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PMI-SWVA Presents:
The Project Management Candy Jar: "How to Sweeten Your PM Skills"

The 2016 Symposium team is proud to announce Kari Mirabal as our Keynote and opening speaker.  You may remember her best from last year's career workshop!  She is making her next appearance at our symposium which is sure to make it a sweet experience.  Kari Mirabal, The Connection Coach, is an expert on smart networking strategies. Her presentations challenge audiences to ... read more here 

Opening Session by Kari Mirabal - " The Power of Childlike Curiosity" 

We are excited to welcome back Kari Mirabal, The Connection Coach, to PMI-SWVA as she presents the opening keynote for our 2016 Annual Fall Symposium!  Her presentation, The Power of Childlike Curiosity, shares three leadership lessons learned and how you can create cultures where ...

Closing Session by John Stenbeck -  “ Becoming Indispensable … Not Irreplaceable”

Have you ever wondered why salespeople get promoted when technical professionals are clearly smarter!  Would you like a career with the “WOW!” factor? Then this Keynote has answers for YOU!!  Learn the three high-octane quantitatively-proven keys that took decades to cull and distill into the formula will unlock your personal powerhouse.  See how to define the roadmap that unleashes all of your potential as John shares the unexpected resources that exponentially improved his results.  This is not a “get rich quick” or “instant success” gimmick because it is reality-based. Technical professionals demand results because they know improving results is the key to career opportunity!  This powerful session gives you specific practical steps to focusing your teams and delivering amazing project outcomes and that auto...magically leads to success.  The information in this presentation is rigorous, concise and gets to the point with focused answers to your challenges. It is designed to be applied in your environment... and accelerate your career!  

Breakout sessions will include an agile track, leadership track and a technical track that has a PMO session in it.  Besides Kari and John, we have another agile speaker Mike Ryan, leadership speeches from Dr. Joey Faucette and Mike O'Brochta; and our PMO team of Darryl Agee, Emily Cohen, Donnie Havens and Jennifer Havens.  Find out more information about our speakers in our bio page. 

Find out more about our breakout sessions here and the Schedule of Events is posted here.

A big thank you goes out to our current list of Sponsors!
If you would like to sponsor this years symposium, please email us below

Gold Sponsor

Roanoke College	vbFront

 

Silver Sponsor

APEX Systems	TEKsystems

  

Bronze Sponsor

CBIZ	Morton Consulting	DiGioia Gray & Associates	Virginia Tech Roanoke Center	Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council	Virginia Western Community College

 

Location: Roanoke College Colket Center
Directions to Roanoke College are found on their website
   Campus directions to the Colket Center are here
   Find out more about the Colket Center!
Parking can be found here
Find out more about our delicious Menu HERE

Stay tune to this page as we add more speakers and details about the 2016 Symposium to help you Sweeten Your Candy Jar!

Questions about the symposium...email symposium@pmi-swva.org