PMI Astana Forum 2026 Experience. Practice. Future.
A gathering of the project community to sum up the year, share experience and discuss where project management is heading. Talks, cases and the first PMI Qazaq Chapter Awards ceremony. Keynote speaker: Americo Pinto, Managing Director of PMO Global Alliance at PMI and creator of the PMO Value Ring.
Day agenda Draft
Timing approved by the organisers; part of the speakers is still being confirmed.
Badges, networking, partner stands.
Azamat Toimbetov, President of PMI Qazaq Chapter, and Sapar Toksanov, Rector of Qazaq AI Research University.
AI & project management expert.
Speaker to be announced.
PMO Global Alliance at PMI: how PMOs prove their value.
Azamat Toimbetov, President of PMI Qazaq Chapter.
The agenda is a draft and may change.
Speakers & experts
The line-up is being finalised. Want to speak? Submit your topic via the speaker form — a talk, a case study, a workshop or a lightning talk. Applications close on 30 September 2026: after that the programme is fixed.
Speaker · AI & project management
Keynote speaker · Managing Director, PMO Global Alliance at PMI · creator of the PMO Value Ring
Speaker 3
To be announced
Speaker 4
To be announced
Speaker 5
To be announced
Speaker 6
To be announced
the project management award of Kazakhstan
Annual recognition of the best projects, managers and teams in project management. Winners are selected by an AI system on published criteria, then ratified by the Board, and awarded live at the conference.
🌱 Young Project Leaders
👤 Project Person of the Year
🏢 PMO of the Year
🏆 MVP — Most Valuable Project
🤖 AI + Project Management Hackathon
A week-long student hackathon held in the run-up to the conference: teams build solutions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and project management. Winners are announced and awarded live on stage at the conference.
Partners & sponsors
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Ticket sales open on 1 September
Registration for the conference on 6 November opens on 1 September 2026. Leave your email and we will write to you on the day sales start — before the announcement goes public.
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