November 5 to 6, 2026
7:30 a.m.
$200.00–$1,040.00
Unavailable
Organizer(s): PMI Canadian West Coast Chapter
Sponsor(s): Simon Fraser University, Procom, UBC Sauder School of Business
PMWest is the PMI Canadian West Coast Chapter's annual conference, two days at the Vancouver Convention Centre West Building under the theme Engage. Connect. Thrive. The published agenda gives each day an opening and closing general session, breakout and curated sessions, expert-led workshops, community sessions and networking meals, with a Connection Hub on day one and a Career and Growth Hub with employers hiring project talent on day two. Day one ends with PM Night and the Project of the Year award, day two with the mentorship graduation and a closing reception. Passes cover both days or a single day, and sessions carry PDUs toward PMP or CAPM renewal. Speakers and session titles had not been announced when this was listed.
Anu's Take
Two days, a strong lineup, and a lot of it is about people. Ed Hoffman, NASA's first Chief Knowledge Officer, opens with what NASA learned about keeping knowledge from walking out the door, there's fresh UBC research on who gets trusted and recognized on project teams, a Friday session by fellow Victoria Data Society board member Cynthia Lynam on LinkedIn on building AI governance that works for your organization, and Precious Ile closes it out on storytelling that gets a room of stakeholders on the same page. That's where I'd put the focus too, it's almost never the technology. I did my Certificate in Project Management at UBC, so happy to see they're a top sponsor of this year's event. Before I moved to Victoria I went to this one every year. I'll be there bright and early on Friday, running an extended From Chaos to Control: Building a Secure Operating Model for Knowledge Work with Microsoft 365 for Business and Copilot workshop. Fantastic opportunity to get PDUs and leave with something you can put to work on Tuesday, 'cause change management is not a Monday thing.
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Published Friday, July 24, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn
The programme puts the human side of delivery next to an AI-enabled future, which is the argument I keep making about adoption: the technology is rarely the hard part.