Forum
PMO × AI
What is the PMO for when AI writes the status report?
Each forum starts work on a PMO playbook for its field.
The experience
Two days built for PMO leaders who came to work
Most of your time is spent in small groups with other PMO leaders, working on real problems. Everyone meets in the Exhibition Zone for breaks, lunch and the reception.
How the two days work
Top: session roomsBottom: Exhibition Zone, where everyone meets
Day 1 · 11 May
- Check-in
- Opening & discussion labsTables of 5 to 8
- CoffeeSolutions Stage talks
- Labs & panelsParallel rooms
- LunchSolutions Stage talks
- Labs, forums & masterclassesHands-on, 3 hours
- CoffeeSolutions Stage talks
- Most Influential PMOsCeremony
- ReceptionEvening
Day 2 · 12 May
- Labs & forumsNew topics, new tables
- CoffeeSolutions Stage talks
- Labs & panelsParallel rooms
- LunchSolutions Stage talks
- Labs & masterclassesHands-on, 3 hours
- CoffeeSolutions Stage talks
- ClosingWhat we take home
Illustrative. The final schedule is set with the venue.
The 2027 program
Where the project world meets the PMO
PMO Core Labs
- PMO Value
How do you show what your PMO is worth, in words leaders use?
Value Clinic
A PMO brings a real case, and the tables work out how to show its value.
- Strategy & Leadership
How does the PMO earn a seat where decisions are made?
The Boardroom
PMO leaders pitch to a panel of executives and hear their reaction on the spot.
- Design & Operations
What should your PMO do, and stop doing?
PMO Design Studio
Redesign a PMO in 90 minutes, from services to operating model.
- People & Careers
How do you build a PMO team, and a career in PMO?
Career Circles
Small peer groups and mentoring between experienced and newer PMO professionals.
Forums
Forum
PMO × Agile
How do you govern a portfolio that runs agile?
Each forum starts work on a PMO playbook for its field.
Forum
PMO × Change
Who makes sure people adopt what projects deliver?
Each forum starts work on a PMO playbook for its field.
Forum
PMO × Sustainability
How do sustainability goals change what gets funded?
Each forum starts work on a PMO playbook for its field.
Forum
PMO × Social Impact
How do you measure impact, not only delivery?
Each forum starts work on a PMO playbook for its field.
Forum
PMO × Giga Projects
How do you run a PMO across dozens of contractors?
Each forum starts work on a PMO playbook for its field.
Forum
PMO × Government
How do you run a PMO through budget cycles, audits and elections?
Each forum starts work on a PMO playbook for its field.
Formats
Immersive Discussion Labs
Small-group, participant-led sessions where the real PMO challenges get discussed openly.
PMO Voices Panels
Candid conversations with PMO leaders sharing what worked — and what did not.
Hands-on Masterclasses
Practical, tool-driven working sessions delivered by experienced practitioners.
Networking & Solutions Stage
Structured networking moments plus a stage for the solutions shaping PMO practice.
Session types you will find
- Clinic · a real case, worked on by the tables
- Simulation · a scenario with roles and decisions
- Studio · hands-on, with something built by the end
- Circles · small peer groups, no stage
- Forum working session · diagnosis, cases and a playbook outline
Plus an open space: bring the PMO question that fits nowhere else.
An unconference, not a conference
A typical conference
PMO unCON
Speakers on stage, audience listens
Participants talk most of the time
Fixed agenda set months ahead
Agenda shaped by what the room brings
Hundreds in one hall
Tables of 5 to 8
You leave with slides
You leave with answers and contacts
Networking only in the breaks
You work with peers all day
On the evening of Day 1
Most Influential PMOs ceremony
The PMO Global Alliance recognises the PMOs that made the biggest difference in their organisations. The ceremony takes place at the end of Day 1, before the reception.
About the recognition →In detail
What is a PMO unconference?
Everything you need to know before May 2027 — the format, the audience and why PMO unCON comes to Montreal.
An unconference, not a conference
A PMO unconference inverts the traditional event model. There is no fixed line-up of keynote speakers talking at an audience. The labs and forums set the themes. Inside each one, the questions on the tables come from you: you send yours before the event, and the facilitators build the sessions from them.
The result is closer to a working session between peers than to a lecture. Every attendee is expected to contribute, which is why PMO unCON keeps the group deliberately small compared with a mass-market project management conference.
Why Montreal in 2027
After editions in Paris, Istanbul and San Diego, PMO unCON North America 2027 comes to Montreal, Canada, on May 11–12, 2027 — a bilingual, international city that is easy to reach for PMO leaders from across North America and beyond.
The group stays small enough for real conversation. The venue is being finalised and will be announced on this page.
Who comes to PMO unCON
The room is intentionally mixed: PMO directors and heads of PMO, portfolio and transformation leaders, PMO consultants and advisors, and project and programme managers who are shaping the way delivery works in their organisation.
Venue, registration, pricing and the full programme for Montreal 2027 are announced on this page and sent first to the updates list.