Accelerate Project Management Workshop

from Monday, 26 January 2026 (08:30) to Wednesday, 28 January 2026 (23:50)
CERN (30/7-018)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
26 Jan 2026
27 Jan 2026
28 Jan 2026
AM
08:30
Session 1 -Ms Philippa Kingston Deepti Kandhol (until 09:45)
08:30 Opening - Michele Battistin (CERN) Markus Zerlauth (CERN)  
08:45 The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) Project at BNL, US - Luisella Lari (BNL)  
09:15 Cost Estimation and Project Office Integration in Large-Scale Accelerator Projects: Lessons from the FCC-ee Feasibility Study - Dr Florian Sonnemann (CERN)  
09:45 --- Coffee break ---
10:15
Session 2 - Philippa Kingston Deepti Kandhol (until 12:35)
10:15 Authorisation Through Participation: Stakeholder Engagement as Project Strategy for the Future Circular Collider - Johannes Gutleber (CERN)  
10:45 The Einstein Telescope Project. Managing in a not organized context - Alessandro Variola (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
11:15 Q&A - Monday Morning  
08:30
Session 5 - Johan Wickström Mr Romano Meijer (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) (until 10:00)
08:30 The challenging path from a conceptual study to the organization of a large-scale project - Jean-Paul Burnet (CERN)  
09:00 Managing Complexity at FAIR: Project Organisation and Project Management Office - Emmanuel Rosi  
09:30 FAIR Mega-Construction Project Under Control – Mastering Schedule, Costs, and Risks in One Integrated Project Portfolio Management Tool - Natalya Winters (GSI)  
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Session 6 (until 12:30)
10:30 Selected Examples of Successful PM Practices in the Construction of the European XFEL - Lars Hagge  
11:00 Project Management in HL-LHC: A lean approach - Giovanna Vandoni (CERN)  
11:30 Q&A - Michele Battistin (CERN) Giovanna Vandoni (CERN)  
08:30
Session 9 - Narcis Pellicer (Fusion for Energy) Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 10:00)
08:30 System Optimisation as a Driver for Effective Technical Project Management - Dr Davide Aguglia (CERN)  
09:00 Project Management for ESS In-kind Instrument Projects –a challenging set up - Sofie Ossowski (ESS)  
09:30 Integrating Knowledge Management and Human-Factor Risk Mitigation into Project Governance for Large Scientific and Space Infrastructures - Chiara Carrano (Universita del Piemonte Orientale (IT))  
10:00 --- Cofffee break ---
10:30
Session 10 - Narcis Pellicer (Fusion for Energy) Giorgio Apollinari (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 12:40)
10:30 Delivering Projects and Strategy 2030+ Programmes at European XFEL: A Lean PMO Approach// How we train Project Managers at European XFEL, and why - Gerd Wellenreuther (European XFEL) Adriano Violante  
11:10 Q&A - Wednesday Morning  
11:55 Closing - Ciprian Plostinar  
PM
12:35 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Session 3 - Sheila Freudenthal (DESY) Luigi Scibile (CERN) (until 15:30)
14:00 Project Management challenges in a multi-stakeholder, multi project scenario: the EuPRAXIA case - Antonio Falone  
14:30 Towards a traceable and scalable Requirements Management framework for the Einstein Telescope - Romano Meijer (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
15:00 Emerging patterns in early-phase risk understanding: Exploratory insights from the Einstein Telescope and opportunities for future research infrastructures - Ghada Mahmoud  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Session 4 - Luigi Scibile (CERN) Sheila Freudenthal (DESY) (until 18:00)
16:00 Cost estimation across project lifecycle. How do the estimates evolve in a FOAK project as ITER and measures applied due to lessons learned - Ms Laura Cardona (F4E) Susana Palenzuela  
16:30 Fusion for Energy and ITER Organization: joint integration approach toward effective and efficient Risk and Opportunity Management - Jorge Verde Preckler  
17:00 Q&A - Monday Afternoon  
18:00 --- Cocktail & Posters Session ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Session 7 - Natalya Winters Marta Ruth Chiara Della Torre (until 15:30)
14:00 Steering time in a Complex Scientific Projects: A Dual-Reference Methodology for Schedule Performance Measurement or how to combine firefighting and foresight - Renata Castello Longo  
14:30 Moving from a deterministic to a probabilistic schedule: increase schedule reliability and manage stakeholder expectations by applying Monte Carlo techniques to planning - Ken Libens  
15:00 Managing Critical Supply Chains in Big Science: Expediting Playbooks and Production Oversight -Lessons from FAIR - Martin Marenich  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Session 8 - Natalya Winters Marta Ruth Chiara Della Torre (until 18:30)
16:00 Coordination and scheduling of large scientific facilities: CERN coordination team - Marzia Bernardini (CERN)  
16:30 Project Coordination Experience at large scale Research Facilities at PSI - Maximilian Maria Wurm (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
17:00 Agile Digital Governance and Prioritization for Large-Scale Digitalisation - Emma Vigo-Castellví (Fusion for Energy) Cathal Thorne (F4E)  
17:30 Q&A - Tuesday Afternoon  
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
IT String Visit (until 15:00)
14:00 --- LMF Visit ---