Pinnacle is pleased to attend the very First Annual Empower User's Group Workshop by Encore Analytics.
This event will be held on Wednesday July 18th - Thursday July 19th, 2018 at The Portofino Hotel & Marina in Redondo Beach, CA.
Lia Briggs, one of Pinnacle's management consultant's will be in attendance.
The current scheduled sessions are:
- Panel Discussion: Experience with Data-Driven Audits & Surveillance
DOE - Mel Frank, Director, Project Controls Division (PM-30)
DCMA- Russ Rodewall, Acting Director EVMS Center
NASA - Jerald Kerby, EVM Program Executive
NRO - Ivan Bembers, Chief Earned Value Management Center of Excellence
PARCA - Karen Kostelnik, Senior Acquisition Analyst/Policy Advisor
Moderator - Gary Humphreys
- Weekly Management of a Shipyard Using Empower
Philip Norris - Austal Shipyard
- Enterprise Deployment and Use of Empower at NASA
Jerald Kerby - EVM Program Executive, NASA
David Warren - MTS
- Hurdles and Solutions from the First Six Months of Empower Deployment
Ivan Bembers - Chief, Earned Value Management Center of Excellence NRO
- Use of Empower on a DoE Project
Lisa Cazalet - EVM Senior Program Manager, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL)
- Empower - Program Performance Assessment and Data-Driven Audits
Bob Harbaugh - PP&C / EVM Manager, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
- My Data said WHAT??
Brian Valenti - Principle Integrated Program Specialist, Rockwell Collins
Angie Tubbs - Senior Program, Planning & Control (PP&C) Analyst, Rockwell Collins
- Earned Value Analysis Using the FAIR Model and Empower
Matt Gonzales - Senior Business Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Using Empower to Prep for DCMA's Data-Driven Audits (EVAS)
Robert Jennings - Director EVM Compliance, General Atomics Aeronautical
- DCMA Schedule Analyzer forProject - DCMA 14 Point Analysis, EVAS Metrics and MS Project Export for Empower
Glenn Gallop - President/CEO, ForProject
- Using CloudEVM and Empower in an Enterprise Environment
Mark Tillema - President/CEO, Decision Edge
- Meeting Empower's EVAS Data Requirements with EVMAX's New IPMR2 JSON File Export
Tom Shanahan - President/CEO, ProjStream
Speakers from Encore Analytics Staff will present on:
- Creating Charts and Reports in Empower Using External Data
Brittany Hayes - Support Analyst, Encore Analytics
- Variance Analysis Report (VAR) Collection and Workflow
Roland Atencio - Principle Consultant, Encore Analytics
- Enterprise User Authentication and Provisioning
Brittany Hayes - Support Analyst, Encore Analytics
- Configuring Empower for DCMA's EVAS Data-Driven Audits
Roland Atencio - Principle Consultant, Encore Analytics
Other Topics:
- Keynote Address - State of the Union: Integrated Program Management
Gary Humphreys - President/CEO, Humphreys & Associates
- Empower: Now and in the Future
Gary Troop - President, Encore Analytics
In addition to the workshops listed above, attendees will have the opportunity to influence the future direction of the software by participating in an open feedback session with the founders of Encore Analytics, Gary Troop and Jim Price.
Save on hotel reservations by visiting this
link or call the Portofino Hotel & Marina directly at (310) 379-8481 to book your room. Don't forget to mention the Encore Analytics room rate (Discount Code
1SW50A).
The Workshop will also include opportunities to network with other Empower users.
You can register for the event here. For additional information, click here.
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