No registration required. Just come along.

19–20 November 2026 · Warsaw

Choose the conversations you want to be part of.

Join project leaders, practitioners and experts for two days of learning, discussion and practical exchange at the 21st International Congress PMI Poland Chapter.

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