5th Annual Resource

Planning Summit 2014

The 5th Annual Resource Planning

Summit 2014 will take place at the Royal

Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana.

It is an event that takes place every year

in order to discuss and exchange

knowledge on the subjects of resource

management, demand management and

capacity planning and how these have

an impact on the running of an

organization. The summit is also about

identifying how these three aspects

apply to project portfolio management.

This resource management conference

2014 will be held over a period of 3 days

starting September 15 and will conclude

on September 17, 2014.

Speakers at the Summit

The eight speakers who will be sharing

their views on various aspects of

resource management are leaders in

their respective fields. These include:

• Peter Heinrich, President and CEO of

PDWare which is a leading manufacturer

of resource management software

• Frank P. Saladis, Project Management

Professional

• Joseph N. Teti, US military and

government special operations veteran

and co-star in Dual Survival which is a

program on Discovery

• Taylor Dubios, Vice President of ‘Bank

of America’

• Dr. Harold Kerzner, the Senior

Executive Director, Project Management

in the International Institute for Learning

• Michael G. Valentin, Vice President of

Technical Project Management at

Cablevision Systems Corp.

• Fred Dewey, Co-founder and Partner

of G-Force Collaborations which is

business solutions provider

• Todd Hunt, noted Business Humorist

Schedule of Important

Events at the Summit

The first day of this all important

resource management conference 2014

will see a number of experts addressing

the attendees on different topics. Peter

Heinrich will begin the summit by

discussing about how resource planning

can be simplified. Kevin Arnal, Director

of R&D at American Medical Systems,

will give inputs on how to avert

hindrances in setting up resource

management solutions. Insights on the

building blocks of headcount

management will be provided by Taylor

Dubios. Post lunch, humorist Todd Hunt

will share his views about the

communication, bleeps and blunders in

business. Apart from these, there will be

a sessions on how to manage

organizational change by Frank Saladis

and an emotional intelligence workshop

on team building by Fred Dewey. Day 2

will begin with Dr. Harold Kerzner talking

about the requirement for improved

resource management. Other than this,

there will be a session on justifying

resource management by Michael G.

Valentin and a discussion on how to fail

in implementation of resource

management by Baruch Gabo, VP of

Development for PDWare. The final day

of the conference will see Joseph N. Teti

talking about the need of working with

teams in order to maximize productivity.

Key Purpose of the 5th

Annual Resource Planning

Summit 2014

The key purpose of the Resource

Planning Summit being held this year is

to make the process of resource

management relatively simpler. It is

often observed that resource

management programs tend to be

unsuccessful because the software being

used is too intricate. At the summit,

there will be an attempt to provide

simple yet effective solutions to this

problem.