AI-Ready Project Managers: Practical Tools & Frameworks to Lead Intelligent Projects

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As AI rapidly moves from experimentation to real-world delivery, project managers are increasingly expected to lead AI-enabled initiatives—often without clear guidance, shared language, or proven playbooks. The challenge is rarely the technology itself, but knowing what questions to ask, how to scope AI responsibly, and how to translate AI capabilities into business outcomes.

This session offers a practical, PM-friendly approach to becoming AI-ready. Drawing from real delivery experience across public sector, healthcare, and financial services, the talk introduces simple frameworks and mental models to help project managers confidently lead intelligent projects. Attendees will explore how concepts like Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI agents fit into familiar project activities such as discovery, risk management, governance, and stakeholder communication.

Participants will leave with actionable tools, common AI-project anti-patterns to avoid, and clear guidance on using AI as a responsible PM co-pilot—without needing to become a data scientist.

Speaker

Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja is a hands-on Technical Program Manager and Solution Architect with 10+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale digital transformation across banking, healthcare, and public sector domains. He designs scalable solutions with Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Azure, and cloud-native technologies, and he’s known for mentoring cross-functional teams and driving DevOps automation. He’s a PMP and PMI-ACP practitioner who enjoys experimenting with better ways of working—Scrum, Kanban, and “build-your-own” ways of working. LinkedIn